A Planned AUack 



Although Flyway Council members give serious attention to 

 the matter of annual regulations to guide the hunting harvest, they 

 recognize that the task of highest 'priority is to provide compre- 

 hensive solutions for the basic problems that threaten the future 

 of American waterfowling. 



Under the impetus of the Council approach, wildlife tech- 

 nicians—Federal, State, and private--in all four flyways have dug 

 into the task of improving waterfowl management with renewed 

 vigor. As they progressed, the need for a blueprint to guide water- 

 fowl research and management efforts in each flyway became in- 

 creasingly clear to them. No one agency had the resources or 

 personnel to do the big job called for: it had to be a well-coordi- 

 nated, full-partnership team effort. A waterfowl management plan 

 for each flyway that would spell out in detail what has to be done, 

 by whom, and in what order, thus became a necessity. 



With Federal waterfowl biologists assigned to the task of 

 coordinating these efforts, each flyway now is implementing such 

 a plan. 



Flyway Plan Objective 



These flyway management plans generally are designed to— 



1. Accelerate collection and analysis of banding informa- 

 tion and other biological data which will indicate important 

 nesting, migration, and wintering areas and the segments of the 

 North American waterfowl population associated with them. 



2. Establish the pattern, priority, and responsibility for ac- 

 quiring areas needed for managing waterfowl populations and for 

 continuing our enjoyment of the resource. 



Nesting success on the northern breeding grounds helps determine how 

 many birds the hunter legally con take during the hunting season 



