. Biennial report of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station for the years 1947 and 1948. Forests and forestry Southern States. FORESTS AFFECT LOCAL CLIMATE During 194-8 the Station's findings on the effect of forest removal on local climate were published as Department of Agriculture Circular No. 774* This report covered four years of records taken in the Copper Basin of Tennessee, where smelter fume damage has produced a land area near Ducktown of about 11 square miles of denuded land completely bare of vege- tation. Records were taken within this bare area, in the encircling belt of gras
. Biennial report of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station for the years 1947 and 1948. Forests and forestry Southern States. FORESTS AFFECT LOCAL CLIMATE During 194-8 the Station's findings on the effect of forest removal on local climate were published as Department of Agriculture Circular No. 774* This report covered four years of records taken in the Copper Basin of Tennessee, where smelter fume damage has produced a land area near Ducktown of about 11 square miles of denuded land completely bare of vege- tation. Records were taken within this bare area, in the encircling belt of grassland, and in the adjacent forests. It was found that all of the. Eleven square miles of former hardwood forest denuded of vegetation by smelter fumes in the Copper Basin of Tennessee, Even moderate rains now produce flood conditions. Storm runoff has scoured many slopes to bare rock. Measurable climatic changes in this man-made desert have produced conditions less favorable than formerly to vegetation establishment and growth. - 33 -. 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 Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N. C. ). Asheville, N. C. : Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
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