With the award of the ‘Middle Snake River Conservation Area’ North American Wetland Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant in 2009, Ducks Unlimited initiated and has maintained an ongoing focus on restoring wetland and waterfowl habitat in the Bruneau [...]
Waterfowl season is off and flying! Want to know how bird migration and weather is affecting the hunting in the Western Region? Take advantage of Ducks Unlimited’s regular migration reports via Peter Ottesen and Bill Monroe by clicking on your [...]
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, in partnership with Idaho Power, has completed construction work at the mouth of the Bruneau River, near the C.J. Strike Reservoir, to repair dikes and drainage channels that will eventually benefit wetlands in the Bruneau Delta. [...]
Ducks Unlimited’s Post Falls and Panhandle Chapters recently helped organize a successful duck banding event on the Schlepp Easement in North Idaho, in conjunction with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. With 50 parents and children in [...]
A rare black tern nesting colony was recently discovered in Idaho on the Schlepp property, a 400-acre farmland-to-wetland conservation easement. Ducks Unlimited collaborated with many partners to convert the area to clean feeding habitat for [...]
DU recently placed a conservation easement on one of its own properties near the Market Lake Wildlife Management Area, the first of its kind in Idaho and only the second such arrangement for Ducks Unlimited along the Pacific Flyway. DU generally [...]
DU’s Bill Monroe filed his latest migration report for the Pacific Northwest in advance of duck season, and thanks to spring rainfall and snowmelt, the outlook for the 2016 waterfowl season in Washington, Oregon and Idaho is glowing: Waterfowl [...]
DU TV’s latest episode has a Western Region theme, first visiting California’s Central Valley with host John Paul Morris to meet Dennis Campini and his young son, Logan, at the Stillbow Duck Club in the Grasslands. DUs’ Director of [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently partnered with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to perform wetland and creek restoration on 55 acres at the southern end of Cocolalla Lake, which is situated 15 miles south of Sandpoint in Bonner County, Idaho. [...]
August was a busy month for Ducks Unlimited in Idaho, as members geared up for the start of the hunt season with several events. Idaho Fish and Game held the two-day “HUNT IDAHO: Connecting Mountains to Meals” Festival in which Ducks Unlimited [...]
Idaho Fish and Game recently held a two-day event called “HUNT IDAHO: Connecting Mountains to Meals” in Lewiston in which Ducks Unlimited hosted a booth. With over 300 attendees, the weekend was a big success, in large part thanks to the decoy [...]
In early April 2015, the last piece of construction equipment rolled across the temporary bridge that provided access to the Clark Fork River Delta restoration site in Idaho, signaling the end of the first phase of this extensive project. Heavy [...]