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<br />48 <br /> <br />i. <br />I <br />\ <br /> <br />I Division of wildlife has or will make a demand that 13,000 <br />acres of private land in the project area be purchased by <br />2 <br /> <br />the federal government for conversion to a wildlife manage- <br />3 <br />4 ment area. This would be in addition to the 14,000 acres of <br />S federal lands which are already proposed to be withdrawn for <br />6 the primary purpose of improving the deer habitat. <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />. About 7,500 acres of privately owned land now used <br /> <br />8 for dry land pasture will be placed under irrigation by the <br />9 project. About 4,400 acres of public domain would be placed <br />10 under irrigation and were long ago withdrawn for this purpose <br />11 The purchase of 13,000 acres of private land in the project <br />12 area would completely subvert the proposal of the Fruitland <br />13 Mesa Project and substantially cripple the economy of that <br />'14 area. The demand is therefore so preposterous as to be <br />IS beyond belief. It will be resisted with every resource <br />16 available to this Board.' <br />"17 The continuing implication in recent water resource <br />18 planning to the effect that both public and private lands <br /> <br />19 in this state should become the exclusive preserve of big <br /> <br />20 game hunters is becoming of increasing concern to this Board. <br /> <br />21 Of further concern is the fact that the conversion of both <br /> <br />22 public and private lands from agricultural and livestoCk <br /> <br /> <br />23 operations to big game habitat is not subject to the normal <br /> <br /> <br />24 benefit-cost analysis, whereby the economic value of such a <br /> <br /> <br />2S conversion can be deterndned. While big game hunting is of <br />