. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 200 AMERICAN FORESTRY. w V CHECKING FLOODS IN THE FRENCH ALPS Holding the slopes by strips of willow and grass after completion of cngU neering work. The barrages in the stream channel have become so covered with loose rock as to be inconspicuous pected when an extremely paternalistic form of crovernment is succeeded by an extremely laisscs-fairc or individualis- tic form. It may be noticed in passing that this extreme laissez-faire policy has persisted to the present day not only in France but more particularly in the United States. And it has been o
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 200 AMERICAN FORESTRY. w V CHECKING FLOODS IN THE FRENCH ALPS Holding the slopes by strips of willow and grass after completion of cngU neering work. The barrages in the stream channel have become so covered with loose rock as to be inconspicuous pected when an extremely paternalistic form of crovernment is succeeded by an extremely laisscs-fairc or individualis- tic form. It may be noticed in passing that this extreme laissez-faire policy has persisted to the present day not only in France but more particularly in the United States. And it has been only within the last few years that the people of this country have begun to realize that, although the policy of giving the individual a free hand and encouraging him in every possible way is essential to the devel- opment of a new country, yet when that country is once pretty well built up, there are certain limits be- yond which the individual should not be allowed to go without a certain small measure of restraint. In France a considerable period elapsed before the effects of this deforesta- tion was felt. But gradu- ally a realization of the ex- tent of the damage from which the people were suf- fering was brought home to them. Certain rivers which formed important arteries of commerce were being silted up and were thus choking the commerce dependent upon them, and many ])rosperous little vil- lages in the mountains were threatened with de- struction by over-hanging masses of earth and rock. In many cases small streams from these moun- tains had become intermit- tent raging torrents carry- ing down enormous bould- ers and masses of debris to overwhelm the prosper- ous communities in the val- ley, causing not infrequent losses of human life. By 1882 public senti- ment had become so strong that a bill was passed authorizing work to be carried on to prevent these floods, and appropriating $600,000 annually for this purpose. Thus in addition to the incalculable damage already s
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