Flooded Corn: Senator Calls USFW To Conduct Formal Study

[Fromm]

The ban will not be on flooding a corn field, it will be on hunting a flooded corn field. 
You folks think a ban on hunting over “bait” will stop water from touching corn are nuts.   

Corn fields will still be flooded, blinds will be moved accordingly and the public land hunter will still be bitching. 
We might even see some rice fields pop up and blinds over looking them.   Some rice should grown decently on the east side.

Artificially flooding a properly harvested corn field is way different than flooding an unharvested field. Field corn produces 6 tons per acre.

[92xj]

The ban will not be on flooding a corn field, it will be on hunting a flooded corn field. 
You folks think a ban on hunting over “bait” will stop water from touching corn are nuts.   

Corn fields will still be flooded, blinds will be moved accordingly and the public land hunter will still be bitching. 
We might even see some rice fields pop up and blinds over looking them.   Some rice should grown decently on the east side.

Artificially flooding a properly harvested corn field is way different than flooding an unharvested field. Field corn produces 6 tons per acre.

Flooding of unharvested corn fields will still take place.    Hunting those fields will “stop”, and shift to other places on the property, but the flooding of standing corn will continue to happen to keep the birds around.   

[Fromm]

If it were made illegal to hunt over unharvested intentionally flooded corn you then would not be able to plant and flood due to it influencing the ducks. A prime example of this is hunters are not allowed to hunt in close proximity to the grain elevators on the Columbia and snake rivers because of the influence they have on them

[92xj]

You’re not getting it.  But that’s ok. 
When or if this ever happens, we’ll revisit this thread and I guarantee you, there will be standing corn fields with water in them.   Not saying they will be hunted, but there will be water filled fields.   

[Fromm]

You’re not getting it.  But that’s ok. 
When or if this ever happens, we’ll revisit this thread and I guarantee you, there will be standing corn fields with water in them.   Not saying they will be hunted, but there will be water filled fields.   

I do get it.  If flooded unharvested corn was outlawed then under current area of influence laws you would not be allowed to hunt around it. Look at the buffer fish and game put around the grain elevator at wallula.