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Excerpt from Water Supply Outlook and Federal-State-Private Cooperative Snow Surveys for Western United States, Including Columbia River Drainage in Canada: As of Feb. 1, 1965 The climate of the cultivated and populated areas of the West is characterize months. Such precipitation as occurs falls mostly in the winter and early Spring n immediate benefit to growing crops. Most of this precipitation falls as mountain sno for months, melting later to sustain streamflow during the period of greatest dem summer. Thus, nature provides in mountain snow an imposing water storage facility. The amount Of water stored in mountain snow varies from place to place as wel accordingly, so does the runoff of the streams. The best seasonal management of vari results from advance estimates of the streamflow. 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.