The Came Commission manages it with field plantings, mowing, wood duck nesting boxes, goose nesting boxes, and a 500-acre diked pool for water level control. Each year the Game Commission raises and bands approximately 10,000 ducks, mostly mallards, and 300 Canada geese. Additionally, some 200 geese and 12,000-14,000 ducks of various species are captured and banded. The results of the banding have been informative. Because of the abundant wildlife and their nests, predators are a problem, and the Commission maintains a predator control program.
Raccoons are egg stealers and efficient at taking nesting and young birds.
They pose the most critical problem. Expert trappers live trap about 100 of these furbearers each year. Snapping turtles find young waterfowl a delicacy. Accordingly, an expert is given a permit to trap about 100 snappers annually. At times it has been necessary to trap horned owls near the Commission 5 waterfowl rearing pens.