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Excerpts: Reasons for state and borough participation in this study are obvious: as they transfer their lands to the private sector, they must determine both the locations and amounts of land to transfer for each type of land use, e.g., for agriculture, timber, settlement, etc. To assist the state and borough in making decisions about which lands to transfer, the USDA undertook to provide resource data and analyses that would facilitate state and borough land use planning and management In the Susitna River Basin. The Susitna River Basin encompasses approximately 14 million acres in Southcentral Alaska (Figure 1). Major stream systems are the Susitna, Talkeetna, Chulitna, Kahlitna, Skwentna, Yentna, and Beluga Rivers, and the lower reaches of the Chakachatna River. Lakes In the area number in the hundreds, among the largest are Lake Louise and Beluga Lake, as well as Alexander, Strandline, Trapper, Shulin, Chelatna, and Amber Lakes. Basin communities (excluding those In the Willow Subbasin) include Talkeetna, Skwentna, Trapper Creek, and Tyonek. The study area includes most of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the northwestern portion of the Kenai Peninsula Borough.