. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Forest Lumbered Twenty Years Ago to a Diameter of Fourteen Inches, Now Ready for Another Cutting ural consequences will be an ever- lessened vegetation. This all leads us to a perfect under- standing of the words of Hinman when he says: "It is seen that all fleserts correspond to regions of very light rainfall, and that the regions of heaviest forests are in regions of heaviest rain- ; With a lessened vegetation fol- lows a decrease of the organic constit- uents of the soil; making it more per- meable, and bringing it nearer to that state of
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Forest Lumbered Twenty Years Ago to a Diameter of Fourteen Inches, Now Ready for Another Cutting ural consequences will be an ever- lessened vegetation. This all leads us to a perfect under- standing of the words of Hinman when he says: "It is seen that all fleserts correspond to regions of very light rainfall, and that the regions of heaviest forests are in regions of heaviest rain- ; With a lessened vegetation fol- lows a decrease of the organic constit- uents of the soil; making it more per- meable, and bringing it nearer to that state of which Winchell tells us in his World-Life, where the earth, during the latter stages of its history, will ab- sorb all moisture from its face. With all this before us it is time to awaken to an understanding of the immutable 604 laws of nature, and to change those systems which are hastening the prog- ress onward to that ultimate state of barrenness. This region of which we here write, the northern section of the Central States, is by nature adapted to the growth of pines, with which it was originally covered ; though in parts it may produce other trees. To this wc may add that it is almost worthless when considered from a standpoint of agricultural pursuits. As a forest it would preserve the local humidity in its cycle of useful service, thus giving pro- ductiveness to the regions around ; and with conservative methods it would yield an almost unlimited supply of. 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 American Forestry Association. Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
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