Henry Flautt shakes his head in disbelief when I ask him how many duck hunting camps there are around Greenwood.

\”Hundreds,\” he says. He then explains to me how duck hunting has driven land values around the Delta to record levels. \”It\’s unbelievable.\”

It wasn\’t always so. We are sitting in a duck blind that Kenneth Thompson\’s family bought for 50 cents an acre in the \’30s so their son could have a place to hunt. The land had been cut over and nobody wanted to pay the taxes on it. So it sold for pennies at a tax sale.