DING AND THE DUCKS – by Diana Rupp How a conservation-minded cartoonist helped save America’s waterfowl. In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl was taking a tremendous toll on ducks and their habitat. Poaching, a lack of law enforcement, and draining of wetlands had been causing waterfowl populations to decline for years, and now the drought in the Midwest dried up the remaining breeding habitat. As...