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Title: Conservation
Identifier: conservation151909amer (find matches)
Year: 1908-1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY By FREDERICK HAYNES NEWELL, Director U. S, Reclamation Service THE problem of the Sacramento River for years has been one of absorbing interest to State and Federal engineers. The commercial and property interests are so vast, the potential possibilities of the immense areas embraced in California are so great, and the engineering features are so varied and stupendous, that the problem of river control and utilization naturally has received thoughtful con- sideration by experts and engineers. Unfortunately, this consideration has been devoted principally to local condi- tions. The study of all the economic problems involved has been more or less desultory. Intelligent considera- tion by various experts has been given separately to questions of transportation, removal of mining debris, and reclama- tion by drainage and irrigation. Re- cently there has come an awakening to the need of a more comprehensive study of the whole drainage basin. It is realized now that the investigations of the past must be coordinated. The problem must be considered in its en- tirety and not piecemeal, if a satisfac- tory solution is ever to be reached. A vast fund of information concern- ing the Sacramento and its basin has been gathered as the result of the num- erous investigations in past years. These data should be assembled and studied by an efficient commission rep- resenting all interests, but restricted to none, in order that a comprehensive plan of deveolpment may be laid out and presented for the consideration of the state legislature and of Congress
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Okanogan Project, Washington, Completed Portion of Concrete Lined Canal, Showing Lands on Pogue Flat to Be Irrigated under Canal

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