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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Colorado Rl'ver Basin Salmlty Control Prooram <br /> <br />SOlis were mapped on approxImately ~ mlles of nparian land in (he Largo Canyon watershed in an <br />t') effort [0 establish a pOSSIble corrdauon bel\.\.cen (he lype of plant commUnity. salmil)' coment, and <br />~) \loafer table depth The srudy will aId in desIgning furure oparian projects to improve (he overall <br />00 . '''''hod and cun,,1 SOIl erosion. <br />r: <br /> <br />The Farmington Field Office issued a Contract for an Ecological Site Inventory on approximately <br />75.000 acres of BL.\llands Within the Lower Largo Canyon watershed. The inventory will co\'er <br />\cgct3live species composition. soils. precipitation. and sne.descnplion mformation. The results <br />\\.111 be available for furure resource planning purposes on computer dlskene and digitized computer <br />maps acceSSIble through ARC.\'IE\A/, a pan of a geographic information system (GIS). The data <br />WIll aid in Implementing sound management deCIsions with regard to liveslOck. wildlife, erosion. <br />and \'\'atershed plans in the ]o\\oer Largo Canyon watershed. <br /> <br />Several vegetallon Improvement projects were completed in FY98 in areas thaI have exhibited <br />increasing SOl] erosion problems. ThIS includes treatment of ~5 acres of sagebrush dominated land <br />in Gomez Canyon. thmnrng of ~5 Jcres of pinyon-Juniper dominJted lands and the prescribed <br />burnrng and reseed 109 of appco\lmately 70 acres of Plnyon'Juniper land in the Quintana ~1esa area <br />The combined effom wllllmprO\e the v.atershed function and wlldlife habital. <br /> <br />In FY9S. the Farmington Field Office closed approxImately 16 miles of road lO vehicle traffic. and <br />appro\lmately 1 mIle of maintained road has been oblllerated and reseeded. \\'ith restrictions to <br />regulate vehlc]e traffic on another 100 miles of road. the erfom will reduce resource damage to <br />soils and \egetallon from \ehicles. and wlll contribute 10 overall salt sa\'ings. <br /> <br />.....lso. in FY98. more than 1~.500 acres oi big sagebrush were treated with Tebuthluron. <br />Tebulhluron has been shown 10 greatly impro\e the O\'erall watershed by increasing herbaceous <br />plam gro\\oth. reducrng Sl'l] erosion. and increasrng Water infillration The eSllmated salt savmgs <br />from the freatment are roughly 38 tons per year <br /> <br />llnder separale agreements reached .....'ith Reclamation and Burlington Resources. several flowing <br />sa]rne v.ells are under Contract lO be plugged on the is"avajo ReservatIon in Aneth, Ulah. Under the <br />agreements. Reclamation admlOlsters the contract, and BL:-'1 develops the plugging requirements <br />and pro\ides technical e\penlse. :\ew ~1e\lCO BL.\I admlnislers 011 and gas operations on all of <br />the ......avajo reservation. The agreement with Reclamation targeted lhe Anelh Da) Schoo] <br />\\'e]1. ~o. :-":35. \\oHh the remammg funds to be used for plugging other saline wells in the Aneth <br />area Substantial pennanent salt savmgs of roughly 1.150 IOns per year are anticipated from the <br />:--:35 v.ell alone. <br /> <br />Burhngton Resources agreed 10 re-enter and plug the :-.Iavajo 1:\ .....ellm the Aneth. Ulah. area. <br />Southland Royalty dfllled the .....ellm 1963. and Burhngton Resources subsequently acqUIred the <br />leases. Salinity measurements conducted on this \.\.ell in Apfll 1997 indicated a salinity' of <br />5.900 ppm and a flow of approximately 37 gallons per mmute Igpml. Plugging this ......ell will <br />rermanently elimmate an estimaled addirional4S0 10ns rer year of salt reaching the Colorado Rl\er <br />System. <br /> <br />31 <br />