WILDFOWL HABITAT
Committee’s scheme A scheme to encourage farmers to retain unwanted dams as wildfowl habitat might be introduced by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, the chairman of the game committee (Mr G. Mugford) told the society’s council this week. The suggestion was that the society provide farmers having such dams with suitable wildfowl-attracting trees to plant around them, and with wildfowl to stock the ponds, Mr Mugford said. The game committee had written to Federated Farmers suggesting that as a water-supply scheme in the Motunau-Scargill areas had been established, dams previously serving the properties could well be developed into wildfowl habitat.
It had been suggested to Federated Farmers that the society would appreciate .farmers’ co-operation in retaining the dams, as there had been a substantial loss of wet-lands throughout the district
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32430, 17 October 1970, Page 19
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