This bulletin discusses methods of soil conservation in the northeastern United States that can prevent erosion. Soil conservation practices vary with the type of agriculture being used. In addition to general farming, conservation for dairying, orcharding, market gardening, and single-crop farming are discussed.

A report regarding a characterization that describes the approximately 4000-mile area of the Maine coast norths and east of Cape Elizabeth. It attempts to clarify the current state of knowledge of this ecosystem by synthesizing and integrating existing biological, physical, and socioeconomic information. It provides information on the natural resources of coastal Maine in an ecological framework designed to guide resource management and coastal planning and to aid in the evaluation of human impacts on the ecosystem.

From Introduction: "The investigations presented in this bulletin have been undertaken by the bureau with a view to a better understanding of the conditions which confront the producer of commercial feldspar and also with the object of determining wherein the various deposits of feldspar differ."

A study conducted as part of the Federal Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program of the Office of Research and Development, U.S Environmental Agency; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tidal Power Study; and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Ecosystems Project.

Scrapbook compiled by George Stone documenting his time in the U.S. Marine Corps during the 1920s.