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This should be of help to you with finding an appropriate landscaping company.

Http://www.gardenseeker.com/landscape_gardeners_usa/

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This is a fascinating process that can take many years to occur. Lakes and ponds form in depressions in the landscape, as water naturally fills up these areas – often fed by small streams. As fish and plant life find the lakes, reproduce and die. Their natural remains sink to the bottom.

This organic material, along with sediment carried in by the stream and rain waters, eventually fill up the depression, until there is no place for the water to stay and the lake disappears, turning into a meadow of wild flowers and grasses. As these types of plants are the first to find it easy to survive in the newly revealed soil. Eventually, though, trees begin to creep into the area and overtake the flowers and grasses by shading them from the sunlight and a new section of the forest is born.

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To answer this specifically we need to know the type of lake specifically. Some lakes cannot support fish life.
Some are seasonal and support a rare type of shrimp-like creature similar to brine shrimp.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ecosystem

Garden Lover answers:

Your best bet is to spend a little time watching the ponds in cold windy weather. When the winds kick up, the birds will look for places such as potholes, and even crawfish ponds to land in and feed. The shallow waters of the crawfish ponds make them ideal places for ducks to feed in.

If you see ducks flying over and not lighting in the ponds, throw out a dozen decoys or so and see it that doesn’t get them to sit down in your ponds. A duck call will come in handy, also.

There’s not hardly a place in Louisiana that isn’t good duck habitat. I would be surprised if no ducks were using your ponds at some time or another.