Author: Maryland; Conservation Commission

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781332533244

Excerpt from Report of the Conservation Commission of Maryland for 1908-1909 To His Excellency, Austin L. Crothers, Governor of Maryland, Sir: The Maryland Conservation Commission has the honor to present herewith its first report. It is impossible for the Commission to give more than a brief account of the great natural resources of the State and to indicate those lines of action which it believes should be undertaken for their most complete utilization and conservation. The Commission has had to depend for its facts very largely on the scientific bureaus maintained by the State, particularly on the State Geological Survey, the State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Stale Board of Forestry, the State Shell Fish Commission, the State Weather Service and the State Board of Health. These organizations have been for many years accumulating valuable data regarding the State's developed and undeveloped wealth and it is important for the future progress of the State that their work should be continued and enlarged. The Commission particularly recommends that the State make provision for the study of the problem of the reclamation of the great swamp areas adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay since their drainage, either under Federal or State auspices, would add largely to the wealth of the State. The Commission also calls attention to the necessity of the acquisition on the part of the State at an early day of the deforested areas around the head waters of the streams affording our chief water supplies since the life, health, and industrial activity of the State depend upon the preservation of their flow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.