Keith
Button Buck
Have you duck hunters been getting my divers down around pamlico and the south creek area in the lastvfew yrs
Did they purposefully spray the grass or was it pollution or a storm or other event that killed it off?Divers haven’t came up in the river in years, last good season in the river was 2014. Food source decreased. I live on the river, used to see large knots trading up and down the river. No more.
It wasn’t sprayed but in years past we had to take the kids to a few spots without grass to swim in the summer. Now they can play/swim on most of the river as there is little to no grass. Seems like about 5 years ago it started.Did they purposefully spray the grass or was it pollution or a storm or other event that killed it off?
It wasn’t sprayed but in years past we had to take the kids to a few spots without grass to swim in the summer. Now they can play/swim on most of the river as there is little to no grass. Seems like about 5 years ago it started. PCS is across from us but it’s been there for decades so I don’t think they are solely the cause. Seemed to have gotten worse after Matthew.
Have you duck hunters been getting my divers down around pamlico and the south creek area in the lastvfew yrs
Serious question; pursuant to the time when the grasses started to decline, was there an introduction of a herbicide-resistant crop? IE, a roundup ready cotton variety or something of the sort that meant that a bunch of herbicide was suddenly being introduced?I think the EPA put some chemicals in there to kill all the grass and snails. There may be some divers there, and if they are there, they are on a supplemental feeding program set up by various volunteer activists that frequent the area. I would be careful getting near these supplemental feeding areas for a bunch of reasons I will not list here.
Only thing I have ever heard, and I could be completely wrong with this, is more cotton planted around the lake and the defoliant herbicide is some nasty stuff.Serious question; pursuant to the time when the grasses started to decline, was there an introduction of a herbicide-resistant crop? IE, a roundup ready cotton variety or something of the sort that meant that a bunch of herbicide was suddenly being introduced?
I'd heard something similar and that would make sense.Only thing I have ever heard, and I could be completely wrong with this, is more cotton planted around the lake and the defoliant herbicide is some nasty stuff.