Wyoming Supplement for the Wind-Bighorn-Clarks Fork River Basin: Type IV Survey; USDA Water and Related Land Resources Report
Creators: name: Economic Research Service 
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service 
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The Wyoming portion of the Wind-Bighorn-Clarks Fork River Basin is located in north central Wyoming as shown in figure II--1. Its boundary encompasses an area of about 13,179,000 acres, or about 20,590 square miles. This includes nearly all of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park, and Washakie Counties; most of Fremont County; small portions of Johnson, Natrona, Sheridan, Teton, and Sublette Counties; and a small portion of Yellowstone National Park. The basin is bordered by the Yellowstone, Snake, and Green River Basins on the west and the Platte, Powder, and Tongue River Basins on the south and east. The Wyoming portion of the Wind-Bighorn-Clarks Fork Basin represents 4 percent of the area of the Missouri River Basin and 21 percent of the area of Wyoming. About 60 percent of the basin is public lands with 23 percent administered by the U. S. Forest Service, 33.6 percent by the Bureau of Land Management, 3.1 percent by the Bureau of Reclamation, 0.4 percent by other federal agencies, and 4.6 percent by the state. The remaining lands are in private ownership held either by individuals, corporations, or the Arapahoe and Shoshone Indian tribes on the Wind River Indian Reservation. This report presents the results of a study of problems and needs, potentials, and opportunities for the use and development of water and related land resources in the Wind-Bighorn-Clarks Fork River Basin in Wyoming. Opportunities for programs and projects which can be administered by agencies of the U. S. Department of Agriculture are identified. This study is needed to provide information for a coordinated plan for systematic multipurpose development of the natural resources of this basin. The objective of this study and report is to contribute to the coordinated and orderly development, management, and use of water and related land resources of the basin. This report includes an inventory of natural resources, an analysis of economic development, an inventory of water and related land resource problems, and an identification of present and future needs for development of these resources. There is discussion of existing projects and programs and an estimate of the development potential of these resources. A description of identified opportunities for U. S. Department of Agriculture programs and their impacts is part of the report.
description: This study has been made under the authority of Section VI of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of the 83rd Congress (Public Law 566, as amended). By this act the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cooperate with other federal, state, and local agencies in making investigations of watersheds, rivers, and other waterways. The Soil Conservation Service, Forest Service, and Economic Research Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture have participated in this study in accordance with memorandums of understanding dated February 2, 1956, as revised April 15, 1968 [and] in cooperation with Wyoming State Engineer.