DU Given $2.5 Million to Shortstop Ducks

[Bill Collector]

Interesting.

http://www.ducks.org/news/2208/DUtorece ... poe=boards

[RockBottom]

Huh, wished they would use some of that money to build additional habitat here in central mississippi.

[blgros1]

AAAHHH COME AAHH Rockbottom, DU spreads there money up an down the mississippi flyway(not that i have a vested interest with DU or anything) but i would think that any duck hunter would or should appreciate this donation and the area it has choosen to donate to. The gulf coast is a major wintering ground for many duck species and has a large impact on the ducks YOU shoot in Central Mississippi. Personally i think they need to double that donation and put it all on the gulf coast and before i get any bullchit comments, I do the majority of my hunting in North Ms so i don't want to here any Pro- La chit. Let's hope this oil does not negativily effect the duck population like some think it might.

Huh, wished they would use some of that money to build additional habitat here in central mississippi.

[redneck22ms]

would have been nice if they would have used some of that cash and worked on the habitat here on the ms coast

[Double R 2]

Tip of the iceberg

[southernr]

yeah the coast needs some serious habitat restoration... and it's about to need a whole lot more! the duck numbers here seem to go down every year.

[RockBottom]

Not downing DU, and the coast needs as much help as they can get. Just saying, if the ducks cant go to the coast then maybe they can stop around here But Iam sure the money is going where its needed the most...the coast.

[hntrpat1]

Tip of the iceberg

So true, and the rumor is that most of the money is going into delta plantation. SURPRISE, SURPRISE! This will help my hunting because I have a few spots around there. This short stoppin is not going to solve ANYTHING. Puddle ducks are not going to be affected by the oil, divers are. Divers are the only ducks that use the outer bays.

[Wingman]

ANY help is good help right now.

[mottlet]

ANY help is good help right now.

Get outta here with that kinda logic, no room for it.

[Wingman]

Maybe I'm taking the title to this thread the wrong way, but how is fixing up coastal habitat shortstopping ducks? Maybe if you hunted in Cuba, but it ain't shortstopping any southward migration as far as the Delta is concerned.

We gotta lose this mentality of more flooded acres means less ducks for me in my personal duck hole. The more acres we flood, the more ducks we hold and the more ducks that are in the area for us to kill. Point proven on super dry years when the ducks fly past us and end up in south LA.

[hntrpat1]

They aren't fixing coastal marshes they are using this money to flood rice fields in central La to short stop ducks

[Redhead]

If providing Habitat is equal to Short stopping Ducks then they have been doing that since 1937?

[blgros1]

I'm not sure where you getting this info from but i would like to see it cited???????

They aren't fixing coastal marshes they are using this money to flood rice fields in central La to short stop ducks

[Hambone]

I'm not sure where you getting this info from but i would like to see it cited???????

They aren't fixing coastal marshes they are using this money to flood rice fields in central La to short stop ducks

Copied from the article:

The funds will be used to flood alternative habitats in the critical rice region of coastal Louisiana and Texas. The areas to be flooded will provide crucial migration and wintering habitat within the Gulf Coast region. This will be especially important if oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is pushed into fresh and intermediate salinity marshes by storms later this summer and fall. Normally, fresh and intermediate salinity marshes winter vast numbers of ducks, shorebirds, wading birds and other wetland-dependent birds.

It looks like an attempt to divert ducks and other birds from oil-polluted wintering areas. While I agree with Double R that it's probably the tip of the iceberg, I am glad to see any effort to do something positive in the face of the catastrophe.