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5. To whom do I apply for a water right? 



To the division of water rights, State Department of Public 

 Works, Sacramento, Calif. 



Permits involving the use of Government land for water power 

 projects or for lines transmitting electric energy generated by water 

 power should be filed with the Federal Power Commission, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, either directly or through the regional forester of the 

 California region, United States Forest Service, San Francisco. 



TIMBER RESOURCES 



1. Where do the forest areas of California occur? 

 The forests of California follow the mountain ranges which sur- 

 round the large central valleys. This forest region is roughly 



Virgin forest. 



National forests are created to protect and maintain a perpetual 

 supply of timber for the use of all citizens 



shaped like a horseshoe with the toe of the shoe at Mount Shasta. 

 The east side extends down the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada to 

 the southern boundary of Tulare County, and the west side down the 

 Coast Range to the southern boundary of Monterey County. Por- 

 tions of the Coast Range of southern California, below Monterey 

 County, contain, at high elevations, irregular and scattering tree 

 growth, but over 99 per cent of the mountain land which bears forests 

 lies north of a line running east and west through Bakersfield. 



IF YOU DON'T KNOW, ASK A UNITED STATES FOREST 



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