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<br /> <br />....- '.. <br /> <br />tko' <br /> <br />Availability of land for various uses implies some degree of suitability, and as. <br />sumes some priority of uses. Land used for intensive purposes such as urban, <br />industrial or even irrigation is not considered available for a less intensive use such as <br />grazing. Some lands are available for alternate uses. Part of the land available for <br />irrigation is also available for grazing. The land that can be used for irrigation is <br />limited by the water supply and development costs. <br />Irrigated cropland needs will be satisfied primarily be developing dry cropland <br />and land used for grazing. The land resources inventory table (Illustration 11) shows <br />land used and land available in 1965, and land projected for various uses in 2020. <br />All other single uses occupied less than 10 percent of the land area. Total acreage <br />of land in selected resource use exceeds the total land area due to overlapping uses <br />such as recreation, hunting, grazing, watershed and timber production. <br />Land requirements for all uses except timberland can be met through 2020. <br />Future land requirements will be met by using the available land more inten. <br />sively. Land use changes were assumed to continue as indicated by past trends. For <br />example, by 2020, urban and industrial land needs will require 296 thousand acres <br />and transportation and utilities 168 thousand acres of new land, which will be met <br />largely from irrigated cropland. <br /> <br />Timber <br />Production <br /> <br /> <br />Irrigation <br /> <br /> <br />12 <br />