Central Valley Project Studies: Problems ..., Issue 23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 |
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Page 79 - Parkways along waterways and to connect major units of the recreational-area system. 2. For holiday and week-end use by city folk and by those who live in thickly populated or intensively cultivated rural sections, there is need of public recreational areas where picnicking, water sports, day and overnight camping, hiking, and other related activities may be enjoyed, and which are sufficiently large to provide those who use them a sense of freedom and of separation from crowds. At least one such...
Page 19 - Indians have the status of stockholders and their forests are administered for their benefit by the Office of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior.
Page 90 - Director of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State Department of Health...
Page 79 - ... separation from crowds. At least one such area should be within 25 miles of those for whom they are chiefly provided. A distance even less than that will assure increased availability to those for whom transportation is a difficult problem. 3. Because of the highly artificialized conditions under which city dwellers are forced to live, the pressure for adequate recreation facilities is exerted primarily in their behalf. Yet there can be no denying that the 43.8 percent of the population of the...
Page 58 - Latitude, 39° 7' 30" to 39° 20'; longitude, 121° 7' 30" to 121° 22' 30". Map of an area in Yuba and Nevada counties, mainly in the valley of Yuba River, near the point where it emerges from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Above The Narrows the river flows in a winding V-shaped gorge, 700 feet deep, between hills that stand 1,100 to 1,400 feet above sea level. Below The Narrows the valley is 100 to 300 feet deep with steep walls. *Pozo: Scale, 1 inch=l mile; contour interval, 50 feet. Latitude,...
Page 34 - Problems in Relation to Shasta Dam, by HA Hanson, OR Smith, and PR Neodham.
Page 64 - Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. TYPICAL FLUCTUATION OF WATER LEVEL Millerton Lake...
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