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Show Waterfowl "Safety Zone" Has Two Million Acres Wild duck and geese have three times as much land set aside for them in the United States as refuges ref-uges as they had 2 years ago. The Bureau of Biological Survey now has 2,100,000 acres of land either already developed, or under devclooment as refuges. Two " " years ago there were 700,000 acres. The areas are located on the four main waterfowl flyways the Atlantic, At-lantic, the Mississippi, the Central, and the Pacific. Dith the help of 4.4S0 workers of 23 C. C. C. camps, the bureau is rcstorintr many of the old water- fowl feeding and stop-over grounds along the main flyways. Even with much of this land destroyed by drought, drainage and farming operations, the ducks arc slow to cange over to other routes. They stick to the routes followed by their ancestors in spit of unfavorable conditions. The C. C. C. workers improve the regues by building islands in many of the large shallow water areas, and dams to store and control con-trol water. In the northern areas the islands are used by ducks as nesting grounds, while in the central cen-tral and southern regions they serve as food-growing sites. The islands is-lands also prevent waves and wind from tearing up aquatic veget ation before it is firmly rooted. To provide food for waterfowl, the C. C. C. workers plant aquatic seeds and tu'frs in. shallow water, and field crops. Food for upland game on or near the rogues is provided pro-vided by planting food-bearing shrubs and trees. |