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BROOKS AREA - ALBERTA 
(Area 1 of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 
Fred Sharp 
This study area extends along one side of the old No. 1 Highway from the 
town of Brooks to Suffield and totals 4.8 square miles. It is a cooperative under- 
taking by Ducks Unlimited and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 
Counts of breeding pairs were made in early spring and water gauges 
established but the area was dry except for irrigation water by August 4. 
A full report by Allen G. Smith is available elsewhere in this publication 
under ''Waterfowl Breeding Ground Surveys of Special Study Areas," 
STRATHMORE AREA - ALBERTA 
(Area 2 of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 
George Freeman 
Weekly runs of this 26 mile transect (3.1 square miles) were made from 
May 3 to June 25 by George Freeman of Ducks Unlimited. Nest searches were also 
made and brood counts at the end of June and July. 
The results of this work and that of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 
the area are fully reported by Allen G. Smith under the section ''Waterfowl Breeding 
Ground Surveys of Special Study Areas" in this publication. 
CARON POTHOLE STUDY AREA - ALBERTA 
W. G. Leitch 
The study area was fully described in the Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 
No. 25, ''Waterfowl Populations and Breeding Conditions Summer 1953" and will not 
be repeated here. 
A localized drought persisting through the late summer of 1953 and the 
following winter culminated in the lowest water levels since 1949 when the annual 
breeding population survey was made on May 24, and 25, 1954, Of the 261 ponds in 
the area only 139 contained water and of these it was estimated 103 more would be 
dry by July 15 under normal conditions of evaporation and precipitation, 
