. Conservation reader. Natural resources; Forests and forestry. How Far Will Nature Restore Her Gifts? 47 can also keep it from flowing back to the sea as rapidly as it otherwise would, by leaving uninjured the covering of vegetation which'has been spread over the mountain slopes. - The water will run from bare rocks and bare soil much more quickly than it will from soil that is covered with leaf mold and held by plant roots. Do you not see, then, that we have almost as much control over water and its distribu- tion as though we could increase or decrease the rainfall? What about the forests ?
. Conservation reader. Natural resources; Forests and forestry. How Far Will Nature Restore Her Gifts? 47 can also keep it from flowing back to the sea as rapidly as it otherwise would, by leaving uninjured the covering of vegetation which'has been spread over the mountain slopes. - The water will run from bare rocks and bare soil much more quickly than it will from soil that is covered with leaf mold and held by plant roots. Do you not see, then, that we have almost as much control over water and its distribu- tion as though we could increase or decrease the rainfall? What about the forests ? If we cut them down, will they ever come back ? All through the eastern part of our coun- try and in the mountains of the West are lands once forested which have been cleared and turned into farms. Many of these farms, when abandoned, have in a few years been covered with a growth of young trees. The scattering trees that had been left in the vicinity of the clearings fur- nished the seed. The winds and the birds carried the seed to the. open fields and so the forests began again. It will be hundreds of years before the trees are as large. B. W. Fairbanks But Nature, after a lapse of fifty years, has spread a new carpet of soil over the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fairbanks, Harold Wellman, 1860-. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y. , World book company
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