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Report of range subproject; Scenic Rivers Study, report No. 3, OWRR project no. B-014-IDA Item Info

This report discusses the importance of grazing in the Salmon River Basin, its relationship to the Salmon River and what implications a wild and scenic river status would have on this activity. The first section deals with an inventory of livestock uses, grazing permits and AUM's in the Salmon River Basin. The next section discusses the role of grazing, its relationship to potential classification of the river and competition of uses such as water quality, wildlife, forest, water resources and recreation. The discussion section concludes with possible restrictions on range use if the river was classified. Next, a test case is given in which the method presented is used. Alternative classifications are presented, an inventory made, resource maps considered, alternative classification evaluated and conclusions drawn. It was estimated that there were about 2.7 million acres of forest land and 2.4 million acres of range land grazed in the Basin. The AUM's on national forest land were approximately 129,000 and on BLM land, 239,000 respectively. The total number of permittees reported was 583. The remainder of the report discusses the effects of classification and the relationships between recreation and livestock grazing. There doesn't seem to be much conflict between grazing and river classification. Generally, there is little, if any, grazing in the areas which would be classified as scenic or wild and it is an established practice in the recreational portion. In the case of recreation, livestock grazing may present some problems in terms of river access. These primarily related to disturbing cattle on ranges and opening and closing of gates. It was concluded that the conflict between range and wild river classification would be minimal.

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Title:
Report of range subproject; Scenic Rivers Study, report No. 3, OWRR project no. B-014-IDA
Authors:
Herbst, J. R.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1973-02
Description:
This report discusses the importance of grazing in the Salmon River Basin, its relationship to the Salmon River and what implications a wild and scenic river status would have on this activity. The first section deals with an inventory of livestock uses, grazing permits and AUM's in the Salmon River Basin. The next section discusses the role of grazing, its relationship to potential classification of the river and competition of uses such as water quality, wildlife, forest, water resources and recreation. The discussion section concludes with possible restrictions on range use if the river was classified. Next, a test case is given in which the method presented is used. Alternative classifications are presented, an inventory made, resource maps considered, alternative classification evaluated and conclusions drawn. It was estimated that there were about 2.7 million acres of forest land and 2.4 million acres of range land grazed in the Basin. The AUM's on national forest land were approximately 129,000 and on BLM land, 239,000 respectively. The total number of permittees reported was 583. The remainder of the report discusses the effects of classification and the relationships between recreation and livestock grazing. There doesn't seem to be much conflict between grazing and river classification. Generally, there is little, if any, grazing in the areas which would be classified as scenic or wild and it is an established practice in the recreational portion. In the case of recreation, livestock grazing may present some problems in terms of river access. These primarily related to disturbing cattle on ranges and opening and closing of gates. It was concluded that the conflict between range and wild river classification would be minimal.
Subjects:
grazing cattle river regulations
Location:
Salmon River
Latitude:
45.74
Longitude:
-116.32
Collection:
IWRRI
Series:
Scenic River Study
IWRRI number:
197319
Rights:
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Publisher:
University of Idaho
Contributing Institution:
University of Idaho
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Cataloger:
wbv
Date Digitized:
2012

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