Building a pump house at Colusa, in California. 



manage specific waterfowl-management areas. 

 Four separate units — Colusa. Sutter, Merced, and 

 Salton Sea — a total <>)' 6,927 acres, were acquired 

 with those Lea Act moneys. 



Congress also appropriated a total of $450,000, 

 spread over a 3-year period from 195] to L953, 

 to supplement Duck Stamp funds for the restora- 

 tion of water-control dikes on the Tule Lake- 

 l.ower Klamath Refuges in northern California. 

 These dikes are essential to the proper manage- 

 ment and control of waters to reduce the heavy 

 botulism losses that had regularly occurred in 

 this very valuable duck and goose concentration 

 area. 



Also, a special act of Congress in 1947 trans- 

 ferred to the Service jurisdiction of the ('rah 

 Orchard Ordnance Plant and adjoining Federal 



lands in southern Illinois. Part of this ! 1.000- 

 ai re area had been acquired by the Government 

 as a step toward improving a very unsatisfactory 

 economic situation in the vicinity of the Herrin 

 coalfields, and the balance as an addition to the 

 ordnance plant. These lands formerly ^vere under 

 the jurisdiction of four separate Government 

 agencies. The Fish and Wildlife Service was 

 interested in acquiring a part of the area for 

 waterfowl management, but before the bill passed 

 the Congress it was amended to include all of the 

 lands in the project, thus making one Federal 

 agency responsible for its administration. At the 

 time the Service took it over, it had practically no 

 wildlife value. Today it is one of the finest wild- 

 life refuges in the United States. Indicative of 

 the phenomenal success of the development and 



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