Sheridan County is noted as having the most 

 acres of the best waterfowl habitat and remains 

 as first priority. 



Glacier and Roosevelt counties have delineations 

 found on the Blackfeet and Fort Peck Indian 

 Reservations, respectively. Roosevelt County 

 contained the Manning Lake area which was large 

 in size with very good waterfowl habitat. Manning 

 Lake, however, is on reservation land and is 

 very probably inaccessable for acquisition. The 

 remaining wetlands delineated in Roosevelt County 

 were scattered and of less importance. Therefore, 

 Roosevelt was moved downward. Glacier County 

 has good wetlands on and off the Blackfeet 

 Reservation. Those located on the reservation 

 are virtually inaccessable for acquisition because 

 of land ownership. Those del ineations located 

 off the reservation (approximately two-thirds of 

 the total points) are very good areas and, there- 

 fore, Glacier County was moved to second position, ^r 



Liberty County was moved to fourth position 

 because the size and quality of wetlands there 

 seemed more important than those ranked below 

 it. In other words, it was felt that the formula 

 did not take into consideration the overall 

 value of wetlands in Liberty County. In the 

 author's opinion. Liberty County should be 

 higher than where value places it in Column A. 



Phillips County has a number of good areas; 

 however, Service acquisition for at least half 

 of the delineation is not critical because 

 they are found on Bureau of Land Management 

 lands and that agency is expected to consider the 

 waterfowl resource in their planning. BLM will 

 be notified by the Service of our view on many 

 wetlands which they administer. 



Powell County is as important as Roosevelt and 

 Teton counties because of the blocks of private 

 land. 



Lake County was moved downward because even though 

 no delineations were made on tribal lands, they 

 are all within the exterior boundaries of the 

 Flathead Indian Reservation where acquisition 

 authority is in doubt. 



Pondera County has two delineations on the Blackfeet 

 Reservation, but still ranks at this approximate 

 position pointwise as well as in the author's opinion, 



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