Report of the Rivers and Lakes Commission on the Illinois River and Its Bottom Lands: With Reference to the Conservation of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Control of Floods (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Commission, Illinois Rivers And Lakes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333668155 ISBN 13: 9781333668150

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Report of the Rivers and Lakes Commission on the Illinois River and Its Bottom Lands: With Reference to the Conservation of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Control of Floods

On March 14, 1914, the Rivers and Lakes Commission was called into a conference with Governor Edward F. Dunne, the Fish and Game Conservation Commission, representatives of the State Water Survey, Biological Department of the State University, and the Agricultural Department of the State University, to discuss the importance of prob lems growing out of the varied and conflicting interests in and to the Illinois River and its valley. The matters under consideration at this conference were the preservation of the public waters of the State, the reclamation of submerged lands, the preservation of fish, and future flood control.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333668155
• ISBN 13: 9781333668150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189