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<br /> <br /> <br />SUMMARY (Continued) <br /> <br />o <br />,::'0') <br />('.oJ <br />-..1 <br />--..1 <br />o <br /> <br />Water consumption in the base year for all livestock use in pasture, <br />feedlot and grazing plus stockpond evaporation was 34,900 acre-feet or <br />about 1 percent of the total. This percentage will remain constant <br />during the planning period. Water consumption will reach approximately <br />41,400 acre-feet by 2020 under the Framework Plan and will be only <br />minimally higher under optimum grazing development. <br /> <br />The 9,419,000 acres of commercial forest land contain 56.8 billion <br />board feet of saw timber. Present timber production of 47.8 million <br />cubic feet can be increased to 340 million cubic feet annually by 2020. <br />This increase in production can be reached only through a greatly <br />intensified forest management-utilization program carried out on Federal <br />and private forest lands. Acceleration of intensive forest management <br />will be needed to offset the projected loss of commercial forest acreage. <br /> <br />Problems directly related to irrigated cropland, dry cropland, <br />grazing, timber production, fire control, and intermixed land ownership <br />are enumerated. Approaches are then recommended that can be used in <br />solving the problems. Practices that are needed are assigned to broad <br />groupings such as forage production, wood production, or farm irrigation <br />systems, and crop production improvement (dry). The required acreages <br />or numbers of each practice are given as well as the costs of installa- <br />tion, operation maintenance, and repair by time frames. <br /> <br />This report furnishes a comparison. between suggested alternative <br />programs of land and water measures. The Framework Plan based on <br />Regionally Interpreted OBE-ERS projections of future production and <br />needed resources was used as a basis for comparing alternative programs. <br />To fully understand the plans Appendix VIII, Watershed Management, <br />should be consulted. Differences between the programs involve the <br />following: program costs, acreages of land resource groups, value of <br />crop production, grazing production, timber harvest, changes in water <br />yield, and sediment yield reduction. The Framework Plan provides for <br />an increase of 500,000 acres of irrigated land, increases grazing by 1.3 <br />million AUMs, increases timber production sevenfold, and reduces sediment <br />yield by 2,764 acre-feet per year. There are adequate land resources to <br />meet all projected levels of development. <br /> <br />Cost of the Framework Plan program is presented by projected time <br />periods. The total installation cost for 1966 to 2020 is $431,433,000 <br />of which $233,618,000 is the cost on Federal land and $197,815,000 is <br />the cost on private land. <br /> <br />The average per year expenditure of funds for installation, <br />operation, maintenance, and replacement of the program during the period <br />1966 to 2020 is $24,424,000. This average per year expenditure amounts <br />to $15,388,000 for the Federal land and $9,036,000 for the private land. <br /> <br />ii <br /> <br />-- <br />