PREFACE 



On November 2S, 1934, the National Resources 

 Board submitted to the President, in accordance with 

 an Executive order, its report on National Planning 

 and Public Works in Relation to Natural Resources 

 and Includino; Land Use and Water Resources. Part 

 II of that report was the Report of the Land Planning 

 Committee. In the course of preparing part II of 

 the above report a large volume of basic data and infor- 

 mation was collected which could not then be included. 

 The publication of the present report is for the purpose 

 of making such data and infonnation available to 

 interested persons and organizations. 



The present land report has been organized into 1 1 

 parts according to subject matter and the contributmg 

 agencies. These 11 parts are made available as 11 

 separate publications. Organization and publication 

 on this basis was done because many persons and 

 agencies are interested only in certain parts of the 

 present report, and the necessity of purchasing the 

 whole report in order to obtain the desired part or 

 parts is thereby eliminated. 



The present 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 pro- 

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

 oughly integrated piece of work. The prunary aim 

 here has been to set forth the facts, analyses, and v,he 

 recommended lines of action as developed by each of 

 the various contributing governmental bureaus, divi- 

 sions, sections, or individuals, on the problems with 

 which each of such agencies or persons is concerned. 

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

 tributmg agencies or individuals themselves. The 

 Land Planning Committee presents the report as 



information, but assumes no responsibility for the 

 opinions expressed in it. 



This report was prepared under the direction of 

 Dr. L. C. 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 

 preparation 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 acknowl- 

 edged in their respective contributions. The follow- 

 ing governmental agencies have contributed to the 

 whole report: The Geological Survey, the Division 

 of Grazing Control, the Office of Indian Affairs, the 

 National Park Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation, 

 in the United States Department of the Interior; and 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, the Biological 

 Survej', the Bureau of Chemistrv' and Soils, the Forest 

 Service, the Soil Conservation Service, the Weather 

 Bureau, the Divisions of Land Economics, of Farm 

 Management and Costs, and of Farm Fmance 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 United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Credit also is due to the State agricultural expermicnt 

 stations and extension services, State planning boards, 

 commissions, and other State organizations and indi- 

 viduals for aid in preparation of several sections of the 

 report. 



Land Planning Committee 

 M. L. Wilson, Chairman. 



Oscar Chapman. 

 W. G. Mendenhall. 

 H. H. Bennett. 



mordecai ezekiel. 

 Jacob Baker. 

 Charles W. Eliot, 2d. 



L. C. Gray, Director. 



