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<br /> <br />o S~~ <br />.:-:> <br />',) <br />~ About 2.3 million acres of commercial timber land is projected <br />~ to be available for timber production in 2020. This will produce <br />~ about one-fourth of the needed timber products but will supply the <br />OBE-ERS requirement. About three-fourths of the required timber will <br />be imported from other regions. Essentially all land needs can be <br />met for each time frame. The need for wilderness area exceeds the <br />area that will be available but the unmet need will have to be sat- <br />isfied by substituting scenic areas and other type land. The need <br />for wilderness is not projected by OBE-ERS. <br /> <br />Most land problems and possible' solutions are involv~d with <br />production and protection measures. Measure-s needed to increase <br />production to meet projected requirements are the same as those <br />needed for protection of the soil resource. For this reason, the <br />programs presented will provide both the increase of. production and <br />the protection needed. In this appendix, production' is emphasized. <br />Appendix VIII, Watershed Management, emphasizes protection. <br /> <br />Installation cost of the OBE-ERS program in 1965 dollars is <br />estimated at 207 million, 253 million and 208 million for 1965 to <br />1980, 1980 to 2000 and 2000 to 2020 time frames, respectively. The <br />three time frames total $669 million. About 55 percent is for <br />irrigated land, 32 percent for rangeland, 10 percent for forest land, <br />2 percent for urban and 1 percent for dry cropland. About two-thirds <br />of the total cost would be federal and one-third non-federal. Federal <br />cost includes all costs on federally-owned land and cost-sharing on <br />non-federal land. <br /> <br />Annual .operation, maintenance and replacement costs are pro- <br />jected for the last year of each time frame. These costs increase <br />as more installations are established which mu-st be maintained and <br />replaced. Annual operation, maintenance and replacement costs are <br />estimated at $12 million in 1980, $23 million in 2000 and $34 million <br />in 2020. <br /> <br />In the Going Program, the rate of installation of conse'rvation <br />measures decreases in the latter time frames. This is because ex- <br />penditures are considered as constant, at the 1965 level, and annual <br />costs increase as more installations must be maintained, operated <br />an d replaced. <br /> <br /> <br />Output is projected in terms of crop values, grazing, timber, <br />water yield, sediment reduction, employment, gross regional product <br />and income from both the OBE-ERS and the Going Program. <br /> <br />The OBE-ERS program as described in this appendix is the one <br />adopted by the Region. Some alterations in the program may be <br />highly desirable but because of the limited time available, they <br />could not be adequately explored. <br /> <br />if <br /> <br />I <br />