Delta Waterfowl

Mission "Delta provides knowledge, leaders and science-based solutions that efficiently conserve waterfowl and secure the future for waterfowl hunting."
Vision "To secure the future of waterfowl and waterfowl hunting." 
Delta Waterfowl is an organization whose main focus is research of waterfowl. They attempt to conduct high quality research while communicating the results effectively  With their research, they try to influence public policy.  They attempt to train students to become better scientist as well as promote hunting as an important part of waterfowl management. 
This organization was created by the founder of General Mills. He felt that it was important to sustain waterfowl populations and understand how to sustain them through a science-based approach. With the creation of a science-based approach to creating sustainable populations, he decided to do this through creating scientists. Thus far, there has been over 300 students who have graduated and written over 700 published papers to contribute to our knowledge about waterfowl. Bell believed that conservationist should make management plans based upon scientific evidence and that is what wildlife managers now do. We use adaptive management strategies to ensure that the populations of waterfowl will continue to remain sustainable for future generations. They are also advocates for hunters because that is where people tend to connect with nature most and where money is contributed to conserving wildlife, they claim that next to habitat loss, this could be detrimental for waterfowl, since that is how we obtain money to conserve waterfowl.
Some projects that they are currently working on is mainly based on the pothole region. Some projects include encouraging the public to adopt a pothole (basically public pays some money so we conserve and save acres of potholes), predator control (many breeding birds roost on the potholes and predator control needs to be done), hen houses (used to protect the ducks from predation) along with a few other projects. They also host a range of ways for people to get involved in hunting, creating educational videos via the internet and training sessions in person. 
Membership costs about $50.00 and gets a magazine and a yearly subscription to support the waterfowl conservation (mainly in the Prairie Pothole Region).