How to Protect the Prairie Duck hunters all seem to have an opinion about Ducks Unlimited. For every person who grouses about DU's emphasis on dollars, or that so much American-raised DU money goes north of the border, however, there's another who points out that three out of four North American ducks are hatched in the prairie pothole country, the great majority of which lies north of the 49th parallel. "Once I show U.S. visitors the lands we work on," says Dave Atamanchuk, a Ducks Unlimited Canada field representative in Saskatchewan, "and introduce them to the farmers we work with, they very easily understand how critical this region is to hunters across the entire continent." For a full week we drove past lands owned by Ducks Unlimited Canada, or leased by DUC, or managed for nesting cover by DUC and cooperating farmers. In Saskatchewan alone-which doesn't even employ a provincial waterfowl biologist-DUC works on 1.6 million acres. The first thing I did when I got home was send Ducks Unlimited a check for $100. -T.E.N.