Please consider donating to our chapter so that we can keep providing for our local community with the event and outreach that means so much to our youth and veterans.
Here is a list of goals that our chapter focuses on
If you would like to partner with us in any way please contact us. We love our local community and look forward to many years of service to it.
- First hunt opportunity
- This if for any person who has never hunted waterfowl and wants to try it out. We focus mainly with youth hunters but the average new waterfowler is in there mid 20s.
- Veteran access to hunting
- We work with local farmers and landowners to to lease property that is only for use with Youth/Veteran hunting. We also partner with groups that specialize in guiding veterans on waterfowl hunts at no charge.
- Hen Mallard Houses
- The leases we have for hunting are some of the best places to utilize Delta Waterfowls nesting program. We are able to leverage the lease so that we include access year round to the nesting houses to maintain and check for eggs.
- Predator Management
- This is a program that we are going to be rolling out this next year. Keeping predator numbers down in areas that we implement our nesting program is key. This helps improve the odds of survival of newly laid eggs or hatched ducklings.
If you would like to partner with us in any way please contact us. We love our local community and look forward to many years of service to it.
Predator ManagmentPredator management is the most cost-effective waterfowl management tool available to increase annual duck production. With waterfowl populations facing an uncertain future, predator management is a tool that can significantly boost duck production today.
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Hen HousesThrough the Delta Duck Production program you can directly help to increase mallard production by supporting the Hen House program. Hen House program sites can be considered “Mallard Factories”. Similar in concept to wood duck boxes, Hen Houses are artificial nesting structures designed to provide mallards with a safe place to nest. Delta’s student research program has studied Hen Houses since 1991 and the findings are impressive. Mallards using Hen House nesting structures experience an average nest success of 80%. Use of Hen House nesting structures increases with time and typically levels out at 80% occupancy, making the Hen House program an extremely cost effective way to increase mallard productivity.
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Waterfowl Heritage FundWaterfowl Heritage Fund (WHF) allows Delta Waterfowl fundraising chapters to direct conservation and hunter recruitment projects at the local level. In most conservation fundraising models, chapters send all of the money raised to the organization's headquarters. While those funds are applied to the overall mission of the group, all local areas typically don't see the benefit.
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