. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Excessive Erosion on Nearly Level Land, Yazoo Uplands. Gullies With Vertical Walls Eat into Cultivated Land With Remirkable Rap'dily, and This May Be Prevented Only by Reforestation (page 24 ) Union, unless measures are adopted to prevent these calamities. (lO to the forests of La Salle, Cata- houla. Jackson, Winn, Grant, Rapides. Vernon. Sabine, Calcasieu, Bienville. Caldwell, Livingston, St. Tanmiany. Tangipahoa, St. Helena, and Washington parishes, where the pine forests flour- ished in imperial magnificence, and watch the "up-to-date ' method
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Excessive Erosion on Nearly Level Land, Yazoo Uplands. Gullies With Vertical Walls Eat into Cultivated Land With Remirkable Rap'dily, and This May Be Prevented Only by Reforestation (page 24 ) Union, unless measures are adopted to prevent these calamities. (lO to the forests of La Salle, Cata- houla. Jackson, Winn, Grant, Rapides. Vernon. Sabine, Calcasieu, Bienville. Caldwell, Livingston, St. Tanmiany. Tangipahoa, St. Helena, and Washington parishes, where the pine forests flour- ished in imperial magnificence, and watch the "up-to-date ' method of butchery. \'irgin forests which produce from ten to twenty-five thousand feet of timber per acre are being absolutely denuded just as completely as you would strip a bird of its feathers or the beast of the field of the covering which nature provided. Hardly a dozen saplings, the size of one's arm, to the acre are left standing, and these lands are practically deserts, a waste where soil-erosion takes place, where rains fall and the water rushes off in torrents, flooding the streams and val- leys, leaving a sterile soil on the rich bottom lands, where the wind has a 26 clean sweep and acquires such a velocity as to scatter destruction to the towns, cities, and villages—a land reduced to poverty, which even the state could re- fuse to take for its taxes so far as its future usefulness is concerned. Any man who loves nature would shed tears every time he passes through our forests and sees the criminal waste that IS eomg on. Hardened as I am to these sights, I feel sad and depressed when I see this slaughter. What has the state done? Fought year after year to collect a pitiful taxation from these forests, sometimes reasonable and again exorbi- tant. No sys'em whatever, no thought of to-morrow, no idea of the worthless- ness of denuded forests to any one. and no thought of dire calamities which are now upon us. What has the lum- berman done? Proceeded to cut up these forests
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