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Delta President Rob Olson Demonstrates Techniques to Prepare Ducks for the Table (Posted September 3, 2008)

Eating ducks and geese completes the hunting experience. Teaching new hunters how to clean the waterfowl they shoot is the first step towards creating great meals from the birds we hunt, and is a very important part of becoming a waterfowler.

Bring your kids to the computer to see Rob show a group of youth hunters at a recent youth hunt a few ways to "clean" ducks and geese. Watch for more instructional videos from Delta Waterfowl on other ways to process waterfowl.

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Delta Waterfowl's “Hunting Communications Workshop” shows Hunters how to Promote and Defend Hunting (Posted August 17, 2008)

Dr. Robert Bailey Long Point, Ontario, July 26: Delta Waterfowl presented a “hunting communications workshop” designed by hunters for hunters who want to learn how to become effective spokespeople for hunting. Delta members and non- members alike were invited to learn about:

Anti- hunting organizations and how they work;
Proven messages that work for promoting and defending hunting;
Avoiding communications pitfalls, and the wrong messages about hunting;
Working with the political system at all levels to support hunting; and,
How to defend hunting and hunting access in your own backyard

Read more and see the upcoming workshop schedule >>

From the Breeding Grounds: It's Dry...Real Dry...Bad Dry (Posted July 8, 2008)

BISMARCK, N.D. -- What a difference a year makes.

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Listen to Delta Waterfowl's President Rob Olson speak about the USFWS's Breeding Population and Habitat Survey.

(Audio courtesy of CJOB: Manitoba's Information Superstation)

The Inside Scoop on the Fall Forecast
A Field Report from President Rob Olson

Last year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's annual Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey painted a rosy picture -- Canada had the fourth-highest pond count in recorded history and five duck species were in record or near-record territory.

The 2008 breeding population survey, released this week by the Service, shows a 39 percent decline in Canadian ponds and double-digit percentage drops for 5 of the 10 most abundant species in the traditional survey area.

"Overall, the duck numbers aren't as bad as they might have been, but don't look for much production this year," says Dr. Frank Rohwer of Louisiana State University, Delta Waterfowl's scientific director. "Those areas across the breeding grounds that are wet are not the productive areas, and the most productive areas are dry...real dry...bad dry."

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