Ducks Unlimited vs Flyway Federation

[Strick9]

Hot cropping = OK

Hot cropping + natural foods= Better

Hot cropping + natural foods + sanctuary = Best

Ducks would be in a bad way if it wasn't for the above 3 in combination. Due to massive loss of high quality food habitat, logic would say, that without such activity, the condition of the returning and breeding females reproductive system would be degraded and thus recruitment would suffer.

Artificial prevention of icing over no doubt = decrease in wintering waterfowl index for southern states. Bad for hunters, good for ducks.

In all honesty , if we held our agencies in charge of managing such habitats to the standards of which they should be operating, the entire equation would produce more and better as to both duck reproductivity and hunter success.