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 management 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. Complete soil surveys on about 33 million acres, or 22 percent 

 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, con- 

 trol erosion on roads and trails, and accomplish water spreading 

 will be done in varying degrees ranging from one-tenth to one-third 

 of the total work needed. Work scheduled includes 10,000 miles of 

 gully and channel stabilization; 1.3 million acres of sheet erosion 

 control ; 20,000 acres of dune and blowout stabilization ; erosion con- 

 trol on 14,000 miles of substandard roads and trails ; 5,600 acres of 

 water spreading ; 535 structures for flood prevention ; and 170 stream 

 pollution control projects. 



Range Resources 



The development and management of the 68 million acres of range- 

 land in the national-forest system has two major long-range objectives : 



(a) Proper stocking and improvement of the range resource to 

 achieve desirable watershed conditions and sustained high-level 

 production of forage. Over many years the Forest Service has 

 attempted to bring livestock numbers into balance with available 

 forage. This is being done by building up forage production 

 through reseeding, other range-improvement measures, and better 

 management. Where this is not sufficient, necessary adjustments 

 to grazing capacity have been made in either numbers of permitted 

 livestock or season of use. 



(b) Making lands suitable for livestock grazing available for use 

 under conditions that promote stability for communities and indi- 

 viduals, and encourage full development of the range resource with 

 due regard to other resources and uses. 



These policies can be furthered by intensifying management of all 

 range allotments; obtaining and maintaining desirable forage to 

 high capacity; constructing, rehabilitating, and maintaining range 

 improvements needed to attain intensive management on all ranges ; 

 and making adjustments in numbers of livestock or seasons of use 

 when necessary. 



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