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<br />Missouri River Basia
<br />Comprehensive Framevork Studies
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<br />Land Availability.
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<br />Land Resource Base - The land resources of the Missouri Basin In
<br />the United States amount to nearly 330 million acres. This Is approxi-
<br />mately one-sixth of the conterminous United States and lies In the north-
<br />central part. The topography of the area varies from high mountain peaks
<br />In the Rocky Mountains at 14,000 feet mal through the foothills to plains
<br />snd the lowlands to about 400 feet mal at the mouth near St. Louis
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<br />This area can be divided in several ~ys. One of our first considera-
<br />tions was v1th respect to ownership and management. Privately-ovned and
<br />State aod Local Government-managed lands amount to 285 million acres, or
<br />about 86 percent; and Federal agency management amounts to 45 million acres,
<br />about 14 percent of the total area. The proportion varies in the iadi vidual
<br />subbasins vith private land ovnershlp being the highest in the Middle Mis-
<br />souri Tributaries Subbasin, where 99.7 percent of the area is in non-Federal
<br />ovoershlp. The lowest percentage of non-Federal ovnership is in the Yellov-
<br />stone BaSin, vith approximately 64 percent of the land 1n this category.
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<br />*Presentation on this subject by ~alter Pool, U. S. Forest Service, Chairman
<br />of Work Group on Land Availability
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