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Update: California Waterfowl Fundraising Events

Nine additional CWA fundraising events are set for the next several months in Northern California. If you love ducks, great food, a chance to win valuable prizes and enjoy a great evening with other hunters, your families or friends, give the organizers a call.

Gilroy Man Convicted of Extraordinary Waterfowl Poaching Gets $7,105 fine, Probation

By Frank Galusha, EasyWriter

Sac Refuge Waterfowl Counts Look Encouraging; Weather Not Promising

By Frank Galusha, EasyWriter

Nearly one-quarter million geese and over 1.6 million ducks were counted on the Sacramento Refuge Complex during the first few days of November, according to information provided to the media by Mike Carpenter, Wildlife Biologist at the Complex.

Wanted: Talented Artists to Design 2009 California Duck Stamp

The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) announced today an art contest for the 2009 design for the state's duck stamp. This is the first time since 1994 a contest will decide the stamp’s art.p>

New Regional Approach to Waterfowl Mallard Limits in Effect

Mallard limit of just one hen (except on Colorado River Zone) found to be better for population growth than reducing limit on drakes to four or five… 

Sacramento -- Waterfowl season bag limits now include a new regional approach to setting the regulations. This is the first year that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) used a model on Pacific Flyway mallards to determine regulations for our flyway. Despite the Central Valley’s record dry year, this improved model, which uses more relevant Pacific Flyway data, has allowed for a liberal hunting limit on mallards.

Free Waterfowl Hunting Opportunities for Youth

Suisun Marsh – [Editor’s Note: Sarah Swenty, Public Information Officer with California Waterfowl sent in this news release with a comment: “This is about a great opportunity for the kids to get out on a private club in the Suisun Marsh for a free overnighter with their mother or father and a great hunt on Saturday morning.  Last year’s program was our first, a huge success, and as far as we know, the only one of its kind anywhere. I went twice to be the lead organizer and will go again this year to do my part to make sure more kids are getting out and getting connected. It was such a positive, all around fun experience that I wouldn’t miss it for the world.  I’d love to see some Woodland kids getting to enjoy it too. Photos will follow in the next edition of MyOutdoorBuddy.com] 

California Waterfowl, in partnership with Grizzly Island LLC., is once-again offering a free, in-season youth hunting program during the 2008-09 waterfowl hunting season in Suisun Marsh near Fairfield.