Although almost all of California’s future wildlife managers are outdoorsy people, fewer and fewer of them have experience with hunting before they enter the workforce. CWA’s College Camp, held each year at the gorgeous Bird Haven Ranch in the Upper Butte Basin, is a collaborative effort with the UC Davis Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology […]
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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 organization’s fourth field operations representative. Born and raised in South Africa, Rich’s love of the outdoors grew early on as he accompanied his father on photography flights in single-engine planes over the bush. Later, as a private pilot and photographer, he moved to […]
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 of those were during his three-year stint in the Navy, serving as a pharmacist’s mate in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Many more sunrises have been spent out in a blind during his 81 years of hunting. CWA […]
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 with a small group of family and friends. After what he did last month, though, that’s about to change. A lot. On Nov. 10, the Penngrove native was in Easton, Md., working the stage to bring home the Junior […]
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 […]
Winter issue of California Waterfowl
The Winter issue of California Waterfowl will soon be landing in members’ mailboxes, and we’ve got some great stories for our readers! Not a member? If you join now by clicking here, then email Editor Holly Heyser at hheyser@calwaterfowl.org, she’ll mail you a copy of this issue. Here are some of the highlights: On the […]
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 […]
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 afternoon chill reminded us we were in the Northern California waterfowl Mecca known as Tule Lake, our hosts quietly pushed the boat blinds out 500 yards into the flooded grain fields. What occurred […]
Banner year for banding at CWA
BY JASON COSLOVICH, WATERFOWL BIOLOGIST It was a banner year for the banding crew at California Waterfowl. From the end of 2017-18 season until just before opening day of 2018-19, our team was hard at work across the state banding pintail, mallards and yes, four shovelers. Those efforts led to an all-time high in […]
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