By Rich Landers FOR THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW One of those “memories” popped up on my Facebook page recently with a hunting photo I’d proudly posted in 2016. It featured my 9-month-old Brittany pup standing over the first wild pheasant we’d [...]
Saturday, Jan. 29, marks Ducks Unlimited’s, the world’s largest wetlands and waterfowl conservation organization, 85th anniversary. In 2022, DU and more than a million of its supporters are celebrating the conservation of over 15 million acres [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
DU staff in Spokane, Washington, completed restoration of 110 acres of NRCS Wetland Reserve Easement property in northeastern Washington. https://www.ducks.org/press-room/wetland-reserve-easement-program-property-restored-in-northeastern-washington [...]
Dusky Canada geese are one of the smallest populations of geese in North America. Nesting predominately on Alaska’s Copper River Delta, each Fall the geese migrate to parts of Western Washington and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. To [...]
https://www.ducks.org/press-room/new-agreement-benefits-sacramento-valley-agriculture-wildlife?poe=home DU Chief Conservation Officer Karen Waldrop spoke at the MOU [...]
Tule Lake NWR Water is flowing into Sump 1B on Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge following the recommendation from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the Bureau of Reclamation earlier this month. Water levels in the approximately 3,000-acre wetland [...]
Last spring Ducks Unlimited and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) completed a large-scale restoration of Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area (WMA), one of the state’s most popular wildlife attractions which draws 40,000 visitors, and [...]
Finding solutions in drought-stricken Southern Oregon, Northeastern California The Klamath Basin is in the midst of an historic massive drought that threatens to change the face of the region’s wetland habitats and the very fabric of the local [...]
This summer Ducks Unlimited (DU) will begin conservation work at Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge near Fallon, Nevada. This $350,000 project will improve the refuge’s water delivery and drainage capabilities and benefit 2,325 acres of habitat. [...]
Miller Island Unit After years of planning, engineering, and grant-writing, Ducks Unlimited and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) have completed implementation of wetland restoration and enhancement projects on five state-wildlife [...]
For the first time in 135 years, ocean water flowed onto Leque Island in Washington when Ducks Unlimited and partners breached an island dike bordering the island as part of Phase II of the Leque Island Restoration project, a significant milestone [...]
Ducks Unlimited (DU) has achieved another conservation milestone with more than 15 million acres of habitat restored or protected in North America. The impressive number could not have been reached without the tireless efforts of millions of DU [...]
Shannon O’Neill Creighton Playing in the mud is one of many unique facets of marshland restoration work. Bay mud is most commonly a deep black, with hues that include rust, mocha, and ebony, and textures ranging from custard, to wet clay, and even [...]
David Bowers Ducks Unlimited has begun the second phase of engineering and modeling for the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge – Bay Unit Improvement Project with recent funding support from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Portland General [...]
