Agricultural land resources : Capabilities, uses, conservation needs : a digest of the National inventory of soil and water conservation needs / prepared by the Conservation Needs Inventory Committee [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Conservation Needs Inventory Committee

United States. Department of Agriculture, issuing body.

Series:

Agriculture information bulletin ; no. 263.

Agriculture information bulletin ; no. 263

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--United States.

Land use.

Soil conservation--United States.

Soil conservation.

Water conservation--United States.

Water conservation.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 30 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States. Department of Agriculture, 1962.

Summary:

Of data. pp. 29.

Contents:

Basis of the inventory. pp. 2.

Facts from every county. pp. 3.

Dominant hazards limiting capability. pp. 8.

Major land uses. pp. 9.

Land use in the future. pp. 10.

Land expected to go out of agriculture. pp. 12.

Land expected to be in new uses by 1975. pp. 14.

Conservation needs on cropland. pp. 16-17.

Conservation needs on pasture and range. pp. 18-19.

Conservation needs on forest and woodland. pp. 20-21.

Small watersheds delineated. pp. 22.

What a watershed is

What a watershed project is. pp. 23.

Watershed projects needed. pp. 25.

Recreation and water supply. pp. 28.

Summary of data. pp. 29.

Notes:

"Issued May 1962."

Online resource; title from PDF title screen (USDA, viewed on September 22, 2021).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014.

Other Format:

Print version: United States. Conservation Needs Inventory Committee. Agricultural land resources

OCLC:

890535507

Access Restriction:

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