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<br />7 <br /> <br />justifiably be financed from weather modification funds, but it shcluld <br />specifically be designed to include other aspects of environmental change <br />as well as weather modification. The analysis should include, among <br />other things: <br /> <br />Purpose of ecological survey and monitoring program <br />What is to be measured <br />Who will use the resulting data, and in what way <br />Relation to existing programs of state and federal agencies <br />(Examples: USGS Vigil Network; USFS Barometer Watershed <br />program; ESSA Benchmark stations) <br />Procedure <br />Standardization of measurement <br />Frequency of remeasurement <br />Statistical design and interpretation <br />Who should do it <br />Agency responsible -- existing federal agency, or new inde- <br />pendent group such as a National Ecology In~titute <br />Requirements for technical manpower -- use of technicians! <br />versus highly trained specialists <br />Lessons from similar programs in other countries.. <br />Particularly Australian Division of Land. Research and Regional <br />Survey, C.S.I.R.O. (Primarily a regional development survey, <br />not an environmental monitoring program) <br />Cost estimates, and cost-benefit relations. <br />Application of results <br /> <br />Field research, on a relatively limited basis at first, should <br />be initiated to develop effective operational procedures for measuring <br />relevant indicators of biological change on actual sample plots (10.3). <br /> <br />Pre-modification Survey <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. Approximately 10% of the budget for any large-scale pilot project <br />in weather modification, .such as is now planned for the Upper, Colorado <br />River Basin, should be allocated to a concurrent biological survey of <br />the affected area, to identify and evaluate conditions likely. to b,e <br />significantly altered by a deliberate change in climate. Such a survey <br />should be. undertaken for exactly the same reason that the meteoro11:lgical <br />program is being carried out -- to develop and test procedures and <br />techniques for use in an eventual operational program. If the pro:spects <br />of deliberate weather modification are good enough to justify field <br />operations on the scale of the proposed Colorado River Basin Pilot <br />Project, they are good enough to demand expenditures to develop procedures <br />for identifying in advance some of the possible social and biological <br />cOnsequences of this new technology (144). <br /> <br />.. <br />