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<br /> <br />0028' ';; <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'~ <br /> <br />most useful in preventing sheet erosion, in holding road and channel banks <br /> <br />will be learned to provide "des ign" for land managers. <br /> <br />More and better measurements of sediment transported from mountain <br /> <br />watersheds are being obtained. The need for more knowledge of the hydraulics <br /> <br />of steep headwater channels is recognized. <br /> <br />WATERSHED MANAGEMENT GOALS <br /> <br />Watershed researchers are worried about how their findings should <br /> <br />be put into practice. While they have demonstrated that in some places <br /> <br />yield can be appreciably changed, they are distressed by the extrapolation <br /> <br />of results to conditions much different than the test areas. Researchers <br /> <br />must stress the fact that they have been more successful in incre~sing <br /> <br />yield during wet seasons and wet years than in dry periods. This means that <br /> <br />management of plant cover must often be combined with storage reservoirs to <br /> <br />be effective. <br /> <br />Present knowledge of management for water is sufficient to help guide <br /> <br />multiple-use land management and should receive consideration in making <br /> <br />decisions about land management. True enough much more needs to be learned <br /> <br />but that can also be said of management for timber, forage, wildlife, and <br /> <br />recreat ion. <br /> <br />Sound watershed management requires knowledge on the whole broad <br /> <br />front of land use management. Watershed researchers have great responsibility, <br /> <br />however, because the value of water is out of proportion to other resources. <br /> <br />Water is seldom traded on a competitive market and often receives its value <br /> <br />from what people are willing to tax themselves to acquire it. The concentration <br /> <br />- 10 - <br /> <br />