Fayetteville Ducks Unlimited Committee meeting at 7 p.m. at On the Mark

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The mallard hen and her SECOND brood of ducklings of the spring and summer of 2007 were photographed July 4 at the stormwater-detention pond on the southside of Baum Stadium on the University of Arkansas campus. Baum Stadium overlooks the new edition of George Cole Field and was built in a portion of the wetland prairie formerly found all over the Town Branch basin of the West Fork of the White River. Breeding pairs of wild mallards rarely succeed in Arkansas. The majority of the hundreds of thousands that winter in the state migrate from far to the north, where Ducks Unlimited's major prairie-pothole projects first began.
As the late Rollie Remmel said so many times, it is all about Mama Duck. He said it so often that he became known far and wide as Papa Duck.
A person doesn't have to be a hunter or ever plan to hunt to support the work of Ducks Unlimited in its effort to protect the northern nesting areas and southern wintering areas of waterfowl. Thousands of other species benefit when wetland is preserved.

Fayettevilleville's Ducks Unlimited planning committee meets tonight. Anyone who wants to donate an item for the auction or raffle or door prize list needs to attend or e-mail Hunter Deweese as soon as possible. DU's projects are a great deal more than an effort to guarantee the future of waterfowl to hunt.
DU has been the world leader in conservation of wetland for 70 years. And waterfowl breeding grounds, wintering grounds and migration patterns are among the many aspects of our natural environment threatened by climate change and land-use change.

On the Mark is a restaurant and bar off Gregg Avenue just east of the Sunbridge intersection. It appears to be a good place to watch the World Series game while helping to plan the coming DU banquet. The banquet is set for Nov. 2.

Here is the chairman's e-mail.
We are going to have a meeting tonight at 7:00 at On The Mark. We are less than two weeks out from the banquet and we need to have everything set in stone by tonight. Please let me know if I have left anyone off this e-mail or if you might have any questions on what is going on.

Thank you,

Hunter Deweese
hdeweese@sbofa.com