Excerpt from Development of Resources and of Economic Opportunity in the Pacific Northwest: Report of the Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission to the National Resources Planning Board In 1938, at the direction of the President, the National Resources Planning Board (then the National Re sources Committee) requested the Commission to under take a study of land and migration problems in the region. Funds for the study were allotted by the Public Works Administration with the request that there be included in the survey recommendations with regard to fundamental land and water programs and projects of the various Federal and State agencies lead ing to the construction of public works recommended as a result of these studies. 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.