2 Results of a cooperative investigation conducted by the California Forest and Range Experiment Station of the United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Acknowledgment is also made to the Works Progress Administration for assistance rendered through its Official Project No. 465-03-3-630, Unit B-12.
1914), and others, have shown that th,e character of the native vegetation affords a reliable index of the conditions favorable or unfavorable to the production of farm crops, and have incidentally established correlations between the native vegetation and the available moisture and the physical and chemical properties of the ;soil.Relationships between the native vegetation and the carrying capacity of range Jands have been developed through the investigations here reported, application of which appears to be of far-reaching importance in the judicious management of the lands.
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