WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. John Boozman issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), a Migratory Bird Conservation Commission member, led his colleagues representing Mississippi Flyway states in calling on the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to continue supporting conservation easement investments in the National Wildlife Refuge System to help facilitate long-term recovery of duck populations. The lawmakers expressed their concerns to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum following a USFWS Waterfowl Population Status Report that estimated a total of 34 million breeding ducks, below the long-term average and well below historic highs.
In Arkansas alone, duck hunters cont...