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Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Ducks Unlimited became involved with multiple clean-up efforts in Gulf states. The organization worked with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to protect approximately 79,000 acres of waterfowl and other waterbird habitats. [19]
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization that works to conserve, create, restore and manage Canadian wetlands and associated uplands in order to provide healthy ecosystems that support North American waterfowl, other wildlife and people. [1]
Later the ponds were also used to trap great numbers of wild ducks for commercial purposes. In one decoy on Föhr island, more than 3,000,000 ducks have been caught since its installation in 1735, and from 1885 to 1931 a factory for canned duck meat was active in Wyk auf Föhr. The preserved meat was exported worldwide.
Gary and Joanie McGuffin are Canadian explorers, conservation photographers, writers, motivational speakers, documentarians and conservationists. Their most documented adventures have been about canoeing on waterways throughout North America, [1] bicycling from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans, [2] backpacking the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, circumnavigating Lake ...
The group originated under the band name "Ducks Unlimited". Their first EP, Get Bleak, was released under that name. [2] In April 2021, the band signed to both Carpark Records and Royal Mountain Records, where the aforementioned EP was re-released by the label. [3] [4] In October 2021, the group released their debut full-length album, Modern ...
The 1951 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1951 college football season.Led by third-year head coach Kip Taylor, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 4–6 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing sixth in the PCC.
Carrion crow in a trap in Scotland. The cage includes a tub of water and a pheasant carcass, for the benefit of trapped birds. The Larsen trap is legal to use in the United Kingdom under general licence. [1] It is the most widely used magpie population control method amongst gamekeepers, magpies are also controlled by conservationists. [4]
Jubilee: Live at Wolf Trap is a 1996 live video album from American country musician Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was recorded and released 25 years before her second live performance video, One Night Lonely , also recorded at the same venue.