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^eat atoount of shoro llnoi wall bordored with watar grass and contains a 
great amount of moss* 
1 estimate that there are over 12,000 birds here* Perhaps half of 
these are ducks of at least a dosen varieties. I consider only about one 
pair out of every fifty ducks, nesting, 1 believe, under favorable cot— 
ditions, the greater part of the number could be induced to breed and many 
more would remain throui^ the breeding season. 
1 estimate that when the lake is full up to the spill-way it covers 
four s^^uare miles, with perhaps twelve miles of shore line. Unless this 
itjce i 0 properly fenced, its use as a presei^e will do little goods but it 
would stop late, and 1 may add, constant shooting, idxich keeps the ducks 
moving. The ducks need the grass on the banks for nesting, but do not need 
the skunks, coyotes, badgers and foxes as these ftnisials prevent most eggs 
that are laid out of the water, from hatching. It would require between 
eight and ten miles of fence to enclose this lake. 
The is used for no ooDsaeroial purpose, as far as I can lear^, 
exdept during the months of aay and Jxme, when the country about it is used 
as a lambing ground and the sheep are watered at the lake. Owing to the 
character of the lake shore there are few watering places, for in many places 
the hills are too abrupt and in others, boggy or contain too much water vege- 
tation. ahould the lake be fenced the watering plucos could easily oe left 
opon. During ny stay 1 do not believe there has been more than fifty stock 
horses watering here, and no sheep or cattle. 
If this laks is sot aside as a breeding preserve for water fowl, shoot- 
ing should not be allowed withingat least a half a mile, especially in spring 
and early sumner. This would be an Inducement for the birds to pair. 
There seems to be an abimdanoe of food, for the birds that are here 
