Fountain Grove Waterfowl page 5
Fountain Grove wetlands when flooded to duck hunting water levels and the second year after a skip year on habitat planting. We were standing in over our knees in water when taking this picture about half way from the water line to the open water seen in the picture mid ground. To the far left in open water is a blind.
A panoramic picture looking from the blind toward the tree line with the intermittent cattail strip that varies in thickness from as little as 10 yards to over a 100.
While we prefer a fixed blind or one on posts augured into the earth we do have some floater blinds in areas where the water level may change that would expose space under a fixed blind. In the case of this blind pictured below it is well after the close of the season just before draining the wetlands that we chose to relocate it to what we determined was a better location during the previous season.
Then comes summer and the workload increases.
After draining as much as the wetlands would drain we re-planted from the water's edge past the blinds to the levee. This is the wetlands where we are fighting the beavers that continue to plug the outflow pipe at night, we come back in the morning to reopen the pipe and look forward to trapping season later this fall.
Planting around one of the duck blinds.
An expansion of an existing levee to increase the water surface area. The four wheeler gives an idea of how deep the water will be. This levee is at the low end of 4 separate pools of water that all feed each other through a series of pipes that can control the depth of each marsh pool with separate drop log structures.