Roger Hollevoet

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  "Fortunately, we've been able to partner with APHIS," declares Roger Hollevoet, district director of the Devils Lake Waterfowl Management District, in northeastern North Dakota.

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  Roger Hollevoet, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's district director for the Devils Lake Wetland, said while it helps get the ducks and geese back to the breeding grounds, the ducks' need for water and native grasslands is vital to keep populations high.
  
  "There has to be two kinds of water," Hollevoet said, adding that temporary water caused by snow melt and rain provides food sources and permanent water gives ducks and geese a place to rest and rear their broods.
  
  "Ducks use that ephemeral (temporary) water to feed on invertebrates, and hens need that rich source of protein to get ready to lay their eggs," he said."There is lots of research showing that with hours of water staying on this land, that invertebrates multiply by the thousands and can supply a hen with the protein she needs to maintain the nutrition she needs.This is a very important factor in the breeding and nesting cycle."
  
  Hollevoet said ducks use more permanent ponds to continue mating, to rest and to rear their broods.
  
  Projects by public agencies and private fundraisers have gone into maintaining the permanent water in the grasslands, sometimes called the prairie pothole region in the northern U.S. and southern Canada.
  
  Farming operations not only use the plow to cut into the land, but also drain lowland sumps that provide ducks with temporary and permanent water.
  
  "The more temporary water we have, the more food is available for hens, and the more permanent water we have, the more spread out the ducks can be," Hollevoet said.

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  2theadvocate.com: Outdoors - Spending time with ducks... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2004    Last Visited: 7/19/2004  

  During the next weeks, you're going to meet folks concerned about ducks and in one way, shape or form, bringing more ducks to Louisiana: Roger Hollevoet is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service district director in the Devils Lake Wetland Complex in North Dakota; Rob Olsen is the president of Delta Waterfowl in Bismark, N.D.; Mike Checkett is a veteran waterfowl biologist for Ducks Unlimited based in Memphis, Tenn.; Frank Rehwer is an LSU professor who spends most summers on the duck breeding grounds in the Dakotas and Canada; and, state waterfowl biologists Robert Helm and Scott Durham.

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  2theadvocate.com: Outdoors - What's next in saving... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2004    Last Visited: 8/8/2004  

  "When soybeans hit $8 or $10 a bushel, it's hard to tell a landowner or a farmer not to plow," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service district director Roger Hollevoet said."And when the plow digs into this land, we know it'll take years to restore it to prairie grassland."
  
  Hollevoet manages 500 square miles of prime North Dakota waterfowl territory, a place where the soil is rich enough to grow tons of soybeans.It's a vast prairie where, near the turn of the 20th Century, cattlemen and farmers -- sodbusters -- battled for the land.
  
  Cattlemen were there because the American bison were gone.They were wiped out for their hides.It's reckoned that a million buffalo grazed places Dakotans call "the drift prairie" and the "Missouri Coteau."Cattle were turned loose on the vast, treeless grasslands where the major predators were wolves -- and man -- and plagues were frigid winters, summer's wildfires and occasional periods of drought.
  
  It's the grasslands that brought Hollevoet to North Dakota.Ducks and geese like it here, always have.They like to build nests in tall grass, lay eggs and raise their young in nearby ponds.Dozens more migratory and native birds use the cover afforded by the tall grasses to do the same thing, but it's migrants that borrow the land until it's time for their millenniums-old migration.Unlike the cattlemen and settlers, wild waterfowl know when it's time to move.
  
  Hollevoet and lots of fellow waterfowl biologists learned about migrations early in life.Growing up in Minnesota, he watched flight after flight pointed southward in the fall.
  
  "That's when you know how important places like this are," Hollevoet said, extending his hand across half the length of his windshield.The half on his side of the truck was Kelly's Slough, a waterfowl production area the USFWS owns in his district.On the right-hand side of the road was a newly tilled field.
  
  "Over here," he said pointing to his left, "you can raise ducks.
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  Hollevoet said county officials don't like the federal government's move to buy land, because it removes that land from tax rolls.
  
