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Show PART IV MEANS FOR MEETING NEEDS Enhance off-site values, including improvements of water quality, improved timing and yield of streamflow, renewal of ground water supplies, control of flood and sedimentation, protection of public health, and stabili- zation of local economies. This program is accomplished udner the following activities: 1. Soil and Watershed Conservation. The Soil and Watershed Conservation Activity is the primary activity with the responsibility of protection, enhancement, and maintenance of environmental quality. This activity is directed toward the protection, use, improvement, development, and maintenance of the soil and water resources and associated ecological systems within the jurisdiction of BLM. Functions include resource inventories and interpretations; research and studies; analysis and plans; purchase of easements and water rights; water management and development; land treatment practices; resource use and protection facilities; weed control and pest control; and proper land use management. 2. Range Improvement. The range improvement program is that portion of the broad program authorized by the Taylor Grazing Act which contributes toward effective and efficient grazing administration through the estab- lishment and maintenance of facilities for promoting orderly grazing use and the improvement of forage and water resources on the public land and Farm Tenant Act land. Range improvement funds are limited each fiscal year to the total receipts collected the previous fiscal year as range improvement fees. Detailed watershed project plans prepared under the Watershed Conservation and Development Program include project practices financed, in part or in whole, under this program to assure coordination. All types of practices designed to contribute toward better management, rehabilitation and perpetuation of the public land and its resources may be conducted under this program. 3. Fire Rehabilitation. The basic objective of the Fire Rehabilitation Program is the timely mitigation, in the most economic and expeditious manner possible, of the adverse effects of fire on the vegetation-soil complex, inherent renewable resources of the watershed, and other damages. Means for restoration of the damaged area includes one or any com- bination of the following: Management (all types--livestock, people, wildlife, etc.) Vegetation Establishment (seeding, planting), Watershed Tillage (furrowing and trenching, ripping, etc.), Water Control (detention dams, dikes, diversions, etc.), or Restricted Use (curtailment or elimina- tion of all uses). 67 |
