Water Levels @ Delta National Forest

[crow]

Hammer, you are taking me back a few years talking about Annies Kitchen. I have eaten many a late breakfast there after coming out of the woods. I'd drive a long way to get a breakfast like that again. Remember the pile of beer cans at the camp there?: I bet I stopped a thousand times on the bridge over the cutoff and looked for ducks crossing to and from DNF, Panther, and (what's now) Lake George. You could stay there for an hour and not a car or truck would come by. Ahhhh, the good ole days.

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[Hammer]

10-4 Crow. The good old days back before the ducks got sold out for $$$ via the black box "Adaptive Harvest Management" scam and before the Corps of Engineers turned one of the best, most natural wintering waterfowl areas in the entire Mississippi Flyway into "TERRESTRIAL mitigation" instead of "WETLANDS mitigation" which has resulted in the plummeting of duck use days on what was known as Campbell Brake, then Delhi Plantation and now as the Lake George WMA, resulting in corresponding plummeting at PS and DNF. But I digress...

Let me instead remember fondly those wonderful mornings at Annie's after some great green timber duck hunts in PS and DNF and let me remember fondly the contributions I made to the stack of cans that you referenced.

On a going forward basis, the 10s of 1000s of acres of hardwoods have been planted in Yazoo and Sharkey counties since WRP hit the streets in 1993. God willing that the reforested land stay reforested and that we may all live to see the day when the Delta of our later years again bears resemblance to the Delta of our grandfathers and their fathers. Even moreso than good old days at Annie's, that would be a memory worth reliving.

[Buckwabit]

It was some good days. I went by there awhile back that the cans have been put in Big Black Garbage bags now. We used to walk out of the camp's back door into the Delta National Forest. then we'd walk about 1mile and Have Little Wiskey and Big Wiskey to duck hunt all we wanted.

Good old days....For sure....

[crow]

I've got a feeling that with the reforestation of Delhi/lake George the beavers are gonna come back and stop up every ditch on the place. Those trees make some good eating for a beaver and it's easy to stop up a drainage ditch. Reckon they can keep them out...they never have been able to do it in Pather Creek Swamp. I'll be surprised not to see some beaver water in some places in the near future.

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[Buckwabit]

You know, we hunted that area since I was a kid, like I said, and I don't remember thier being any beavers much on our place. We went and done some walking last fall and killed a few squirels and I did see a lot of beaver sign. The beavers could help us make some sho nuff duck holes back there, or they could really screw us up. Time will tell