Bailey, the slough across from danvers WMA is pretty full again. The biggest issue with the WMA is that the state cannot / will not add any more elevation to the outlet dam. I can ask around, but I think the elevation was set as part of a deal with area land owners when they shut the pumping station...
We had no problem shooting limits on sloughs north of marsh when I was a kid (early-mid 90's) basically birds that filtered off the big water from feeding or pressure are what we targeted. Now those sloughs are good for bluewing and that's if they are even still there. Where the decline in hunting o...
Any land owner who wants to can sue for an injunction. I think there is one other court case making its way through Clark county's courthouse right now, and it will be ruled on similarly; same judge. Not sure which slough that case is associated with though.
The last court case that was seeking to prevent public access was overturned somewhat at the court of appeals. Parks vs. Cooper in 2004. The court ruled that the legislature needs to rule on non meandered waters, which they tried a few times, but the bills got killed for a variety of reasons. Now th...
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160430/482c2f915f98c7a85658266d85abdd42.jpg Kind of hard to see but it's a hen mallard and she had 9 ducklings, I took this picture two Sundays ago already. Earliest I've ever seen a mallard hatch and same for a waterfowl biologist buddy of mine when I showed him. ...