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<br />OOOil51 <br /> <br />MARSH AND MEADOW <br /> <br />Dike~ and water control structures will create about 9,000 acres <br />of marsh and meadow habitat on the bottomlands. Ducks and geese <br />....ill find ideal nesting and migration conditions. <br />Water pumpec from the Green River will be used to irrigate the <br />meadowlands producing a lush growth of vegetation. Aquatic food <br />and cover plants will nourish in the flooded natural depressions <ind <br />old river channels. Darns in Beaver and Vermillion Creeks and on <br />some of r,he nterrnittent streams will create additional aquatic <br />habitat. <br /> <br />In the fall, water wiB be managed to make :lvailable to waterfowl <br />natural aquatic foods and to provide ideal waterfowl hunting condi. <br />tions. .\'tarsh and meadow units will be grazed by cattle to maintain <br />optimum waterfowl !1e:->ting conditions. <br /> <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />',.", <br />"'..-.:~,::. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />SOME MARSHES ANO MEADOWS WILL APPEAR MUCH LIKE <br />Tt-<EY DID WHEN THE FIRST WHITE MEN SAW THEM <br />