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 [...]
DU President Rogers Hoyt penned an op-ed in USA TODAY on Friday to highlight the new reality for America’s nonprofit organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Congress can help. Read this important piece to find out how nonprofits [...]
by Mark Biddlecomb, Western Region Director of Operations Tupper Ansel Blake’s latest book, Wind in My Face – Sun at My Side, features hundreds of Blake’s amazing photographs. Tupper is one of our country’s premier wildlife photographers, so [...]
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 [...]
Our good friends at the California Rice Commission recently invited Virginia Getz, Ducks Unlimited’s manager of conservation programs for the Western Regional Office, to appear on the most recent episode of their popular podcast Ingrained. [...]
Matt Kaminski, DU’s Regional Biologist for the San Joaquin Valley in Central California, joins Ducks Unlimited’s national podcast show to discuss a multitude of topics, including a description of DU’s conservation efforts in the [...]
DU Conserve is an incredible new series of films about the people, places and species that matter to DU’s wetlands and waterfowl conservation mission. This weeks latest release spotlights California’s Central Valley and the efforts of [...]
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 [...]
Ducks Unlimited joined partners at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area on Thursday (12/7/17) outside Sacramento to celebrate California’s collective progress towards the conservation of waterfowl habitat. DU Western Region Director Mark Biddlecomb [...]
Ducks Unlimited CEO Dale Hall wrote an op-ed this week for the California water blog, Water Deeply, in which he advocates for a greater connectivity in the Central Valley when it comes to water resources, and specifically the Sacramento River. [...]
Ducks Unlimited is currently working on a notable wetlands restoration project just outside of Mt. Vernon, Washington, by partnering with the Skagit Land Trust to create a stream channel and riparian zone within a former ag field. The project was [...]
DU Films has released a series of short clips to YouTube focusing on conservation and the hunting traditions that shape DU’s story. All less than two minutes long, each short clip admirably captures the spirit of the organization by focusing [...]
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 [...]
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’s CEO Dale Hall recently penned an editorial that ran in Tuesday’s Contra Costa Times, highlighting the collaborative effort between DU and rice farmers to create habitat during the California drought. Like other [...]
Paul McHugh of Bay Nature Magazine wrote a very nice long-form piece on Cullinan Ranch in the San Pablo Bay from a kayaker’s point of view, including some of Ducks Unlimited’s work on the project. So at Cullinan Ranch, Ducks [...]
Ducks Unlimited partnered with the Northern California Water Association on an editorial in Monday’s (1/4/16) Sacramento Bee highlighting the work accomplished in the Sacramento Valley this year maximizing water sources for migratory birds. [...]
DU Biologist Virginia Getz spoke to Fox40 News in Sacramento at a California Rice Commission media event on Thursday, further illustrating how the lack of water in the Central Valley is not hurting just rice farmers. “These birds are heavily [...]
