Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Director of Public Policy Gary Link recently appeared on the Agricultural Presidents’ Council podcast The Crop Pod with host Cody Boyles to chat on a variety of topics. The APC is California’s premier [...]
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently announced the selection of several projects to restore wetlands that will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and provide other ecological co-benefits, including Ducks [...]
On a gusty day in an area of Northern California that deeply understands and respects the power of wind, Mother Nature decided to cooperate for a few hours for a gathering of friends and colleagues, offering a perfect November afternoon to celebrate [...]
For the first time in 135 years, ocean water flowed onto Leque Island in Washington this week when Ducks Unlimited and partners breached an island dike bordering the island as a part of Phase II of the Leque Island Restoration project, a significant [...]
Alaska’s own Dave Weber was named Ducks Unlimited’s (DU) Regional Director of the Year for his outstanding efforts as a staff member in Region 1, an area that encompasses the West Coast and Alaska. “Senior Regional Director Dave Weber and [...]
In May, oyster reef elements were placed in the San Francisco Bay to assist the creation of a living shoreline near Giant Marsh near Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in the California city of Richmond, part of a project Ducks Unlimited is partnering [...]
Our newest video on Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region YouTube channel follows DU regional biologist Aaron Will and his black Labrador Retriever, Tess, putting their retrieving skills on exhibition at the 2019 Galt Winter Bird Festival in Galt, [...]
Author John Heil penned a great piece for the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s website chronicling the symbiotic relationship rice farmers and duck hunters have with Ducks Unlimited and the USFWS when it comes to creating waterfowl and wildlife [...]
Nathan Boma recently spent the summer as Ducks Unlimited’s summer intern in Alaska for the Dusky Canada Goose Program and chronicled his work for readers. Boma was tasked with providing staff support to the US Forest Service – Chugach [...]
Ducks Unlimited announced the winners of the 2018 Wetland Conservation Achievement Awards during the 83rd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference recently held in Norfolk, Virginia. This year’s recipient in the local/private [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently completed work on Pintail Pond at Oregon’s Jackson Bottoms Wetland Preserve to help keep the pond at a steady level during the rainy season. Pintail is on the southern edge of the preserve, and is a former settling [...]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has donated 4,491 acres at the McArthur Swamp to the Fall River Resource Conservation District (RCD), followed immediately by the RCD’s donation of a permanent conservation easement to Ducks [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently sent the attached public letter to the California Water Commission in support of funding for two large water supply projects in California: the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion and the Sites Reservoir. “Ducks Unlimited [...]
The January 2017 issue of the Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Newsletter is now available to download. Click on the link below to save the PDF and find out what’s going on throughout the nine-state Western Region. Download January 2017 [...]
It is estimated that over 70 percent of the wetlands in the arid West are privately owned, and in the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington, over 70 percent of those are still impacted by drainage ditches. Farmers and ranchers protect a large [...]
The July 2016 issue of the Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Newsletter is now available to download. Click on the link below to save the PDF and find out what’s going on throughout the nine-state Western Region. Download July [...]
Ducks Unlimited was recognized on Wednesday at the California Rice Commission’s Circle of Life Reception as one of 14 conservation groups, water districts and agencies that works with the rice industry to help wildlife during the drought. DU [...]
Ducks Unlimited was honored last week to take part in a meet-and-greet at the Sears Point Restoration Project with Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Administrator and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently announced the top volunteer chapters across the nation honored in four categories: Chairman’s Elite, Chairman’s Roll of Honor, President’s Elite and President’s Roll of Honor. The Chairman’s [...]
Ducks Unlimited was recently awarded a North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant to conserve 3,456 acres of habitat in Honey Lake Valley and adjoining areas in northeast California, the first NAWCA Grant to focus entirely on this [...]
