While DU wants all the money from events sent to HQ. Delta requires a certain portion to be spent on your local conservation/ benefits.

Wikipedia is not a trusted source

millennials love to trust the Internet

It is a quick reference and trustworthy enough for purposes of this post. From the DU site:

DU Conservation Priority Areas

Ducks Unlimited conservation priority areas

Level I
•Prairie Pothole Region
•Western Boreal Forest - Canada
•Mississippi Alluvial Valley
•Central Valley / Coastal California
•Gulf Coastal Prairie

Level II
•U.S. Great Lakes System
•Great Basin
•Hardwood Transition / Lower Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Plain – Ontario
•Mid-Atlantic Coast
•Pacific Northwest
•Southern Great Plains

Level III
•Baja California Desert
•Western Boreal Forest - Alaska
•British Columbia Intermountain
•Gulf Coast / Yucatan – Mexico
•Hawaii
•North Atlantic / New England Coast
•Northern Rockies and Southern Rockies / Colorado Plateau
•Northwestern Great Plains
•Peninsular Florida
•Southeastern Coastal Plain
•Upper Mississippi River
•West Coast of Mexico
•West Gulf Coastal Plain

Level IV
•Western Alaska / Aleutian – Bering Sea Islands
•Atlantic Canada
•Arctic Plains and Mountains – Alaska
•Interior Highlands
•Latin America & the Caribbean
•Northeastern U.S. Forests

Other Areas
•Sierra Nevada
•Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental

Conservation in Canada
•Ducks Unlimited Canada

http://www.ducks.org/conservation/where-we-work/du-conservation-priority-areas

I believe DU and Delta both do good.

I really, really wish DU focused more on the duck hunting aspect. They do a great job with their conservation grounds and attempting to maintain habitats and feeding grounds, but they just don't do enough IMO.

Delta has changed the game lately. They know what they're doing and will bring waterfowl hunting to the next step. Tons of respect for both corps though, 100%.

They focus on duck hunting a lot, you just don't see it. Like I said earlier a lot of thier projects are on fat cat hunting properties that the average joe is paying for. But it's ok it all about the ducks right...

That is correct, it is about the ducks.

You must be the guy who loves his tax dollars goin to big corporations and unnecessary funding too. But its all about the people.

Seems like somebody is upset that they can't afford to own one of these "fat-cat" properties so they are taking it out on DU

Or just the opposite

I would imagine most (conservative) folks have a problem with any non-profit entity using funds for purposes other than it's professed mission statement. Particularly if it preaches conservation as a means to acquire donations yet uses a portion of those funds to unfairly enrich a select few by funding their participation in an activity that some consider the antithesis of conservation.

I know a couple DU reps that make a yearly pilgrimage to Canada on DU's nickel under the guise of "conservation". Their idea of conservation is 4 weeks of non-stop hunting.

Most folks would welcome an opportunity to hunt on someone else's nickle. I know I would. And I doubt it's an issue of hating on someone out of envy. It's the hypocrisy.

There's good 'ole boy networks everywhere there's money, influence, and favors to be had. DU is no different.

I have hunted a handful of DU projects (6 I can think of) and they all just happened to be on private land owned by some big money folks. I have never been impressed with one at all. Its just knee keep water and a little food. I have seen private projects privately funded be 10x more successful.

its a waste of money in Texas

They don't manage them for you. That is up to the land owner. They will consult you on it but really they don't do much.

Gosh, I feel like a kid that just found out santa is not real.

The "haves" and the "have not" sooner you realize your have a white collar the better you will feel about being alive....

This may address the original question a bit: http://www.ducks.org/texas/texas-content/public-hunting-on-du-projects-in-texas?poe=texasScroller

You couldn't have said it better, sir. It's all about the ducks these days. They're taking away the most pristine hunting properties for all the ducks..and we don't even get a chance at hunting them. Landowners these days are vicious around here.

Oh well. We'll have to see what the future holds.

I have no problem with landowners not letting people tresspass after all it's their land. My land is closed to all but a select group of friends.

My issue is the lobbing and use of tax payer money for private hunting retreats, not wetland conservation.
If people are good with and aware that their DU donations/memberships are being used for this so be it. Again it's their money, but I doubt many are aware of the full extent.

I'll be the first to admit that I have a small percentage of my land in WRP, but when that easement expires that section is coming out. I didn't put it into to WRP and being that I can count on one hand the number of times its held water in 15 years, I don't think its right to be considered a wetland.

DU donations are not used to build private hunting retreats. That's about the most misleading statement anyone could make. If you have land and approach DU and then DU believes it could benefit ducks by doing a project on they might do a project on it. As my post above shows there are tons of projects they have done right here in Texas that anyone can go hunt. Clearly there are also places where land is private and those land owners don't allow the general public to just hunt it when they want....so may lease these lands to guides that allow paying members to hunt them but it's not like DU makes money from that.

someone just got called a liar, bold move Marcstar.

ask Judd what happens when you call Bobo a liar...there's a reason Judd doesn't duck hunt anymore

Interesting, I always assumed he quit because he got so good at it

Judd is the best retired duck hunter I know!