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<br />. <br /> <br />- 6 - <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />irrigation water. Water yields from forested lands can be increased by <br />establishing such practices as thinning of lodgepole and ponderosa pine <br />stands and group cutting of pine and spruce-fir stands. Eradication or <br />control of phreatophytes would conserve ground water and make it avail- <br />able for more beneficial use, <br /> <br />Many fanns in the basin are recognized as marginal or subsistance level <br />units because of small size, poor soils, late season water shortages or a <br />combina.tion of these factors. Such operations complicate and adversely <br />affect the social and economic development of the basin, Increased agri- <br />cultural production and returns would create an increased need for goods, <br />services and processing industries. This would further stimulate other <br />developments in the field of recreation, manufacture, mining and con- <br />struction. <br /> <br />OBJECTIVES, SCOPE AND EXPECTED RESULTS <br /> <br />Work to be undertaken by the USDA agencies will be conducted with an <br />awareness of the provisions of State laws and regulations of interstate <br />compacts regarding the allocation of water and existing rights to the use <br />of water. The survey will be conducted with the following broad objec- <br />tives and desired results as a goal: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1. Identification of a desirable pattern of water and related land use, <br />management, and development to meet foreseeable future requirements <br />and alleviate problems of watershed protection, flood prevention and <br />agricultural water management. <br /> <br />2. Studies and projections of economic development for the basin. <br />Projections will be for the years 1980, 2000, and 2020. <br /> <br />3. Identification and evaluation of major obstacles to attainment of the <br />desirable pattern of water and related land use, management, and <br />development. <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />Identification of the manner in which, and an appraisal of the extent <br />to which USDA programs, particularly prospective Public Law 566 pro- <br />jects, can contribute to the solution of Hater and related land <br />research problems in the basin. Project type solutions and those <br />Hhich involve Hater and related management of lands administered by <br />the Department will be emphasized. <br /> <br />5. <br /> <br />Identification of opportunities for solution of local Hater resource <br />problems by development of Public LaH 566 projects and establishment <br />of the general nature and scope of such potential projects. <br />