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<br />3 <br /> <br />(US Geological Survey-USGS). The team was augmented with <br />o specialists from BLM and SCS field offices with responsibility. for <br />~) planning within the various targeted rangeland watersheds. <br />....;} <br />~ The project was organized .in two phases: Phase I - statewide <br />watershed level targeting of the Colorado River Basin in. Utah and <br />Phase II - rangeland resource evaluation of eight targeted . <br />watersheds. The Phase I inventory was accomplished throughthE\ use <br />of existing statewide resource maps on the scale of 1:500,OOQ. The <br />Phase II studies were accomplished by an augmented <br />interdisciplinary team during a four week evaluation of each <br />targeted watershed. <br /> <br />The Phase II studies of the target watersheds resulted in.reports <br />characteriaingthe resource conditions throughout major wat$rsheds <br />within tne Colorado River Basin. These reports concentrated: on> the <br />following resource topics: (1) identification and characterization <br />of the highly eroding, salt yielding areas that have a. potential <br />for cost effective rangeland resource planning (this process is <br />called targeting resource problems), (2) proposed land treatment <br />practices to control salt and sediment on the targeted areas, (3) <br />annual tonnages of sediment and salt that could be .controlled if <br />the proposed land treatment practices were implemented and (4) <br />establisbmentof a baseline Present Condition of watershed <br />resourceS with modelling of the Future Without Project (FWOP) <br />Conditions and the Future with Project (FWP) for the targeted <br />areas. <br /> <br /> <br />Managers can use the Phase II reports to develop quantified and <br />detailed resource planning documents. Also these documents can be.' <br />used to develop interagency coordinated resource management plans <br />on a hydrologic unit basis. The reports form the bas.is for a <br />monitoring program because there is a quantified andcharactlSrized.... <br />resource data base for a baseline (Present Condi:tion) readily <br />available from these reports. <br /> <br /> <br />PROJECT COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT <br /> <br />This project was initiated and implemented as a result of the <br />consensus of various state and federal agencies relatinq.to the <br />need to address salinity control on rangelands. within the Colorado <br />River Basin. One of the key elements in the organization of this <br />project was the isolation of the primary team members in the utah <br />State Department of Agriculture offices in Salt Lake City, U~ah. <br />The team members were then able to concentrate on the project wOrk <br />without major interruption of ordinary office duties. The <br />efficient work environment resulted in the Phase I work being <br />accomplished in two months instead of the planned three and ~he <br />extra work month allowed for the evaluation of eight watersh~ds <br />where seven had been planned. <br /> <br />The team was supplied with an SCS sedan as a means of <br />transportation to the field where B1M local offices supplied four~ <br /> <br />. <br />;, <br /> <br />, <br />1 <br />, <br />! <br />--t <br />.~ <br />:_~ <br /> <br />, _.,1 <br />- , ,:~ <br /> <br />-1 <br /> <br />l <br /> <br />"f <br /> <br />-j <br /> <br />~~, " <br /> <br />_ ~ " " ';;".L- <br /> <br />1ik,;,,':;iff.-.;k:,',_.&iil. <br />