RELOADED EP220 - Waterfowl Harvest Management Series, Part 10: AHM – Champions, Objectives, and Regulations
Ducks Unlimited Podcast
Ducks Unlimited Inc.
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jim Nichols rejoins the DU Podcast to share stories about early champions of Adaptive Harvest Management and how they promoted it as a better way of setting harvest regulations, with unexpected support resulting from unusual political maneuverings in the mid-90s. Dr. Nicholas and Dr. Mike Brasher also begin discussing key components of AHM, including harvest management objectives and regulatory packages, with a goal of demystifying some of the “black box” of AHM.
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the Ducks Unlimited Podcast, Reloaded, but we bring you the best of our past episodes. |
| 0:39.5 | Whether you're a seasoned waterfowler or curious about conservation, this series is for you. |
| 0:44.6 | Over the years, we've had incredible guests and discussions about everything from wetland conservation to the latest waterfowl research and hunting strategies. |
| 0:53.1 | And Reloaded, we're revisiting those |
| 0:55.0 | conversations to keep the passion alive and the mission strong. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this reload. |
| 1:05.7 | Today we are rejoined by Dr. Jim Nichols to continue our discussion about adaptive harvest |
| 1:10.6 | management. And Jim, |
| 1:11.6 | it's, again, a treat for me to be able to speak with you about this. You have invested all of your |
| 1:16.1 | career into helping us get smarter, make better decisions about duck harvest management. And I hope |
| 1:21.3 | our listeners realize what a treat it is to be able to hear directly from you about some of the |
| 1:27.0 | inner workings of adaptive harvest |
| 1:28.5 | management. It's a component of this enterprise that our waterfowl hunters interact with. It affects |
| 1:33.4 | them directly, obviously. And to a lot of us, it feels to be somewhat of a black box. And so what |
| 1:42.2 | I'm hoping, and I'm confident that we'll be able to demystify |
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