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DU’s Petrie receives 2019 NAWMP National Blue-winged Teal Award
Congrats to DU’s Mark Petrie! [...]
Ducks Unlimited hosts Zoom chat on the Klamath Basin
Ducks Unlimited Directors of Development Anne Hansen and Jessop Boden recently hosted a Zoom chat for DU Major Sponsors entitled, The Klamath: Perspectives, Predicaments and Progress. The event featured a waterfowl migration update from DU Director [...]
NAWCA funding approved for San Joaquin Wetlands project
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (MBCC), chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, recently approved more than $130 million in funding for various wetland conservation projects, including a project in California’s [...]
Western Region Conservation Chat: DUMAC
Watch our latest episode in our series of DU’s Western Region Conservation Zoom Chats, focusing this week on the important habitat work Ducks Unlimited de México (DUMAC) is performing for waterfowl. This week’s episode with host Anne [...]
Q&A with Ducks Unlimited Public Policy Director Gary Link
Gary Link Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Director of Public Policy Gary Link recently sat down with the DUWestBlog to give a quick update on what’s going on with DU’s legislative efforts around the western region. What are some of the [...]
Ducks Unlimited on The Crop Pod
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 [...]
Ducks Unlimited awarded funding for Suisun Marsh project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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 [...]
Working Together.
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 [...]
Leque Island is breached
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 [...]
Dave Weber: Alaska regional director named Ducks Unlimited ‘RD of the Year’
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 [...]
VIDEO: Ducks Unlimited helps create living shoreline in Bay Area
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 [...]
Ducks Unlimited visits the Galt Winter Bird Festival
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, [...]
Rice farmers & duck hunters work with Ducks Unlimited & USFWS for ‘world class habitat’
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 [...]
DU in Alaska: From an intern’s perspective
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 [...]
Idaho residents recognized for lifetime of wetlands conservation work
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 [...]
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