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There is much work that goes into enhancing natural wetlands to be more effective at attracting ducks and making them hunter accessible. These pictures at the best are just snapshots in to the long days of labor put in by Bruce Johnson and Jon Nee.

A wetlands in an area prone to surge floods has had its bottom bulldozed to remove uneven sentiment collection making the shooting pool bottom smooth. The white pipe is inflow shown in the pictures below. The green new growth is volunteer millet.

Water level control on this wetlands first draws water from a large creek, floods through several pools with depth controlled by levees with in/out flow control.

While the concept for each wetlands is the same, that is, duck attracting combination of water and food within a micro flyway that is made hunter accessible, no one system can be informingly applied to all wetlands to make for the right set of conditions. In the case of this wetlands, the levees control the depth and the gated pipe being installed controls the flow to this one pool on this one wetlands comprised of several pools. It is through Bruce an Jon's combined experience spanning several decades of wetlands building that they can install the right set of mechanics to enhance the maximum potential of those duck attracting conditions. It is also through this website that both Bruce and Jon have receive repeated solicitation for consultation and wetlands development oversight and both refuse all offers. That refusal is based on their intimate knowledge of just how much work it takes and it takes about all they have to give each year to sustain the wetlands the Association has.

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