You may use the funds to purchase rough cypress and build wood duck boxes. You may work with local Boy Scout troops placing the boxes in waterfowl habitat areas. We have plans for such construction and will give you the approximate cost involved. Many chapters have gotten supplies donated by hardware stores and building supply companies.
You can develop a resident nesting flock of Canada geese. You would need to contact your local game and fish agency or Waterfowl Headquarters and ask if they would provide you with the geese to start a flock if you provided the nesting structures. Your chapter could then fund and place additional structures each year.
You may locate the wetlands in your area that can be top-seeded with something like Jap Millet, whereby you wouldn't have to do anything other than sow it from a helicopter or by broadcasting it with a seed spreader.
You may provide funding for predator-proofing key nesting areas of waterfowl. As you know, islands provided in the middle of any wet areas could be potential nesting areas for many types of waterfowl.
You could develop a mini-refuge on a local pond or lake. Then you could place wood duck nesting boxes, mallard nests, and food plots to create local habitat for migrating waterfowl as well as resident flocks of ducks and geese.
These are just a few sample projects that your chapter may become involved in. There are many more projects you can do in your area as well.
