Overland Park, KS. -

Final Approach has signed on as a partner with DU to help sponsor the Ducks Unlimited Sporting Expo in Grapevine, Texas, May 28-30.

Texas -

The impacts of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has still not fully become evident, but the potential implications to the region known for its abundant and diverse fish and wildlife could be devastating, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. 

USA -

The Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Representative James Oberstar (MN), along with Representatives John Dingell and Vern Ehlers (MI), introduced legislation on April 21 that attempts to restore protection under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for geographically isolated wetlands and intermittent ephemeral streams.

Grapevine -

Texans will have a unique opportunity to be part of the 73rd Ducks Unlimited National Convention when DU's annual gathering comes to North Texas on May 28-30, 2010. This year's national convention will be highlighted by the DU Sporting Expo.

Austin -

When Mother Nature shines as she’s done this spring, it makes anyone with a plot of dirt look good. But, it’s those times when the rains don’t come and the heat turns most of Texas brown and crunchy that a landowner’s mettle is put to the test. Those who can keep habitat conditions going in tough times as well as good are true conservation heroes.

Gulf of Mexico -

As an oil sheen sits just over two miles offshore, workers in Port Fourchon, Louisiana loaded their latest creation, a four-story, 200-ton containment vessel onto a barge enroute to the ruptured wellhead currently gushing 200,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day as it has since the Deepwater Horizon blew out, burned and sank.

USA -

Sens. Joe Lieberman (I - Conn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D - N.H.) and Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D - Texas) are the most recent lawmakers to pledge their support for S 632 and HR 510, legislation that will bring equity to the firearms and ammunition excise tax payment schedule. It is important that members of the firearms and ammunition industry continue to urge their senators and representatives to support S 632 and HR 510 -- pro-conservation, pro-business, bipartisan legislation.

Washington, DC -

Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) President Jeff Crane, along with several members of the CSF Board of Directors, participated in last Friday's White House Conference on America's Great Outdoors.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee -

Ducks Unlimited Inc., America's leading wetlands and waterfowl conservation group, announced today that H. Dale Hall has been named the organization's new chief executive officer. A former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2005-2009), Hall is widely respected as a visionary conservationist and one of the country's most effective wildlife professionals.

Austin -

Hunting affordability and accessibility are growing concerns in the outdoor industry, but it was not a problem for nearly a dozen children and their parents who enjoyed the thrill of the hunt and the taste of pork at the 2nd Annual Pigapalooza Youth Hog Hunt.