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<br />.-1' <br />.-l <br />~ <br />C' <br />~~ <br /> <br /><:.:) <br /> <br />4. Planning and Tracking <br /> <br />The Mesa County Project Implementation Plan (PIP), Grand Valley <br />unit published in July 1990 lists in Table I "The Eligible <br />Practices List and Cost-Share Ratio". The conservation practices <br />listed in this table are the ones the Grand Junction Field Office <br />are primarily planning and installing for the benefit of both <br />upland and wetland wildlife habitat development. <br /> <br />wildlife conservation planning is an on going part of assisting <br />participants prepare salinity reduction plans. Not all landowners <br />desire to develop permanent wildlife habitat. Conservation <br />practices are installed annually that provide benefits for <br />wildlife, but allow no credit towards permanent wildlife habitat <br />replacement. Some of these conservation practices are: <br />conservation tillage, minimum tillage, no fall plowing, planting <br />winter cover crop and leaving well covered washes, drains, and <br />hedgerows undisturbed. <br /> <br />SCS uses a voluntary wildlife habitat replacement program and thus <br />cannot require landowners to mitigate when wildlife habitat acreage <br />is lost. <br /> <br />Tracking wildlife and wetland habitat acres in the Grand Valley <br />consists of reporting all planned and applied acres, annually and <br />cumulatively for the duration of the project. The first funds <br />allocated to the Grand Valley Salinity Control program were issued <br />in 1979. <br /> <br />The Grand Valley has presently adopted a Wetland and Wildlife <br />Habitat Tracking System developed by SCS in the Cortez Field <br />Office. The information for Table 10 has been drawn from this <br />Tracking System. <br /> <br />The Grand Junction Field Office has entered into the tracking <br />system conservation practices in the following manner. <br /> <br />1. 1991 contracts - All SRP-3 and SRP-4 conservation <br />practices and their component conservation practices. <br /> <br />2. Contracts prior to 1991 - All conservation practices <br />representing Wildlife Upland Habitat Management (645) and <br />Wildlife Wetland Habitat Management (644). At this <br />time none of the component conservation practices have <br />been entered. <br /> <br />Three reports that were obtained from the Wetland and Wildlife <br />Tracking System (Appendix G) using the present data base are: <br /> <br />a. Contract Information Report. <br />b. Costshare Information Report. <br />c. Practice Code Report Summary. <br /> <br />37 <br />