Migration Update – September 7, 2010
:::: The progression of the Blue-winged teal migration continues at an unhurried pace. Birds are slowly moving through the flyways and are present in most states from the far north to the deep south. In the Mississippi Flyway, teal are still staging in large flocks in key breeding areas and resident goose hunters in Wisconsin are reporting excellent teal numbers in flooded agricultural fields...
ACTIVISION AND CABELA’S ANNOUNCE “HUNT ACROSS AMERICA TOUR”
:::: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 – Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Cabela’s today announced details on its forthcoming “Hunt Across America Tour”. This nationwide tour allows hunting enthusiasts and gamers alike to be among the first to play the Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011 and Cabela’s North American Adventures video games on Wii™, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system.
CPO Pak Offers Comprehensive Insurance Coverage for Firearms and Sporting Collectibles
:::: Hilton Head, SC::: Coastal Plains Outdoors, a leading insurer of wingshooting preserves, rod and gun clubs and other outdoor enterprises has introduced the first comprehensive personal property insurance plan tailored specifically to meet the needs of modern sportsmen and collectors of guns, optics, taxidermy, fly-fishing equipment, sporting art and other valuables
Snow Goose Production Up, Strong Fall Flight Expected; Delta Waterfowl to Goose Hunters: ‘Get Ready’
:::: WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Could a bumper crop of snow geese be in the offing for waterfowl hunters this year? Dr. Robert “Rocky” Rockwell, a biology professor at City University of New York and one of North America’s leading authorities on snow geese, thinks so. Rockwell says the summer nesting season in the subarctic region of La Perouse Bay in northern Manitoba was “spectacular.”
Hunt Comfort Specialist receives "Best of the Best" Award from Field & Stream
:::: Field & Stream has selected the Hunt Comfort Specialist seat pad for its "Best of the Best" Award in the "essentials" category for 2010. The "Best of the Best" judging criteria include the significance of innovation, the quality of the design and the value it brings to hunters. The judges, comprised of F&S editors, writers and seasoned hunters, decided that the Hunt Comfort Specialist met the winning quality of excellence in its field.
REMINGTON® VERSA MAX: Any load, Any Where, Every Time
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Madison, NC – Remington is pleased to announce the most exciting addition to its respected 100-year lineage of autoloading shotguns – the highly-anticipated VERSA MAX. This technologically-advanced, gas-piston operated 12-gauge, 3½-inch autoloader shatters convention and all previous benchmarks for reliability with an action that is unlike any that have come before it. Built to withstand the elements, function reliably with all 12-gauge shells with less recoil than some 20-gauge shotguns, and designed to be fully adjustable for length of pull, comb height and stock drop and cast; the VERSA MAX represents true versatility to the MAX!
Countdown to Black Cloud® Stormchasers Network 2.0 has Begun
:::: NOKA, Minn. - July 26, 2010 - The countdown to a new and improved Black Cloud Stormchasers Network 2.0 is underway. The clock is ticking (literally—visitors can see how many seconds remain before the big launch), the sky is darkening (again, literally—the background is darkening with the approaching storm) and things are changing at www.stormchasersnetwork.com. On July 29, version 2.0 will be fully unveiled—with plenty of new features and custom content to keep members coming back for more.
REMINGTON® INTRODUCES HYPERSONIC STEEL
:::: Madison, NC – Few things are more challenging than hitting fast moving, high flying waterfowl. To meet this challenge, Remington is proud to introduce the fastest velocity, highest downrange pattern energies ever produced in the history of steel waterfowl loads; the revolutionary new HyperSonic Steel™. To put it simply, waterfowl hunters now have the fastest, hardest-hitting, steel shot shell in the world, resulting in shorter leads to help hunters be more successful.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Reintroduction of Non-migratory Whooping Cranes into Southwest Louisiana
:::: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today in the Federal Register it is seeking public comment on a proposed rule to reintroduce the endangered whooping crane into habitat in its historic range on the state-owned White Lake Wetland Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.
Seasons Proposed for Upcoming Waterfowl Season
:::: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed hunting season lengths for the upcoming 2010–11 late waterfowl seasons. The proposed frameworks include duck hunting season lengths of 60 days in both the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, 74 days in the Central Flyway, and 107 days in the Pacific Flyway...
