DU Northerners heating ponds to screw over Louisiana Duck Hunters

I’m guessing you dont spend much time here


Btw great name

you really think heating ponds on a large scale is even feasible?

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Heating enough water to affect the migratory pattern of 50 million ducks would seem pretty steep

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They're not using heaters, ice eaters are essentially a boat prop that churns the warmer water located below the surface, to the surface and moving water is harder to freeze, they can't even get that part right.

Flyway Federation doesn't even understand pond heaters, but have convinced enough people that they're ahead of the curve on why the duck hunting isn't like it used to be in the 70s

I know multiple people that use Ice Eaters in the midwest, but the idea that's having any sort of drastic effect is laughable.

I've said this on here many times, what causes the waterfowl to stay in the midwest is the industrial outcharge from cooling the factories and powerplants. Most of those are not hunted.

If you are using an ice eater you are hunting it. How many ducks is a swimming pool that is hunted holding?

No one except idiots use the "heated pond" comment. But yes there is and has been large scale "ice eaters", pumps, agitators, etc... and so forth put in by and with DU money to keep water open for waterfowl in Northern states. This is well documented and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. What is up for debate is how much effect in the overall sense of the migration it really has. Is it "short stopping" in general sence of the word. NO. Is it slowing the migration of ducks YES but on what and how grand of a scale? That is up for debate. As well as flooding crops in those states and keeping water open. These are real issues on the delay/slowdown/"hot cropping" of the migration. Yes it has caused a very noticeable change to the migration patterns of many ducks up and down the flyway to people that have been doing this for 40+ years. Those that have only been in the game since late 90's and 2000's really cannot relate to the issue as well. But we all just need to drop the DU vernacular "heated ponds" it kinda defines you as a person when you refer to it.

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This is well documented and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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Do you have a source? Kind of interested to know the logistics

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"heated ponds" it kinda defines you as a person when you refer to it

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Yet you use this term...

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"hot cropping"

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It is impossible to even begin to think about heating water on such a scale. Would be much cheaper to trap ducks and geese in the North, fly them down to Louisiana, and release them. Much much cheaper.

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you think the industrial heat discharge is holding ducks? Which plants aren't getting hunted?

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"Combine all the factors said and unsaid that can, do and could affect the migration of Canada geese in and through Illinois, and you find the vast majority of the region's Canadas now winter in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. By January, a small portion of those birds might move into the extreme northern tier of the Central Zone, but the only significant concentrations of Canadas in Illinois are found at a few large, open-water sites near Peoria. Most prominent among these are the power plant cooling lake operated by Central Illinois Light Company (CILCO) and the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District ponds."

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Its not just Louisiana, you guys are just at the end of the flyway. Its shifting everywhere.