WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Following the end of the 2025-26 duck hunting season, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) and five Republican colleagues in encouraging Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to continue working to combat declines in North America's waterfowl population.
The current downturn, caused in large part by droughts in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Great Plains, has disrupted the hunting seasons and economies of Mississippi Flyway states like Louisiana.
"We are . . . increasingly concerned about continued declines in duck populations and strongly urge continued stewardship of the National Wildlife Refuge System-particularly USFWS conservation ...