Bobo, you get no arguement from me regarding more and more pay to hunt operations. Your timeline on the black bellied whistling ducks is spot on as well. FWIW I also grew up in Oklahoma. My family farmed peanuts and still does. Waterfowl hunting in the peanut fields is off the hook when the plains to the north are blanketed in snow and ice. Seems to happen later and later in recent years. There have also been birds present through the end of the season. The times I grew up in where we all knew the neighbors and a knock on the door or phone call was all it took to hunt ducks and geese are all but gone. Outfitters and hunting clubs are gobbling up the opportunity and slowly pricing the average joe out of a lot of private ground. And yes a lot of them sink a lot of money into habitat enhancement. Things have definitely changed from when I was growing up in the '60's and '70's. I'm a forester in east texas and have monitored temperatures and rainfall for many years. Current weather patterns have not been what I would call normal. Hopefully things will trend back the other direction but only time will tell...

Concur,
I don’t have an issue with outfitters or even private property owners in general building a duck Mecca. More power to them. I just don’t think people realize what DU actually does and how they do it.

My point on DU is there is more to conservative then a blanket: “who cares, conservation is conservation, there aren’t any repercussions.” The complete WRP program has gone a complete different direction then what it was ment for.

Flyway Federation followers aren't gonna take kindly to you posting videos with common sense and scientific evidence to support it.

Good videos by the way.

X2- thanks for posting.
I don't believe the flyway federation folks are motivated by science...

there is suppose to be a 3rd video but i am unable to locate it.