Archive image from page 16 of Development program for the national. Development program for the national forests . developmentprogr896unit Year: 1961 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 supp
Archive image from page 16 of Development program for the national. Development program for the national forests . developmentprogr896unit Year: 1961 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; 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 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
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