2010 Lumber Cut Day
On February 22nd, 15 MWDI volunteers cut up a record 265 wood
duck kits and 49 bluebird house kits at MD DNR’s Millington WMA
field office in Kent Co. We also delivered 825 linear feet of
cypress lumber to J. M. Tawes School in Somerset Co. to make
another 75 assembled wood duck boxes for sale to private program
sponsors this fall.
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2009 Wetlands & Wildlife Field
Day
On September 22nd and 23rd Aaron Ward,
volunteer with the Maryland
Waterfowlers Association and
Maryland Wood Duck Initiative, gave a presentation
on the Wood Duck to all Somerset County 4th graders. This event
was hosted by the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage
Service Wellington office.
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Ducks Unlimited
Efforts On Fort Meade
Succeed For 3rd Year In A Row!
The results are in! 68 Wood Duck eggs hatched this year on Fort
Meade! For the 3rd year in a row, members of the
General George G. Meade Chapter of
Ducks Unlimited have had success in hatching Wood
Duck eggs on Fort Meade. Meta Shaw, the
project Chairperson and COL Robert Shaw can be found
walking through the swampland on Fort Meade with their Chocolate
Lab, “Mocha” almost every weekend.
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Mark
Salvaggio contacted MWDI about earning his Eagle Scout
rank in September 2007 after reviewing our website. While MWDI
provided some lumber and supplies, Mark expanded the scope and fully
embraced all managerial aspects of the project. Mark obtained
additional lumber and material donations, coordinated the 120
volunteer hours of 20 scouts from this Columbia, Maryland-based
Boy Scout Troop 617, and
delivered 43 of the best constructed cedar boxes we have been
given. Mark's team also developed specialized jigs which will be
very useful for future MWDI box building events.
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MWDI, Ducks Unlimited, & HSBC USA
Volunteers Making a
Difference
21 Volunteers Cut 2,500+ Board Feet of Cedar at
Stevens Tools in Annapolis
RESULTS: More than 350 wood duck boxes will be
created from these efforts!
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2007 Maryland Envirothon
Maryland Waterfowler’s Association volunteers help
MWDI supervise
90 high schoolers with flying hammers
assemble 30 wood duck nest boxes
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NOAA Restoration Day at
Jug Bay on the Patuxent
June 2007: 62 Wood Duck Boxes Completed
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Radcliffe Creek School students are
discovering the "Total Wetland Experience"
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MWDI Director Cliff Brown teaches students at Radcliffe Creek
School in Kent County about wood duck nesting habits and egg
identification.
The Radcliffe Creek School students operate a
2-box program on the wetland just behind their classrooms. |
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MWDI volunteer Logan Bell poling to inspect some wood duck boxes
on the Marshyhope River in Dorchester Co. |
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Volunteer Aaron Ward holds up a hooded merganser
egg found in a wood duck nest box, along with others, at the EA
Vaughan WMA.
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On March 20th, Bob Petizon, Sal Simoncini, Vince
DeSantis, and Roger Williamson volunteered at the
Sheehan-Audubon Sanctuary to support a new MWDI-supported 10-box
program. |
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Radcliffe Creek School students assisted with a wood duck nest
box installation on the wetland just behind their classrooms on
Feb. 23, 2007. Participating were Sarah Taylor, Katie Kennedy,
Brown Vansant, Shannon Miller, J.R. Bauer, Drew Dadds, Jeremy
Rockwell, Jake Schengber, and Doug Prince. |
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Carla Porter making predator guard
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Jug Bay - Patuxent River State Park Rangers Kyle Lowe, Darin Mills
and John Dillon. |
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| Ron Jasion , Jason Schlosser and Scott Jasion
are surely our most intrepid volunteers to date!
This crazy crew had scheduled to go out on Sunday, Feb. 25th
to do some duck box maintenance in Days Cove ....and they did! |
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| The unexpected snow storm on Sunday afternoon did not stop these Harford County Ducks Unlimited volunteers from implementing
"Best Practices" for Wood Duck nest boxes at Gunpowder State Park, Days Cove Area. |
