Saskatchewan Archives — Ducks Unlimited Canada

Wetlands

Brian Hepworth receives Ducks Unlimited Excellence in Conservation Lifetime Career Achievement Award

Honour recognizes Hepworth's significant, long-term contributions to Ducks Unlimited's mission of filling the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.

Volunteers

Dawn Alger, Saskatchewan Volunteer of the Year

Dawn Alger named Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Saskatchewan Volunteer of the Year

Ducks Unlimited Canada ADOPTs cutting-edge technology to enhance seeding forages

An innovative research project from the University of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Forage Council is helping Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) explore aerial technology to seed forages in marginal acres and areas that can be seasonally inaccessible. The initiative is part of…

Landowners, Partnerships, Prairie Pothole Region

ADOPT project explores feasibility of seeding forages with drones

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones have been proving their usefulness in agriculture for decades. Recent advancements make more opportunities available to landowners.

New Ducks Unlimited Canada Tool Maps Prairie Biodiversity

Innovative study highlights 39 per cent more species on sites with conservation easements compared to unprotected lands Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is proud to announce the first successful application of a groundbreaking biodiversity tool, which demonstrates the critical role that conservation easements and similar programs play in…

Ducks Unlimited Canada and PepsiCo announce collaboration to provide additional incentives to producers enrolled in Farm Credit Canada’s Sustainability Incentive Program

Beginning May 2024, PepsiCo will provide financial support to eligible producers based in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba who commit to planting perennial forage on unproductive cropland to improve biodiversity and drive positive change.

DUC Celebrates Lorne Scott as Saskatchewan Volunteer of the Year

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Volunteers

Five decades of conservation advocacy and counting

Lorne Scott named DUC’s Saskatchewan Volunteer of the Year

85 Years of Conservation, Conservator, Philanthropic

Heeding the call of the wild … and wetlands

It wasn’t just waterfowl flocking to Canada’s wetlands this fall—people did, too. Some went the extra mile to raise awareness and funds for our country’s threatened ecosystems.

85 Years of Conservation, Philanthropic

Three generations run for health, happiness and wildlife habitat

A heartwarming story emerged at a community Duck and Run event, where three generations led by 85-year-old Kathleen Diener joined the fundraiser at Wascana Lake in Regina.

Ducks Unlimited Canada announces partnership with FCC’s Sustainability Incentive Program

New incentive program will complement DUC’s Marginal Areas Program on the Prairies.

Indigenous Partnerships, Policy, Prairie Pothole Region, Water, Wetland restoration, Wetlands

Building a community of lake-lovers in Saskatchewan

Calling Lakes champion Aura Lee MacPherson sees value in a decade of community connection.

Biodiversity, Landowners, Prairie Pothole Region

Years in the making for record-breaking conservation project

A Prairie Pothole wetland is restored to life thanks to vision of long-time staff, landowners

Biodiversity, Grasslands, Prairie Pothole Region, Wildlife

A bittersweet legacy for Adam Herold

A grassland oasis honours a lost son following the Humboldt Broncos tragedy

Biodiversity, Landowners, Partnerships, Pollinators, Prairie Pothole Region

The value of perennial cover in marginal areas of agricultural land

Seeding forage on saline areas in farmland can be more than a Band-Aid, it may also be a cure.

Biodiversity, Conservator

The conservation long game

Like seeds in warming soil, Canadians are awakening to the broad decline in biodiversity across the country.

Biodiversity, Landowners, Prairie Pothole Region

Four good reasons to make room for trees in agricultural landscapes

Four reasons why the environmental benefits provided by trees may tip the balance in favour of viewing wooded areas as less of an obstacle, and more of a resource to manage.

Education, Prairie Pothole Region, Wetlands, Wildlife

Advocacy takes flight at Saskatoon school

Wetland Centre of Excellence students inspire concern for birds and wetlands through art.

Volunteers

Finding fun and fellowship for 39 years and counting

Saskatchewan's Victor Surjik has been a DUC volunteer since 1984, and his enthusiasm remains as strong today as when he started.

85 Years of Conservation

If the land’s not good, we’re not good

For those like the Hicks family who are making a living off the land, caring for the health, biodiversity and productivity of the environment just makes sense.