RELOADED EP223 - Waterfowl Harvest Management Series, Part 11: AHM – Alternative Hypotheses and Optimal Decisions
Ducks Unlimited Podcast
Ducks Unlimited Inc.
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Is duck harvest mortality additive or compensatory? Is duck production strongly or weakly density dependent? Which habitat features most influence duck production? And how are optimal duck harvest regulations selected in the face of this imperfect knowledge? The DU Podcast is again thankful to be joined by Dr. Jim Nichols, retired senior scientist and Adaptive Harvest Management expert, to dig deeper into the workings of AHM and how annual duck regulations are selected.
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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. |
| 1:05.5 | Today we are again going at it with Dr. Jim Nichols discussing in detail, adaptive harvest management, what all goes |
| 1:12.1 | into it, the different components, and how it helps us make better decisions about what our |
| 1:16.1 | harvest regulations should be. So, Jim, thank you for sharing your time with us and joining us |
| 1:21.4 | again here on the Ducks Unlimited podcast. Thanks. I really appreciate the opportunity, Mike. |
| 1:25.6 | Okay, well, Jim, we are trudging on here through |
| 1:28.6 | these different components of the process, but I think it's important to get all of these |
| 1:33.2 | components together in one discussion. So with now with our series of regulatory packages in place, |
| 1:41.0 | regulatory alternatives, let's move to a discussion of the alternative models of how the system works, |
| 1:46.0 | because just as a reminder, our task here in this harvest management decision is to |
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