Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project: documents and correspondence, 1979

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primarily to planning and control of ongoing multiple uses, such as mining, livestock grazing, timber harvest, watershed management, and recreational activities. With management for these uses already in effect, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to improve or change these management practices to provide sufficient wildlife mit­igative values to implement a suitable mitigation plan. If such a plan were devised and implemented in order to provide the same mitiga­tive values as the proposed plan, it would require intensive management of at least twice as much land area than is included in the proposed plan. Overall, there would be a social and economic impact on a much greater number of public citizens because of the limiting of recrea­tional development, reduction of grazing and mining permits, reduction of timber harvest sales, and restriction of other forest resource uses which are not compatible to optimum wildlife habitat protection and enhancement• Bureau of Reclamation lands in the Strawberry Valley were evaluated for potential habitat rehabilitation. Specifically, 2,800 acres along the Strawberry River upstream from Strawberry Reservoir were considered upon request by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These lands are currently used for livestock grazing by the Strawberry Water Users Association. These lands have been periodically treated with herbicides in order to reduce streamside willows and sagebrush in favor of grass production. This has greatly reduced their value for wildlife. These lands could be rehabilitated by restricting and reduc­ing livestock use and by re-establishing willow and sagebrush, as well as other suitable shrubs and forbs. However, the nearness of these 27