CRP SIGN-UP COMES AT CRITICAL TIME FOR DUCKS
:::: BISMARCK, N.D., July 28, 2010 – Ducks Unlimited says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up comes at a critical time for duck populations with the nesting grounds continuing to disappear. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday announced the agency will allow new enrollments in CRP in 2010, the first since 2006.
“This is great news for wetlands conservation, waterfowl habitat, waterfowl and waterfowl hunters,” said Dale Hall, DU’s CEO. “Maintaining CRP acres will translate into more ducks in the fall flight across the country each year.”
OIL FROM MICHIGAN SPILL COULD THREATEN IMPORTANT WETLANDS
:::: ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 30, 2010 ─ A sensitive area of important waterfowl habitat has been impacted by the Enbridge Lakehead oil spill. On July 26, 2010 a leak occurred in an Enbridge pipeline that released what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates to be more than 1 million gallons of crude oil into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River...
IHEA's new online training for hunter education instructors available now
:::: New online instructor training developed by the International Hunter Education Association (IHEA) makes learning how to share our hunting heritage more effective, accessible and convenient.
FWS Addresses Urgent Habitat Needs for Birds and Other Wildlife Along the Gulf Coast
:::: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating efforts along the Gulf Coast to safeguard wildlife such as shorebirds, waterfowl, marsh birds, sea birds and sea turtles from the effects of oil...
Breeding Population Survey Released; U.S. Continues to Attract Majority of Nesting Ducks
:::: Bismarck, N.D.--The 56th edition of the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey, released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service, revealed wetland conditions and duck populations well above their long-term averages.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Develops Strategy to Help Waterfowl and other Migratory Birds Weather the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
:::: WASHINGTON -- In a few weeks, millions of waterfowl and other migratory birds will soon begin their fall migration to wintering and stopover habitat along the Gulf Coast. In anticipation of this event, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with partners to anticipate and minimize the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill on these birds.
DU TO RECEIVE $2.5 MILLION GRANT FOR GULF COAST HABITAT WORK
:::: MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 24, 2010 – Ducks Unlimited was notified today it will receive a $2.5 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to provide additional habitat for waterfowl and other birds that will migrate to the Gulf Coast later this year. This partnership between NFWF and DU will seek to restore and enhance upwards of 20,000 acres of wetland habitat on lands adjacent to or near Gulf Coast marshes.
Delta and Partners Send Letter Urging Attention on Waterfowl in Wake of Spill
:::: Delta Waterfowl and state waterfowl organizations from across the country sent a joint letter today to Secretary of Interior Salazar and the leadership of British Petroleum to urge the long term monitoring of the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resultant spill on coastal habitats and waterfowl.
Maryland Artist Robert Bealle Wins 2009 Federal Duck Stamp Contest
:::: Robert Bealle an artist from Waldorf, Maryland, took top honors today at the 2009 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Bealle’s painting of an American wigeon will be made into the 2010-2011 Federal Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2010. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service produces the Federal Duck Stamp, which sells for $15 and raises about $25 million each year to fund wetland habitat acquisition for the National Wildlife Refuge System...
Most hunters report they are going afield as much or more than they expected
:::: FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — In 2009, a majority of hunters made going afield a priority in their life. According to HunterSurvey.com, almost 25 percent said they hunted more than they expected to in 2009 and 40 percent said they hunted about as much as they expected to....
Final Approach Launches New FA Gunners Club
:::: Overland Park, KS. ::: The new updated Final Approach website is up and running with a host of new features including the new FA Gunners members' section.
Accessing WFC's Virtual Online Lodge
:::: Waterfowler.com has expanded your opportunity to meet and greet fellow duck and goose hunters in the virtual world of Second Life. Accessing our 3-D Lodge that features real time voice and text chat, clay target shooting and virtual duck hunting is free to all WFC readers and easy to set up...
Waterfowler.com’s Online Lodge Expands to 3D Environment
:::: Waterfowler.com’s programmers and designers “broke ground” today on the building and development of a virtual 3-D hunting lodge in Linden Lab’s digital world of Second Life ™. “It has always been a dream that the Online Lodge at Waterfowler.com could become a three dimensional space our members could meet and greet in,” stated Darin Sakas, Publisher of Waterfowler.com Online, “and this new project will bring that dream to reality.”
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