Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

California Waterfowl will hire a coordinator to oversee the novice spring turkey hunt program. The coordinator will work closely CWA staff and Sacramento NWR Complex staff to perform various tasks, including conducting draws, website design, scouting hunting areas, setting up blinds, contacting and screening drawn hunters, communicating with volunteers, installing signage, checking in hunters and volunteers on the day of the hunt, conducting hunter safety meetings and assisting refuge staff with miscellaneous tasks and projects around the complex.

Through CWA’s relationship with private landowners, the program has created access to private and public lands and is identified as the California Waterfowl Hunt Program. The program has grown steadily over the past 15 years and now includes almost 40 individual properties encompassing over 60,000 acres.

This project will facilitate a spring turkey hunt program at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in partnership with the National Wild Turkey Federation, providing volunteer guides as mentors for each successful applicant and funding to hire a Spring Turkey Hunt Program Coordinator.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this project, 1,773 acres of farmland distributed in the north end of Imperial Valley will be made available for public hunting opportunities. To minimize expense and water use, only strips will be planted with a grain crop (wheat) in each field. Of the 1,773 acres, approximately 177 acres will be farmed with a grain crop to provide game bird habitat.