2011 Waterfowl Season Opens in Vanishing Paradise

With plenty of birds, good weather and easy bag limits, the first week of the 2011 duck season should have gone into the books as one to cheer the soul of waterfowlers everywhere.
Except for this problem: Duck hunters read the news. And two news items out of Washington last week dampened the joy because it threw a cloud over our future.
Item 1: Congress took a $615 million bite out of critical fish and wildlife conservation funding.
Item 2: Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Dean Heller of Nevada sponsored an amendment that would prevent the Obama Administration from restoring protection to 20 million acres of wetlands -- including much of the prairie pothole waterfowl production area.
- Bob Marshall, The Times Picayune

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