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<br />The primary target areas for operational application <br />are these eight areas with high water yield potentials <br />and high elevations. The subtarget areas for the <br />demonstration project would essentially be selected <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />from the areas. Parts of the secondary yield areas <br /> <br />- <br />.. <br /> <br />would also be included. <br /> <br />Augmenting mountain snowpack, and thus the flow in <br /> <br />water-short western rivers, including the Colorado <br /> <br />River, has been one of the primary long-range goals of <br /> <br />the Bureau of Reclamation's "Project Skywater" since <br /> <br />its inception in 1962. Major portions of the $46 <br />million total research effort through 1974 have been <br />directly and indirectly linked with this goal 3/. <br /> <br />Two of the first three university research projects <br />studied increasing snowfall from winter orographic <br /> <br />clouds by cloud seeding with silver iodide 4/. A key <br />4-year field experiment in the Park Range near Steamboat <br /> <br />3/ Research in Colorado River Basin = $6.5 million <br />(14 percent) <br />Other winter orographic research = $17.7 million <br />(38 percent) <br />winter environmental related research = $3.0 million <br />(7 percent). <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />4/ At the University of Wyoming and University of Nevada, <br />the third at the South Dakota School of Mines studied <br />summer cumulus cloud modification. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />10 <br />