Show Notes
Here's what traveling waterfowlers should expect these days, and why protecting breeding habitat is the most important thing hunters can do to have ducks in the future.
Guest is Lake Pickle / onX Hunt.
Hosted by editor-in-chief Alex Robinson.
Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.
Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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