Izaak Walton League of America - Alexandria VA Chapter

Izaak Walton League: Defenders of Soil, Woods, Water, Air, and Wildlife.

April 2018 Stafford County High School Field Trip to conduct water sampling to teach the students water a soil conservation through testing at out established site and where the high School students have sampled.

The Alexandria Chapter was chartered in Alexandria, VA in 1938.

We received a few letters regarding the history of our land including the presence of graves and the rumor of solders being buried there - the best location we have is in front of the Caretakers house -

thus The Chapter President's request to the Caretakers to always fly the flag in front.

IWLA Cemetery grave names - Viola Stevens ltr dtd Apr12, 1972.pdf

IWLA Property Starke Family Hist & Cem Capt Wm Starke VA Militia & Cont Army.pdf

Almost every major conservation program that America takes for granted today can be traced directly to a League activity or initiative.

In 1922, 54 sportsmen met in Chicago, Ill., to discuss an issue of common concern: the deteriorating conditions of America's top fishing streams.

Uncontrolled industrial discharges, raw sewage and soil erosion threatened to destroy many of the nation's most productive waterways.

Within hours, the group formed an organization to combat water pollution and other environmental abuses.

As a constant reminder of this goal, they named the group after Izaak Walton, the 17th-century English angler-conservationist who wrote the

literary classic "The Compleat Angler." Today, the Izaak Walton League of America's 50,000 members fight to protect the nation's soil, air, woods, waters and wildlife.

Ensuring good water quality remains the IWLA's top goal. Since organizing the first national water pollution inventory in 1927 -- at the request of President Calvin Coolidge

League members, or "Ikes," in the 1940s helped pass the first federal water pollution control act, followed by a decade-long campaign against acid mine drainage.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the League launched the Save Our Streams Program and broke the political ground necessary for passage of the landmark 1972 Clean Water Act.

Currently, Ikes are leading the fight to fund and strengthen the Clean Water Act during its reauthorization and to fend off efforts in Congress to weaken wetlands protection provisions.

The League also spearheaded protection of public lands, such as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming, Everglades National Park,