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<br />001863 <br /> <br />along sparkling streams, boating, camping, rock hounding, big game <br />hunting, skiing, and sightseeing. All of these recreation activities <br />are in demand and there is potential for developing additional <br />natural historic and scenic rpsources. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Livestock and livestock product sales were $19.5 million in 1969. <br />Nearly 95 percent of irrigated cropland harvested and 17 percent <br />of dry cropland harvested was used to produce livestock related <br />crops in 19"5. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Cortez-Dove Creek, Colorado and Monticello, Utah areas are dry bean <br />production centers with over 120,000 acres of dry cropland annually <br />planted to dry bean production. There are about 367,200 acres in <br />dryland crop production with most near the above to~ms. <br /> <br />Average annual undepleted water supply for the 1914-1965 period was <br />2,158,500 acre-feet; average annual depletion was 367,500 acre-feet, <br />and the average annual discharge at Bluff, Utah was 1,891,700 acre- <br />feet (WATER, Frontispiece 1). The major use of the water within the <br />basin was for irrigation with E9.7 percent of the total depletion. <br /> <br />The 1965 irrigated acreage was ?5€,80n with a projected level of irriga- <br />tion development of an additional 206,400 acres, mainly for livestock <br />feed and forage to meet anticipated red meat demand. Irrigable land <br />and water resources are adequate, under compact limitations, to meet <br />proposed resource developments outlined in this report, including <br />potential municipal and industrial requirements. <br /> <br />About all of the additional irrigated land required are contained <br />within the Bureau of Reclamation's proposed Dolores and Animas-La Plata <br />projects currently under advanced planning and the Navajo Irrigation <br />Project currently under construction. <br /> <br />Seventeen smaller agricultural water management projects feasible under <br />the Soil Conservation Service's Public Law 566 program or Resource <br />Conservation and Development Program (RC&D) could have water savings <br />and crop production impacts on about 95,noo acres presently being <br />irrigated. <br /> <br />Program coordination is necessary to assure that proposed project and <br />resource development opportunities complement each other and provide <br />for coordinated development of resources of the basin. Program coor- <br />dination can be accomplished through USDA Committees for Rural Develop- <br />ment and the Four Corners Regional Commission. <br /> <br />1-3 <br />