| There is a lot of work that goes into first developing a wetlands and then the amount of effort and time to maintain that wetlands. Any attempt to capture all that work in picture and text is futile. The best we can do are these snapshots. We provide this information to give the reviewer confidence that we do have the quality wetlands we advertise and the hunter that has any familiarity with wetlands will readily agree to that if having reviewed this entire duck hunting section of our website. A panoramic picture trying to show the large size of just one wetlands and in this case it is just the north lake of this wetlands. The picture makes it look small, it is not the far tree line is just about a mile distant.
These two pictures were taken after three feet of boards were pulled from the drop log structure to lower the water level to allow it to dry between the duck hunting higher water level and where it is now for planting. Once planted in Milo we will use a brush mower and cut open shooting pools in front of the blinds. The shooting areas around the blinds will be chest wader accessible once we re-flood the wetlands.
For this wetlands of three separate lakes we have a another reservoir lake to use during dry periods to ensure we have the water level we ant in the duck hunting areas of the wetlands. The water seen in this picture is the back up should the fall rains fail us.
Pictures have the effect of showing landscapes far smaller in appearance than reality. This is a large lake that we cut into the dam a couple years back to insert a drainage pipe to draw water from the entire volume of this lake to drain into our duck hunting wetlands.
The holding lake after we drain it for the wetlands. It typically fills with fall rains before the regular duck season and well before the peak migration to give more surface water structure to the overall lease.
The flow from the pipe directly into the wetlands.
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The flow out of the holding lake into the wetlands. At this rate the lake will take 4 days to drain.
