| Show Main Predicts Postwar Duck Hunting Boom By John Mooney Painting a bright picture of more than a million aa additional duck hunters following the war Tom Main manager of Ducks Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Un Un- limited Friday revealed postwar hunting plans and prospects prospects prospects pros pros- before a crowd at the Newhouse hotel Feature of the meeting sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- by the local Ducks Unlimited ed organization was the showing of a technicolor motion picture portraying some of the problems of rehabilitating ducks in the Canadian Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian marsh lands and showing some of the results of six years years- of planning and working Millions of young men entirely entire entire- ly unfamiliar with shotguns will return from the wars as expert marksmen Main promised All Allmen Allmen Allmen men in the air corps are given expert Instruction and numerous opportunities to fire on the trap and skeet ranges as practice for forthe forthe forthe the day when they will hunt bigger bigger bigger big big- ger game When these boys come home they'll want to shoot and Its It's up to us still in civilian life to provide provide pro pro- vide targets for them Ducks Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Un Un- limited in Canada Is doing the work we have much left to do right now we have about one- one third the acreage needed but our year six-year fight has borne fruit as witnessed by Improved duck crops each year But we are making progress however many still foster the impression that because we have fewer hunters during these war y years ars the duck crop will multiply considerably b because c use fewer will be killed This Is a false impression More than 70 per cent of the potential po potential po pa- duck crop dies in Canada before the nimrod ever loads his fowling piece Fires drouth predators they predators they are the real enemies enemies en en- of the waterfowl Our job is to see that these natural and human agencies are controlled Migrations were cockeyed last year Many ducks swung toward California away from their norma normal normal nor nor- ma mal flight giving the west coast a duck problem and the middle western states a duck drouth This cannot be explained except that f I weather conditions water food I and human activity combine to drive or lure the ducks in a different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent tangent As ducks Increase some measures measures meas meas- ures will have to be taken to keep them from becoming a nuisance nuisance nuisance nui nui- sance as they were in California In many states state I have advocated a longer hunting season so as to get the early and late flights to allow for all vagrancies of the duck disposition Others seem to toI favor in increasing the duck bag al allowed allowed al- al a- a lowed hunters These must be I reconciled and a favorable program program program pro pro- gram outlined Main added I |
