lanyard wrote:Hobby dog, you hitting your usual spot for duck opener this year? Always one of my favorite posts are your opener pics from the boarder.
The last few years I have been sacrificing the duck opener for an extended canoe trip. Anyone planning on fishing pool 2 or 3 on the RR WMA should call ahead. They are putting a big ditch in to drain that swamp. The road going in wasn't passable all summer until Tuesday...and then it was 4WD at best. The ditch goes from the west end of pool 3 to the Roseau river right by my cabin. The plan (theory) is that if they get a big rain like the one that caused the Roseau flood in 2002, they can dump pool 2 &3 quickly into the river before the water gets there and then use them as reservoirs. Sounds good in theory. The plus for the WMA is they had to do wetland mitigation and they are using the soils to build moist soil management areas on the refuge. If (gigantic
IF) they do it right that could be a big win for the WMA. In recent years they have not managed the refuge to hold birds.
Anyhow, they have lots of work to do yet and it will be pretty tore up. This used to be a small one lane track through the woods. It's 100 yards wide now.
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