Bill Cooksey
Partnerships Program Leader at Tennessee Wildlife Federation and Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame duck hunter; longtime conservation advocate formerly with Avery Outdoors, Vanishing Paradise, and National Wildlife Federation.
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Jun 2, 2026
Robbie NelsonHOST
So for those, I know who he is, but for those of those that don't know who he is, who is Brad Cohen?
Bill CookseyGUEST
Dr. Brad Cohen, he runs the Tennessee Mallard Project, where they put telemetry devices in the winter on mallards, and they do pintails and gadwalls too, in Tennessee.
Bill CookseyGUEST
And then they study them back and forth from Canada to wherever they go each winter.
Bill CookseyGUEST
So he has years now of data on what the ducks that winter in this area, what they do, where they go, what habitat they seek out.
Bill CookseyGUEST
I'm going to say in general, I don't think corn has helped any spot I've ever seen.
Bill CookseyGUEST
What I have seen though, and also most of the corn you'll see here that's being hunted, the field is mostly soybeans.
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Bill CookseyGUEST
Started in, uh, 2016, and, uh, I went through a couple of different job titles, but basically I worked with sportsmen around the country.
Bill CookseyGUEST
My portfolio was Everglades, the Gulf Coast, and then coastal Louisiana, and then we started a Mississippi River program, and so I had all of that under my, my portfolio.
Bill CookseyGUEST
And what I generally did, I worked some strictly within Louisiana with the legislature there and supporting different, uh, legislation and policy to drive coastal restoration in Louisiana.
Bill CookseyGUEST
They would tell me who they n- what senators and congressmen in DC they needed to touch, so I could find people in California to Tennessee to Florida to Maine.
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