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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] free water
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:25:40 -0500

Musser Forests sells very small trees fairly cheaply.

"victoria l. caron" wrote:
>
> Hi Del,
> I don't remember where you are. An excellent book on farm reclamation which
> has a lot of
> input on fish ponds is Louis Bromfield's, Malabar Farm. If I had had my
> copy returned to
> me years ago, I would lend it to you. You can try the local library. Also,
> you can check
> with your local extension office about the fish farming and other pond
> life. Up here in
> Zone 3 NH, we can use horned pout, perch, bass, sunfish or trout species
> depending on the
> depth and movement of the water.
> Thanks for the info on the "Partners in Wildlife" program. We are losing
> 60% of a half
> acre man made pond (the deep end of course) on our farm to the state
> highway which is
> being widened. They refuse to completely fill it in or replace it elsewhere
> on the farm,
> which has two excellent potential pond sites, one which is an overflowing
> spring. We have
> no potential blowout problem since we are in river bottom land. The
> estimates (3) we
> received for the cost of building a half acre pond to take the place of the
> one being
> destroyed average $15,000. If this program is like you say, it could be the
> answer to our
> prayers. Maybe someone out there will have the answer to our prayers on how
> to affordably
> replace the over 500 maple, birch, apple, black cherry and other trees, a
> thirty year old
> growth, (apples are older). Some of these are being removed to widen the
> road, but most
> are being removed to provide the contractor with parking space for vehicles
> and
> equipment. We would be happy to use the smallest nursery trees available
> and are not
> trying to replace them all. Even so, the price is prohibitive, and NO, the
> state doesn't
> get involved in that part of it. They just make a ridiculous offer of
> acquisition based
> on the difference of what an appraiser thinks the over all value of the
> property is
> before and after. If you don't like it, which we don't , they take it by
> eminent domain,
> which they did! We are grateful for any ideas on ponds, plantings, (I have
> 96+- seedling
> apple that can at least border the highway) or programs..................vic
>
> del stubbs wrote:
>
> > after getting the go around with the soils and conservation
> > district and
> > the DNR for 2 years trying to work out their cost-sharing etc. programs
> > for
> > creating ponds, as well as their wetland restrictions, we came onto a real
> > beauty. Its called the "partners in wildlife" program, by the U.S. Fish
> > and
> > Wildlife service. In complete contrast to the others it is quite well
> > funded. The local fellow has put in over 500 ponds in one county, free
> > to
> > the landowner, restricted only to not removing it for 10 years. On one
> > end I hired a trackhoe operator to dig 6 feet down, to give a 9+ deep hole
> > for droughts, swimming etc.
> > Hows this on topic for nafex? Its abundant water near my orchard and
> > garden areas i can tap into, for irrigating. All together we have 10
> > acres
> > of wildlife ponds, where was only seeps and seasonal marshes before., my
> > only imagined concerns are filtering out dirt and algea, and having
> > sufficient pressure for drips.
> > This part applies to the Canadiens- when recently teaching in
> > Saskatchewan
> > (north of Saskatoon) i noticed these short windmills an ponds, and
> > learned
> > they are for aereation. Anyone know of an address or web site for such.
> > as well as site for info on COLD climate fish farming? I intend to gas
> > pump the water uphill to a storage tank and use gravity feed for a drip
> > system
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