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Show PART V ALTERNATIVE PLANS There is multiple practice coverage on many acres as well as vari- ous practice units so the only common factor for comparison is cost. Each program provides Tpptto production and the protection required to meet production gOalp. The quantities of practices, as well as cost for treatments, are estimated as protection requirements to correct existing problems and provide increased protection as an integral part of increased production activity. Going Program The Going Program determines what would happen with continuing ex- penditures at the current 196^-69 level without acceleration. This al- ternative program level will accomplish about 78 percent of the proposed watershed program in the Framework Plan, The total program is the same as that in the Land Resources and Use Appendix. OBERS as Published The OEMS as Published alternative will require about 39 percent of the watershed protection expenditures of the Framework Plan. Early study of the OBERS projections, as published for Agriculture, March 1968 and August 1967 issues, revealed inconsistencies that were incompatible with the history of agricultural production in the region. The published low projection of feed output from the cultivated land base does not allow enough livestock to use the large quantities of available grazing on wa- tershed lands. Therefore the projected feed outputs are not adequate to produce the livestock output projected. The plan will require only abou*t one-half the present grazing use on range and pasture land, which is only about one-third the grazing production potential. Many of the present problems related to watershed use will be corrected by the low grazing pressure and only a modest program will be required to adequately treat the watershed. States1 Alternative to the Framework Plan For comparative purposes the States have proposed, as one alterna- tive, development of that same level (6.5 million acre-feet per annum). The differences between the Framework Plan and the State alternative is basically transfers of type of use within and between states; the water- shed program is essentially the same. New developments include oil shale development and coal by-products plants with a support population of about 120,000 for which watershed protection must be provided. States' Alternative at the 8.16 Million Acre-Feet Level of Development The States1 alternative at the 8.16 million acre-feet level of de- velopment results in minimal, localized amounts of additional protection associated with Increased ^production activity. 79 |