Numerical value less than 25 is considered in "bad"
condition class.

The general condition classes of the Bureau of Land Management lands are shown in table 6. No data were supplied for the State of Washington. Similar information for lands under the ad ministration of other federal agencies were not available.

Table 6 indicates that 55.7 per cent of the Bureau of Land Management lands as of 1968 are in a fair condition and 24.3 per cent are in poor condition. Other condition classes of the remaining portion of Bureau of Land Management lands are as follows: one per cent excellent, 14.6 per cent good, and 4.4 per cent bad. It was concluded that the majority of Bureau of Land Management lands are in fair te poor condition.

The State of Nevada has the largest acreage of Bureau of Land Management lands in the l western states, 47,749,645 acres. For the 10 states for which data were furnished, the greatest percentage of Fureau of Land Management land rated to be in poor condition are in the state of Utah, 36.2 per cent, and the lowest percentage of such class of lands are in the state of Montana, 4.6 per cent. Similarly the greatest percentage of the land area classified as good is in the state of Montana, 47.9 per cent, and the lowest percentage of such lands are in the state of Utah, 4.8 per

cent.

The estimated areas of Forest Service lands, Bureau of Land Management lands and Fish and Wildlife Service lands in the ll western states needing corrective measures are presented in tables 7, 8 and 9, respectively. Similar information for other public lands needing corrective measures for the purpose of watershed rehabilitation were not furnished. No table is presented for the National Park Service because it did not furnish tabular data. The National Park Service stated that no information was available on acreages of land needing corrective measures in 1968. The 13/ Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento, California, letter of October 24, 1968, to Resource Contractor.

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