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Originally Posted by Raymond
Not too sure about restoration since the areas being tilled looked marginal as far as production. There are literally millions of acres of marsh up there in the region and more being created each year due to flooding. The water table has increased every year and they are building roads around the flooded areas non stop. Ask Casey about the road that ended in the middle of a marsh, still on map as navigable but stopped a couple miles down. I will throw this out and bash if you will but, more and more ducks winter where we hunted. Every organization has decried the loss of wetland in the prairie pot hole region as long as I can remember. Do you think they have done it to make sure they remain a viable entity in the quest for the duck hunters $$$$?
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Come on man. Can you back that statement up? The loss of wetland in the prairie is nothing but fact. The Millions lost in CRP speak for itself in ND. CRP is pretty much the reason we had more breeding ducks in the US than Canada the past two years for the first time ever. These big flooded areas are being created due to drain off of small wetlands. Those big marshy areas are great for divers, but not so great for puddle ducks. The CRP acres create small temporary wetlands surrounded by a bunch of grass which is real productive to successful nesting. These newly flooded areas in the Spring produce tons of invertabrates which are the food of choice due to high protien during the breeding season. I believe a dry year on the prairie will really show us what's really happening up there. Luckily for us it looks like it will be wet again.
