Endangered Resources Tax Checkoff

The Endangered Resources Program is celebrating 25 years of conservation successes in 2008 by conserving wildlife and their habitats while it is still cost-effective to protect them. By making a donation to the Endangered Resources Program on your tax form, you will be making a vital investment in the health and well-being of Wisconsin’s environment, economy and quality of life – benefits everyone can appreciate and enjoy, now and for generations to come. And, each dollar donated is matched by state funds up to a total of $500,000, making your gift twice as important!

Through these invaluable donations, we’ve made many promising strides:

• The Bald Eagle is federally delisted in Wisconsin in 2007!
• The Gray Wolf is federally delisted in Wisconsin in 2007!
• Wisconsin’s State Natural Areas Program celebrated the addition of it’s 500th State Natural Area in 2007! And as of January 2008, we will have 558 State Natural Areas protecting outstanding examples of native biological communities such as prairies, pine-barrens, bogs and boreal forests across the state!
• Wisconsin’s Trumpeter Swan population has now surpassed 500 birds - a rebound from ZERO in the 1980s! Our citizens now have growing opportunities to experience these beautiful creatures in the wild.

Yet there are many other Wisconsin native species that need our help to remain a part of our state’s natural heritage for future generations. To ensure a healthy and prosperous environment, our work must continue. And every contribution, big or small, adds up to make an immeasurable impact on our quality of resources and quality of life.

The Endangered Resources Program isn’t the only good cause you can support via your tax form. But when you consider what can be achieved – and what’s at stake – it’s certainly among the best. Our plants and animals, birds and fish, woods and waters need you, and more to the point, Wisconsin needs you!

How To Donate

To give to Wisconsin's Endangered Resources Fund, you can:

1. Fill out the appropriate line on your Wisconsin Income Tax Form (look for the loon silhouette next to the line entitled "Endangered Resources Donation.") OR
2. Ask your tax preparer to fill in the amount you wish to donate.

Free - Tax Year 2007 Checkoff Posters are Available

A free color poster with a photo of an American marten by Erwin and Peggy Bauer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, carries a reminder that citizens and businesses can help preserve Wisconsin's rarest species and ecosystems by checking the endangered resources box on their state income tax forms.

The poster is available at DNR Service Centers, Department of Tourism Tourist Information Centers or by calling 608-266-7012.

You may also print a poster [PDF 2.8MB] for yourself.