Archive for February, 2009

Washington Hunter Education Class

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Sign-up for the next Hunter Education class will be at: Bob’s Sporting Goods Longview, WA Upstairs at the Housewares annex bldg. Friday – March 13th 5:00pm Class limited to 1st 50 to sign up. 15 minutes early arrival is - Continue article...

Clean up & sealing of the pit blinds at the Ridgefield NWR

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Our big event this month is the clean up and sealing of the pit blinds at the Ridgefield NWR on Saturday February 21st. Be there at 8 AM with your waders, buckets, shovel, cut-off jugs for baling out the blinds and a smile! We will do a thorough - Continue article...

January Shooting Range Update

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

January 13 the Cowlitz Commissioners voted to extend our lease date to May 31 to allow time to re-enter our technical package for approval by Bldg & Planning Dept for the Special Land Use Permit. Our previous package was withdrawn by the - Continue article...

Upcoming dates

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Ducks Unlimited Banquet Feb 21, Rocky Mtn Elk Banquet March 14, NRA Banquet April 18 Bob’s Outdoor Show March 7 & 8, We have 8 volunteers signed up for booth duty. We will be featuring an Egg Bucket mock-up and the Shooting Range scale - Continue article...

Acclimation Pond

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

We were supposed to get 15,000 steelhead Parr on 10 February but due to snow that morning the Skamania hatchery postponed delivery until the next day when the going was better for those heavy, water laden trucks. All the fish, averaging about - Continue article...

Egg Buckets

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

January 26 Mike Tyrrell, Ellis Anderson, Dick Miller and James Tomlinson distributed the 40,000 eyed eggs to 8 stream locations in the local Cowlitz River drainage. Average water temperature was about 39F. February 9 we started getting - Continue article...

Steelhead Delivery Feb 10th

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

For those interested in the annual delivery of our Steelhead. The Skamania Hatchery truck will be delivering 15,000 Steelhead Parr on Tuesday February10. They are scheduled to arrive at Drews Grocery & Shell Gas Station in Toutle between - Continue article...