Behind the Headlines

U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell was in town the other day to commend the local Ducks Unlimited chapter for its help in raising money to help expand the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, which Rep. Dingell enabled through legislation.

Ducks Unlimited calls itself a conservation group, which it is. But that doesn’t mean they want to necessarily conserve ducks. They work to create habitat so ducks can make more ducks and hunters can bag more ducks.

Rep. Dingell, an avid hunter himself, put the whole thing in a little better perspective during his comments to the group about his relationship with ducks. “While I like to shoot them, I also just like watching them and knowing that they’re there,” he said.