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1839 – California: A History Of Upper And Lower California From Their First Discovery To The Present Time, Alexander Forbes
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The first full account in English to relate exclusively to California, this book covers the history, climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, and commerce, as well as the establishment of the missions and the conditions of the “free and domesticated” Indians. It includes an appendix on steam navigation in the Pacific.
1978 - January – Drought 77 Dry Year Program Report
1978 - January – Drought 77 Dry Year Program Report
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The objectives of the Drought 77 Dry Year Program were to identify critical drought impacted areas in Northern and Central California, to provide information to water users in these areas in regard to water conservation, to assure that the limited supply available was used in accordance with lawful rights, and to take enforcement action against violations of permit and license conditions, illegal diversions and waste or unreasonable use of water.
1912 - Report Of The Conservation Commission Of The State Of California
1912 - Report Of The Conservation Commission Of The State Of California
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The report prepared by the Conservation Commission of the State of California investigated and gathered data and information concerning forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical or other power, mines and mining, mineral and other lands, dredging, reclamation and irrigation, providing such information for the purpose of revising, systematizing and reforming the state laws pertaining to these subjects.
1907 - Report Of The California State Agricultural Society For 1906
1907 - Report Of The California State Agricultural Society For 1906
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
1907 report on various subjects pertaining to the California State Agricultural Society in 1906, copies of some of the bulletins issued by the Society during the year, and a review of the physical conditions and characteristics of most of the counties of the State, with statistics showing the farm acreage, the assessable wealth, and industrial resources for those counties.
1951 - Generalized Soil Map Of California, Manual 6
1951 - Generalized Soil Map Of California, Manual 6
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The 1951 publication provides a generalized soil map of California depicting in a general way the soil geography of California. The map shows four major topographic divisions that are separated into 18 mapping categories and an unmapped south-eastern desert region.
1945 - Irrigation Requirements Of California Crops, Bulletin No. 51
1945 - Irrigation Requirements Of California Crops, Bulletin No. 51
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
This 1945 report addresses the issue of water being the limiting factor in the expansion of irrigated areas. The increasing cost of new projects not only approached the capital values that newly irrigated lands might profitably support but in many cases exceeded them and other benefits were evaluated to justify construction. Conservation of existing water supplies was therefore of the first importance in the economy of the irrigated west. Savings in irrigation seldom exist where water was plentiful but where it was scarce conserving methods were the rule, wasteful practices were avoided, and water was carefully applied. It was axiomatic …