Missouri Wetlands
Perhaps the value of these picture series is as was expressed to us by another. The thought went along these lines paraphrased from a longer conversation:
The amount of wetlands work and continuing maintenance shows a commitment to make the best hunts possible. That is the reason I chose to hunt with MAHA.
Before and after of the same wetlands pool.
The work in this case was to reverse the past years inflow of silt. This work created a flat, easily traversed, bottom, uniform wetlands depth making planting easier and overall more attractive to the ducks through more surface water and food area.
For those that know this wetlands the view is from the NW corner of the levee looking east towards Fisher's lake.
In 1984 a very large intake/drain pipe was installed to flood and drain this field, but a combination of beavers and floodwater washed out the pipe leaving water free to come and go. During the summer of 2006 we used a 4” pump to remove the water from the bar ditches to allow our dozer man to replace the pipe and patch the levee.
Pictured is a bar ditch we believed would take two days to pump and required five.
Anyone wanting a workout is welcomed to help with this two man carry pump sloughing through shin high mud for three trips to carry pump and in/out hoses as well as several times a day refuel. The benefit of this project was to create 10 plus acres of additional wetlands for our members to hunt ducks on a proven flyway less than one hour from Kansas City.
An after photo of the same area pictured above with the pump. This photo was taken two years after the project was completed. The lake bed was planted to Japanese millet and milo. The water came from our intake pipe the end of September and is ready to hunt as a wade-in area for the regular duck season in November.
