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Show PART IV MEANS FOR MEETING NEEDS The Agricultural Conservation Program under Public Law 264, provides for those conservation practices carried out on federally owned non- croplands which directly conserve or benefit nearby or contiguous non- federally owned lands. BLM provides limited technical assistance and cooperates with the program. Under the Private Range Improvement Program range user privately owned improvements on public domain lands may be covered by permit (not classified as trespass) if such improvements comply with the program requirements. The entire cost of constructing projects under this program must be financed by the applicant; however, BLM may furnish technical assistance in the development of projects. Forest Service The Forest Service Watershed Management Program is an integral part of multiple-use management on National Forest System lands. A function of the program is to provide scientific soil, geology, and hydrology inputs for the National Forest resource planning and development programs. These inputs are necessary to provide a firm basis for long-range planning and to assure that projects are designed and conducted in a manner which protects environmental values. Other major functions of the program are: 1. To develop the protection requirements needed to assure that develop- ment and management activities meet established watershed objectives and standards. 2. To restore the productivity and water-handling capabilities of denuded and damaged watershed lands. The work done in the Abajo Peak area west of Monticello would be typical of this phase of the watershed management treatment program. 3. The design and application of resource management practices and supplementary structural measures, where appropriate, to improve water quality and quantity, or timing of water yield. 4. To optimize the public benefits from the available water resources of the National Forests through coordination of Forest Service resource use and development activities with multipurpose water resource develop- ments. 5. The monitoring of the effects of resource management uses on the overall quality of the soil, water, and air resources. 69 |