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Blue Water Chapter Members Banding Geese
These are photos of a Canada
Goose Banding/Roundup of resident birds on Belle Isle, Detroit
Michigan. Through studies preformed by Michigan State University
and the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources, these city dwellers
were determined not migratory. For this reason, after capture,
sexing and being banded they will be relocated to Iowa. Hopefully
these birds will someday come before the gun of hunters elsewhere.
Another of the
Many Projects that the Blue Water Chapter takes on.
In 2005 175 Wood Duck Boxes were create and in
2006 another 100.
Habitat projects and wood duck box's are just some of the many
year round activities that our organization conducts for the enhancement
of waterfowl. Each Chapters members coordinate the building and
erecting of these boxes throughout our state on an annual basis.
Many will be used in state managed game areas, as well as many
being donated to private property owners.
The Wood Duck is considered by many to be North Americas most
colorful gamebird. During the early 1900's this bird was near
extinction due to unregulated hunting and an over-aggressive
logging industry. Today due to the many efforts of sportsman
and groups like ours, the Wood Duck is one of the great wildlife
conservation stories of our time.
If you are an avid waterfowler concerned with your hunting
heritage and wish to get involved with a group that is striving
to make a difference, than join us today.
So what else isMDHA doing?
We do a lot of behind the scenes things through MDHA...for example,
recently we have pitched in on helping fund some pump restoration
at Nayanquing Pt. and we footed the entire bill to send the
DNR staffer to the summer flyway meetings which the DNR said
they could not afford to do otherwise. Macatawa Bay Chapter
sent a check for $5,600 to pay for seed and herbcides for the
continued operation of the Todd Farm for 2006.These are just
a few examples of how Michigan money is staying and being used
locally in Michigan. All MDHA money stays in Michigan. That
is what's so great about it.
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