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Advocacy
State expected to stop treating Central Valley wetlands as polluters
The move would allow wetland managers to invest more in their wetlands.
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Advocacy
Updates from California Waterfowl's Advocacy Team
Read about a change in DFW's budget that will provide more money for waterfowl habitat programs, CWA's fight for a water right transfer, and the bills that CWA is sponsoring, supporting or opposing.
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Press release
Klamath
Mallards
Water transfer to Lower Klamath approved
The Oregon Water Resources Department approved a request to transfer a water right from a willing seller in Oregon's Wood River Valley to California Waterfowl to benefit the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
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Press release
CWA earns national recognition
CWA has joined a network of over 450 accredited land trusts across the nation that have demonstrated their commitment to professional excellence and to maintaining the public’s trust in their work.
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Klamath
Klamath update: Lower Klamath drying up, water shifting at Tule Lake
PHOTO AND VIDEO: Satellite imagery and photography from the past week paint a grim picture of conditions in the parched Klamath Basin.
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Hunting News
Mallards
2021-22 Fall Flight Forecast
CWA Waterfowl Programs Supervisor Caroline Brady lays out conditions going into this hunting season.
Klamath
CWA water-rights purchase featured on JPR
Jefferson Public Radio featured a discussion today about CWA's plan to purchase water rights for the Lower Klamath NWR.
Klamath
CWA statement in response to H&N article
CWA released the following statement in response to an article in today's Klamath Falls Herald and News about the draining of Sump 1B at TLNWR.
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Press release
SportDOG® Brand Renews Partnership with California Waterfowl
SportDOG® Brand recently renewed its support of California Waterfowl’s mission to grow the state’s waterfowl populations, wetlands and hunter-conservationist communities.
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Advocacy
CWA combo license bill passes key committee
State legislation sponsored by California Waterfowl to create a new combination hunting and fishing license passed the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee today.
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Advocacy
Members of Congress Honor CWA's 75th Anniversary
U.S. representatives Mike Thompson (D-Napa) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Biggs) introduced a House Resolution this week that recognizes the significance of California Waterfowl’s 75th anniversary.
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Waterfowl
Mallards
PHOTO GALLERY: CWA biologists searching cover crops for mallard nests
CWA biologists located 20 nests in 127 acres of cover crop fields today - part of ongoing research about how wild ducks use agricultural fields.
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Education
Mallards
PHOTO GALLERY: Egg Salvage Hatchery Tour at Rancho Esquon
Ducklings? Kids? What's not to love? Brace yourself for a whole lot of adorableness from today's tour of the Egg Salvage Hatchery at Rancho Esquon.
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Advocacy
Mallard breeding habitat, combination license bills advance
Two state bills sponsored by California Waterfowl were approved in their houses of origin this week: AB 614 (funds Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program) and SB 470 (creates a combination hunting and fishing license).
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Klamath
Lower Klamath water rights purchase update
California Waterfowl's effort to purchase water rights for the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge is awaiting approvals.
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Press release
Magazine
Summer issue on its way to members
June 1, 2021—The Summer issue of California Waterfowl has begun landing in members’ mailboxes. Not a member?
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Canine Corner: Going live
Opening day isn't the time to introduce your pup to feathers (from Summer 2021 issue of California Waterfowl Magazine).
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Wetland restoration
Changes at Suisun Marsh, Tulare Basin
An update on wetland work in the Suisun Marsh and Tulare Basin (from Summer 2021 issue of California Waterfowl Magazine).
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Advocacy
Legislation we'll back and fight
Bills California Waterfowl is supporting or opposing in the 2021 Legislature (from Summer 2021 issue of California Waterfowl Magazine).
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Klamath
The Klamath Effect
The effects of little water for the nation's first waterfowl refuge ripple across the entire state. (From Summer 2021 issue of California Waterfowl Magazine).
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Press release
CWA welcomes new assistant magazine editor
California Waterfowl is pleased to welcome Julie Do as assistant editor of California Waterfowl Magazine. Do tells us how she went in a few short years from being someone who didn't even know she was interested in wildlife to working in communications for a robust and influential conservation organization.
Hunting News
Veteran Hunt Program
First order of the day - another dispatch from the Veteran Hunt Program
All around them, the woods began coming to life with the sounds of the marsh welcoming the day. Then there it was, the shock gobble from the roost and the clucking of the hens as the roosted birds scanned their surroundings for signs of safety before taking wing.
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Press release
Klamath
CWA lauds proposed aid package that would help Klamath refuges
California Waterfowl lauds a proposal by two congressmen from Northern California and Oregon to provide $57 million in aid for the Klamath Basin, including $2.5 million to help two national wildlife refuges that are drying up.
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Advocacy
Mallards
Photo gallery: Lawmaker visits mallard nesting habitat
Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry toured a farm-country field today to see firsthand how cover crops can provide incredible nesting habitat for California's mallards (and gadwalls and red-winged blackbirds).
