Excerpt from Report of the Rivers and Lakes Commission on the Illinois River and Its Bottom Lands: With Reference to the Conservation of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Control of Floods On March 14, 1914, the Rivers and Lakes Commission was called into a conference with Governor Edward F. Dunne, the Fish and Game Conservation Commission, representatives of the State Water Survey, Biological Department of the State University, and the Agricultural Department of the State University, to discuss the importance of prob lems growing out of the varied and conflicting interests in and to the Illinois River and its valley. The matters under consideration at this conference were the preservation of the public waters of the State, the reclamation of submerged lands, the preservation of fish, and future flood control. 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.

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