Lewis and Clark County was moved upward because 

 of the large blocks of areas located on private 

 land. 



Beaverhead and Jefferson counties were moved 

 downward because the areas delineated were either 

 widely scattered (Beaverhead) or contained one 

 unit (Jefferson) making acquisition priority less 

 important. 



All other counties remained at the same rank or 

 were moved only one or two positions. When a 

 county remained at or near its rank in the two 

 columns the criteria established its rank regard- 

 less of unaccounted constraints related to 

 acquisition. 



On the basis of the final ranking found above 

 the following recommendations are made in relation 

 to acquisition and wetland importance (Refer to 

 Exhibits 3 and 4): The number 1 area (geographical 1 

 for waterfowl production habitat is the northeast 

 part of the state; i.e., Sheridan and Roosevelt , 

 counties. Next in importance of production is thef 

 northcentral area consisting of Glacier, Liberty., 

 Toole, Teton and Pondera counties. Then would 

 be the central part of the Hiline with Phillips 

 and Blaine counties followed by Hill and Chouteau 

 counties for that portion of the state. Areas 

 west of the mountains with high potential for 

 waterfowl production are the counties of Powell, 

 Lake and Flathead, respectively. Next in order of 

 delineation acquisition importance would be the 

 west central part of the state consisting of 

 Cascade and Lewis and Clark counties. All other 

 areas have scattered important delineated wetlands 

 but do not contain extensive areas significant to 

 production of waterfowl in the two flyways. 



2. Additional Views of Criteria 



Table 4 represents the county rank by points 

 received in relation to various methods of analysis 

 of the criteria. When studying the columns in 

 Table 4 the following information should be used 

 for interpretation: 



Column 1 



V 



This ranking was made by summing the total rating 

 of the four criteria of each delineation. A 

 total was derived for all delineations in the 

 county and was then divided by the number of 

 delineations in that county. This ranked the 

 counties by the average value of the delineations 



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