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6926 be developed for forage for deer and elk to act as a buffer zone between Oak Ridge and the project lands in the bottom. This is one way of meeting that recommendation. I understand now the Game and Fish Com- I missioners and Tom Ten Eyck, and so on, are working on alternate plans and compromise agree- ments on this. They are making very good progress and it looks like there won't be too much trouble in meeting these recommendations with a little cooperative planning. We would like to go over some of the land areas now that we are going to be looking at this afternoon. This area that is mainly in controversy is this Little Beaver Basin, down through here just east of Meeker. As we men- tioned, there is about 15,000 acres in the White River Basin that will be served project water. This is the Little Beaver Basin land down in here and I want to point out that all of the 15,700 acres is privately owned lands except about 287 acres. This overlay we are just putting on to show locations on scattered blocks of public lands. They are very small and very insignificant in this case. Also in the material we distributed to you this morning and in the handouts on the back table is a map showing the present uses of these lands in the Little Beaver Basin. Out of the 15,000 acres now in this area, there are 2,000 acres that are presently irrigated lands. This is part of the land in the Little Beaver Basin that is presently irrigated but needs addi- tional water. There are 8,200 acres that are cultivated dry farm land. Some of the land similar to I this is distant from the presently irrigated land. This is Bob Raley's ranch, right up here. 8,200 acres, as I mentioned, are culti- vated dry farm land. The remaining 7,500 acres are uncultivated livestock grazing land in the area.