Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Utilization of El Dorado County Land
This bulletin is a report of the results of the first large-scale study, in California, of land utilization and of the complex problems arising out of its relations to the economic and social structure. Perhaps in no other area of California are the con?icts between major uses of nonurban land more critical than in the foothill zone on the eastern side of the Great Valley, extending from the mouth of the Sacramento Canyon at Kennett, in a southeasterly direction for roughly 500 miles, nearly to the southern end of the Sierra Nevada. Of this region El Dorado County constitutes one of the most typical portions, having many advantages for a first effort ln land use planning.
The investigations here reported were made as the initial step in the search for a solution of the land-use problems of California, and not of El Dorado County alone. The point of View is not so much that of sitting in judgment upon the rival claims of conflicting land uses as of attempt ing, on the basis of land suitability, a conscious coordination of the major uses of the area, namely, agriculture, grazing, forestry and recrea tion, and numerous minor uses, such that land use will make its full contribution towards the most serviceable and harmoniously function ing economic and social organization possible, under the conditions of each case.
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