re: Flyway Federation of Louisiana?

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He has taken his ball and ran home every time someone brings up legitimate concerns outside of his tunnel vision. Blind leading the blind. Ultimately it's a large embarrassment to our state, and a national joke in the waterfowl biology community around the country.

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This is exactly how I see it. It's an embarassment, because it's either his way, or the highway.

My whole issue with him is his stubborn adherance to "normal agricultural operation" in arguing against flooded corn. Last I checked, there are no recommendations on how to terminate a crop, which is what flooding corn is doing.

He also seems to have difficulty realizing that there is no difference between an unharvested ratoon crop (2nd crop) of rice and flooded corn field. Unless someone is telling him that a ratoon is natural vegetation, it's no different. It's flooded standing grain. And since it's considered an agricultural practice to harvest that grain, I don't see a difference. If you leave it standing, it's not a normal agricultural practice. He even argued that crawfish rice is not a normal practice.

So how is the ratoon different?