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... basin of Arcachon . In the same order of ideas , every one knows that children make sand - balls with wet sand , a thing they could not do with dry sand . The dunes are separated by level , horizontal intervals called lettes . These ...
... basin of Arcachon . In the same order of ideas , every one knows that children make sand - balls with wet sand , a thing they could not do with dry sand . The dunes are separated by level , horizontal intervals called lettes . These ...
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... basin of Arcachon . They spread on either side of the clump of ancient forest at Moulleau . Have they left banks analogous to those of our three capes of La Teste ? I have not been able to find out anything certain . At 650 m . or 700 m ...
... basin of Arcachon . They spread on either side of the clump of ancient forest at Moulleau . Have they left banks analogous to those of our three capes of La Teste ? I have not been able to find out anything certain . At 650 m . or 700 m ...
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... basin of the supplying stream is the all - important factor in determining the period of service , or the number of years which will elapse before the soil re- moved by heavy rains from the lands on its catchment areas will fill the ...
... basin of the supplying stream is the all - important factor in determining the period of service , or the number of years which will elapse before the soil re- moved by heavy rains from the lands on its catchment areas will fill the ...
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... basins . Just as the public is demanding that hydroelectric developments shall not be made piecemeal , but that they shall be so coordinated as to obtain the full and complete use of power possibilities , so it will require that the ...
... basins . Just as the public is demanding that hydroelectric developments shall not be made piecemeal , but that they shall be so coordinated as to obtain the full and complete use of power possibilities , so it will require that the ...
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... basin ; at other times there is none . This small river is one of the head streams of the Tennessee River . The influence of the forest on soils subject to erosion is indicated by the difference between such head streams with forested ...
... basin ; at other times there is none . This small river is one of the head streams of the Tennessee River . The influence of the forest on soils subject to erosion is indicated by the difference between such head streams with forested ...
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Page 6 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 32 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 66 - BROWN (J. Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price I2s.
Page 137 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 137 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 4 - But the value of property results from the use to which it is put, and varies with the profitableness of that use, present and prospective, actual and anticipated. There is no pecuniary value outside of that which results from such use.
Page 91 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 33 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 54 - Plaisia, which disappeared during the entire time that the mountain remained cleared of its forests (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth), and reappeared 30 years ago, when the work of reforesting the slope had been finished.