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Originally Posted by Raymond
Not too sure about restoration since the areas being tilled looked marginal as far as production. There are literally millions of acres of marsh up there in the region and more being created each year due to flooding. The water table has increased every year and they are building roads around the flooded areas non stop. Ask Casey about the road that ended in the middle of a marsh, still on map as navigable but stopped a couple miles down. I will throw this out and bash if you will but, more and more ducks winter where we hunted. Every organization has decried the loss of wetland in the prairie pot hole region as long as I can remember. Do you think they have done it to make sure they remain a viable entity in the quest for the duck hunters $$$$?
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Makes sense as some ducks will conserve energy and not make the long flight down as long as they have food to eat. Those cornfields nearby provide the food, they conserve energy and many of those areas are not hunted so they are safe. You will notice that these states where you used to be able to just knock on a farmer's door and get permission to hunt are starting to attract more duck hunters. Pretty soon, those farmers are going to wise up and try and make some money off duck and goose hunters. Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska to name a few. ND and SD are not going to be far behind. Deer hunters skyrocketed land prices in places like Kansas and Oklahoma.
And one other thing to think about is cough cough cough climate change. Not going into manmade global warming debate or cycles or anything like that on here, but think about how many times 'in the old days' when you would duck hunt and have to bust ice while duck hunting and think about how many times the last few years that has happened (not very many). Flyways are changing before our eyes and its been well-documented in songbird species for many years. Ducks were doing it the whole time as well, and its probably happened many times in the past long before shotguns were around. Fulvous and black-bellied whistling ducks used to be a rarity, but now they expanded their breeding range north and are now seemingly sticking around for some of the big duck season. not sure where I am going with this
I didn't fully understand the question though, sorry