RELOADED EP224 - Waterfowl Harvest Management Series, Part 12: AHM – Learning, Legacy, and Influence
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4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this concluding episode about the implementation of Adaptive Harvest Management, Dr. Jim Nichols and Dr. Mike Brasher discuss the importance of population data, band returns, and harvest estimates in AHM mechanics. This episode wraps up with a reflection on 25 years of liberal regulations, the legacy and influence of AHM beyond waterfowl management, where it ranks in the history of waterfowl management, and thoughts on why it has withstood the test of time.
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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 conversations to keep the passion alive and the mission |
| 0:57.9 | strong. |
| 0:58.7 | So sit back, relax, and enjoy this reload. |
| 1:05.6 | Today we're continuing on with our series on waterfowl harvest management featuring our guest, retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS, whatever other agencies he might have been transitioned to along the way. Dr. Jim Nichols. Jim, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks very much, Mike. |
| 1:23.5 | Let's pick up right here where we left off on the last one. We had made it through some of the |
| 1:27.7 | fundamental components of adaptive harvest management. We had stepped through the regulatory |
| 1:31.9 | alternatives and kind of how we go about selecting those and the optimization matrix that |
| 1:39.0 | gets outputted as a result of the stochastic dynamic programming. The next thing that I want to talk |
| 1:45.3 | about here, and this is sort of the start of a wrap-up to the discussion, which is going to highlight |
| 1:51.7 | some of the importance of this process and then some of the individual components, some of the |
| 1:58.0 | other aspects of AHM as it's going to relate to hunters in our role |
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