Ducks Unlimited recently announced the top volunteer chapters across the nation honored in four categories: Chairman’s Elite, Chairman’s Roll of Honor, President’s Elite and President’s Roll of Honor. The Chairman’s [...]
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 [...]
DU Western Region Director of Conservation Programs, Jim Well (center), spoke to the gathered media on the partnership between rice farmers and waterfowl. Ducks Unlimited joined a group of water district managers, farmers and fish biologists in [...]
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 [...]
DUTV headed west to California just prior to Christmas, joining long-time DU supporter Dennis Campini and his son, Logan, for a great exposure to the Grasslands in the northern San Joaquin Valley. Dennis is the president of the Grassland Resource [...]
The North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) conserves North America’s waterfowl, fish and wildlife resources while producing a variety of environmental and economic benefits. Its success is driven by partnerships involving federal, [...]
Scott and his wife, Melissa. Despite growing up around his outdoors-enthusiast grandfather in the Adirondacks of upstate New York, Scott Eisenhauer didn’t really jump feet first into the sport of hunting until he moved to Alaska as an adult. By [...]
Long-time DU member and current Vice President, Doug Federighi, was recently inducted into the California Waterfowler’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Yountville, Calif. The honor was well deserved for Federighi, who been a long-time [...]
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. [...]
Ducks Unlimited will have a booth at the 19th annual Snow Goose Festival in Chico, January 30 and 31. Stop by or check out our full page ad in the Snow Goose Festival program! Official [...]
DU recently completed the first phase of work on a recently awarded North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant in the Suisun Marsh, which is a part of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. The Suisun Marsh Wetland Enhancement Project will [...]
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 [...]
Mark Biddlecomb, Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Director of Operations, made the following statement yesterday regarding California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget: “Today’s budget is a recognition of state and voter approved [...]
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. [...]
On December 7th, 2015, Seattle Ducks Unlimited Chapter member Garrett Madison summited Mt. Vinson, the tallest mountain in Antarctica. In three weeks a team of five climbers traversed the earth’s southernmost continent, scaled polar glaciers [...]
When Eric Heidman saw the pintail sail into his decoy spread all by itself on opening day of waterfowl season at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge, he knew it was going to be a good day. What he didn’t immediately realize was that the bird was [...]
The Sacramento Bee’s Ryan Sabalow literally waded into the weeds over the weekend with an in depth story on how the massive California drought is affecting duck hunters in the Central Valley. And as imagined, things are tough as the state [...]
The first-ever issue of Ducks Unlimited’s Western Region Newsletter is now available to download. A quarterly publication, just click on the link below to save the PDF and find out what’s going on throughout the nine-state Western [...]
Waterfowl season began last month in California, and despite the drought plaguing the entire state, large numbers of ducks and geese have found their way into the Central Valley, providing good hunting opportunities. “After talking to people [...]
A bucket loader pulled the last bit of earth from the dam in front of hundreds of guests Sunday afternoon in San Pablo Bay, releasing millions of gallons of sea water into an area that had previously been farmland. After 10 years of planning and [...]
