DROUGHT IN THE DUCK FACTORY
Come waterfowl season, you will likely notice the effects of a drought gripping the Northern Plains. You may see fewer birds in the marsh, and they may be maddeningly reluctant to pile into your decoys. Maybe you’ll hear chatter at the café or the boat launch about this being an “off” year compared with the last several.
None of that will surprise Dr. Johann Walker, director of operations for Ducks Unlimited’s Northern Plains office in Bismarck, N.D., and a well-regarded waterfowl biologist. When we talked in the summer, he couldn’t help but look ahead to how drought
