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<br />OfJ2778 <br />4. <br /> <br />Slide 8. <br /> <br />Slide 9. <br /> <br />Slide 10. <br /> <br />Slide 11. <br /> <br />Slide 12. <br /> <br />Slide 13. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Slide 14. <br /> <br />Another 12% is managed by the National Park Service and <br />the California State Parks & Recreation Dept. <br />Uses of the desert (both public and private) have become <br />more diversified and in the next 20 years we expect in- <br />creasing public demands and techological advances <br />As mentioned earlier, the desert was "discovered" as a <br /> <br />recreational area in the early sixty's. There is a tre- <br /> <br />mendous diversity of recreation now and new forms of desert <br /> <br />recreation are growing. <br /> <br />Agriculture is an important use in the desert. About 8% of <br />California agriculture production comes from the desert, <br /> <br />however most of this production comes from the private lands <br /> <br />in the desert. <br />Mineral extraction has always been an important land use of <br />the desert. Today 50\ of California production of mineral <br />resources exluding oil and gas comes from the desert. <br />Including these fossil fuels the desert represents 15\ of <br />the state's production. <br />Energy production and transmission have made the desert a <br />key element in the energy story of the southwest. The energy <br />future of the California Desert appears to be even more <br />significient <br />The California Desert is used extensively by the military <br />for air and ground tatical training, research and develop- <br /> <br />ment and storage of equipment. <br /> <br /> <br />C-ll <br />