Water Management 



Excess water — The 1958 acreage on which excess water prevents the ' 

 adequate establishment, maintenance, and use of desirable vegetative 

 cover amounts to about 302 thousand acres. 



Water conservation — The 1958 acreage on which desirable vegetative 

 cover can be feasibly established or improved by water-conserving 

 measures is about 2.2 million acres. 



Forest and Woodland 



The conservation needs on forest and woodland were estimated in acres need- 

 ing treatment for problems associated with the development and management 

 of the forest and soil resoxrrces. 



Forest land withdrawn from timber utilization or incapable of yielding use- 

 able wood products because of adverse site conditions or so physically in- 

 accesible as to be unavailable economically in the foreseeable future was 

 not considered in estimating conservation needs except for measures neces- 

 sary for the protection of such areas for watershed^ wildlife, or recrea- 

 tional uses or for the protection of adjacent productive forest and 

 woodland. 



Table 6 showB that there are about 907 thousand acres of forest and woodland 

 estimated as needing treatment in each of the problem groups 



TABLE 6 - ESTIMATE OF NEEDS FOR CONSERVATION TREATMENT ON EXPECTED ACREAGE 

 OF FOREST AND WOODLAND. MONTANA. 1975 



Item Acreage 



1000 Ac. 

 Total area dplUUo^ 



Area needing treatment bys 

 Establishment and reinforcement of 

 timber stand ........... 907.1 



Improvement of timber stand .... 2,010.0 



Protection of timber froms 



S Xa 6 ooooooooooovooo Py Z|rXOo M 



Insects and disease . ...... . 4,662.1 



Animals, including rodents .... 1,503.9 



Erosion control „...,.,„.. 232.4 



Establishment of shelter be Its and 

 windbreaks - acres . . . 24.0 



miles , o , 5»500 



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