Excerpt from Peat Land in the Pacific Coast States in Relation to Land and Water Resources The field work had for its primary object a study of the physical features of the various peat areas on the Pacific coast. It included the identification of the several layers of organic material that constitute a peat deposit and examination of conditions per taining to agricultural development, the production of commercial peat products, and water supplies. 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.