PREFACE 



On November 2S, 1934, the Nationtil Resourees 

 Board sul)mitted to the Presick'iit, in aceordiUiet^ with 

 an Executive order, its report on National Phinnini; 

 and Public Works in Relation to Natural Resources 

 and including Land Tse and Water Resources. Part 

 11 (if tliat report was the Re|)ort of the Laud Phiuiiiuu- 

 C'oniniittee. In the course of i)reparin>; part 11 of 

 the ai)ove report a larire volume of l)asic data and infor- 

 luation was collected wliicli could not then t)c inchidcd. 

 The ])id)hcation of the i)rcsent report is for the pur])ose 

 of making such data and information available to 

 interested persons and organizations. 



The ])resent land leport lias been organized info 11 

 parts according to sul)ject matter anil the contributing 

 agencies. These II parts are matle available as il 

 separate publications. Organization and publication 

 on this basis was done because nuuiy persons and 

 agencies are interested only in certain ])arts of the 

 present re])ort, and the necessity of purchasing tiu' 

 whole report in order to obtain the desired part or 

 parts is thereby eliminated. 



The ])resent land report, when conceived as a whole, 

 does not purport to be a complete work on the subject 

 of land utilization, or of its related problems and ])ro- 

 posed lines of action; neither is it designed to be a thor- 

 oughly integrated piece of work. The prhnary aim 

 here lias been to set forth the facts, analyses, and the 

 recommended lines of action as developed by each of 

 the various contributing governmental bureaus, divi- 

 sions, sections, or individiuds, on the problems witii 

 which each of such agencies or persons is concernetl. 

 The points of view are, therefore, those of the con- 

 tiibuting iigencies or intlividuals themselves. The 

 Land Planning Committee presents the report as 



infornnition, but assumes no responsibility for tiie 

 opinions e.\])ressed in it. 



This r('i)oi't was prepared uiulcr the direction of 

 Dr. L. (\ Gray, director of the Land Section of the 

 National Resources Board, aided by John B. Bennett, 

 who served as administrative assistant and as secre- 

 tary to the Land Planning Committee. Editing and 

 prc])aration of the report for publication were under the 

 direction of Mr. H. H. Erdmann, agricultural economist 

 of the Land Section, National Resources Board. 



Authorship by agencies and individuals is aclviiowl- 

 edged in their respective contributions. The follow- 

 ing goveriuncntai agencies have contributed to the 

 wiiolc report; 'i'iie Geological Survey, the Division 

 of (irazing Control, the Office of Indian AH'airs, the 

 National Park Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation, 

 in the Cnited States Department of the Interior; and 

 the Bui'eau of Agricultural Engineering, the Biological 

 Survey, the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, the Forest 

 Service, the Soil Conservation Service, the Weather 

 Bureau, the Divisions of Land Economics, of Farm 

 Management antl Costs, and of I'arm Finance in the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and the Land 

 Policy Section, the Production Planning Section, the 

 Import-Export Section, and the Agricultural-Indus- 

 trial Relations Section of the Division of Program 

 Planning of the Agricidtural Adjustment Administra- 

 tion in the L'nited States Department of Agriculture. 

 Credit also is due to the State agricultural experiment 

 stations and extension services. State planning boards, 

 commissions, and other State organizations and indi- 

 viduals for aid in preptii'ation of several sections of the 

 report. 



Land Planiung Connnittee 



M. L. \ViLsoN, Chairman. 

 Oscar Chapman. Mokdecai Ezekiel. 



W. G. Mendenhall. Jacob Baker. 



H. H. Bennett. Charles W. Eliot, 21). 



L. C. Gray, Directar. 



