Originally Posted by fourfive45
They’re migratory birds. Letting them rest can help establish historic habitat that can be used from generation to generation. If you opened the flood gates to hunters, they’d burn the place down and in 5 years there’d be no ducks to hunt. Alabama just doesn’t sit in a flyway, so all help is needed to attract AND keep ducks. The state just wants to maintain some quality, waterfowl oriented and managed, public hunting land. I don’t see what the big deal is.


Have you ever hunted Swan Creek? It has been established for a long time. Birds have been coming for years before they started the weekday closure. Closing it during the week has done absolutely nothing for the place except inhibiting people from hunting on good weather days that fall during the week, and causing extreme over crowding on the few days it is now open.

In response to the OP, only the dewatering Unit is closed to access on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday during the regular waterfowl season, except for the last two weeks of season.