August 18, 2010 Contact: Miles Moretti Tel.: 1-888-375-DEER E-mail: president@muledeer.org MDF and Granite Seed Company announce partnership to benefit members and habitat SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Mule Deer Foundation and Granite Seed Company have formed a unique partnership that will offer MDF members free consultations and the opportunity to acquire professional-grade native seed [...]
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Finally, a Seed Mix for Western Deer
Posted in Deer hunting, habitat manipulation, planting, The Mule Deer Foundation on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are Wildlife Management Programs Going Astray?
Posted in "take", California Tiger Salamander, Endangered species, habitat manipulation, hunting heritage, tule elk, wildlife, wildlife conservation, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management, tagged "take", Endangered Species Act, wildlife managment on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Traditional wildlife management is based upon an assumption of consumptive use. With consumptive use as a goal, habitat is managed to produce a healthy wildlife population with some species targeted for harvest. Healthy habitat produces a surplus of the targeted species, the ones desirable for human use. The surplus is available for consumption, with [...]
The Good Old Days – again.
Posted in California Delta, habitat manipulation, Hunting, pheasant, wildlife conservation, wildlife management, tagged delta pheasant hunting on November 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nothing makes me think of the good old days like pheasant hunting. While looking through the archives – the days before digital photography – I found some old photos of our 90s pheasant harvest. A few of them have the date on them – 11-25-95. That is fourteen years ago and it sure was different [...]
Flooding Up at Mayberry 2009
Posted in habitat manipulation, seasonal marsh, wildlife conservation, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management, tagged delta habitat work, duck club management on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ten- inch siphon is running with three weeks to go until duck season. It takes a while to flood up about 150 acres of ducks ponds with a ten inch siphon pipe, maybe as much as two weeks. After a while, we may have to start up our second siphon, a twelve incher, but [...]
