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Over the last 20 years, wetlands have been losing their most ardent advocates, especially in states like Minnesota, South ...

It was late in the season and most of the birds were gone. But there had to be a few stragglers out there, late migrators ...

Kettle, his 7-year-old black lab, paused for a moment in the water ... and moved out east wrote to the Omaha World Herald to ask if duck hunting along Davenport’s portion of the Mississippi ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared only wetlands connected to a “water of the U.S.” will be protected. That ruling, ...

These viruses usually do not cause disease in wild species but spread occasionally to domestic birds (ducks, chickens ... and Ontario in 2015 and Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador in 2021/22.

Arkansas has no state laws specifically for wetland protection, leading conservationists to depend on funds raised by duck stamps. But waterfowl populations are under increasing threats leading to ...

Todd Taylor, a fowler from South Carolina, sits in his boat in Bayou Meto. Duck hunters like Taylor may be the saving grace of wetlands in the Natural State. Credit: Lucas Dufalla / Arkansas ...

On the last day of the 2025 duck season in the heart of Arkansas' premier duck country, longtime hunter Todd Taylor said the hunt just wasn't as good as... Lucas Dufalla covers the Mississippi ...

On the last day of the 2025 duck season in the heart of Arkansas' premier duck country, longtime hunter Todd... Lucas Dufalla covers the Mississippi River Basin for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.