DEC Info Meetings

[mike rossi]

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

DEC offers Waterfowl Hunter Informational Meetings

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced two upcoming waterfowl hunter informational meetings: Thursday, August 29, from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Headquarters located on Casey Road in Alabama, Genesee County; and September 12 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah, Wayne County. These meetings will focus on topics of interest to waterfowl hunters in Western New York and the Iroquois and Montezuma NWR region.

Topics of interest will include:

• Highlights of waterfowl management and research programs at Iroquois NWR, Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), Montezuma NWR and Northern Montezuma WMA;
• Regional and statewide waterfowl news and updates;
• Atlantic Flyway news;
• Waterfowl population status survey results;
• The New York waterfowl hunting season-setting process; and,
• Tentative 2013-14 duck and goose hunting seasons.

Wildlife biologists from Iroquois and Montezuma NWRs and DEC will discuss items of interest to waterfowl hunters in an informational and interactive forum. They will present results of local and international surveys of waterfowl breeding populations and discuss habitat conditions and habitat management efforts. Updates of waterfowl management issues in the Atlantic Flyway will be presented, and this year's tentative waterfowl hunting seasons and bag limits will be discussed.