

MT 3. Freezeout Lake Game Management Area. Acreage: 1 2,000. 



Location: Teton County; Freezeout Lake Quadrangle; 2 miles NE of Fairfield; 

 reached via U.S. 89. 



Description: This area has large populations of migrating and nesting waterfowl 

 and shorebirds — 300,000 Snow Geese in spring and 20,000 Whistling Swan iij 

 spring. Marsh habitat has been constructed to accommodate nesting birds and 

 for public hunting. This area is very fertile, having great growth of emergent 

 (Scirpus paludosus, S. validus, Typha latifolia) and submerged {Ruppia maritima) 

 vegetation, as well as high population levels of microorganisms. 



References: Ellig, L. J., 1955. Waterfowl relationship to Greenfields Lake, 

 Teton County, Montana, Mont. Fish Game Commission Tech. Bull. No. 1. 

 Knight, R. R., 1960. Vegetative characteristics of two water areas in Teton 

 County, Montana, in relationship to waterfowl usage. Thesis, Montana State 

 College. 



Encroachments: Originally a glacial lake bed that dried up each summer, it is 

 now flooded and managed for waterfowl and other wildlife. 



Ownership: State of Montana, Department of Fish and Game. 



Data source: Dr. Don Collins, Montana State University, Bozeman, Mont. 

 59715; Dale Witt, Box 482, Fairfield, Mont. 59436. 



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