Ducks Unlimited’s Bend Chapter participated in a special duck nesting project last month, elevating special grass-lined tubes several feet above water and surrounding plants to help ducks lay their eggs out of the reach of predators. [...]
Fern Ridge Wildlife Area Ducks Unlimited recently completed enhancement activities at the East Coyote Unit of Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, near Eugene, improving water management capabilities and wetland function on 300 acres. The project included [...]
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 recently celebrated its 30th year of conservation work at Summer Lake in Oregon, where DU’s very first Beaver State project was completed in the fall of 1987. Since 2003, DU has completed six more projects benefiting more than [...]
Ducks Unlimited recently completed work on Pintail Pond at Oregon’s Jackson Bottoms Wetland Preserve to help keep the pond at a steady level during the rainy season. Pintail is on the southern edge of the preserve, and is a former settling [...]
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 [...]
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’s friends at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife are close to kicking off an education program to give Oregonians a greater understanding of the many benefits hunting brings to wildlife, ecosystems, economy and society. [...]
