recker7676 wrote:Drunk_Dynasty wrote:I agree that we don't think want any kind of duck or pheasant stocking.
I'm not an expert on any of this but I think deer/grouse management is a lot easier than waterfowl management. Maintaining quality wetlands is lot tougher than rotational timber harvests. Not saying they couldn't do better tho.
I've seen lots of private wetlands go to complete sh!t over the years as well. One in specific I'm sure Recker/Bailey has seen out around the Ortonville area that used to hold hundreds of ducks every time I'd drive by it got its water level raised atleast 5 feet and now its just a pea soup bowl of water.
Not sure I know the exact one but I know several in that area that used to be stacked and now have nothing. They did a great job on Marsh but it only lasted a year. The ducks were unreal. You really have to keep the water low every year to expose the duck food. But the wma's are bought and never maintained.
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The below photo is from 2015, you can see its not a deep pond, and there is some actual vegetation growing in the pond. This is a private wetland, but i would stack up with birds pretty much all year.
The below photo is from I believe 2020, because all the submerged trees are dead and no longer green up at all. It must have went up atleast 5 feet, probably even more. I'm not sure if the surrounding ag land got tiled or what, but its a dead sea now. Not even mergansers use it.