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Alice Hanley, manager of Big Stone NWR, informed me that there will be = a yearlong drawdown of Pools A & B this year in order to facilitate construction of a new water control structure on the refuge. The drawd= own has already begun but the rather plentiful spring runoff may keep water= levels too high until May. Certainly a place to watch for maybe May an= d early June shorebirds this spring and fall migration beginning in July.= Bob Russell, USFWS= --0__=09BBFBD2DFF87FA88f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFBD2DFF87FA8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline <html><body> <p>Alice Hanley, manager of Big Stone NWR, informed me that there will = be a yearlong drawdown of Pools A & B this year in order to facilit= ate construction of a new water control structure on the refuge. The d= rawdown has already begun but the rather plentiful spring runoff may ke= ep water levels too high until May. Certainly a place to watch for may= be May and early June shorebirds this spring and fall migration beginni= ng in July. Bob Russell, USFWS</body></html>= --0__=09BBFBD2DFF87FA88f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFBD2DFF87FA8--