DComeaux wrote:I had always used the sight of robins as sign of the migration getting into full swing, but that doesn't work anymore. I would truly love to hunt the specks on a regular basis, but where they live and play is too expensive for me.
DComeaux wrote:I had always used the sight of robins as sign of the migration getting into full swing, but that doesn't work anymore.
aunt betty wrote:What makes almost no sense to me is that Missouri (the poorest state) kicks ass on Illinois (one of the richest) at managing waterfowl sites. Then someone explains the meaning of "corruption" and it makes sense.
Rick wrote:Robins probably all converted to eating corn worms. Well, that, and there's the world-wide migration change Larry has so often referenced.
Rick wrote:......and the rich man's sport John's predicting is, in large part, already here.
DComeaux wrote:I still see the robins in large quantities...
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:I still see the robins in large quantities...
Wish I could say the same.
SpinnerMan wrote:aunt betty wrote:What makes almost no sense to me is that Missouri (the poorest state) kicks ass on Illinois (one of the richest) at managing waterfowl sites. Then someone explains the meaning of "corruption" and it makes sense.
Missouri is far from the poorest state, but it truly is the corruption problem. In PA, money from hunting licenses goes directly to the PA Game Commission and it is spent on hunting and nothing else. That's how it should be done in every state. In IL, it goes into the general fund and is spent on whatever the corrupt government decides will get them more votes than it costs them. I heard years ago that most of the wardens especially in the most rural areas don't have enough money in the budget to afford enough gasoline to do anywhere near the amount of patrolling they need to do.
Rick wrote:Good to see we've not sent you howling to the loony bin, yet, Larry.
Lreynolds wrote:I would certainly not argue with an Illinois resident about corruption in his home state, but it is NOT true that hunting license money in IL goes into the general fund. That would be a violation of the terms of the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson), and the state would not be able to share in those revenues, which Illinois clearly does. See https://www.hunter-ed.com/illinois/stud ... 700158977/ and https://www.fws.gov/midwest/news/WSFR2016-IL.html
Lreynolds wrote:Sorry for being a long-winded whiner.
DComeaux wrote:Larry, did you do wood duck banding this year?
Lreynolds wrote:DComeaux wrote:Larry, did you do wood duck banding this year?
Hens captured in wood duck nest boxes during our monitoring visits this spring were banded. We usually band about 300 adult females that way each year. But the preseason banding period begins tomorrow. Data from wood ducks banded July through September are used to estimate harvest and survival rates needed to inform bag limit decisions, so that’s the big effort for us. Our goal is a minimum of 1,500 banded during the preseason period.
Rick wrote:And what's his migration fix that won't screw up more than it helps again?
DComeaux wrote:Just like any other law, you'll have to work with it to be legal.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:Just like any other law, you'll have to work with it to be legal.
One more time: what solution does he or you or anyone propose to stop flooding feed that won't have negative consequences for most Louisiana waterfowlers? Even if the powers that be don't take a baiting rewrite in unintended directions?
And never mind that the habitat loss and hunting pressure here wouldn't let you turn back the migration clock, even if it were within man's power.
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