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The Alchesay National Fish Hatchery is located about 5 miles from White-river, Arizona, also on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. It, too, produces trout, with an average production of 150,000 pounds per year. This hatchery operates under a water agreement similar to the one for the Williams Creek Hatchery. Alchesay uses a flow averaging about 12 second-feet. The supply is adequate and non-consumptive. The fish are distributed as are those produced at the Williams Creek Hatchery. The Arizona Game and Fish Department maintains three trout hatcheries, the Sterling Springs, Page Springs, and Tonto installations, all located in the north-central part of the State. These units produce a total of 235,000 pounds of trout per year. Throughout much of the year, the Sterling Springs Fish Hatchery uses a constant flow of 1 second-foot; the Tonto Fish Hatchery, 2 second-feet; and the Page Springs Hatchery, 20 second-feet. Water supplies for these hatcheries are non-consumptive and adequate. On the tributary waters of the Lower Colorado River, Arizona has developed 15 fishing lakes totaling 1,734 surface acres. On these lakes, some of which were planned in conjunction with larger multiple-purpose reservoirs, there is a consumptive use, due to evapo transpiration, of 8,700 acre-feet a year. These fishing lakes have reasonably adequate supplies of water. The Arizona Game and Fish Department plans on developing 50 additional lakes with a total surface acreage of 5,000. For these lakes an initial diversion of 60,000 acre-feet would be needed. Thereafter, 40,000 acre-feet a year would be used consumptively. Arizona also operates seven wildlife management areas, chiefly for waterfowl, totaling 2,140 acres, having an annual consumptive use of 5,400 acre-feet. A need exists for an annual consumptive use of 11,000 acre-feet, largely for growing agricultural food crops, ponding, and stabilizing water levels. The New Mexico Game and Fish Department operates the Glenwood Fish Hatchery near Glenwood, New Mexico. A redistribution center for trout, it uses a non-consumptive flow up to 2 second-feet to maintain its annual output of 15,000 pounds. Needed is an appropriate flow of 10 second-feet. The New Mexico Department also has developed two fishing lakes, one of 22 acres and another of 70 acres. Consumptive use is around 500 acre-feet a year. Water supplies appear to be adequate. New Mexico sees the need for five additional fishing lakes with a total surface acreage of 500 acres. The estimated water need is a total diversion of 6,000 acre-feet with a consumptive use of 4,000 acre-feet annually The Red Rock Public Hunting Ground, a 2,269-acre area, lies in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Recently acquired by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department, it provides public hunting for chukar partridge and scaled quail. It is expected that the installation will be used in the near future as a holding area for exotic big-game species with which New Mexico 11Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,948,928 byte