David Rainer: Maddox optimistic about upcoming waterfowl seasons

Although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s annual waterfowl survey indicates overall duck numbers are down, Seth Maddox remains optimistic about Alabama’s 2023-2024 waterfowl seasons. Maddox, Assistant Wildlife Section Chief for the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, said the USFWS survey occurred on the breeding grounds in the upper Midwest and Canada before the success of the hatch was known. WFF intern Molly Dillon prepares to release a banded wood duck. (WFF) “The previous year we had some poor habitat conditions i