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Show proximately fifty acres of cattail cat-tail were cut with a tractor and rotary mower. These mowed areas will be disked and planted to Japanese millet this summer to provide feeding areas. Thirteen trappers on Farming-ton Bay harvested 9,657 muskrats and commercial fishermen fish-ermen seined approximately 44 tons of carp from this wslir fowl management area. I Similar activities were v'f ing carried on at other yjp fowl management areas &! as Public Shooting GrouJ . Clear Lake and Salt CreelTl ' Jack Benny made his detK over CBS 30 years ago (J : at the age of nine?) j r Waterfowl areas provide nesting for ducks, geese Waterfowl management ar- eas, owned and operated by the Utah State Department of . Fish and Game are presently providing thousands of ducks and geese with a place to raise their family or a resting and feeding area on their trip to the nesting grounds in the Canadian Ca-nadian provinces. Superintendents of the v ari-ous ari-ous management areas have worked long and hard to pro- vide areas attractive to waterfowl water-fowl so that Utahns might enjoy en-joy some of the finest hunting in the Pacific Flyway. Water flowing into Ogden Bay has been distributed and the main units filled prior to the time ducks set up housekeeping. house-keeping. A total of 1,100 cubic yards of gravel was hauled and stock-piled on Howard Slough and Ogden Bay to complete a dike between the two areas. Main roads on Farmington Bay were graded to improve road surfaces and spill boards were placed in all spillways to fill the units with water. Ap- |