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Springtimespringtime Springspring Snowsnow Goosegoose Seasonseason Infoinfo Woodwood Duckduck Eventevent March 2014 Volume 27 No.1 www.nevadawaterfowl.org SpringtimeSpringtime SpringSpring SnowSnow GooseGoose SeasonSeason InfoInfo WoodWood duckduck eventevent 653 No. Permit NV Reno, 89511 Requested Service Return PAID NV Reno, Postage U.S. 18419 Box ORG. NONPROFIT Assn Waterfowl NV March 2014 Volume 27, No. 1 OFFICERS President William Molini (775) 742-5592 Vice President Daryl Harwell (775) 240-5682 Treasurer Chris MacKenzie (775) 687-0202 Secretary Travis Rowlett Chris Nicolai (775) 842-0556 Business Manager David Rice (775) 853-8331 Waterfowl Biologist Chris Nicolai, PhD ARTICLES NOTES (775) 861-6333 3 PRESIDENT’S 11 THANKS FALLONDINNER BOARD OF DIRECTORS MESSAGE SPONSORS! Ron Anglin (775)423-2494 DeAl Dankers (775)423-1636 BY WILLIAM MOLINI 11 RENO DINNER COMING Dan Grayson (775)200-2133 Jim Giudici (775)788-2000 UP! Darren Hamrey (775)316-0593 4 SPECIAL SNOW Hugh Judd (deceased) Gib Mackedon (775)427-5424 GOOSE SEASONS Norm Saake (775)867-2198 Dave Stanley (775)224-5918 BY RUSSELL WOOL- Ken Taber (775)741-2173 STENHULME Bernard Venneman (775)853-2097 Kris Verness (775)853-2044 Ed Tilzey (775)626-8019 7 INSANITY Tom Wilson (775)324-4747 BY JIM GIUDICI The FLYER 8 WHAT’S IN A GOD DAY? Advertising Rates: B&W/color BY DARREN HAMREY Back Page (color)$500 Full Page $150/400 Half Page $90/200 10 WOOD DUCK EVENT Quarter Page $75/150 BY CHRIS NICOLAI Eighth Page $40/80 Cover photo by Chris Nicolai Classified Rates 1-20 words $15 20+ words $25 All art work must be electronic! Publication of advertising does not imply endorsement of products, services, or 2 NEVADA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION FLYER March 2014 statements made concerning them. All advertising is subject to approval by the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to reject advertising. NWA website www.nevadawaterfowl.org PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Willie Molini The FLYER The Flyer is the official newsletter publi- cation of the Nevada Waterfowl Associ- ongratulations to the Fallon tions for future management of the ation and is published three times per Chapter of NWA for hosting refuge. Hopefully, some positive year. Guest articles are welcome. Our C another successful fund raising things for these wetlands and the classified section is available for adver- tising. dinner, November 2, 2013. One waterfowl resource will come about hundred seventy five dinner tickets through this work. The articles and views expressed in this were sold an therefore the dinner On another note, apparently newsletter are not necessarily those was well attended, well conducted, some agreement has been reached shared by the NWA membership, its and all attendees had a good time. by key members of both the House officers, or Board of Directors. The dinner netted $15,583 for and Senate regarding the 2014 Farm MISSION STATEMENT NWA. Nice job, Fallon Dinner Bill. While much of the focus in the Nevada Waterfowl Association’s mis- Committee! media concerns the provisions of the sion is to protect, restore, and enhance Recently concerns were Food Stamp provisions of this bill, Nevada’s wetlands and the wildlife raised to the Board of Directors re- there are also provisions in the bill dependant upon them, especially wa- garding water use in 2013, both at which are critically important to terfowl and shorebirds. Nevada Wa- Carson Lake and Pasture and at wildlife, and especially to nesting terfowl Association works closely with organizations such as the U.S. Stillwater National wildlife Refuge. waterfowl. Two priority provisions Fish and Wildlife Service, Nevada As a result of these concerns, Norm for sportsmen and conservation in- Department of Wildlife, Lahontan Saake and I met with Tony Wasley, terests include re-coupling conserva- Wetlands Coalition, The Nature Con- NDOW Director, and Allan Jenne, tion compliance to crop insurance, servancy, Ducks Unlimited, and other the department’s Habitat Division and a sod-buster provision which conservation organizations that share our goal of preserving Nevada’s Chief. We expressed our concerns will apply to the prime duck produc- unique desert wetlands for future gen- about water deliveries to the two ing areas of north and south Dakota, erations to enjoy. Nevada Waterfowl areas and offered our help regarding Montana and Minnesota. There is Association is a family oriented con- future water use at Carson Lake. I also a one billion dollar allocation servation organization that was creat- would characterize the meeting as for wetland and grassland conserva- ed in October 1987 as a 501 ©(3) tax- exempt non-profit corporation by a very positive, with NDOW agreeing tion easements. This is very im- group of individuals who were to consult with us more closely on portant for duck nesting as well as alarmed at the rate of loss of Nevada’s future water use at Carson