Arkansas has the habitat conditions it was hoping for earlier in the waterfowl season, and Missouri and other states to the north have been covered up by snow and ice this week, which would seem to be the ideal conditions to move more mallards and other ducks into the state. We’ll know more on actual numbers, and if that scenario has proved true, in coming days when the January Midwinter Survey is calculated by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s waterfowl biologists flying the state this week.