  "That's why it's important to obtain easements with the landowners, and come up with other plans that take marginal (farm) lands out of production and compensate the farmer," Hollevoet said.
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  "This is a beautiful place, these native grasslands," Hollevoet said.

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  AP Wire | 09/20/2005 | Officials say duck hunting... - [Cached Version]
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  Water conditions for ducks are excellent in eastern North Dakota, and duck production is up in Saskatchewan, said Roger Hollevoet, the project leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Devils Lake Management District.
  
  "We could have a good early season with our local ducks," Hollevoet said, "and if the weather is right, we could have an actual migration and see the so-called 'northern' birds. "
  
  The first week of the season is open to North Dakota residents only.Nonresidents will be able to hunt waterfowl in the state beginning Oct. 1.
  
  "The resident season doesn't show a lot of pressure early on, so that should be a real enjoyable week for the residents," Hollevoet said.
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  Nelson, Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner and western Walsh counties all are good bets for waterfowl hunters, Hollevoet said.
  
  "We're seeing signs of very good production, so that should mean good decoyable birds early on," Hollevoet said.
  
  Farmers have harvested much of their small grain crops, Hollevoet said, and that should concentrate birds in areas where crops remain.Hunters should be on the lookout for peas, a relatively new crop in eastern North Dakota that has proven attractive to upland feeding birds, such as Canada geese and mallards, he said.
  
  Populations of snow geese and Canada geese remain high, he said.
  
  "The snows are so smart, but if you can capitalize on those giant Canadas and then the migrants, the Canadas can be fun to hunt," Hollevoet said.

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  "Fortunately, we've been able to partner with APHIS," declares Roger Hollevoet, district director of the Devils Lake Waterfowl Management District, in northeastern North Dakota."We get free management that way--a good interspersion of cattails and open water.First we see a reduction in blackbirds.Then we start seeing many of the wading birds coming back, then waterfowl--both divers and dabblers--and, finally, bitterns, black-crowned night herons, great blues, and black terns.We might displace some marsh wrens and some sora and Virginia rails, but they still have plenty of habitat along the fringes."
  
  In Venezuela, where dickcissels ravage crops of rice and sorghum, farmers had been getting no relief by poisoning the birds by the hundreds of thousands on their nocturnal roosts.

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  "Fortunately, we've been able to partner with APHIS," declares Roger Hollevoet, district director of the Devils Lake Waterfowl Management District, in northeastern North Dakota."We get free management that way--a good interspersion of cattails and open water.First we see a reduction in blackbirds.Then we start seeing many of the wading birds coming back, then waterfowl--both divers and dabblers--and, finally, bitterns, black-crowned night herons, great blues, and black terns.We might displace some marsh wrens and some sora and Virginia rails, but they still have plenty of habitat along the fringes."
  
  In Venezuela, where dickcissels ravage crops of rice and sorghum, farmers had been getting no relief by poisoning the birds by the hundreds of thousands on their nocturnal roosts.

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  Audubon: Incite - [Cached Version]
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  "Fortunately, we've been able to partner with APHIS," declares Roger Hollevoet, district director of the Devils Lake Waterfowl Management District, in northeastern North Dakota.

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  The first comes from Roger Hollevoet, director of Fish and Wildlife's Devils Lake (ND) Wetland Management District.
  
  Roger starts by cutting the breast into two pieces and rubbing each with black pepper and flour.He browns the breasts in olive oil or peanut oil, then places them in a crock pot along with:
  
  1 can cream of mushroom soup1 can cream of celery soup1 can chicken broth
  
  Roger then stirs in lots of spices.Among his favorites are garlic powder, onion powder, Cajun seasoning, red pepper and cayenne.He cooks the goose at high heat for one hour, then reduces to low heat for another four hours.

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  Benson County News - Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/19/2006    Last Visited: 2/19/2006  

  Accepting the award was Roger Hollevoet of the US Fish & Wildlife Service.

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