Stillwater Refuge in Nevada. 



and the Tennessee Refuge of about 50,000 acres in 

 h estern Tennessee have become two of the Nation's 

 finest waterfowl wintering areas through the 

 proper management of food and cover. 



Below Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, two 

 other refuge areas have been set aside on Reclama- 

 tion projects — Havasu, of approximately 45,000 

 acres, and Imperial, about the same size. These 

 refuge areas are the chief wintering grounds for 

 the Great Basin Canada geese, and accommodate 

 thousands of ducks which find this to be the only 

 suitable marshland in the midst of desert that 

 stretches in endless miles in all directions. 



One of the finest areas in the entire refuge 

 system was secured recently with only a small 

 amount of Duck Stamp money needed to provide 

 a few critical tracts. The bulk of the refuge — 

 140,000 acres — was made available at no cost by 

 the central and south Florida flood-control dis- 

 trict. Known as the Loxahatchee Waterfowl 

 Management Area, it is just west of Palm Beach, 

 Fla. A few hundred acres outside the dike have 

 been acquired or are being acquired with Duck 

 Slump funds, to provide farmland for waterfowl- 

 food production and a headquarters site. 



The Salt Plains Refuge in north-central Okla- 

 homa, originally established on public-domain 

 land by Executive order, is another good example 



of this cooperative approach. Shortly before 

 World War II, the Corps of Engineers became 

 interested in the salt flats as a flood-control 

 project. Agreement was reached with the corps, 

 whereby the salt flats were used for a flood- 

 control impoundment and the additional lands 

 acquired for the project were transferred to the 

 Fish and Wildlife Service for operation as part 

 of the Salt Plains Refuge. Duck Stamp funds 

 were used to acquire some 1,029 acres needed to 

 round out the refuge. A diversion structure 

 and ditch to supply water for a series of sub- 

 impoundments, have been financed from Duck 

 Stamp funds. The 31,000-acre Salt Plains 

 Refuge is now one of the outstanding refuges of 

 the south-central plains wintering area. 



Mud Lake Refuge in Minnesota, an excellent 

 waterfowl-breeding area of more than 60,000 

 acres, also came to the Service at practically no 

 cost —a few acres had to be purchased to round 

 out boundaries. These lands were originally ac- 

 quired by the Resettlement Administration. 

 This is one of the few Federal refuges on which 

 moose are found: about 100 head make Mud Lake 

 t heir home. 



In Nevada the famous Carson Sink-Stillwaf er 

 Slough area of almost 200,000 acres, known to 

 western duck hunters since the beginning of irri- 



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