KANSAS (Cont. ) 



Ellsworth County; began July 1952, indefinite; Seth L. Way, Leader. 

 Address inquiries to: Dave Leahy, Director, Forestry, Fish and Game 

 Commission, Pratt, Kans. 



2. Strip-mine Lake Survey and Management Project. 



Physical, chemical, and biological studies are being conducted on a group 

 of state-owned strip-mine lakes in an effort to obtain information which will aid 

 in improving angling success in these waters. Fish population studies are being 

 carried on. Management procedures include total eradication of fish populations, 

 spot eradication, and shoreline removal, using cube root. These operations are 

 followed by subsequent restocking or corrective stocking. A similar project in 

 cooperation with the Sinclair Coal Company was initiated in 1953, for the purpose 

 of developing additional public fishing areas. This will include limited experi- 

 mentation with commercial fertilization and weed control measures. 



Southeast Kansas; began June 1951, indefinite; $5,000; Charles Burner, 

 Leader. 



Address inquiries to: Dave Leahy, as in No. 1 above. 



3. Construction of Public Fishing Lakes. (FA in part) 



The land has been acquired and several contracts awarded for the construc- 

 tion of dams to create new fishing lakes. When these lakes fill, warm-water 

 species of fish including largemouth bass, channel catfish, crappies and blue- 

 gills will be stocked. 



Cowley, Grant, Brown, and Logan Counties; began July 1953, to close 

 December 1954; Noel Mullendore and Roy Schoonover, Leaders. 



Address inquiries to: Dave Leahy, as in No. 1 above. 



University of Kansas 



1. Fishes of Kansas. 



This project is an inventory of the fishes of the State, and is to include 

 descriptions (with keys), distribution maps, and notes on the habitat and abun- 

 dance, etc. , for each species. Attention will be given to changes which seenn 

 to have occurred in fish-distribution and in habitat since the first collections 

 of fishes were made in Kansas about 1850. Present plans call for publication 

 in both technical and popular accounts. 



Statewide; began July 1951, continuing; $500; Frank B. Cross, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: Dr. Frank B. Cross, State Biological Survey, 

 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. 



2. Surveys of Kansas Impoundments. 



Selected lakes and ponds are sampled at intervals to follow trends in the fish 

 populations and growth rates of fishes from year to year. Currently four lakes 

 with areas of more than 100 surface acres and 14 ponds with areas of l/2-acre to 

 5 acres are included. Some are relatively old lakes, others are new, and still 

 others have been renovated one or more times by draining and refilling. Para- 

 sitological studies, tagging studies, special stocking combinations, aquatic vege- 

 tation control, and turbidity control have been phases receiving consideration in 

 particular cases. 



Statewide; began 1951, continuing; $1,500; Frank B. Cross, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: Frank B. Cross, as in No. 1 above. 



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