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<::> (,Xl (Jl ,,~ CD pastures. fI'he overall salt savings from these efforts has not been determined, but could be in excess of 40 tons per year. The PhoeI\ix Field Office completed 40 miles of road maintenance, 28 miles of trail improvem~nts and several miles of fence construction and maintenance. Eight miles of road were converted to trails. A prescribed bum in Agua Fria Grasslands will improve vegetative cover and reduce erosion on another 9800 acres. The Y umai Field Office has continued efforts to reduce the impacts from wild burros in FY 98. The projeqted removal of over 460 burros will enhance ground cover and reduce runoff and movement' of saline sediments. A salt reduction of up to 45 tons per year could be realized. Colorado Colorado ~ontinues to employ grazing and vegetative management techniques, prescribed burl)S and off-rOlld-vehicle restrictions as a means of improving ground cover and reducing erosion. Between 4; and 5 thousand acres were burned in prescribed fires in FY -98 and another 1200 acres of v~getation were thinned to help establish better native grass balances with woody species. Colorado estimates that salt savings for vegetative management activities, reintroduction of fire, off high way vehicle management, road maintenance, wild horse removals, watershed structures being builhnd maintained, etc. to be in excess of 8,350 tons. These savings estimates could foreseeably increase as projects mature from the time of implementation. Also salt reductions can tempotarily decrease right after initial disturbance when implementing some treatments. Decreases can also occur if maintenance is neglected or if storm events cause some structures, roads, etc.' to be subjected to flooding and failure. Colorado 11lso continued to participate in the .National Resource Inventory pilot test, which has only recen!ly oroadened its focus from private lands to include public lands. The National Resource ~l1vel1tory is a cooperative effort to gather data on land cover and use, soil erosion, wetlands and other characteristics that may bear on future efforts to reduce salinity. A 15,300- acre ecological site inventory was completed in the Grand Junction Resource Area. Grand Junction awarded a contract late in the fiscal year that will allow the construction of 4 ponds and installation of 15 watershed structures in the Grand Valley during the first quarter of FY-99. Some road closures have been accomplished under an approved travel management plan. Within the,Craig District, an initiative to reduce the Texas Creek wild horse herd was accomplisl\ed and watershed inventory for Red Wash Creek will be completed. In the Little Snake RA" a contract was awarded for maintenance of the Duffy Mountain Access Road. Through cl?st sharing, $25.000 earmarked for salinity will be leveraged to $100,000. Nevada 14 , "-_",',,~,., ;~ ,A ",. '. , .~ -~- ,:? ".t ~~ . c'- 'J. ~