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‘Camo at the Capitol’ advocates for crane hunt, Knowles-Nelson in Wisconsin

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A motivated legion of 75 outdoorsmen and women clad in camouflage and blaze orange moved methodically through the hallways of the State Capitol on Jan. 7 in Madison to meet with state legislators to voice support for reauthorizing the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund and advance the effort to create a sandhill crane season in Wisconsin.
Camo at the Capitol, an effort led by George Ermert, a lobbyist working with Ducks Unlimited (DU), included staff and volunteers from a broad coalition of conservation groups.

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North Dakota places new restrictions on nonresident waterfowlers at the urging of resident hunters

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Ron Nerva realized his out-of-state waterfowl-hunting plans were sliced in half Aug. 1. That’s when he read about changes to North Dakota’s rules for nonresident hunters.
Nerva, a waterfowler from Tomahawk, Wis., has owned a hunting camp in Esmond, N.D., since 2003. Since then, each fall in the past, he’d hunted ducks and geese for the maximum of 14 days that out-of-staters were allowed. But his plans for this October have been thwarted by rule changes.

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Commentary: It’s time to establish a hunting season for Wisconsin’s sandhill cranes

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If you want to know what’s happening in rural America, ask a farmer.
Right now, if you ask Wisconsin’s corn growers and potato producers, they’ll tell you our state has a sandhill crane problem. The population of sandhill cranes has quadrupled over the past two decades, and crop damage caused by the big birds has reached an estimated $2 million annually in Wisconsin. Unless we find solutions soon, the burgeoning population of sandhill cranes is on a pathway to become an even larger problem.

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Commentary: USFWS adopts new harvest strategy for pintails

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For the first time in nearly 30 years, duck hunters in the Lower 48 states could have the chance to shoot three pintails a day as soon as the 2025-26 season – a possible outcome of an interim population and harvest strategy being put into use by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
However, it’s important to note that despite a change in the model, the daily bag limit for all future seasons still depends on pintail populations and habitat conditions on the breeding grounds.

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Three waterfowl species subject to be renamed

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The American Ornithological Society plans in 2024 to begin renaming up to 80 bird species, and three waterfowl species – Ross’s goose, Barrow’s goldeneyes, and Steller’s eiders – are likely to be among the birds that are given new names.
AOS, the recognized authority on bird naming in North America, plans to rename all species that are named after people. In a Nov. 1 press release, the AOS announced the changes are being made “in an effort to address past wrongs and engage far more people in the enjoyment, protection, and study of birds.”

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Delta Waterfowl expands predator management program

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Even though deep snowdrifts still blanket the northern prairie landscape where more than half of North America’s ducks nest, Delta Waterfowl has begun the organization’s annual Predator Management Program field work.
For the 2023 waterfowl-nesting season, Delta will expand predator management to 31 sites – 25 in North Dakota, and three each in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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