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We bought 78 acres in southeastern Arizona near Willcox. We were advised about the government paying for fish and helping us pay for a pond to encourage sandhill cranes. Anybody familiar with this?

-- Hank (hsnrs@att.net), April 11, 2002

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Hank, I'm not familiar with situation, but you may generate more focused responses if your short question was something like 'government subsidy for sandhill crane habitat???'. Just a suggestion. I'm just interested in ponds. good luck.

-- roberto pokachin in B.C. (pokachinni@yahoo.com), April 11, 2002.

Check with your County Agricultural Extension office . . . they usually know all about that kind of stuff.

In Missouri, my parents found out they could get some help from the government with their pond--can't remember why . . . maybe something about changing water flow patterns, run off and those kinds of things. Anyway, Dad looked into it and decided that, as with most government programs, there were too many strings for his taste.

Good luck.

-- Julie Woessner (jwoessner@rtmx.net), April 11, 2002.


The Missouri plan is okay. I built a 3.5 acre pond for $14,500. The Soil and Water Conservation commission paid $12,000. The strings were, they design it and it must be built to their specs. No livestock access to the pond for 10 years. We are half way there. The purpose of this program is to control water erosion, and our creek was eroding at a rate of about 17 tons of soil per year. The money comes from daily access fees to state parks.

The pond (we call it a lake) is beatiful. We contracted on our own from a hatchery for fish. As Missouri statues state, "its my pond and my fish, game wardens have no authority".

-- Rickstir (rpowell@email.ccis.edu), April 12, 2002.


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