Planting an area for ducks?

[fair-chase]

However, nothing in this paragraph prohibits:
• Standing crops or flooded standing
crops (including aquatics); standing,
flooded, or manipulated natural
vegetation; flooded harvested
croplands; or lands or areas where
seeds or grains have been scattered
solely as the result of a normal
agricultural planting, harvesting, postharvest
manipulation or normal soil
stabilization practice

The bold section is what I would be looking at. Sticking to naturally occurring plant species within the region, I would feel reasonably safe that I was operating within the law. But then, I'm no lawyer and this is internet advise. 

[92xj]

The state and fed guys plant fields of millet and corn for the sole purpose of killing ducks.  You plant it and it grows you can hunt it.  Dont dump seed out and hunt it.  Dont hunt a feed that has been seeded and no growth has started.  Dont chop down or buhshog corn stalks that have not been harvested.  dont pick corn and throw it on the ground.

This is my understanding.  It would be planted and left with no manipulation from me or anyone else.  Hopefully I can get the right mix to get a couple months of good hunting out of it.

And you should be able to hunt that without any worry. 

[92xj]

If you couldnt hunt a standing flooded field of whatever crop, outfitters across the nation would not be able to survive and they would all be in jail.

[PlateauNDN]

sounds like that car insurance commercial   you can't post lies on the internet!  

[h2ofowlr]

Paul Sullivan who has Paul's pond in Burbank, WA lets the wild millet take over his pond.  He then rolls it over as it is naturally occuring then plants the barley and corn around around it.  They shoot a pile of ducks off it.

As long as you don't knock down the corn, millet or barley and let nature takes it's course your good to go after it's grow cycle.

[aaronoto]

Related question... As I read it, it is OK to hunt over seeded areas as long as its a normal soil stabilization practice? 

Example - A farm plants a cover crop and I hunt it while the seed has not yet taken.  Legal?

[92xj]

Related question... As I read it, it is OK to hunt over seeded areas as long as its a normal soil stabilization practice? 

Example - A farm plants a cover crop and I hunt it while the seed has not yet taken.  Legal?

I've never experienced it with ducks or geese but I have with Dove's and that for me was a huge no.  I was told I needed to wait 10 days once germination started to hunt it, not even 10 days from the time it was seeded.  Doves are migratory birds so I would assume the same, but again, have not experienced it out here.  It would be worth calling and asking. 

[h2ofowlr]

Related question... As I read it, it is OK to hunt over seeded areas as long as its a normal soil stabilization practice? 

Example - A farm plants a cover crop and I hunt it while the seed has not yet taken.  Legal?

This would be the QH fields on Fir Island.  They wouldn't let the signs go up until the fields were harvested and re-seeded.  Since seed is placed just under the surface of the soil you should be fine.  Call the feds and they will give you a definative answer.

[BiggLuke]

The regs state 10 days after being "worked".
that could mean planting, or harvesting.
Not germination..... that's crazy.
Some seeds will never germinate. Are we saposed to wait forever if I drop a sinlge grass seed in a field?
No.

[92xj]

The regs state 10 days after being "worked".
that could mean planting, or harvesting.
Not germination..... that's crazy.
Some seeds will never germinate. Are we saposed to wait forever if I drop a sinlge grass seed in a field?
No.

I was just posting what was told to me on a dove field not in this state.  I figured you would have understood that was an experience I had in a previous time and not a "me telling him how it is" post.