December 2015

DU Member Achieves Great Heights (Literally)

On December 7th, 2015, Seattle Ducks Unlimited Chapter member Garrett Madison summited Mt. Vinson, the tallest mountain in Antarctica. In three weeks a team of five climbers traversed the earth’s southernmost continent, scaled polar glaciers [...]

December 18, 2015 // 2,719 Comments

Bair Island Breach

DU celebrated its third Bay Area levee breach of 2015 on Thursday in Redwood City,CA where more than 100 attendees watched as tidal water returned to inner Bair Island for the first time since the area was diked off for agriculture in the 1880s. The [...]

December 14, 2015 // 1,557 Comments

The Tale of the Japanese Pintail in California

When Eric Heidman saw the pintail sail into his decoy spread all by itself on opening day of waterfowl season at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge, he knew it was going to be a good day. What he didn’t immediately realize was that the bird was [...]

December 4, 2015 // 644 Comments

Sacramento Bee Addresses California Drought and Waterfowl Hunters

The Sacramento Bee’s Ryan Sabalow literally waded into the weeds over the weekend with an in depth story on how the massive California drought is affecting duck hunters in the Central Valley. And as imagined, things are tough as the state [...]

December 2, 2015 // 708 Comments