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Show LAND RESOURCES AND USE Land ownership within the Region in 1965 was unique in that 6k per- cent was in public ownership and only 36 percent was private. About half the private land is in Indian trust. The Region has a wide variation in vegetal cover types and related categories that determine the resources, uses, and developments that exist or may be projected. The natural vegetation ranges from desert through the chaparral and mountain brush, pinyon juniper and oak wood- land, to the yellow pine and spruce-fir forest, to alpine and tundra- type on top of the highest mountains. The vegetal cover is dependent upon the climate, elevation, soil, geologic formation, and topography. In 1965, about 2 percent of the Region was in cropland; 6k percent, pasture and range; 33 percent, forest and woodland; and less than 1 per- cent in urban, transportation, utilities, etc. VEGETAL COVER Northtrn Desert Shrub Conifsr RANGELAND FOREST LAND LAND OWNERSHIP 8 ADMINISTRATION Chaparral Riparian URBAN, ETC, CROPLAND PUBLIC SECTOR See maps "Land Ownership and Administration" and "Vegetal Cover" presented on the following pages. 26 |