WSP04752 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

minimized, especially with respect to air and water pollution, ecology, and esthetics. Water requirements of the mineral industry may be met by direct 'diversion of imported water, by upstream developments on the o basis that downstream rights would be met by exchange for imported , water, or by continued ground-water development where available. ~ C:l Recreation N Recreation needs of the Region, above available supply, are projected to increaSe ~om 144 million recreation days in 1965 to 672 million rec- reation days in 2020. Under existing legal, institutional, financial, and physical constraints, only about 42 percent of these needs can be met. To satisfY: the remaining 58 percent of the needs Will require elimina- tion or modification of these constraints and a greater degree of Federal partiCipation. Water~based recreation needs will climb to 193 million recreation days annua:lly by 2020. Maximum water augmentation, development, and use under the tramework plan Will supply a part of the water-based recreation needs. . Land &cquisition in the amount of 60,000 acres Will be required to satisfY: th~ non-Federal recreation needs. Fish and Wildlife The annual demand for fishing would increase ~om a 1965 level of 4.0 millio~ man-days to 26.0 million man-days in year 2020. Multi- purpose developments authorized to be constructed by 1980, including the Alamo, ,Dixie, and Central Arizona Projects, have the potential to provide 1. 2 million man-days of fishing annually. Numerous smaller fiShing reservoirs are planned for construction by state and Federal agencies arid by Indian Tribes to provide 2.0 million ll18.n-days of fish- ing annually by 1980. After 1980, proposed water developments, pri- marily multipurpose, are expected to provide an additional 1.02 million man-days annually by 2020. To satisfY: fishing demands not met by the above deveJ;opments, the fish and wildlife program provides for addi- tional fisqery developments in 1980, 2000, and 2020 that would provide a total of 16.0 million man-days of fishing annually by year 2020. The deinand for hunting is expected to increase ~om a 1965 level of 1.3 million man-days to 5.1 million man-days annually in 2020. A primary concern in satisfY:ing the demands for wildlife resources is the preservation and improvement of' existing habitat. In the Lower Colorado Region, most of the valuable wildlife habitat is on lands administered by public agencies, thus providing significant opportun- ities for fUrther Wildlife development. Satis:t'ying a part of the demand for fish and Wildlife resources and achieving.optimum multiple- use of public lands are dependent upon improving the existing habitat and accelerll-ting development to increase fish and wildlife production. , i ! I xii