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... Watershed and Their Part in Flood Prevention - E. A. Sherman If the Nation Saves the Trees , The Trees will Save the Nation - Am . Tree Assoc . Conservation of National Resources - Report of the Conservation Committee of the American ...
... Watershed and Their Part in Flood Prevention - E. A. Sherman If the Nation Saves the Trees , The Trees will Save the Nation - Am . Tree Assoc . Conservation of National Resources - Report of the Conservation Committee of the American ...
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... cultivation to the very water's edge . The consequence in this case and in many others is that all alluvial land is destroyed FOREST INFLUENCES Low , COLUMBIA RIVER WATERSHED The snow fields. Department Bulletin 1430 PLATE XII |
... cultivation to the very water's edge . The consequence in this case and in many others is that all alluvial land is destroyed FOREST INFLUENCES Low , COLUMBIA RIVER WATERSHED The snow fields. Department Bulletin 1430 PLATE XII |
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FOREST INFLUENCES Low , COLUMBIA RIVER WATERSHED The snow fields of Mount Adams and Council Lake in foreground as feeders of Lewis River . Extensive areas of heavy forest protect the soil and limit erosion . The pale areas within the ...
FOREST INFLUENCES Low , COLUMBIA RIVER WATERSHED The snow fields of Mount Adams and Council Lake in foreground as feeders of Lewis River . Extensive areas of heavy forest protect the soil and limit erosion . The pale areas within the ...
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... watershed the forests do exercise a most important function in the protection of reservoirs . This type embraces the streams of the southern Appa- lachians , those of the southern Piedmont region , most of those that rise in the ...
... watershed the forests do exercise a most important function in the protection of reservoirs . This type embraces the streams of the southern Appa- lachians , those of the southern Piedmont region , most of those that rise in the ...
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... watershed , by reason of the soil , topography , or climate , but when exerted on all the watersheds of a great river basin it is enormous . Forests are better binders of the soil and better surface reservoirs of water than any other ...
... watershed , by reason of the soil , topography , or climate , but when exerted on all the watersheds of a great river basin it is enormous . Forests are better binders of the soil and better surface reservoirs of water than any other ...
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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.