Lake. for pheasants and many other spe- unique desert wetlands. Nevada Wa- Additionally, and thanks to NWA cies of wildlife. Hopefully, the full terfowl Association intends to become board member, Jim Giudici, we re- congress will pass this bill soon with a statewide organization through the formation of local chapters through- newed a 2006 agreement with the above provisions intact. out the state. Nevada Waterfowl As- NDOW for the use of NWA water Please mark your calendars sociation is founded upon the princi- rights. This agreement extension, for the March 29 wood duck dinner ple that all monies raised by the Asso- which will be in effect for a period and the May 17 Reno Chapter fund- ciation in Nevada, will be spent to of 10 years, allows the department raising dinner. I hope to see you all help Nevada’s own wetlands and wet- land-dependant wildlife. All dona- to use our water rights for manage- at both events. tions are tax deductible. ment of Carson Lake. We also had Nancy Hoff- man, Refuge Manager at Stillwater William A Molini, President, NWA U. S. Postal Service Identifi- NWR in attendance at our January 9 cation Statement board meeting. We expressed our Nonprofit Organization concern for water management at Publication Title: The FLYER Statement of Frequency: 4 Times a Stillwater and had a good conversa- Year tion with Nancy about our concerns. Authorized Organization’s Name and She advised that the Fish and Wild- Address: life Service has assembled a team of Nevada Waterfowl Association wetland experts, including Norm 5081 Albuquerque Rd. Reno, Nevada 89511 Saake, of our board, to meet in late Subscription Price: January to formulate recommenda- No Cost to Members March 2014 NEVADA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION FLYER 3 SNOW GOOSE “SPRING SEASON” by Russell Woolstenhulme—NDOW y now you have most likely no- through periodic photographic inventories In the fall of each year, WAP ticed in the Nevada waterfowl reg- of the three main nesting colonies in the geese begin to congregate on the Arctic B ulations a white goose hunt that Northwest Territories of Canada, includ- Coastal Plain and Mackenzie River Delta. runs in late February and early March. ing Banks Island, Anderson River and Non-breeding Snow geese start to migrate Perhaps you even took advantage of this Kendall Island. The number of WAP first, around mid-August, followed in ear- hunt last year on its inaugural season. So Lesser Snow geese have been steadily ly September by adults and young. These what is this season all about? How did it increasing since the late 1970’s (when flocks of geese begin to stack up on a pri- come about and why do we have it here in monitoring began). In 1987, the three mary staging area in southeastern Alberta Nevada. nesting colonies combined had just over and southwestern Saskatchewan, peaking First off, to have this discussion 205,000 Snow geese. The colonies in- in mid- to late October. The WAP geese we need to review the major snow goose creased to 486,000 geese by 1995 and to continue south from Canada along several populations across North America. There nearly 580,000 geese by 2002. The popu- different routes. are five major populations of white geese, lation of these colonies has increased ap- One route passes through those are, moving from West to East; The proximately 4% annually from 1976 to Freezout Lake, Montana peaking in num- Wrangel Island Population (WIP), the 2010. The population objective for the ber around the first week of November Western Arctic Population (WAP), the WAP set forth by the Pacific Flyway man- and departing by month’s end. From Western Central Flyway population agement plan is 200,000 snow geese. Freezout Lake the geese head southwest to (WCFP) which includes Snow and Ross’ Migration Trends of the Western Arctic Summer Lake, Oregon and the Klamath geese, the Midcontinent Population (MP) Population of Lesser Snow Geese Basin on the Oregon-California border. and finally the Greater Snow goose popu- FALL MIGRATION- Most These geese move on to winter in the Cen- lation. While current population trends Snow geese within the WAP breed on tral Valley (especially the Sacramento and status of other populations may come Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Can- Valley) of California. A small portion of up in this discussion, our focus today is on ada. Roughly 90% of all WAP Snow the geese on their way from Montana to the WAP and to a small extent, because of geese nest and are hatched on Banks Is- the Central Valley pass through the political and biological factors the WIP. land. The remaining WAP birds breed in Lahontan Valley of Nevada. Some of the Population Status of the Western Arctic colonies on the Alaskan Arctic Coastal geese in the Central Valley will ultimately Population of Lesser Snow Geese Plain and the Anderson and Mackenzie continue on to the Imperial Valley of Cali- WAP populations are monitored River Deltas.
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