Studies on level ditching for marsh management

Author

Mathiak, Harold A.

Date

• 1956

Publisher

Madison, Wisconsin: Game Management Division, Wisconsin Conservation Department

Summary

• Final report, Pittman-Robertson Project - 15-R. (Revision of Technical Wildlife Bulletin no. 5, 1953).
• In order to determine what level ditch spacings result in the maximum production of muskrats, the economics involved, and the benefits of level ditching to other species of wildlife, four series of experimental level ditches were dredged in a "dry marsh" portion of the Horicon Marsh Wildlife Area.