WSP02455

• File Number: 8410.350
• Description: Platte River Basin - Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin IAC
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/1/1962
• Author: Missouri Basin IAC
• Title: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee - Annual Report on Progress Fiscal Year 1962 and Programming Fiscal Years 1963-1964
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Administrative studies in cooperation with Research are continuing to
determine the effects of resource use mId effectiveness of restoration
measures on soil stability and on liater quality and yield. These
include studies on overgrazed elk winter ranges in !lontana; deer ranges
in Colorado; sheep grazing in lVyoming; timber cutting in South Dakota;
and watershed structural and land treatment measures in Colorado.

Recreation use on the National Forests and National Grasslands liithin
the Missouri River Basin totaled over 14 million visitor days in
C.Y. 1961. Nel, recreatinn sites were developed and e:dsting sites
l,ere enlarged or improved. Approximately 400 nm, family units were
constructed and 550 family units rehabilitated in camp and picnic
grounds. l.,inter sports areas are being enlarged and several new
areas are being developed.

Forestry Cooperation on State and Private Land

Under Sections 2 and 4 of the Clark-McNary Act; the Cooperative Forest
Management Act; the Forest Pest Control Act; the General Forestry
Assistance Act; the P.L. 566 Small 'tlatershed Program; and other programs,
Forest Service cooperative activities with State Forestry agencies in
the Missouri Basin included:

1. Approximately 600 forest and range wildfires controlled;
fire protection provided on approximately 12 million rural
acres.

2. Provided technical forestry assistance to approximately 921
owners of over 109,000 acres of private forests and
woodlands.

3. Provided and distributed approximately 9 million tree
seedlings to private landowners for planting over 17,000
acres. .

4. All of the P.L. 566 watershed projects have been provided
with forestry planning assistance; over 5% of the projects
receive technical assistance for the installation of
forestry land treatment measures.

5. Over 300 thousand acres of timberland were surveyed for
insect and disease damage; over 4,000 trees liere
individually treated.

6. In addition, counseling in forestry matters with private
and other public agencies was greatly accelerated.

Forest, Range, and Watershed Research

Four Forest Service Experiment Stations, the Central States, Lake States,
Intermountain, and Rocky I10untain Forest and Range Experiment Stations,
are conducting various research activities on water and related land
resources in the Missouri Basin.

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