USDA Report on Water and Related Land Resources: Central Lahontan Basin, Walker River Subbasin, Nevada-California"The objective of the Walker River Subbasin Report is to contribute to comprehensive planning for the coordinated and orderly development, management, and use of water and related land resources of the subbasin. It is anticipated that the information presented in this report will: (1) identify the present and potential land and water problems and opportunities for solving them; (2) provide a basis for more effective coordination of U.S. Department of Agriculture resource programs with the related activities of each State and with other Federal agencies; (3) provide a sound basis for the development of water and related land resources by means of Public Law 566 projects for other programs; (4) indicate opportunities for development of water resources and the rehabilitation of depleted watersheds and rangelands of the national forest and public domain, as part of the multiple use programs for these Federal lands. This subbasin report includes: (1) an inventory of the natural resources; (2) an analysis of economic development; (3) a definition of the causes and extent of the resource problems; (4) an indication of present and future needs for resource development; (5) a short discussion of existing resource projects and programs; (6) a description of the resource development potential; (7) an indication of the opportunities for development under U.S. Department of Agriculture programs; and (8) suggested future programs and coordination needs among all groups and agencies. The natural resource inventory was supplemented by a detailed reconnaissance soil survey covering the subbasin. The results of the survey produced a broad but comprehensive summation of the subbasin's most basic resource, along with an interpretative tabulation of the hazards, limitations, and potentials for its use"--Page 1. |
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... Hoover Wilderness Area Backcountry road erosion 61 67 67 70 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Aurora , prior to the turn of the century Aurora , 1967 Anaconda Cooper Company's open pit mine Aerial view of Yerington in Mason Valley ...
... Hoover Wilderness Area Backcountry road erosion 61 67 67 70 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Aurora , prior to the turn of the century Aurora , 1967 Anaconda Cooper Company's open pit mine Aerial view of Yerington in Mason Valley ...
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... Hoover Wilderness 214 74 Irrigation structure , Smith Valley 217 75 Proposed Hoye Canyon dam site , Antelope Valley 223 COLORED MAPS Generalized Geologic Map Following page 14 General Soil Map Following page 18 Vegetal Site and Forage ...
... Hoover Wilderness 214 74 Irrigation structure , Smith Valley 217 75 Proposed Hoye Canyon dam site , Antelope Valley 223 COLORED MAPS Generalized Geologic Map Following page 14 General Soil Map Following page 18 Vegetal Site and Forage ...
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... HOOVER Destac WILDERNESS Crown Point NOCH IS , AND HILLS Pine Grove ( alte Rockland TIO N O E YON CO MINERAL HILLS Potato * Grade WALKER LAKE ZZ Buller M ON DEPOT SOUTHERN TOIYABE NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE CALIFORNIA NEVADA Powell M ...
... HOOVER Destac WILDERNESS Crown Point NOCH IS , AND HILLS Pine Grove ( alte Rockland TIO N O E YON CO MINERAL HILLS Potato * Grade WALKER LAKE ZZ Buller M ON DEPOT SOUTHERN TOIYABE NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE CALIFORNIA NEVADA Powell M ...
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... WILDERNESS Tower Peak Ehrnbeck Peak Freier Lake T3N Crown Point ROCK ISLAND PASS SIERRA Matterhor Peak NEVADA ... HOOVER Fiat Kearhop Loke The Fk BRIDGEPORT East weker Inaccessible , restricted , unsuitable , nonrange areas for livestock ...
... WILDERNESS Tower Peak Ehrnbeck Peak Freier Lake T3N Crown Point ROCK ISLAND PASS SIERRA Matterhor Peak NEVADA ... HOOVER Fiat Kearhop Loke The Fk BRIDGEPORT East weker Inaccessible , restricted , unsuitable , nonrange areas for livestock ...
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... Hoover Wilderness , which may not be cut ; ( 2 ) nonreserved forest lands , on which the timber sale activities of the national forest are concentrated . ( See photograph 13. ) The Toiyabe National Forest has segregated its annual ...
... Hoover Wilderness , which may not be cut ; ( 2 ) nonreserved forest lands , on which the timber sale activities of the national forest are concentrated . ( See photograph 13. ) The Toiyabe National Forest has segregated its annual ...
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50 percent chance acre-feet acreage acres agricultural alfalfa annual Antelope Valley approximately areas Basin Field Party Bodie Hills Bridgeport Valley Campground Canyon Central Lahontan Basin cropland crops damage Desert Creek ditches drainage East economic erosion estimated FIELD PARTY PHOTO Fish flow forage production class grazing ground water Hawthorne Hoover Wilderness hydrologic improved increase irrigated lands irrigation irrigation water Lahontan Basin Field Little Walker livestock located Lyon Mason Valley Mineral Mono County needed numbers pasture Peak photograph phreatophytes pinyon portion potential present private lands programs ranch rangeland Ranger District recreation resource development River Indian Reservation runoff sagebrush-grass Schurz sediment Sierra Nevada Smith Valley Soil Conservation storage stream surface Sweetwater Mountains tion Toiyabe National Forest Topaz Lake USDA vegetal Walker Lake Walker River Indian Walker River Subbasin Wassuk Range water quality water resource water rights water supply water yield watershed West Walker River Whiskey Flat wildlife Yerington Zone
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Page 22 - D — soils having very slow infiltration rates when thoroughly wetted, consisting chiefly of (1) clay soils with a high swelling potential, (2) soils with a high permanent water table, (3) soils with a clay pan or clay layer at or near the surface, and (4) shallow soils over nearly impervious material.
Page 22 - ... soils with moderately fine to moderately coarse textures. These soils have a moderate rate of water transmission.
Page 22 - These soils have a high rate of water transmission and would result in a low runoff potential. Group B - Soils having moderate infiltration rates when thoroughly wetted, consisting chiefly of moderately deep to deep, moderately well to well drained soils with moderately coarse textures.
Page 7 - USC 1001-1008) provides for cooperation with other federal, state, and local agencies in making investigations and surveys of river basins as a basis for the development of coordinated water resource programs.
Page 7 - Whereas, although the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, as amended...
Page 22 - These soils have a moderate rate of water transmission. Group C — soils having slow infiltration rates when thoroughly wetted...
Page 211 - Legislative Authorization Title I, Section 102 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-703) authorized the Secretary of Agriculture "to cooperate with federal, state, territorial, and other public agencies In developing plans for a program of land conservation and land utilization, to...
Page 211 - The objectives of the program is to expand economic opportunities for the people of an area by assisting them in developing and carrying out plans of action for the orderly conservation, improvement, development, and wise use of their natural resources. Agencies of the Department of Agriculture, under program leadership of the Soil Conservation Service, provide technical, financial and loan assistance to local sponsors. The sponsors also seek the assistance of all local, state, and federal agencies...
Page 229 - No. 18, 503 pp., illus. (9) (10) (H) 1960. SOIL CLASSIFICATION, A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM, 7TH APPROXIMATION. 265 pp., illus. [Supplements issued in March 1967 and in September 1968] 1961.
Page 168 - Service, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the Nevada Fish and Game Commission...