Excerpt from A Guide to the San Dimas Experimental Forest Growing water needs led to importation of water into southern California, starting in 1913. Aqueducts have been built to bring water from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and from the Colorado River, each more than 250 miles distant. These developments, made at tremendous cost. 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.