WSP05760

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 7/1/1974
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Fifteenth Annual Report - July 1 1974 through June 30 1975
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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C. J. Graham, Secretary

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PACIFIC SOUTHWEST INTER AGENCY COMMITTEE
Vegetation Management Technical Subcommittee

July 15, 1975

REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1975

1. State of the Art Report on Phreatophyte (moist site vegetation)
Management.

Jerry Horton, employed under contract by the U. S. .Forest
Service, completed a draft of this report and presented it
to subcommittee members for comment in early June. The
report should be printed in final form within the next few
months.

2. Evaluation of Needed Research on Water Losses from Principal
Riparian Vegetation.

This subcommittee work item, under the task force leadership
of Howard Morton of the ARS, has awaited the completion of
the Horton report and a report on water yield by vegetative
management by Ffo11iott and Thorud which is now in press.
With the two reports completed, work can begin on this work
program item.

3. Identify Effective Vegetative Management on Stripmined Lands.

This work item was carried as far as the subcommittee felt it
should be for 1975. At the 75-1 subcommittee meeting a panel
discussed work being accomplished by several agencies. As
sO many projects are underway the subcommittee decided that a
State of the Art report at this time is premature. It was
decided that the subcommittee should develop a continuing
inventory of research and other activities regarding re-
vegetation of stripmined lands. Jesse McWilliams, Soil
Conservation Service, Reno, Nevada, was requested to be the
task force leader

4. Assisting the Water Management Subcommittee in its Literature
Search Regarding Weather Modification Programs.

This work item is continuing under the leadership of the Water
Management Subcommittee.

During the 75-2 meeting the subcommittee went on a very worth-
while field trip to the Plant Materials Center at Los Lunas and
the Bureau of Reclamation 1ysimeters at Bernardo, New Mexico.

Lyle K1ubben, Forest Service, was reelected Chairl!\an and Bob Easley,
Corps of Engineers, was elected Secretary for Fiscal Year 1976.