Mission "The California Waterfowl Association is a statewide nonprofit organization whose principal objectives are to conserve California’s waterfowl, wetlands and hunting heritage."Originally established in 1945 to help regulate hunting policies in California, California Waterfowl Association still holds true to having a foundation primarily in the hunting side of waterfowl conservation.
The main goals now are:
- Have sufficient and widely dispersed waterfowl in California
- Protect recreational activities of hunting
- Sustain hunting in the future by gathering new hunters and sustaining the old hunters
- Educate the public about the benefits of hunting
- Increase membership to further conserve California waterfowl
- Ensure that this organization is going to be around long term
- Improve quality of volunteers to help accomplish all previous goals!
As can be seen, a strong emphasis is placed on the importance of hunting and maintaining that tradition. They believe that is and was one of the most important factors in conserving the waterfowl and the wetlands they inhabit. As said previously, only about 5% of the wetlands in California remain while still millions of waterfowl pass through. It is important to have a conservation non-profit organization in our area due to this huge loss of suitable habitat.
Some things that the California Waterfowl Association has accomplished include:
- 970 projects
- Improving over 400,000 acres of habitat
- Through the Wood Duck Program, over 600,000 ducklings have hatched
- Through education approximately 250,000 children and adults have been further educated on hunting and conservation.
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