Global Warming and Duck Hunting

Global Warming and Duck Hunting

David Carruth

10.19.2006

David Carruth

David Carruth is the former President and current Member-At-Large of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation as in an avid outdoorsman. Once a global warming skeptic, Carruth studied the science of climate change and has since become a strong advocate for greenhouse gas reduction and environmental conservation. Along with the National Wildlife Federation, he is trying to convince duck hunters to pressure the federal government to take the issue of global warming seriously.

Doug Inkley of the National Wildlife Federation and Arkansas Wildlife Federation President and avid duck hunter David Carruth discuss the effects of climate change on migratory bird travel as it relates to the duck hunting industry in Arkansas. Inkley and Carruth outline how the warming of the earth could have a dramatic impact on wildlife conservation, particularly when it comes to waterfowl flight patterns. Higher temperatures would cause ducks to stop their migration further north each winter, causing Arkansas’s multi-million dollar hunting industry to suffer drastically, the speakers say.