ODCCA donates $300 to Second Chance Flight.

Your paid membership supports this worthy cause!
Second Chance Flight is a South Dakota-based nonprofit founded by Madison Grimm, a 19-year-old wildlife artist and passionate waterfowl conservationist, with a mission to rescue and raise ducklings from nests that are accidentally destroyed during routine farming operations like tilling and haying.

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She hatches and raises the ducklings, and releases them into the wild.  Grimm already held a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit to rescue the eggs of migratory waterfowl. But state law prevented her from doing the same work with eggs from birds such as pheasants. 

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Madison and her  father Adam, a nationally recognized wildlife artist and three-time winner of the Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, traveled  to Pierre, South Dakota,  to testify for her proposed bill.  Their hard work was successful resulting in a new law that lets federal permit holders expand their work to other kinds of birds. Gov. Larry Rhoden signed the bill in March, and it took effect July 1. 

 

Click here to see full article by Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlite.

The ODCCA family has had the pleasure to watch Madison and her siblings grow up as they attend our annual show with their dad and mom, Adam and Janet Grimm. Congratulations Madison! ​