An increased program of watershed management, including rehabilitation and protection, 



needs to be carried out. 



2. Reasonable protection to, and minimizing damage from 

 the greatly increasing number of water development projects in 

 and adjacent to the National Forest System. 



3. Preparing and maintaining watershed mangement plans for 

 areas which are the sole or major source of municipal water 

 supplies. 



4. Initiating field inventories of water supplies and yield with 

 comparative data as to effects on water yield and quality of 

 range, timber, and other uses and management practices. 



5. Completing soil surveys on about 29 million acres, or 20 per- 

 cent of the total area in need of survey. 



6. Watershed rehabilitation measures to stabilize gullies and 

 channels, control sheet erosion, stabilize dunes and earth slides, 

 control erosion on roads and trails, and accomplish water spread- 

 ing will be effected in varying degrees ranging from one-tenth 

 to one-third of the total work needed. Work scheduled includes 

 9,000 miles of gully and channel stabilization; 1.3 million acres 

 of sheet erosion control; 10,000 acres of dune and blowout stabili- 

 zation ; erosion control on 13,000 miles of substandard roads and 

 trails; 5,600 acres of water spreading; 410 structures for flood 

 prevention; and 160 stream pollution control projects. 



Timber Resources 



The long-range timber goal for the National Forest System is an 

 annual harvest on a sustained-yield basis of 21.1 billion board feet of 

 sawtimber by the year 2000. This goal is more than double the 1960 

 timber cut. Total sawtimber growth estimated to be needed in the 



