CBS This Morning: Mass migration of waterfowl through CA.

[sprinkleeninow]

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/

[calimary]

1. Good!

[sprinkleeninow]

2. Yes, honorable people still continuing to do right in spite of, well, you know...

[Duppers]

3. Yes! 👍

[diverdownjt]

4. Think what that does for the land...water and fertilizer(bird poop) everywhere...

Great land management....

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

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]

6. I dint catch that this was mandated. Anyways, it's beneficent. eom

[Cicada]

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.