. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 534 AMERICAN FORESTRY This was carried out, and the results were marvelous. The grasses soon came back; the weeds and underbrush again covered the ground, and, as fires were kept out, the barren, over-grazed areas began to resume their original appearance. The falling leaves and other decaying vegetation once more began to cover the bare ground, with its soft, spongelike humus, and Dame Nature has done her best to erase the scars due to man's stupidity and short- sightedness. The floods, too, began to be less fre- c|uent and less severe, and for the l
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 534 AMERICAN FORESTRY This was carried out, and the results were marvelous. The grasses soon came back; the weeds and underbrush again covered the ground, and, as fires were kept out, the barren, over-grazed areas began to resume their original appearance. The falling leaves and other decaying vegetation once more began to cover the bare ground, with its soft, spongelike humus, and Dame Nature has done her best to erase the scars due to man's stupidity and short- sightedness. The floods, too, began to be less fre- c|uent and less severe, and for the last three years the little city of Alanti has almost forgotten that there ever were any troubles over floods. During the month of August, 1909, there was an unusual amount of rain- fall in the area covered by the Manti forest. This was uniform all over the region, and from each canyon on the eastern slope of the range came lieavy floods. On the western slopes the same con- ditions prevailed and damaging floods swept down every canyon but that of Manti. The floods in the Ephraim Canyon, which lies immediately north of the Manti Canyon, did a great amount of dainage to the little city of Ephraim, covering its fields and the streets of the town with a heavy deposit of mud, rocks, and driftwood. All these canyons on both sides of the range head in ap- proximately the same region; all re- ceived apparently an equal amount of rainfall; yet the Manti Canyon alone was free from damaging floods. The settlers living in the flooded re- gions are unanimous as to the reasons why they suiTer from these annual flood troubles, whereas the Manti people do not, and they are now asking for simi- lar protection to their watershed. Then some stockmen from another section, seeing the feed on this water- shed uneaten and, in their greedy eyes, going to waste, coveted it. They ap- pealed to the Forester to allow them to graze their stock u])()n the proscrilied area. This appal was as a trumpet call to
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