Laserfiche WebLink
<br />002312 <br /> <br />PRESENT <br />LAND USE <br /> <br />LAND-CAPABILITY CLASS <br />PERCENT <br />50 <br /> <br />CROPLAND <br />33.4 PERCENT <br /> <br /> <br />IDLE LAND <br />26.5 PERCENT <br /> <br />RANGE LAN D <br />39.7 PERCENT <br /> <br />liM;i!iiliitl <br /> <br />111 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />1.-3879-3 <br /> <br />Figure 12.-Prescnt land use and land capability in the Southeastern Baea County Soil <br />Conservation District. (See caption of figure 11 for explanation of the land-capability <br />classes). <br /> <br />and at the same time develop a prac- <br />tical, economic, and permanent system <br />of land use and community life that <br />will provide a reasonable measure of <br />security to the people on the farms. <br />The dilapidated farm buildings, vast <br />stretches of eroded land, tax sales, <br />mortgage foreclosures, demands for <br />debt adjustment, delinquent taxes, and <br /> <br />the large amounts of temporary Gov- <br />ernment benefits that have been put <br />into the county within recent years <br />demonstrate the futility of methods <br />used in the past to solve this problem. <br />Land capability in relation to present <br />land use is shown in tables 4 and 5, and <br />some of the relationships are shown <br />graphically in figures 11 and 12. <br /> <br />Western a';'d Southeastern Baca County Soil Conservation Districts, Colorado <br /> <br />2.5 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, . <br /> <br /> <br />I",. <br />