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The lack of adequate water developments for livestock and wildlife on public grazing lands results in improper distribution of grazing animals. Additional wells, spring developments, stockpends, and reservoirs are needed in order to diminish over-grazing around existing waterholes, thereby minimizing problems with respect to erosion, run-off and sediment damages. Additional detention dams would also provide stockwater as well as alleviate erosion. These practices, together with completion of the adjudication of range privileges, would promote more efficient utilization of existing range forage and improve watershed conditions. Cooperative ventures between the Bureau and local range users will continue, and probably increase, thereby adding to the number of cooperative range and soil moisture conservation projects. More condition and trend surveys of the public range are required to determine proper stocking rates and identify needed adjustments in the use of the range and management practices. Complete hydrologic data such as precipitation records, groundwater recharge rates, infiltration rates, and soil moisture storing capacities are needed. Such data would facilitate the proper handling of groundwater systems, land classification, and development of range improvements such as spring and well developments. The data would also minimize the tendency to over-design water structures, at the same 19Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,303,232 byte