Show i Ducks Unlimited V limited Lists B Benefits one is To ormen I Organized i i in ii i 1937 by the More Game Birds Fecundation n Ducks Unlimited Unlimited Un Un- limited the ra National fc nal Or Organization of duck hunte has as already proved proved ed edthe th the effectiveness f hess sS of its program Since the st rt of field work in western t Cana 80 per cent of all alj ducks each year Ducks lias 1 1 Improved 52 duck breeding grounds with ith a it J total tal of acres acre's a- a cres cre's Jf 2 Eliminated over over ver 1 million crows and magpies in the principal principal principal pal duck 3 Controlled f fire r re on hundreds of thousands of a acres i of of nesting spots 4 Prevented further drainage of existing breeding grounds All this work has been accomplished accomplished pUshed with less than contributed contributed con con- d by th the approximately tely 30 members of Ducks Unlimited Results of this work are already apparent The 1940 duck crop of western Canada exceeded the 1938 crop by approximately 17 million ducks ducks- almost twice as many as were killed b by all al hunters in the United States during the 1940 sea sea- son Since Clicks Unlimited was organized organIzed organized organ organ- the open seas season seaton n has been in- in f from om thirty to sixty days and several restrictive regulations have been modi mollified modified Last August Ducks n successfully opposed opposed op op- op- op posed a well wen orga organized i lc ed drive to re- re tl attie d hag SJ g t 7 birds Ducks Unlimited has proved that we can have just dust as many ducks as we had in the good old days if we provide suitable nesting places es and reduce I the the appalling losses lasses of eggs and young ducks We Ve need to restore restore four times as many acres of duCk Of duck breeding areas as we have already Improved When the Ducks Ducks Unlimited program program program pro pro- gram Is completed ted we will have an ample supply of f ducks which will provide excellent excellent hunting year after after after af af- af- af ter year Without this work we might and pr probably bably would again see a downward trend in the duck supply shorter seasons and further restrictions |