Pamphlets on Forest Economics, Volume 41915 - Economics |
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... vegetation , could be attacked only locally by the wind . This local attack by the west wind developed there , scooping out the dune and throwing out the scooped - out matter to the front and to the sides , and the result of this work ...
... vegetation , could be attacked only locally by the wind . This local attack by the west wind developed there , scooping out the dune and throwing out the scooped - out matter to the front and to the sides , and the result of this work ...
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... vegetation ; one thinks one sees gigantic waves made by a raging ocean , whilst at the horizon the still sea is ploughed by ships with white sails . It is one of the most beautiful and striking pictures given for man to admire . Whilst ...
... vegetation ; one thinks one sees gigantic waves made by a raging ocean , whilst at the horizon the still sea is ploughed by ships with white sails . It is one of the most beautiful and striking pictures given for man to admire . Whilst ...
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... vegetation . The mobility of " modern dunes " was very harmful to the populace from two points of view : in the first place these dunes encroached on dwellings , cultivations , and forests ; in the second place they obstructed the ...
... vegetation . The mobility of " modern dunes " was very harmful to the populace from two points of view : in the first place these dunes encroached on dwellings , cultivations , and forests ; in the second place they obstructed the ...
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... vegetation and debris . This has recently led to its being scoured by the wind , and I was thus enabled to see in the axis of the embankment a large number of planks which had constituted the palisade in about 1855 . The valley , which ...
... vegetation and debris . This has recently led to its being scoured by the wind , and I was thus enabled to see in the axis of the embankment a large number of planks which had constituted the palisade in about 1855 . The valley , which ...
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... vegetation enough to fix it . " " The scheme of the Biscarrosse works does not provide for covering being put on the flats , but for a transplanting on them . This operation consists in sowing ( on the flats ) 6 kilos per hectare of ...
... vegetation enough to fix it . " " The scheme of the Biscarrosse works does not provide for covering being put on the flats , but for a transplanting on them . This operation consists in sowing ( on the flats ) 6 kilos per hectare of ...
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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.