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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Yep, we do all that - a video for (and about) California Waterfowl

Even after a full year at my new job as magazine editor for California Waterfowl, I wake up every day excited about, and proud of, what we do.

So when my boss tasked me with producing a video that encapsulates the wide range of our organization's accomplishments, I was stoked. It was an extraordinary amount of work, but I think the result shows pretty clearly everything that makes me so proud to work for CWA.

Enjoy! And if you're not yet a member, I hope this will convince you to join, which you can do here.


© Holly A. Heyser 2014

Saturday, July 12, 2014

This ain't your daddy's hunter ed class - a video for California Waterfowl

You could take a regular hunter education class if you were ready to start hunting.

But why would you do that when you could do something like this instead?

I shot this video at California Waterfowl's Family Camp in June, one of many hunter ed camps we do at our property in the Suisun Marsh, Grizzly Ranch. At this one, kids and their parents go through hunter ed together, but we've also got kids-only camps, adult-only camps, women's camps - you name it.

This was incredibly fun to shoot - didn't even feel like I was working. Check it out, and if you know someone who's ready to start hunting, please share it with him or her - there's still time to sign up for more camps this summer.


© Holly A. Heyser 2014

Monday, July 7, 2014

A sense of foreboding about the coming duck season - a column for Shotgun Life

Here in California, we have an odd situation: Nationwide, duck numbers are really good - better than last year, and better than the long-term average.

But the drought in California is poised to put the kibosh on hunting opportunity for thousands of duck hunters who rely on public land or rice leases for hunting, and that worries me, for more reasons than just the question of "Where the hell am I going to hunt?"

Read more about my concerns in my July column for Shotgun Life.

© Holly A. Heyser 2014