Waterfowl Surveys Look Promising

In Kevin Costner's epic cinematic tale, Field of Dreams, baseball aficionados everywhere learned that "If you build it, they will come."

For waterfowl hunters across most of Canada and the United States, a similar theme rings true: "If you fill it, they will come."

“It” being the permanent and seasonal wetlands that make up the famed Prairie Pothole Region of the northern U.S. and southern Canada, known to many as the "Duck Factory."

And “they” being the clouds of migrating ducks and geese that depend on those wetlands and surrounding upland habitat to complete the yearly cycle of breeding, laying eggs, hatching those eggs and...