REDUCING 

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The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and "Wildlife 

 has two programs in the pothole country: 



A combination of purchase and easement. 



Organized field contacts by Bureau personnel 

 to point out wetland values to landowners and 

 agencies assisting in drainage. Subsidies paid 

 for drainage and the landowner's anticipated re- 

 turns from crops raised on the additional land 

 limit the etl'ectiveness of this program. 



Stock pond construction in the rangelands of 

 the western Dakotas and eastern Montana, pro- 

 duces some new habitat but does not compensate 

 for tlie natural wetlands lost. 



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U.S. Soil Co}i.'<cn'ntion Service 



Other Wetlands 



Conservation agencies, mainly State and Federal, are purchasing other types of threatened wet- 

 lands as rapidly as funds permit. These areas remain as wetlands but they may be managed to increase 

 their value to wildlife and to people: some to be sanctuaries and some to provide hunting and fishing. 



Many State conservation departments and the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, through its small watershed program, create small wetland areas. When properly 

 designed and managed, these areas are \-aluable for fish and wildlife. 



U.S. Soil Conservation Service 



