Delta Waterfowl Chapter in Jackson

[mallardchaser]

I talked with Rob Olson of Delta. He will be in Jackson on Sunday the 17th. He would like to meet with anyone who is interested in learning more about Delta and with people interested in starting a local chapter.
5:30 at Red Hot and Blue..
Please reply if you're interested and bring your friends. He sounds like a nice guy and said there is lots of good stuff going on with the ducks..
webfoot, I believe it was you I talked w/ a while back. Send me an email.

[H2OFowl]

Yeah, Rob is a great guy. If you have a chance I highly recommend meeting up with him.

[Blackduck]

I'll be out of town on Sunday but I am interested in learning more. Let me know what else I can/or need to do.

Email Maxon00@hotmail.com

[Duck Nawteek]

Well the guys around Jackson need to get together and decide to meet up there and meet him. WHo is interested in going? [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Bigpoppa]

Hey MC, you know I am interested but I have a Daytona 500 party to go to and I dont know when I'll be back. I'll holler at you later.

[captain duck]

DW Meeting Sunday- I just talked with National chairman of Delta Waterfowl, Dan Hughes in Brandon. I saw the post about Rob Olson coming Sunday PM to Red-Hot-Blue at 5:30. Dan asked me to post that the purpose of the meeting is not only to inform and educate about DW but to form a 15-20 man committee that will get involved and help put on central Ms first banquet late this summer or early fall. If you are interested please attend. Rob is doing the same thing Sat somewhere on the coast.

[webfoot]

Plans are for Red Hot & Blue @ 5:30 on Sunday, as of now Rob Olson will be here.

This is your chance to help out a great grass roots organization.

Also on this Wednesday night in Oxford will be another DW meeting at Five Oaks Grocery at 6:00 pm., John Devney will be at this
meeting.

This meeting will be for everone in North Mississippi.

I plan on being at both meetings.

[timber-hunter]

I am going to the one held in oxford. Every body around my area is really excited about starting a chapter. This could lead to great things in north ms. I will see you there!

[walt333ms]

will plan to be at red--hot--and blue...about 5:30...see you there
walt...

[SoftCall]

MC - count me in...I'll pick you up at 5:15.

[Duck Nawteek]

Hey Mc and softcall I'll be there at 5 having a beer and a BBQ sandwich. I'll be in the bar area. I'll look for ya. I'm gonna try to get 3 or 4 of my buddies and see if they want to go. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[mallardchaser]

sounds good nawteek..check pm..

[Hammer]

Great line of posts...See yall at The Delta Waterfowl meeting, Sunday, February 17, 5:30PM at Red, Hot & Blue Restaurant on County Line Road in Jackson...

As a long time Delta Waterfowler and personal friends with Chairman Dan Hughes and several other Delta board members, officers, etc...I want to share the Delta Waterfowl story with those of you unfamiliar with it...

Founded in 1911, Delta is the oldest waterfowl organization in North America...Delta has trained more waterfowl biologists than any other organization in the world...In fact, most DU biologists were trained at Delta...

As a result of this science based focus, Delta is convinced that DU and FWS have made some errors in their approach to waterfowl management- errors resulting largely from political and monetary concerns...

First, Delta believes that small potholes are far more important to duck breeding than the big marsh projects that DU has spent so much money on...

Second, Delta believes that the fall flight index is essentially useless and that FWS basically has no idea how many ducks we've got...Rather than push FWS to modernize its survey methods, DU has used the fall flight for marketing purposes...

Third, Delta believes that in the short run, predator management is absolutely essential in stabilizing waterfowl populations... Whereas studies conducted in the 1960s indicated that about 33% of hatchlings joined the fall flight, that percentage is now down to no more than 15% as a result of predation...DU has been reluctant to touch this potentially politically incorrect subject...

Fourth and probably most importantly, Delta is committed to working with the Canadian FWS and Canadian provincial governments in establishing a Canadian CRP program...

Because there are no Swampbuster or Clean Water Act type prohibitions, Canadian farmers clean up and farm every wetland acre they possibly can, particularly in the Canadian prairie where most of our ducks come from...Hence, Delta started its "Adopt A Pothole" program to demonstrate that Canadian farmers would create and maintain potholes if they were paid to do so...For reasons that are unclear at this point, DU has not been willing to join Delta in pushing either the Adopt A Pothole program or the Canadian CRP idea...

Don't get me wrong- I am a long-time member of DU and support them as much as I can- but I do disagree with some of DU's philosophies...

In addition to those mentioned above, I could not give a rat's ass if DU ever spends a dime in Mississippi...Fact is that if the ducks are produced in Canada and the Dakotas, there is plenty of incentive for landowners in Mississippi (and everywhere else) to take care of our wintering habitat...So I want every possible cent spent where the ducks are bred and not on pumps for public land greentrees, pipes in beanfields or anything else in Mississippi...

This being said, since DU is such a widely respected and well known organization (its brand is one of the tops in the country, right up there with Chevrolet and Ford) and is considered by most to be a hunter's organization, it is absolutely critical that we continue to support DU...But it is time we as duck hunters starting attaching strings to our support...Strings that result in DU adopting some new approaches that will insure the security of the North American waterfowl resource.

Bottomline:

1- Continue to support DU but tie our
support to changes in DU's approach...
2- Join Delta Waterfowl as a member...
3- Help Delta establish local chapters.

See yall on Sunday at Red, Hot & Blue.

HAMMER

[Hambone]

Hammer, I appreciate your comments. I have been a DU sponsor and committee volunteer since the 1970's. After reading your post, I concluded that I wouldn't take any of my contributions away from DU, but there is room in my budget to send some money to DW!

[mallardchaser]

That was a good post Hammer; makes sense..