Report on the Necessity of Preserving and Replanting ForestsC.B. Robinson, 1883 - 138 pages |
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Report of the Necessity of Preserving and Replanting Forests Ramsay Weston Phipps No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 14 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Page 46 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 52 - ... their older inhabitants remembered when the rains were abundant and the hills and all uncultivated places were shaded by extensive groves. The removal of the trees was certainly the cause of the present evil. The opening of the soil to the vertical sun rapidly dries up the moisture, and prevents the rain from sinking
Page 39 - I move in the sphere of experience with more certainty. I remember when the forests were hardly broken here that springs of water were very frequent and perennial. The rivulets and creeks and rivers had a perpetual flow. These have now changed. The rivulets and creeks are now dried up in Summer, and the fish so often caught by me in earlier years are gone. Not one spring in a thousand remains.
Page 52 - Khanate of Bucharia presents a striking example of the consequences brought upon a country by clearings. Within a period of thirty years this was one of the most fertile regions of Central Asia, a country which, when well wooded and watered, was a terrestrial paradise. But within the last twenty-five years a mania of clearing...
Page 80 - Here we find a model or precedent not only of systematically planting thousands of acres of trees, but a general system of forest management, commencing by a careful survey, stock-taking, and commutation of all rights ; careful experiments in the rate of growth ; the best soil for each description of tree; in fact, in every branch of the subject, and resulting in what we find to-day : hundreds of thousands of acres mapped, divided into periods and blocks, and worked to the best advantage both with...
Page 18 - IMMENSE AMOUNT OF WATER GIVEN TO THE ATMOSPHERE BY TREES. The amount of moisture given out by trees is immense. In some trees the upward rush of moisture from the roots is very powerful. The workmen in ship-yards frequently find in the center of a teak log a core of sand fifty or sixty feet long, an inch in diameter, and hardened to a marble-like consistency, which has been carried and deposited there by the sap in its upward course. WASHINGTON ELM. A few years ago a number of scientists of New England...
Page 52 - The presence of forests plays a most important part in storing the rainfall and yielding up gradually to the streams a continuous supply of water, a thing, I need hardly say, in a hot country of primary importance. Moreover, the rain is retained by forests on the surface of the ground ; it gradually permeates to the subsoil, and so feeds the underground water-bearing strata upon which springs and wells must eventually depend.
Page 40 - ... apparent to the most casual observer. Our springs are later, our summers are drier, and every year becoming more so; our autumns are carried forward into winter, while our winter climate is subject to far greater changes of temperature than formerly. The total average of snowfall is perhaps as great as ever, but it is certainly less regular and covers the ground for a shorter period than formerly. Twenty years ago peaches were a profitable crop...
Page 40 - Massachusetts; now we must depend on New Jersey and Delaware for our supply; and our apples and other orchard fruits now come from beyond the limits of New England. The failure of these and other crops in the older States is generally ascribed to the exhaustion of the soil; but with greater reason it can be referred to the destruction of the forests which sheltered us from the cold winds of the north and west, and which, keeping the soil under their shade cool in Summer and warm in Winter, acted...