The Great Plains lost more grassland to agriculture in 2014 than the Brazilian Amazon lost to deforestation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... 27cbc33eaf
gimpfinger wrote:[quote="Bailey"]Of course the DNR knows that and that's why they finally offered more liberal regs and an earlier open and shooting time. They knew to keep lhunters they had to at least on opener give people maximum chances. Lots of duck hunters only hunt the first few weekends so they keyed in on that. The shallow lakes program does not seem to make any difference. They restore all these shallow lakes and than you never hear a peep about them again. If they were holding ducks in the fall somebody would talk.
Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
Bailey wrote:[quote="gimpfinger"][quote="Bailey"]Of course the DNR knows that and that's why they finally offered more liberal regs and an earlier open and shooting time. They knew to keep lhunters they had to at least on opener give people maximum chances. Lots of duck hunters only hunt the first few weekends so they keyed in on that. The shallow lakes program does not seem to make any difference. They restore all these shallow lakes and than you never hear a peep about them again. If they were holding ducks in the fall somebody would talk.
Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
gimpfinger wrote:[quote="Bailey"][quote="gimpfinger"][quote="Bailey"]Of course the DNR knows that and that's why they finally offered more liberal regs and an earlier open and shooting time. They knew to keep lhunters they had to at least on opener give people maximum chances. Lots of duck hunters only hunt the first few weekends so they keyed in on that. The shallow lakes program does not seem to make any difference. They restore all these shallow lakes and than you never hear a peep about them again. If they were holding ducks in the fall somebody would talk.
Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
Bullet21XD wrote:.
Bailey, i've hunted SD quite a few years now, and I concur, lower numbers. But I mostly blame that on degrading habitat caused by increasing water levels. If we run through a drought cycle and habitat increases, I expect a fast recovery.
tornadochaser wrote:[quote="Bullet21XD"].
Bailey, i've hunted SD quite a few years now, and I concur, lower numbers. But I mostly blame that on degrading habitat caused by increasing water levels. If we run through a drought cycle and habitat increases, I expect a fast recovery.
tornadochaser wrote:Bullet21XD wrote:.
Bailey, i've hunted SD quite a few years now, and I concur, lower numbers. But I mostly blame that on degrading habitat caused by increasing water levels. If we run through a drought cycle and habitat increases, I expect a fast recovery.
Habitat won't increase as we dry out here in SD. Ever since water levels started receding in 2014 farmers have been tiling. I've got tons of spots we used to hunt waist deep water that are now pattern tiled in lake and Kingsbury county. Even with low prices these guys are putting tile in where they can. An now there is renewed interest in tile in a whole new area of the state from Parker southwest to Wagner as that area got pounded with rain this summer and had/has lots of flooded spots in fields. Our only hope out here is a new cycle of wet times and adding acres to crp in the next farm bill. Lots of guys would put grass back in right now if they could get it in the program.
Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests