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Teaching the teachers to bring the outdoors into schools

It’s spring break for a lot of schools around California. But instead of heading out on vacation, 1...
 
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Large grant approved for CWA work at Imperial Wildlife Area

California Waterfowl’s efforts to provide water-wise enhancements for wetlands in Southern Californ...
 
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Advocacy update: gun control, victories in Sac Valley and Congress

California Waterfowl is celebrating two recent victories, and working hard to protect the interests...
 
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Canine Corner: Another Year, Another Chance to Improve

by JOSH MILLER/SportDOG® Another year has come and gone, and with it, another duck season. It’s dep...
 
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Supporting California's Hunters

by MARK HENNELLY, Vice President for Legislative Affairs and Public Policy As a new legislative ses...
 
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What the New Ammunition Rules Mean for Hunters

by JEFFREY A. VOLBERG, Director of Water Law and Policy The last of the ammunition restrictions app...
 
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Spring Issue of California Waterfowl

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Dispatches from the Veteran Hunt Program: Lookout for falling snows!

By Mike Peeters Veteran Hunt Coordinator The temperature was a bone-chilling 20 degrees, and the s...
 
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CWA hails Lyons appointment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE California Waterfowl notes with approval that Governor Gavin Newsom has appoin...
 
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Powered by partnership: SportDOG®, Banded/Avery and Federal Premium

It's the waders and jackets our new hunters wear. The decoys on our hunting properties. The ammuniti...
 
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Youth hunters shine through bad weather

The weather for much of California last weekend called for heavy rain and winds but that didn’t det...
 
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UC Davis college students get taste of hunting life

Although almost all of California's future wildlife managers are outdoorsy people, fewer and fewer...
 
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Rich Christie joins CWA as new field rep

Long-time volunteer Rich Christie has officially joined California Waterfowl staff as the organizat...
 
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94-year-old WWII Veteran hunts the marsh with CWA

There aren’t many people around who have seen as many sunrises as 94-year-old Pete Arnold has. Some...
 
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Sonoma teen brings home calling championship title

by WAYNE TILCOCK, ASSOCIATE EDITOR For most of his life, 15-year-old Bronson Lasley has only hunted...
 
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CWA seeks expanded duck hunting opportunity

In late November, CWA traveled to Washington, D.C., and met with recently nominated U.S. Fish and Wi...
 
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Unimpaired flows: water solution or threat?

(Originally published in the Winter 2018 issue of California Waterfowl.) by JEFFREY A. VOLBERG, DIRE...
 
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Chair's Message: Pushing for pintail progress

(Originally published in the Winter 2018 issue of California Waterfowl.) by ROB PLATH, CHAIRMAN As t...
 
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Winter issue of California Waterfowl

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The family that hunts together ...

by Wayne Tilcock Associate Editor The Mathews family had ducks on their minds when they set their...
 
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Duck Mecca delivers for Veterans

Every once in awhile the Lord shines on your boat, and in this case it was a duck boat. As the late...
 
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Banner year for banding at CWA

  BY JASON COSLOVICH, WATERFOWL BIOLOGIST It was a banner year for the banding crew at Califor...
 
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CWA joins Klamath lawsuit

CWA has been allowed to join in the case of The Klamath Tribes v. the United States Bureau of Reclam...
 
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First hunt at Sanborn Slough kick starts opening day

While the opening day of duck season isn’t an official California holiday, most of us have it circl...