No more searching the calendar for the last day of duck season. The California Fish and Game Commission unanimously approved Jan. 31 as the official regular season end date today at its meeting in Santa Monica. The move replaces the previous system of using the last Sunday of January as the closing day. For the […]
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Supporting California’s Hunters
by MARK HENNELLY, Vice President for Legislative Affairs and Public Policy As a new legislative session begins, California Waterfowl’s Advocacy team is keeping tabs on upcoming legislation at the state and federal levels for proposals that may affect hunters and waterfowl. Here are some of the issues we are watching and acting on: GUN-CONTROL BILLS […]
What the New Ammunition Rules Means for Hunters
by JEFFREY A. VOLBERG, Director of Water Law and Policy The last of the ammunition restrictions approved by California lawmakers and voters in 2016 go into effect this summer, spelling significant changes for hunters. People who have purchased firearms recently should have no problem buying ammunition, but the transactions will take longer and cost more, […]
CWA seeks expanded duck hunting opportunity
In late November, CWA traveled to Washington, D.C., and met with recently nominated U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia Skipwith, as well as U.S. Department of Interior leadership, about the importance of pintail hunting opportunity to California waterfowlers. In particular, we urged that the northern pintail adaptive harvest management strategy revision be completed as […]
Unimpaired flows: water solution or threat?
(Originally published in the Winter 2018 issue of California Waterfowl.) by JEFFREY A. VOLBERG, DIRECTOR OF WATER LAW AND POLICY Once again, it seems that every water issue revolves around fish, not waterfowl. The State Water Resources Control Board has decided that the answer to declining fish populations is a mandate that will result in losses of water supplies […]
Chair’s Message: Pushing for pintail progress
(Originally published in the Winter 2018 issue of California Waterfowl.) by ROB PLATH, CHAIRMAN As this magazine hits your mailbox, you might be gearing up for the best part of the waterfowl season – all the migrants heading down here for the winter in huge numbers. Not so for CWA Vice President of Legislative Affairs and Public Policy Mark Hennelly: […]
CWA joins Klamath lawsuit
CWA has been allowed to join in the case of The Klamath Tribes v. the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the federal District Court in Portland, Oregon. The tribes are suing to secure more water from the Klamath Project for the protection of the endangered shortnose sucker and Lost River sucker. CWA will submit an informational […]
Governor vetoes African animal parts bill
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Sunday that would have made it illegal for California hunters to bring home or possess some animals they hunted legally in Africa, punishable by fines of up to $40,000. “Even though I share the sentiments of the author, this bill, if enacted, would be unenforceable,” Brown wrote in his […]
Governor signs CWA-supported AB 2697, creating nesting habitat incentive program
On Thursday, September 20, the governor signed AB 2697 (Gallagher, R-Yuba City), a waterfowl and upland game bird nesting habitat incentive program. With substantial member and partner support, California Waterfowl was able to see this CWA-sponsored legislation through the entire, often tumultuous, legislative process. AB 2697 will establish the “Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program” which […]
