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• Nothing IBCC can do to keep from ag land dry up <br />• State SAYS they support maintenance of ag lands, but don't DO anything about it. <br />• There's got to be some way to provide domestic water without drying up ag land, <br />particularly on West Slope---one of the ways is more storage, but cost is prohibitive <br />and process is too lengthy. <br />• Need to truly define "agriculture"--- thought is that you need to market something <br />from the land. <br />• Need to encourage new younger people to farm and provide financial assistance to <br />them through SB179 funds. Is there interest in creating a subgroup to work on this? <br />• Discussion needs to be more concrete on these issues. <br />• Ag money is not going to stop ag dry-up. There needs to be some incentive to stay <br />in ag. i.e. rotation of land with $ incentive (e.g. Superditch). <br />• There are no strategies or actions for non-consumptive in vision and goals. Should <br />not be omitted. <br />Mike recapped the discussion and asked if we want to develop our own strategies at each of <br />the Basin's meetings. Some suggested bringing some experts to present different <br />solutions/methods such as Peter Nichol (Superditch), look outside State, Dolores River <br />Dialogue, River Protection Workgroup. There was a concern that state-wide implementation <br />plans will probably not work in each Basin because the needs of the various basins are so <br />different. It was suggested that we have the experience and creativity within our own <br />roundtable to determine potential solutions for our basins. Another suggestion was to have a <br />technical presentation and then a short work session on the topic. Mike said we would follow <br />this idea and find either local or regional presenters. This might be good topic for the joint <br />West Slope round table meeting.