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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Wildlife managers say predictions of a poor duck breeding season in North Dakota due to the drought have proven true, and hunters should expect challenging conditions this fall.
The number of duck broods, or families, observed during the state Game and Fish Department’s annual mid-July survey was the lowest in nearly three decades. This year’s fall duck flight is expected to be down 36% from last year, according to Mike Szymanski, the agency’s migratory game bird management supervisor.
“Hunters should take advantage of early migrants like blue-winged teal during the first two weeks of the season,” Szymanski said. “We won’t be able to depend on local duck production to the extent that we have in the past.”
The news was not unexpected,the Bismarck Tribunereported. More than half of North Dakota is in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories, while all…
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Exposing the Big Game 
What about the pheasants that their ignorant Governor,Kristi Noem, depends on? After all, she declared war on ALL predators because foxes, coyotes, skinks, etc could take a pheasant chick or egg. You know those hunters; The thought of sharing is not in their makeup.