Hunting and Trapping 



The main objectives of this management plan are to stop the expansion of open water areas, to 

 improve the quality of vegetative communities within the remaining marsh, and to promote the 

 growth of beneficial submergent vegetation in open water. This in turn should increase the wildlife 

 and fisheries production. Harvest data should reflect these changes. 



No definite trends have been established which indicate that management is having a positive 

 or negative effect on the amount of wildlife harvested. The data collected show that the total 

 number of animals harvested by both trapping and hunting were about the same for the 2 years 

 studied. More data need to be collected. 



Conclusion 



Impacts to the vegetative communities within the mitigation bank are expected to occur slowly. 

 The results obtained from the monitoring program are encouraging but the limited amount of 

 information collected so far is not enough to draw any definite conclusions. Further study of the 

 area is needed. 



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