On this episode of the WHIN Podcast, we’re posted up in the Battleborn Duckers studio talking with two gritty, boots-in-the-mud volunteers—Glynn Franke and Tanner Bingham—about a project that’s as innovative as it is wild: building floating islands in Nevada’s desert marshes to give ducks a better shot at nesting. We dig into how this idea came to life, the science behind plant selection, predator battles (muskrats, of all things), and how a couple of non-biologists ended up growing native vegetation in a homemade marsh lab two hours from Vegas. It’s the kind of hands-on conservation work that reminds you why we do what we do—sweating through the off-season, hauling heavy gear through mudflats, and solving real habitat problems because the next generation of ducks, and duck hunters, depends on it.