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Meh. We'll still mow through em
Here on the SW corner, the USFWS has had us afraid to shoot anything larger than a cack because of duskys, a species of Canada that would've gone extinct only because of Mother nature. Now, we have a cack problem. But is it really hunter harvest that's the culprit? How about the huge and ever-increasing numbers of other migratory birds like snows (especially), sandhills, swans, and other species of Canadas. How about increasing harvest on the snows, let us kill a few sandhills and swans, and take duskys off the protected list?
Decreasing the limits will really cause the harvest to drop significantly. A number of groups won't bother the effort for a reduced bag. Birds will still be shot, mostly incidental. Seems more an effort to reduce opportunity that to conserve a population. Excuses.