January 2022

Green rice: Collaborations burnish crop’s image

It’s been over two decades since growers stopped burning rice stubble after harvest. Now rice is known as ‘The Environmental Crop.’ When California rice farmers were told about 25 years ago that they’d have to find an [...]

January 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

California’s Hill Slough Restoration Project complete

After years of planning and fundraising, the 649-acre Hill Slough Restoration Project was recently completed by Ducks Unlimited, in partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “DU was brought into the tidal marsh restoration [...]

January 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

DU updating Oregon wetlands inventory

Through a recent contract with the Bureau of Land Management, Ducks Unlimited is updating the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) for a large portion of southeast Oregon. Established in 1986, the NWI is a publicly available resource for classifying [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

DU regional biologist, agency partners band Dusky Canada geese in Alaska

In July, Ducks Unlimited Regional Biologist Kelly Warren joined biologists from the Alaska Department of Game and Fish and US Forest Service (USFS) to collar and band more than 600 Dusky Canada geese near Cordova, Alaska, on the Copper River Delta. [...]

January 4, 2022 // 0 Comments