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Delta Town Hall Meeting in Havre de Grace Maryland (Posted January 1, 2009)

Delta Waterfowl President Rob Olson will be conducting a Town Hall Meeting at the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum on Tuesday January 13th at 7:00. Olson’s presentation will cover Delta’s programs and their impact on Atlantic Flyway waterfowl and waterfowlers.

For more information visit www.Chesapeakeducks.org or contact George Wooden at (443) 206-6121 or email him at gwooden@zoominternet.net.

Note to Waterfowl Managers: Computer models can’t evaluate the impact of your actions on the waterfowling culture (Posted January 2, 2009)

My passion for hunting was fired by the outdoor writers of another time, men with made-up-sounding names like Ted Trueblood, Nash Buckingham, Gordon MacQuarrie, Gene Hill and Grits Gresham. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. 

Their stories were a celebration of wild places and wild things, of spirited dogs, fine guns, aged brandy and the camaraderie of the hunt.  They elevated outdoor writing to an art, and we couldn’t get enough of them.    

To this day I can’t read MacQuarrie’s Stories of the Old Duck Hunters without wishing I could have “courted bluebills in the snow” with the author and the protagonist of his essays, the incorrigible president of the Old Duck Hunters Association. 

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ALUS Wins Prestigious Award - Delta Waterfowl's Partnership with Canadian Farmers Paying Big Dividends for Ducks (Posted December 2, 2008)

The momentum for Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS), Delta’s flagship waterfowl habitat conservation program, continues with the November 27, 2008 awarding of Manitoba’s prestigious Excellence in Sustainability Award to Delta Waterfowl and our Manitoba farm group partner, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). This award, under the Sustainability in Water Stewardship and Natural Area Protection Category, recognizes the significant conservation achievements realized by Delta’s ALUS pilot project in Manitoba’s Rural Municipality of Blanshard. The award was presented by Conservation Minister and Chair of the Manitoba Round Table for Sustainable Development, Hon. Stan Struthers, at a reception at the Delta Hotel in Winnipeg.

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Vanishing Hunter: Applying Research-based Solutions to the Challenge of Declining Participation (Posted November 30, 2008)

At Delta Waterfowl, we rarely shy away from tough issues.  Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn from the experience and once in a while we get our fannies whooped.

If the range of outcomes has varied, our mission remains constant: We believe the world of waterfowl can be better than it is today, and we’re always searching for ways to achieve that better tomorrow.  

Our approach never changes either.  Our legacy of waterfowl research is at the foundation of the organization, it’s our very core.  Now the same critical thinking that has shaped Delta research and provided key scientific discoveries about waterfowl and their habitats is now having a profound impact on waterfowling itself. 

This time the work wasn’t conducted by master’s or PhD students, and it won’t be published in The Journal of Wildlife Management.  But the work of Dan Nelson and Tori McCormick in their Vanishing Hunter series over the past four issues of Delta Waterfowl magazine is the most comprehensive and understandable examination of the decline in hunting participation ever produced. 

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