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sizes, and modify the effects of major 

 floods by maintaining the natural 

 storage capacities of the watershed 

 soils and retarding surface runoff. 

 Only a properly designed combination 

 of watershed and waterway treatments, 

 encompassing all portions of a drain- 

 age basin and involving both water- 

 shed improvement and reservoirs and 

 other necessary engineering works, can 

 assure maximum flood protection. 



Proper and continuing farm-, for- 

 est-, and range-management practices 

 are essential to the permanent reduc- 

 tion of watershed damages. The repair 

 of watersheds already damaged is only 

 the first step. As our people understand, 

 adopt, and demonstrate a more posi- 

 tive and responsible attitude toward re- 

 source conservation in all its forms, 

 greater protection from flood and sedi- 

 ment damage by both land treatment 

 and engineering activities will be 

 realized. 



GEORGE R. PHILLIPS handles the co- 

 ordination and other over-all phases of 

 the flood-control program in the Of- 



fice of the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Since his graduation in forestry from 

 Michigan State College, he has worked 

 with the Michigan Land Economic 

 Survey and served as assistant State 

 forester of Indiana, State forester of 

 Oklahoma, State director for the 

 Shelterbelt Project in Oklahoma, chief 

 of the Division of State Forestry in the 

 Forest Service, and chairman of the 

 Farm Forestry Committee and the 

 Water Facilities Board in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



BERNARD FRANK is assistant chief of 

 the Division of Forest Influences of the 

 Forest Service, engaged in watershed- 

 management research and watershed 

 flood-control investigations. He was 

 graduated in forestry from Cornell 

 University, and has done graduate 

 work in the University of Wisconsin. 

 He worked with the Forest Service on 

 land-utilization problems in the south- 

 ern Appalachian Mountains and in the 

 Lake States, and served with the Ten- 

 nessee Valley Authority as assistant 

 chief forester on forest-resource inves- 

 tigations and planning. 



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Interception of rain and how it is stored 

 on leaves and twigs. 



Interception of snow and how it is stored 

 in openings between trees. 



