In a desert region where wetlands habitat is limited and duck hunting is far from tradition, the Sierra Vista Chapter of Ducks Unlimited in Arizona recently completed its Fourth Annual Youth Waterfowl Hunt to positive reviews. Eleven youth hunters [...]
Dr. Scott Manley, Ducks Unlimited’s director of conservation innovation, was recently awarded USA Rice’s 2016 Distinguished Conservation Achievement Award for his work on the National Rice Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) [...]
Several citizens of Carson City, Nevada had been recently questioning the presence of active construction equipment moving earth around nearby Buzzy’s Ranch, located in the southeast section of town. Is it for a housing development? A shopping [...]
The Capitol Press, which covers agriculture issues in the western United States, recently published a lengthy piece chronicling Ducks Unlimited’s work with farmers to preserve flood irrigation in both Idaho and Nevada, which ultimately [...]
A group of government agencies, NGO’s and private landowners gathered for a press conference at the scenic Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area located just outside Sacramento on Thursday to celebrate the fall arrival of waterfowl and, more importantly, [...]
DU’s Peter Ottesen checks in with his latest migration report from California, and as many in the state can attest, the beautiful Fall weather has not been so great for duck hunting. Three weeks into the waterfowl season and reports from [...]
A recent project on the central Oregon coast has restored valuable tidal marsh habitat at the Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge near Lincoln City. In partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Salmon Drift Creek Watershed [...]
Storms that dumped up to five inches of rain in certain parts of Northern California last weekend couldn’t have come at a better time, according to Peter Otteson of the Stockton Record, as refuges and ag lands prepare for the start of duck [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Ducks Unlimited will receive $1,677,683 for wetlands restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of a suite of projects approved for funding by the EPA through the San Francisco [...]
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 [...]
Ducks Unlimited was proud to host a booth for the first time last week at the 2016 Society of Environmental Journalists’ Conference, an annual gathering for those who cover issues pertaining to the environment. This year’s event took [...]
Do you hunt ducks, watch ducks, or both? Ducks Unlimited is collaborating with researchers from Colorado State University and University of Arizona to assess activities related to waterfowl hunting as well as waterfowl viewing and photography. [...]
If you’ve recently visited Ducks.org, you may have noticed a few changes. The new and improved homepage for Ducks Unlimited launched last week, the first major redesign since 2010. Last year nearly 5.5 million people visited Ducks.org , [...]
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 and partners recently completed a series of conservation projects in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington funded under a three-phase, six-year-long programmatic NAWCA grant. Titled the “Living Floodplains,” this partnership [...]
For the first time in 30 years, the Western Region Office will complete a project this Fall without the steadying hand of Jim Well, who retired in August after a storied career with Ducks Unlimited, all of it spent shaping the Pacific Flyway from [...]
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, Inc. so far has been awarded $2,145,944 from The Delta Conservancy and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for implementation of a multitude of infrastructure improvements within the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, a 16,600 [...]
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife recently released some good news in regards to waterfowl population. After a three-year decline in both mallard and total duck species, the most recent 2016 survey found that both categories were up, [...]
