Lower Mississippi Region Comprehensive Study. Appendix F. Land Resources.

摘要

The general purpose of this appendix is to provide land resource information that will facilitate the coordinated and orderly conservation, development, utilization, and management of the region's water and related land resources. The data contained herein shall serve as benchmark guides to the formulation of plans for three objectives; national income, regional development, and environmental quality. The specific purposes of this appendix are to: briefly describe the major historical events that contributed to the settlement and use of the region's water and related land resources; present facts relating to the extent and location of land problems, and productivity of the land resource; describe current land use and land availability; assess agricultural land resource development potential; project land needs for agricultural purposes; portray future single-purpose land needs for the Lower Mississippi Region in the categories of agriculture, urban and builtup, recreaction, fish and wildlife, minerals, and environmental; and discuss agricultural lands adequately treated and in need of treatment for 1970 for the region.