. I'm surprised more people here don't read the waterfowling magazines.
I guess we are fortunate that we have you to keep us enlightened.
SRH
I thought the same thing myself. But Grey Man doesn't seem willing to enlighten us about what his waterfowling magazines say about the populations of Mallards in the Atlantic flyway. Get your own damn magazine.
The Pacific flyway has it's own set of problems. The water issues on the west coast are very complicated.
But essentially, no water, no waterfowl.
This thread wasn't about conditions on the Pacific flyway. If it was, it might be understandable if biologists and game managers were seeking a harvest or season reduction there. According to the National Weather Service Hydrology and Precipitation maps I looked at, the west coast has been dryer than normal in 2018 while most of the east coast and mid-Atlantic region has been wetter than normal. Much of it has been much wetter than normal. Maybe the ducks got too wet!
https://water.weather.gov/precip/Scroll down to Year to Date under Time Range in "Timeframe", and Departure from Normal or Percent of Normal in "Product".
What's really surprising to me isn't Grey Man's condescension... I'd be more surprised if he wasn't condescending. Actually, I'm more surprised that BrentD hasn't given us his scholarly and unassailable reasoning for the proposed bag limit reduction. Believe it or not, BrentD knows even more than the Grey Man. Probably some complex mix of anthropogenic climate change, a coyote/coopers hawk partnership, over-harvesting by King Brown, and the use of lead ammunition by eastern deer hunters that we mere mortals would never understand.
