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Location of Ducks Unlimited projects built in 1967 in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. 
DU’s water control projects range from valuable small units of less 
than 50 acres to huge marshland complexes up to a half-million acres in 
area. Field surveys currently are underway for one of the largest and most 
ambitious programs ever tackled—the 512,000-acre Mawdesley area, called 
the Del-Mar Project, near The Pas in Manitoba. 
The year 1967 was a busy and productive one for Ducks Unlimited in 
the “duck factory” building business. DU (Canada) reported 31 completed 
projects, with several more expected to be finished by spring. All 31 are 
located in the duck-rich provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba— 
14 in Alberta, 9 in Manitoba and 8 in Saskatchewan. 
The total flooded area of the ’67 projects amounts to 26,063 acres— 
encompassing 342 miles of high-production shoreline! 
Largest of the new “duck factories” is the 15,870-acre Ohio Lakes Pro- 
ject, in Manitoba, west of The Pas, in the Carrot River Area. 
While the majority of projects are in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, 
Saskatchewan and Alberta, Ducks Unlimited production units stretch across 
Canada, from the Serpentine River Flats Project in southwest British 
Columbia to the prime 6,000-acre Delaware State Project at Missaquash 
Marsh on the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 
In conjunction with the wide-ranging contruction programs, hundreds 
of miles of fencing have been erected to protect nesting areas; many miles 
of fire lanes are maintained to thwart devastating marsh fires. DU 
(Canada)’s highly trained biologists and engineers regularly inspect projects, 
evaluating production, supervising planting of aquatic food plants, and 
directing the numerous other tasks essential to insuring top utilization of 
the areas. Field crews have banded over 140,000 ducks and geese as part 
of the continuing wildfowl research studies. 
