Upper Souris Migratory Waterfowl Project and Minot Flood Control

Cartoon drawn by Jay N. "Ding" Darling, former Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about a waterfowl restoration project in the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge. The panel depicts a degraded landscape and the promise of a waterfowl restoration project, which could help not only restore waterfowl habitat, but also prevent flooding and other negative impacts to the landscape. The cartoon is from the 1934 U.S. Biological Survey’s Upper Souris Migratory Waterfowl Project Site Plan, illustrated by Biological Survey Director Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling. This New Deal project created North Dakota’s Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge. The site plan's full-color illustrations by Director Ding Darling, a noted artist and cartoonist, are a rarity in Federal government planning documents.