Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

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• CWA Public Access Upland Game Hunt Program

  Through CWA’s relationships with private landowners, the California Waterfowl Hunt Program has created access to private and public lands over the past 13 years and now includes almost 40 properties and 60,000 acres. The program hosts waterfowl, pheasant, quail, dove, deer, turkey and pig hunts.

• Development of a Survey Protocol for Quail and Doves in Relation to Landscape Level Habitat Assessments

  We propose to develop a monitoring strategy for quail and dove species residing in the Sonoran, Colorado, and Mohave Deserts, the Great Basin and other arid highland ecosystems where large scale habitat monitoring programs (AIM and NRI) are operational.

• CWA Badger Almond Public Hunt Program

  The California Waterfowl Association developed a program based upon CDFW's lottery system for hunting on public lands. Through CWA’s relationship with private landowners, the program has created access to private lands and has been identified as the California Waterfowl Hunt Program.

• Camp Cady Wildlife Area Upland Game Bird Solar Well

  This project consists of installing a solar well to access artesian water within 9-10 feet of surface elevation at Camp Cady Wildlife Area. The solar well will be used to establish a small game guzzler and to establish riparian and upland habitats using drip irrigation which will provide nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat as much as a mile away from the well site.

• Imperial Valley Dove Hunt Fields

  This project will develop upland gamebird food crops on 262 acres that will be planted and available for hunting. Through the CDFW and the Imperial County Fish and Game Commission , an additional approximately 1,600 acres will also be made available, for access to hunting.

• Statewide Apprentice Pheasant Hunts

  California Waterfowl Association's Hunting Heritage programs hosts beginning hunter skills camps and high quality hunting opportunities including waterfowl, pheasant, dove, turkey, some of which include hunting mentors / guides and FREE upland hunts for new hunters at private, licensed upland game bird clubs.