Ducks Unlimited

[Hopalong]

Hard to get a handle on how much land Ducks Unlimited owns in prairie provinces.
Has become an active land buyer in our area starting ten years or so back.
Have two of their water retention projects on our farm, date back two or three decades.
Also own land adjacent to ours, wildlife reserve land in areas as well.
Some concerns about increased salinity due to higher water table around projects, also attract beavers which are a curse.
Provincial compensation for wildlife damage is a help but seldom covers whole cost and is time consuming to track and report.
Urban residents and non farmers want us to save bush and wetlands and wildlife but may not appreciate costs to a farming operation.

[quadtrac]

Beavers are a curse alright.
Ducks Unlimited are an even bigger curse.

[woodland]

DU and beavers worst nightmare 😉



Dad having fun getting rid of the “weeds”



We don’t have any DU land out here but too many beavers. The .243 or hoe is our preferred control method. We build our own dams or dugouts and don’t like them messing things up.

[Sheepwheat]

For the beavers, you need to simply find a motivated young guy like me who likes to trap them. They are very easy to trap out, and in our rm are worth 35 bucks a tail. Hard to find those guys, though.

I like my wild lands, and du paid me for some of the seed costs to seed down land to hay. I am good with that.

[seldomseen]

I like the looks of that toy woodland and could use one around here. Is it a six or a seven?

The cab looks like it would be nice on a cold day but you must have to be very careful to not break windows when tramping down bush.

Get rid of the habitat and the pests should leave.

[GDR]

Ducks unlimited is amazing, they can gets all kinds of donation money from all walks of life in the interest to save wetlands and water birds. Sounds honorable but it is basically founded and ran by hunters to increase the populations and area for hunters. I bet they don't have a slideshow of dead ducks and hunters at their urban fundraisers!

[farmaholic]

.....never sign anything that causes you to lose control of your land....no amount of money from such groups is worth it.

[Sheepwheat]

.....never sign anything that causes you to lose control of your land....no amount of money from such groups is worth it.

Agree.

[Generation 5]

Agree.

ducks can go to hell. should be baned from owning land in the RM. rather have one earth farms move in next to me.

[woodland]

I like the looks of that toy woodland and could use one around here. Is it a six or a seven?

The cab looks like it would be nice on a cold day but you must have to be very careful to not break windows when tramping down bush.

Get rid of the habitat and the pests should leave.

Seldom it is a 8n and after the 6c died again we found it at Ritchie’s. The idiot before us removed the outer air filter and the inner was collapsed with a three inch hole😳. Runs fine though for now.

Twenty years ago deer were a huge problem with destroying bales, crops, swath grazing electric fences, etc.....

Then they suddenly disappeared but started back again this year and brought elk as well. We let everyone that wants to hunt on our place have at em but they seem to be winning.

Beavers are a constant problem although I’d rather have them than DU as a neighbor.

[woodland]

.....never sign anything that causes you to lose control of your land....no amount of money from such groups is worth it.

Agree with everyone. There’s already restrictions(caveats) on every quarter of ours except one from everything else like gas lines, power lines, oil leases, building restrictions from the neighboring coal mine........don’t need any voluntary ones added.

[furrowtickler]

*** the ducks 🦆