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Egg Salvage Volunteers Needed
Farmers and Landowners Can Help Too
 Egg salvage operations are in full swing throughout the Sacramento Valley! The grainfields, alfalfa, pastures, wheat, uncut roadsides, and even the pre-mowed grasses in orchards are excellent nesting habitat for waterfowl. Soon, though, the rumble of heavy machinery and cutting bars will frighten those hens off the nest, and hundreds of eggs could be abandoned or even crushed.
Rancho Esquon is in need of volunteers who can pick up, deliver, or process eggs and also transport them to one of four hatching and rearing facilities across the valley. If you can help, please call 1-866-DUC-EGGS (382-3447). Your help will be much appreciated by Rancho Esquon and CWA, who are partnering egg salvage and breeding habitat restoration efforts to increase local breeding ducks (especially mallards)!
Farmers and landowners: If you encounter a situation where wild duck nests are about to be destroyed, please call 1-866-DUC-EGGS (382-3447) to notify egg salvage experts that nests are in danger. Trained volunteers will be summoned to collect threatened eggs and bring them to a hatching and rearing facility; and those ducklings should have an excellent chance to make it into the sky.
If you can help, please call 1-866-DUC-EGGS (382-3447) today! |
So Far, So Good for Pro-hunting Legislation
This month, two COHA-sponsored state legislative pro-hunting measures have passed out of their first policy committee hearings without a single "no" vote:
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AB 2132 (Houston): This measure seeks to ensure the safety of hunting dogs, prevent trespass, and provide the Fish and Game Commission with additional flexibility regarding the use of dogs during archery season. It cleared the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, & Wildlife on a 13-0 vote in early April.
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SB 1172 (Dutton): This legislation would ensure that public area waterfowl hunting reservation application fees, as well as annual revenues from upland game stamp, bear, deer, elk, pig, big horn sheep, and antelope tag sales, are used by the Department of Fish and Game to benefit the species and users which generate them by requiring their expenditures be brought before the Fish and Game Commission in a public forum. Currently, the state duck stamp is the only revenue stream which requires such oversight. This measure cleared the Senate Natural Resource and Water Committee on the consent calendar on April 8th. | |
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4630 Northgate Blvd. Suite 150
Sacramento, CA 95834 |
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