John Prentiss Thomson papers 1869-1985 1916-1985
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Thomson, John Prentiss, 1903-1984.
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Geologist John Prentiss Thomson was born July 12, 1903 in Virginia and was educated at the State College of Washington. He began his career in 1930 as a transitman with Land Cruise of Kittitas County, Washington, and joined the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service in 1934. In 1954, he became a member of the first Washington State University-Pakistan Exchange Program and helped establish the Dept. of Geology and Mining at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, West Pakistan. Retur...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Spokane District Office
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United States. Soil Conservation Service
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Reports were prepared by various engineers with the Soil Conservation Service. From the description of Reports of a land management survey, Navajo Indian Reservation, 1930-1938. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31277347 Formed in 1935, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its function was to promote and lead efforts to protect against soil and watershed degradation as part of a broader concern fo...
