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That DUC has over 1,840 conservation projects in Alberta?Projects 
Section Summary
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has over 1800 conservation projects underway in Alberta. Every DUC project has a goal to identify, protect, restore, and manage priority habitats for the benefit of North American waterfowl, wildlife, and community. Only major feature projects are cited in this section.
Adam Ranch
Location: Grande Prairie
Bison rancher Ross Adam signed a three year agreement with Ducks Unlimited Canada for the restoration of up to 300 wetlands on 30 quarter sections of land over three years, one of the largest restoration projects DUC has managed on private land.
Antelope Creek Habitat Development Area
Location: Brooks
The Antelope Creek Habitat Development Area is a model for managing mixed prairie grass to enhance livestock and wildlife productivity. This project, begin in 1986, demonstrates that the oil industry, agriculture and wildlife can co-exist on a landscape.
Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary
Location: Stony Plain
The Clifford E. Lee Sanctuary is a 300 acre wildlife haven SW of Edmonton that offers visitors an opportunity to experience a wetland habitat area abundant with plants, birds and other animals. DUC has worked on the land since 1985 and has owned it since 2005; it is now a conservation easement protected in its natural state in perpetuity.
Frank Lake
Location: High River
Frank Lake is a productive wetland important to hundreds of bird species. Once completely waterless, this wetland has been saved from drainage and drought through a progressive partnership between industry, governments and Ducks Unlimited Canada. It is now listed as one of 597 Important Bird Areas in Canada.
Kinvig Project
Location: Pine Lake
Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada jointly purchased these 640 acres of natural grassland, which include 160 acres of intact wetlands and prime wildlife habitat, in the Pine Lake landscape in 2005.
Kitsim Project
Location: Brooks
The Kitsim Project in southern Alberta is a complex comprised of a managed grazing system mixed with wetland restoration and wetland development that has provided multiple benefits for agriculture and wildlife and continentally important habitat for the Northern Pintail.
McDavid Conservation Easement Project
Location: Buffalo Lake
The McDavid Project secures 11 acres of wetland habitat and 91 acres of native upland habitat through private donation. This conservation easement will secure natural lands in perpetuity.
Medicine Wheel
Location: Brooks
The Medicine Wheel Project of Southern Alberta is a joint project with the Bow River Irrigation District. It provides quality nesting habitat for waterfowl and grazing for cattle by using water from the irrigation district’s Lomond Lateral system.
Samoil Conservation Easement
Location: Vermilion/Viking
In 2005, the Samoil family signed a conservation agreement with Ducks Unlimited Canada to protect the 385 acres of their homestead farm in the Akasu landscape in perpetuity. The first conservation easement agreement of its kind made with DUC in Alberta, it protects the property from land use changes while retaining private ownership.
Utikuma Lake
Location: Boreal
The Utikuma Project area encompasses 32,000 km2 in the boreal forest of north central Alberta near Utikuma Lake. The project began in 2002; preliminary investigations indicate that this region is highly productive and hosts a diversity of waterbirds.
