Previously, individual townships were recommended for taking 

 easements. It was then found that getting approval for 

 individual townships prevented Realty specialists from 

 completing easements for individual ownerships which may 

 be spread throughout the county. The policy of individual 

 township approval by the State was changed so that any 

 county with wetlands thought to be important to the easement 

 program, and complemented fee areas, was given complete 

 county-wide approval by the State. It is still recommended 

 that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not approve easements 

 on wetlands that are of marginal quality to waterfowl and 

 isolated, or for the mere appeasement of individual land- 

 owners to accept the program. It is recommended that the 

 Service stand behind the policy that good wetland complexes 

 are beneficial and critical to waterfowl use and are, 

 therefore, worth the taxpayers' money to protect. 



Table 5 recommends the minimum acreage which should be 

 acquired under the easement program. In referring to 

 Table 5 it will be noted that in some counties more 

 wetlands acres exist than is recommended for easement. 

 The reason for this is that it is suggested that easements , 

 be taken on wetlands that are near and will complement ' 

 areas under proposed fee acquisition. Also, the wetlands 

 total for each county in Tables 1 and 5 refer only to 

 Class III, IV, and V wetlands. Some counties have as 

 much as 20%-40% more wetlands in the Class I and II 

 categories. 



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