re: Baws who complain about lack of duck numbers

It’s a habitat change. Many factors, but in the MS Flyway, planting and harvesting practices have changed to the negative, and neighboring Oklahoma planting and harvesting has changed for the positive. In Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, I’m convinced the conversion of marginal farmland to CRP and WRP has negatively affected birds too and pushed them West.

Those marginal areas were deemed such because they were low. Low fires held water. Water and food holds ducks.

It’s also documented that Missouri plants thousands of acres for ducks that can’t be hunted. They hold birds as a result, which is a newish practice.