Shortstopping Ducks over 25 years not 20

Hell it was already down in the late 1990's from shortstopping. A friend who had been on the board of directors for DU quit his membership because this.

Ive been hearing about shortstopping since the early 70s. See Canada Geese.

Since Deep South hunters are95% down….has this increased the population of ducks overall?

Or are they slaying them at an unreasonable clip up north to where the southern hunters lack of hunting doesn’t matter.

I just wish they would not double down on the “change” in 1998 and “normal agriculture practices”. Stop using this. Nothing hanged in 1998. It was always legal to do what we are doing now

Yes. There is nothing “normal” about flooding unharvested corn. There is also nothing “normal” about putting a levee around bottomland hardwoods and flooding it either

Or flooding harvested rice solely to duck hunt.

Need to go to a 30/3 system for a few years. Numbers are horrible everywhere, Canada included.

Foghorn is only going to give us sound bites, zero substance since he has been in DC. He’s a swamp critter.

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Correct. If senator Kennedy wants to do something, he would focus on sugar cane farming and current methods of rice farming in LA. The habitat down here is our biggest problem.

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This is exactly right.

While I applaud the Senator for his finely worded letter, I'm afraid this will be a waste of time IF it's as political as many of my fellow Louisiana duck hunters point out.

I don't feel like the odds of having the law changed are good based on who he will be going up against. I wish him the best of luck however.

I've studied this quite a bit and I've told my story about duck hunting in southern Illinois since 2000. I've pointed out how the habitat in Louisiana has changed, how the climate in the midwest has changed (It was 60 degrees yesterday in Iowa) and how duck hunting has become a corporate monster. With all that said, I would ask two questions...why is Arkansas still the number one state for wintering/migrating Mallards if they're all being short stopped in the midwest? Why do we no longer see Robins here in Louisiana the way we did 40 years ago?

My questions are not meant to be "gotchas", I don't deal in that, especially an issue that I know so little about.

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No till farming has cetrainly had a major impact on migration since it started

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I'm not sure how that works.

In the midwest where no till is the dominant farming practice, when the last grain truck leaves the field, they move on to the next farm, leaving the residue grain and stalks.

In Louisiana when the last grain truck leaves the field, the immediately re hip up the field, covering any residue grain up.