The present status of snow surveying and irrigation water supply forecasting in the west

A narrative of ‘The Cooperative Federal-State-Private Snow Survey Program’ is presented. the details of organizing such a program throughout the eleven (11) western states was necessary, not only from a financial standpoint as from the physical impossibility of the small oraganization staff reaching the widely separated snow survey courses. The centralization of data collection and publication by states or river drainage areas, permitted all cooperators and others to profit from all the data collected, and the assessment of probable water supplies for irrigation and water management. Without the cooperation of the U. S. Forest Service, Park Service, Power and Irrigation districts or companies; the U. S. Geological Survey, Weather Bureau, Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Army Engineers; the snow survey program and water supply forecasting would never had been assembled.