Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 1998 and Hunting Over Unharvested Crops
Duck hunters are skilled at finding scapegoats as to why their seasons don’t go so well. One of the hotter topics is the amount of and the ability to hunt over flooded crops. Namely corn. Is it legal? Should it be legal? When was it allowed? Who governs “normal agricultural practices”? Mike Brasher of Ducks Unlimited joins the show to break down the Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 1998 and clarify what it did and didn’t do for duck hunting. Changes to U.S. Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations on Baiting Laws - DU MagazineThanks to our sponsors: Sitka Gear, Perfect Limit Outdoors, Ducks Unlimited, Purina Pro Plan, Lile Real Estate, Tom Beckbe and Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting Magazine.Send us a textAll Rights Reserved. Please subscribe, rate and share The Standard Sportsman podcast.
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Tim Willis, Ducks Unlimited
Tim Willis has spent nearly 25 years conserving his home state of Arkansas’s flooded timber legacy and numerous Ducks Unlimited habitat projects throughout the country. Willis and his team help state agencies with consulting strategies and maximize conservation dollars. In this episode, he outlines DU’s role in ensuring waterfowl have effective habitats at all ends of the flyway now and in the future. Thanks to our sponsors: Lile Real Estate, Perfect Limit Outdoors, Sitka Gear, Purina Pro Plan, Ducks Unlimited, and Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting MagazineSend us a textAll Rights Reserved. Please subscribe, rate and share The Standard Sportsman podcast.
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Bradley Cohen, Cohen Wildlife Lab (FULL VERSION)
There were Technical Difficulties with the early AM upload, so please ignore that version and listen to this one for the full interview.Bradley Cohen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and heads the Cohen Wildlife Lab at Tennessee Tech University. Cohen and his team of students have and continue to shed a lot of light on modern-day mallard behaviors. Cohen talks through landscape conditions and habitat management practices impacting what hunters see afield, including telemetry data, migration timing, refuges, and responses to human interference.Visit the Cohen Wildlife Lab online at https://www.cohenwildlifelab.com or follow their work on Instagram @cohenwildlab.Thanks to our sponsors: Sitka Gear, Tom Beckbe, Ducks Unlimited, Purina Pro Plan, Lile Real Estate, Perfect Limit Outdoors, and Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting Magazine.Send us a textAll Rights Reserved. Please subscribe, rate and share The Standard Sportsman podcast.
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AGFC Commissioners Talking Turkey Zones, Pressure on Ducks and WMA Overcrowding
If you’re wondering what’s on the minds of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission regarding turkey zones, the future of Arkansas duck hunting as it relates to private land, public land, non-residents, unruly behavior on the WMAs, habitat, and pressure management, this is an episode you cannot afford to miss. Current AGFC Commission Chair JD Neeley and Philip Tappan join the show to have a candid discussion about the state of some hot-button issues in Arkansas that spill across all waterfowl destination states. Thanks to our sponsors: Perfect Limit Outdoors, Ducks Unlimited, Tom Beckbe, Purina Pro Plan, Sitka Gear, Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting Magazine and Lile Real Estate. Send us a textAll Rights Reserved. Please subscribe, rate and share The Standard Sportsman podcast.
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Spring Update
Despite all the duck seasons in North America being closed, plenty is going on within the world of waterfowling. Brent & Cason look at the impact the recent storms will have on this coming duck season, game warden access to private ground without a warrant, USFWS director confirmation hearings and waterfowl destination states desire to reduce pressure by limiting non-residents. Reducing non-residents to a few weekdays is the potential play for Kansas and Oklahoma...but will it work?Thanks to our sponsors: Tom Beckbe, Perfect Limit Outdoors, Ducks Unlimited, Purina Pro Plan, Sitka Gear, Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting Magazine and Live Real Estate. Send us a textAll Rights Reserved. Please subscribe, rate and share The Standard Sportsman podcast.
Lifelong Arkansas waterfowlers Brent Birch and Cason Short discuss duck hunting's past, present, and future with various thought-provoking leaders in the duck-hunting community. The guys will discuss days afield, waterfowl conservation, and stewardship with the goal of leaving the sport of duck and goose hunting better than they found it. Presented by Yeti, Tom Beckbe, Lile Real Estate, Sitka Gear, Purina Pro Plan, and Ducks Unlimited.
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