Add to ORKGCertain high uses of the public lands have been curtailed because of prior appropriation of available water for a specific use, e.g., recreation use is sometimes precluded because of existing livestock or agricultural use. In many instances, the sale or transfer of public lands brings the lands into a high water-consuming use. For example, the sale or transfer of public lands may result in their development as irrigated farmland, thus further depleting the overdrawn underground water sources. Large public sale, recreation and public purpose, and townsite programs are contemplated within the basin, particularly near the Lower Colorado River. The possible sale of large tracts of land at Eldorado Valley and Fort Mohave to the State of Nevada, ...