Ryan Callaghan
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2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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They can graze cattle.
Depending on what agreement you have, you can also do row crops in there if you want to.
But you can't burn it or plow it under.
And, you know, so there's this tapestry of
things that you can do and you're paid up front in a willing buyer, willing seller agreement.
And everybody in this room has paid into it.
Even old Phil over there.
Your duck stamp dollars go to conservation easements, wetland conservation easements, as do Pittman Robertson dollars.
And if you've ever bought a state waterfowl stamp voluntarily, that's where this cash goes to.
a lot of times too.
So by converting this to a lesser, I would say lesser requirement, we stand to lose hundreds of thousands of acres of intermittent wetlands that we've already paid for.
And these are, they're supposed to be perpetual.
And
We've lost somewhere in the neighborhood of about 80% of our wetlands throughout the prairie pothole region already.
Montana has lost over 30%.
Minnesota, 50%.
Wisconsin, 50%.
And then in the Dakotas, it's somewhere in there between 30% and 50% of pre-existing wetlands.
wetlands so uh this is a big deal and if you like hunting ducks and you like biodiversity out there on the prairie which by the way is one of the biggest factors in having kids come back and work on the farm is if there's actual pretty things to look at and it's not just a flat landscape uh is biodiversity then you got a couple of days left here to write in
We have a action alert out at the backcountryhunters.org website.
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