As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.

If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.

The problem is, hunters and anglers have day jobs. They're lunch-pail sort of guys. They can't take a day off work to visit the Capitol. But we're making an attempt this year.

In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. It was lawmakers literally disregarding the legislation before them. I'm extremely disappointed.

Since everybody benefits from our natural resources, shouldn't everybody have to pay for them?

We think it's an important work showing some of the loopholes in the current wetlands law.