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Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both.

Big shout out to Onex Hunt for their support of this podcast. I'm your host, Lake Pickle. On this episode, we're going back to a topic that we recently discussed on this show,

the notable decline of wintering mallards in the lower portion of the Mississippi Flyway.

We just did an episode on this back in December, and it got quite a bit of feedback,

so much so that it's earned itself another look, which is great.

And when we dive back in this time, we're going to be hearing about this subject from folks

just like you, the hunters, the duck stamp holders, the folks that are out there in the

marshes and muddy backwater every single chance they get.

The folks that love to duck hunt more than they love the next breath they breathe.

It's time to learn what those folks think of all this. Let's dive in.

Before we meet our first diehard duck hunter, allow me to set the stage a bit.

The format of this episode is going to be a bit different than many of the other Backwoods University episodes that you may have heard in the past.

I'm going to go ahead and say, I can't take credit for this idea.

Steve Renella actually prompted me to do this before we ever officially launched this show. He called it Bar Biology. And the premise was to go around to

local hangout spots for hunters and get their honest opinions on different sorts of wildlife issues.

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