Document Type
Report
Publication Date
11-1995
Abstract
This report characterizes several aspects of water allocation tradeoffs between fish species listed under the Federal Endangered Species Act and agriculture in the American West. The geographic intersection between endangered/threatened (E/T) fish and agricultural production reliant on surface water for irrigation is identified. Three findings are: (1) 235 counties, representing 22 percent of the West's counties, contain irrigated production that relies on water from rivers with E/T fish, (2) areas generating the highest revenues per acre from crop production are those most dependent on surface water irrigation, and (3) these same areas are also most likely to be drawing water from rivers that contain at least one E/T species.
Recommended Citation
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, "Endangered Species and Irrigated Agriculture, Water Resource Competition in Western River Systems" (1995). Agriculture. Paper 1.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs_ag/1
Comments
SuDocs call # A 1.75:720/2