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Ute Watershed

Description of Watershed

The total estimated area in the watershed is 1,378,127 acres. This watershed is located in Quay, San Miguel, Colfax, Harding, Union, and Colfax counties in the extreme northeast portion of New Mexico.

The land uses in this watershed consist of rangeland and some dryland farming. The watershed area is a combination of Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys, and Southern High Plains resource areas. The topography ranges from level to nearly level grass covered basalt-capped mesas,  with sides of steep to very steep rought broken land and hills on the north and west side of the watershed. There are grass covered gently undulating uplands on the east side and nearly level to gently sloping alluvial fans in the center of the watershed.  The soils range from shallow to moderately deep soils wiith clay loam or loam textures to clayey textures over basalt in the north and western part of the watershed.  There are deep gently sloping sandy soils in the eastern side of the watershed. The central portion has deep soils with clay loams and clay textured soils near Ute creek.

The Ute watershed has approximately 149 farm and ranch operating units. In the cropland areas of the watershed there are about 17,050 acres. The primary crops include pastureland, small grains, alfalfa, and other hay crops.  In the rangeland area of the watershed there are about 1,349,372 acres. The ranches are mostly cow/calf and wildlife production operations.

Ute Watershed Map
Land Use Colfax Acres San Miguel Acres Union Acres Harding Acres Quay Acres Total Acres
Cropland 1,691 58 1,290 11,901 2,110 17,050
Range 181,185 2,619 193,476 968,813 3,279 1,349,372
Forest 4,125 58 3,249 3,126 3 10,561
Developed 0 0 3 15 149 167
Water 16 0 41 322 530 909
Other 0 0 53 15 0 68
Total 187,017 2,735 198,112 984,192 6,071 1,378,127

Counties in Watershed

 
Stewardship Payments
  TierI Tier II TierIII
Non-Irrigated Cropland $0.23/ac $0.90/ac $2.03/ac
Irrigated Cropland $0.80/ac $3.20/ac $7.20/ac
Pastureland $0.18/ac $0.70/ac $1.58/ac
Rangeland $0.05/ac $0.20/ac $0.45/ac

 

The following document requires  Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel DocumentUte New Practice and Enhancement Cost List ( 36KB)

 
Program Contact - New Mexico
Local Contact
Roy Service Center
Mike Delano
District Conservationist
Old Blasi Building, 3rd and Chicosa Floersheim
Roy, New Mexico 87743
Phone:  (505)485-2294
Fax:  (505)485-2495
Email:  david.delano@nm.usda.gov

State Office Contact
Leah B. Ricke
Resource Conservationist - Programs
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phone: (505)761-4444
Fax: (505)761-4462
Email: leah.ricke@nm.usda.gov

 
National Information
 Conservation Security Program
 CSP Self Assessment Link
 View and print the Self Assessment Workbook
 CSP Interim Final Rule
 USDA Selects Watersheds for CSP 2005 Sign-Up