Site: Great Cypress Swamp DOS President Joe Francis and Vice President Scott Northey joined the Delaware Master Naturalists in early March for a tour of Delaware’s Great Cypress Swamp, the largest continuous freshwater wetland in the state. The area is managed by Delaware Wild Lands, and the tour was led by their field ecologist, Andrew … Read more
Date: 29 September 2024 We had a successful Swift Night Out Sunday, with 20 attendees that included DOS members and folks from the community. It was a dynamic and dramatic evening, with swift “tornadoes” forming and dispersing over several different chimneys in the neighborhood. Several brief passes by two Peregrine Falcons undoubtedly contributed to the … Read more
In recent shorebird-related news, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) is proposing to alter horseshoe crab harvest restrictions and include female horseshoe crabs in future harvests. The DOS Conservation Committee has been tracking this issue closely and has significant concerns about the adoption of the ASMFC’s Revised Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) model to set … Read more
Recently the rules for the Duck Stamp competition were changed. In recent years, the competition has allow paintings of ducks and their habitats without emphasizing hunting, because many non-hunters purchase these stamps to support conservation. Reverting back to requiring a “hunting element” in all paintings ignores the non-hunting conservation community.
