. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. managed grazing, and by management of the ponds established on the area. The great need has been to create shallow ponds and to provide for control over all water areas. This open water and marsh will total 6,000 acres. In Freezeout's previously unmanaged condition, losses among ducks occurred from botulism during certain years. Botulism is a water- fowl disease which occurs under conditions that sometimes develop on stagnant
. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. managed grazing, and by management of the ponds established on the area. The great need has been to create shallow ponds and to provide for control over all water areas. This open water and marsh will total 6,000 acres. In Freezeout's previously unmanaged condition, losses among ducks occurred from botulism during certain years. Botulism is a water- fowl disease which occurs under conditions that sometimes develop on stagnant, alkaline waters. An effective way to combat this condition is through water manipulation. This will be a part of the management Freezeout is located on an important flight lane in the Central Flyway. The project fills a long-standing gap in the original plan of needed, key refuges, set up for the country in 1935. The decline of the waterfowl population in North .A^merica was brought about because much of the original waterfowl habitat had been destroyed—in addition to the adverse clima'ic conditions of the 1930's. The future of waterfowl on the continent depends much upon the success of habitat restoration and new marsh development to replace destroyed habitat. Freezeout Lake is important in this program As a wildlife management area, this project is very similar to a Federal Waterfowl Refuge. The main difference is that more emphasis w-11 be placed on public hunting and the administration of the project is b}' the State. A portion of the project area will be closed to hunting to provide necessary resting sanctuar}' for migrating waterfowl. This project will provide a permanent public hunting area for the increasing population of hunters in Montana. Fortunately, the area is very for public use. It is traversed by U. S. Highway ^9 and lies mid-way between Fairfield and ( hotcau. It is located within a reasonable traveling distance of population centers
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