https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxYtY0v7do DU Director of Conservation Planning Mark Petrie took part in a panel discussion on “The Evolving Sacramento Valley Landscape” during the Northern California Water Association’s 2022 [...]
In July, Ducks Unlimited Regional Biologist Kelly Warren joined biologists from the Alaska Department of Game and Fish and US Forest Service (USFS) to collar and band more than 600 Dusky Canada geese near Cordova, Alaska, on the Copper River Delta. [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently named Matt Little as its Western Region Director of Public Policy, adding more than 20 years of conservation policy experience with federal natural resource agencies and leading conservation organizations in the Pacific [...]
Ducks Unlimited’s Chief Conservation Officer joins North American Wetlands Conservation Council and Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Advisory Group. [...]
Ducks Unlimited Engineer Forrest Downing, Regional Biologist Matt Kaminski and Regional Engineer Brett Williams received a DU Excellence in Conservation Award for their work as DU’s San Joaquin Valley Conservation Team. [...]
Ducks Unlimited (DU) recently distributed their annual Excellence in Conservation Awards. DU’s Conservation Programs Committee (CPC) created the awards to recognize outstanding conservation accomplishments and the DU staff who made them possible. [...]
Each year, Ducks Unlimited recognizes top-performing staff for their work to secure major donor commitments and cash support for DU’s conservation mission. The Western Region was recognized as the Regional Development Team of the Year. [...]
DU Biologist Tina Blewett was featured in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s online, interactive event on Feb. 20, highlighting waterbirds, spring migration and more. Tina appears near the 49 minute mark. [...]
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. – Dec. 14, 2020 – Ducks Unlimited (DU) has named Jeff McCreary as the next director of operations for DU’s nine-state Western Region. [...]
Each year, Ducks Unlimited recognizes top performing staff for their workto secure major donor commitments and cash support for DU’s conservationmission.“Directors of development achieve the highest levels of success when they work closely with [...]
Ducks Unlimited biologist Virginia Getz was recently profiled by the Northern California Water Association in a wonderful piece detailing her decades of work in the Sacramento Valley. Getz grew up in California and attended UC Davis, eventually [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The Western Region of Ducks Unlimited is soliciting resumes for an experienced Regional Biologist – Environmental Compliance/Permitting Specialist. This is a full-time salaried position with benefits. The incumbent will work under the [...]
Ducks Unlimited CEO Dale Hall toured California’s Sacramento Valley last week, a region where 95% of the historic wetlands have been developed or destroyed, forcing waterfowl who call the area home in the winter to rely heavily on flooded rice [...]
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 [...]
The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture recently profiled Steve Carroll, who is Ducks Unlimited’s supervising engineer in the Bay Area and has had a hand in such notable projects such as Cullinan Ranch, Sear’s Point and Bair Island. Steve [...]
