Ducks Unlimited Hires New Regional Director in North Dakota

Ducks Unlimited has a new regional director for North Dakota. Forrest Gross will begin managing all grassroots fundraising efforts in the state on Aug. 1, working with a team of volunteer leaders to host more than 50 DU events across North Dakota.

Forrest comes to Ducks Unlimited with a passion for waterfowl, having grown up duck hunting and attending DU events with his father in Illinois. His desire to secure the future of waterfowling for future generations has led him to be an active participant in conservation-related activities in Illinois and play a key role with one of DU’s top university chapters.

DU’s volunteer-hosted fundraising events in North Dakota broke all records this past year, raising more than $700,000 in support of DU’s habitat conservation programs. Join Team DU and become a member of the leading edge of DU’s conservation work in North Dakota by contacting Forrest at (701) 934-2610 or fgross@ducks.org.

Ducks Unlimited Inc. is the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to conserving North America’s continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 13 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information on our work, visit www.ducks.org. Connect with us on our Facebook page at facebook.com/ducksunlimited, follow our tweets at twitter.com/ducksunlimited and watch DU videos at youtube.com/ducksunlimitedinc.

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Ducks Unlimited is the world's leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation. DU got its start in 1937 during the Dust Bowl when North America’s drought-plagued waterfowl populations had plunged to unprecedented lows. Determined not to sit idly by as the continent’s waterfowl dwindled beyond recovery, a small group of sportsmen joined together to form an organization that became known as Ducks Unlimited. Its mission: habitat conservation. Thanks to decades of abiding by that single mission, Ducks Unlimited is now the world’s largest and most effective private waterfowl and wetlands conservation organization. DU is able to multilaterally deliver its work through a series of partnerships with private individuals, landowners, agencies, scientific communities and other entities.