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Index of Subjects --653554528-1666768213-1408461230=:21405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mary=0AA lot of marshes have straight ditch through them.=0AI used to sp= end a lot of time on marshes and loved them=A0 I =0Aoften wondered how the = ditches=A0=A0came about. I never saw the ones you mentioned but they sound = interesting.=0AMy opinion was they were dug to drain the land and let the m= arsh grasses grow better to provide winter feed for their livestock. An old= man showed me a ditch his father dug to drain a marsh at Farmington. He ha= d backfilled it with stones that he had dug up. An impressive piece of work= and done the job. Probably easier than stumping wooded to grow grass.=0AAm= azing the pieces of work you see back in the woods. Not as much TV or Inter= net in those days=0AEnjoy the summer=0APaul =0A=0A=0AOn Tuesday, August 19,= 2014 11:56:26 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:=0A =0A=0A= =0AMary, =0A=A0=A0 Ducks Unlimited operates several man-made marshes in Cu= mberland County, the biggest ones being Amherst Marsh (LaPlanche River) and= Missaguash Marsh (Missaguash River, on the N.B. border). They have constru= cted a number of canals there, of different dimensions. The idea is to incr= ease the numbers of waterfowl being produced at these marshes by=A0increasi= ng the patchiness of the duck =A0habitat. Some of these canals look brand n= ew. They=A0own a very impressive floating dredge, used both to construct an= maintain these canals. =A0 =0A=A0=A0 Google Missaguash River and see whet= her these canals look like the canals at Wallace and Pugwash. BTW, great ca= noeing and lots of wildlife along these canals, but very few campsites! = =0A=A0=A0 Dusan Soudek =0A=A0 =0A=0A> On August 19, 2014 at 7:31 AM Mary = Macaulay <Marymacaulay@hotmail.com> wrote: =0A> =0A> =0A> This summer I've = been exploring some very interesting wetlands between the Wallace and Pugwa= sh rivers. If you do a satellite view google maps you can see at least 4 of= them have been significantly canalled. Remarkably so. One has huge paralle= l canals. Are these preacadian? The native people in this area were known f= or trading duck potato. Did they farm it? =0A> =0A> With kindest regards = =0A> Mary (Macaulay) =0A> marymacaulay@hotmail.com =0A> @maryemacaulay =0A>= --653554528-1666768213-1408461230=:21405 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:He= lveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;fo= nt-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi Mary</span></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0,= 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida G= rande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color= : transparent;"><span>A lot of marshes have straight ditch through them.</s= pan></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, He= lvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66= px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I used to spe= nd a lot of time on marshes and loved them I </span></div><div style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvet= ica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: norm= al; background-color: transparent;"><span>often wondered how the ditches </span><span>came about. I never saw the ones you menti= oned </span><span>but they sound interesting.</span></div><div style=3D"col= or: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Ar= ial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; bac= kground-color: transparent;"><span>My opinion was they were dug to drain th= e land and let the marsh grasses grow better to provide winter feed for the= ir livestock. An old man showed me a ditch his father dug to drain </span><= span>a marsh at Farmington. He had backfilled it with stones that he had du= g up. An impressive piece of work and done the job. Probably easier than st= umping wooded to grow grass.</span></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);= font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grand= e, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: tr= ansparent;"><span>Amazing the pieces of work you see back in the woods. Not as much TV or Internet in those days</span></div><div style=3D"color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,= Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; backgro= und-color: transparent;"><span>Enjoy the summer</span></div><div style=3D"c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, = Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; b= ackground-color: transparent;"><span>Paul</span></div> <div class=3D"qtdSep= arateBR"><br><br></div><div class=3D"yahoo_quoted" style=3D"display: block;= "> <div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Ari= al, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style=3D"font-family= : HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-seri= f; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"> On= Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:56:26 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatic= o.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class=3D"y_msg_container"><div id= =3D"yiv7792132331"><div>=0A =0A <div>=0A Mary,=0A </div> =0A <div>=0A = Ducks Unlimited operates several man-made marshes in Cumberl= and County, the biggest ones being Amherst Marsh (LaPlanche River) and Miss= aguash Marsh (Missaguash River, on the N.B. border). They have constructed = a number of canals there, of different dimensions. The idea is to increase = the numbers of waterfowl being produced at these marshes by increasing= the patchiness of the duck habitat. Some of these canals look brand = new. They own a very impressive floating dredge, used both to construc= t an maintain these canals. =0A </div> =0A <div>=0A = Google Missaguash River and see whether these canals look like the canals a= t Wallace