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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS This Morning: Mass migration of waterfowl through CA.
Rice farmers deliberately flood their fields to provide more water resource for them! An example of good stewards. 👍 😍https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morning/video/OtOB1CpAI3RKgTXQfX5kCAgksVW3oiy0/a-look-at-the-travelers-across-the-pacific-flyway-ducks-geese-waterfowl/
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CBS This Morning: Mass migration of waterfowl through CA. (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2020
OP
Yes, honorable people still continuing to do right in spite of, well, you know...
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2020
#2
Think what that does for the land...water and fertilizer(bird poop) everywhere...
diverdownjt
Feb 2020
#4
Yes, I live literally less than a .5 mile from a series of HUGE rice paddies & we hear anada geese
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Feb 2020
#5
calimary
(81,109 posts)1. Good!
sprinkleeninow
(20,214 posts)2. Yes, honorable people still continuing to do right in spite of, well, you know...
Duppers
(28,117 posts)3. Yes! 👍
diverdownjt
(701 posts)4. Think what that does for the land...water and fertilizer(bird poop) everywhere...
Great land management....
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(715 posts)5. Yes, I live literally less than a .5 mile from a series of HUGE rice paddies & we hear anada geese
honking at one another every morning AND every evening. I remember when the law was changed mandating that the farmers, instead of burning off the rice straw, flood the fields..
sprinkleeninow
(20,214 posts)6. I dint catch that this was mandated. Anyways, it's beneficent. eom
Cicada
(4,533 posts)7. Nature Conservancy plus Ducks Unlimited pay rice farmers
It costs a bit more to flood instead of burning the stubble. So farmers who flood get a small payment to flood from the Nature Conservancy and Ducks Unlimited. Ducks Unlimited is a group of duck hunters who help the ducks thrive so there are more to shoot. Odd motive but overall it helps the ducks.