How Hunters Help the Harvest Information Program

For hunters my age, the acronym HIP associated with the outdoors isn’t anything new. While anywhere beyond two decades ago, HIP might have meant “aware” or “fashionable,” to those of us familiar with the migratory bird hunting world today, it also refers to the Harvest Information Program. What is HIP? HIP is a survey method […]

Duck Numbers Down Slightly in North Dakota

During mid-July we obviously note the sun is setting a bit earlier, the small grains are nearing harvest and the August 15 early Canada goose opener is nearing and hunters can begin to form plans for the fall hunting seasons. In the past few weeks the North Dakota Game and Fish Department has released some […]

Numbers Up For California Waterfowl Breeding Population

(Story courtesy CDFW) The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has completed its annual survey of waterfowl breeding pairs. Biologists found that after a three-year decline in mallards and total duck species (meaning all species combined), both categories have increased this year. The breeding population of mallards increased from 173,865 to 263,774 (an increase […]

Duck Hunter Finds Woolly Mammoth Bone

A duck hunter in Canada’s Yukon Territories came across a bone from a long-extinct woolly mammoth. According to a report on CBC.ca, Robert Kyikavichik was out hunting for ducks with his son and his nephew on the Crow River in northern Yukon when saw the bone sticking up out of the water. The last woolly […]

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Duck Hunting Season Begins in North Dakota

by Doug Leier Many hunters these days are bemoaning a downward population trend for deer and pheasants in North Dakota. On the other hand, for 2013 at least, duck and goose populations are in good shape and can provide opportunities that hunters may not want to overlook. Opening day for North Dakota residents is September […]

Hunting Retriever Stand – How to Build

If you’re going to duck hunt with a retriever, you have to have a hunting retriever stand. There are just too many places you can’t take a dog without one. Most guys who hunt, have some sort of old deer stand they can lock on a tree to use when hunting flooded timber, (if you […]

Duck Hunting Accident

Wet in Arkansas Editor’s Note: This is an article about a duck hunting accident with one of our community members. In 2010 we had 13 inches of rain in December. So when we arrived in Brinkley the first week of January we drove into Dagmar to check the water level. Water was already over most […]

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Hunting Ducks in the Field

By Jason Mitchell For many duck hunters, duck hunting is all about cattails and mud, ducks splashing on the water with a wet retriever shaking in the blind. Field hunting opportunities are not present everywhere but in the heartland of the Midwest; mallards routinely get conditioned to feed on waste grain, wheat, barley and other […]

Ducks Unlimited 75th Anniversary

By Doug Leier With all due respect to a few other short term bridges between college and my first real job, for all practical purposes Ducks Unlimited, private lands biologist, is still the first official business card bearing my information. Memories of working out of Stanley, N.D. in the coteau region bring a smile to […]