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<br />" <br /> <br />An extensive network to measure meterologic and hydrologic <br /> <br />parameters has been installed throughout and near the 3,300 square <br /> <br />mile project area where cloud seeding began last December. Definite <br /> <br />results will take time but the research appears promising. <br /> <br />Among other pilot projects are those underway in the northern <br /> <br />Great Plains of the Dakotas and in the Lake Tahoe Basin of California <br /> <br />and Nevada. We helieve the latter effort will be of particular value <br /> <br />providing added inflow to Pyramid Lake, a major resource of the <br /> <br />Indian reservation there. <br /> <br />The North Platte Pilot project in Wyoming is planned to employ <br /> <br />"second generation" techniques in a less opportune winter seeding <br /> <br />area and will be closely integrated with local wateruser activities. <br /> <br />The San Angelo project in the Concho River basin of central Texas <br /> <br />will test seeding techniques for warm summer clouds that normally <br /> <br />would be too small to produce large amounts of rainfall. <br /> <br />Cloud seeding in the Flathead River basin above Hungry Horse <br /> <br />reservoir 1n Montana was suspended very early this winter when a <br /> <br />heavy snowcover made it apparent that a normal runoff could be <br /> <br />expected. This is the fifth year of seeding in this area and <br /> <br />it appears to be most effective. <br /> <br />One thing which must be borne in mind 1n weather modification <br /> <br />efforts. Man can only supplement the work of nature in this field <br /> <br />and then only when atmospheric conditions are right. These conditions <br /> <br />rarely prevail during periods of immediate need. Thus it is imperative <br /> <br />3.....'7~~ <br /> <br />6 <br />