COE to the little Kudzu Plants:

Now all you little green muffins be GOOD little vines and only grow where we have a problem because thats how big our brains are and we dont need to help anyone else. Yall stop when you get to the edge of our eriosion problem like good little Kudzu plants Okee ...

MB if you wanna see this you should come NOW.

Dont wait until you can see anything for the crops. It's bare dirt, and you can see the whole thing if you want to see it.

The purpose of the dikes is to STOP the silt and to LET IT build up behind it. What that does is take the PITCH out of the land ...

I'm sorry MB I just see this from so deep inside the issue that sometimes the obvious isnt obvious to others and I have to explain how I got here.

Prior to the dam projects, Enid, Sardis, Grenada, Arkabutla, all this ground around the sunflower and other rivers was ALL unfarmable.

It stayed wet ...

I got some real respect for the power of Sunflower flood water last year when it backed out across a milo field and a bean field across the road in one tiny little basin. I had over 6,000 mallards in that hole for over a week.

I didnt shoot them and the canadas came in behind them and then came the ...

I'm in the middle of pulling down a fairly large roost habitat to allow seed producers to use the ground beneath the surface.

I also have several large areas that I am working to get a good drain and good seed production.

(It's all on marginal land along the sunflower)

If you wanna know just how ...

People who are opposed to this should realize that if the men behind this had their way, they would pick cotton up to the waters edge. There would be NO habitat, unless it made just as much money as cotton.

This is about money, and using land to make it. That is 150% what this is about and nothing ...

People should also realize that the ENTIRE Miss Delta, with the exception of several thousand "high spots" in the river banks, is nothing BUT a flood pan.

This place and all this great soil that is as flat as a board GOT here from flood water.

Of course the Ice Age was ending and there was a ...

Once major mistakes are made, things change behind them that make the problem difficult to fix. The Atchafalia is FULL of PEOPLE now.

The only way to fix the Atchaflia is to let the Miss River flood waters spill into it like its supposed to do and flush the system.

You cant do that without a hell ...

that perfect little hole (duck hole that is) that consistently produces day after day, regardless of weather and duck migration.

Well thats about as real as the holy grail and you will see it just as quick too.

Aint no such a place, ducks aint stupid ya know. Harvest management is the key. The ...

Wouldnt it have to be done again? Destroying the habitats within the river itself?

If there is a silt problem, then dont you fix that BEFORE it ends up in the river?

Did you know that you can stop run off almost entirely if you dike and pipe it?
(which is also good for ducks)

Dikes and Pipes, all ...

Glad you got to enjoy it before it was deletinated by the deletination police who go around deletinating anything that has any humor or intelligence in it to appease the deletination league.

People with power in the web world turn into socialist HEHEHEHEHEHE

Free speech?

American Values?

Yeah ...

You see there it is.

It needs to be cleaned in a couple spots but not dredged to drain wetlands.

I dont want them to dredge but I do want them to clean it and I do want them to construct control devices along it's confluences and put some control in the water BEFORE it hits the river.

This is ...

What is a pondberry by the way?

I have never heard of this. It's a rare shrub that grows along the river?

I hate to tell folks but we DO need that pumping station.

What we also need is to control the water entering the sunflower. I have ONE culvert on my place that I can close, and either stop a ...

Two of my leases are within the floodwaters of the sunflower. I have scouted the entire river during flood water and I know what it looks like from where it is still a ditch until it gets to DNF.

I have made this trek both sides many many times looking at ducks.

I always hate the flavor that ...

Ah now there's the million dollar question.

I have seen pristine duck holes where you couldnt buy a duck because the last human inhabitants were me-me-me people. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

They all look the same in the off season - GOOD.

The real key is to see it when nobody else has ...