500,000 acre habitat program

[Fritz the Cat]

Would be nice to see most of this put toward preserving wetlands and associated upland habitat around them. Keep low spots from getting farmed, have buffer strips around water, etc. 5 acres here, 10 acres there. Gotta think that's going to be our best bang for our buck and would have the most impact.

A farmer let us hunt a 20-acre slough. In wet years it would claim ground and in dry years it would recede. Cattails grew well and so did Canada Thistle. The cattails provided us with a great place to hide.

One year it was especially dry and the farmer disced everything down. Barren no natural blind. I understood why he did it. The Thistle always had big fuzzballs providing a forever reservoir of seed.

We improvised and built a blind out of plywood and covered it with mud. Setting it next to the water it resembled a muskrat hut. Could have caught waterfowl with a butterfly net.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Press conference from the Governor's page. The Governor called it early. We need landowners to buy into this program. Feasibly and economically, what makes sense to them.

Speakers Kelly Amstrong Governor
Doug Goehring Department of Ag
Jeb Williams Game and Fish
Rhonda Kelch Soil Conservation Districts
They all did a good job in this role out.

However, look at the photo ops. Keith Trego ND Natural Resources Trust positioned himself between the Gov. and Ag Commissioner.

If everyone wants this to work, unload that grifter.

 

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A farmer let us hunt a 20-acre slough. In wet years it would claim ground and in dry years it would recede. Cattails grew well and so did Canada Thistle. The cattails provided us with a great place to hide.

One year it was especially dry and the farmer disced everything down. Barren no natural blind. I understood why he did it. The Thistle always had big fuzzballs providing a forever reservoir of seed.

We improvised and built a blind out of plywood and covered it with mud. Setting it next to the water it resembled a muskrat hut. Could have caught waterfowl with a butterfly net.

That's nice.