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Title: American forests
Identifier: americanforests11natiuoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: National Irrigation Association (U. S. ); New Jersey Forestry Association; South Jersey Woodmen's Association; American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Periodicals
Publisher: Washington (etc. ) American Forestry Association (etc. )
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1905 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 407 nation as a whole, and they point to the necessity of protecting through wise use a mountain region whose in- fluence flows far beyond its borders with the waters of the rivers to which it gives rise. Among the elevations of the eastern half of the United States, the South- wood forests were born on their slopes and have spread thence over the east- ern half of the continent. More than once in the remote geologic past they have disappeared before the sea on the east, south, and west, and before the ice on the north; but here in this Southern Appalachian region they
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View of Flood Damages on Doe River, Tennessee, May, 1901. ern Appalachians are of paramount in- terest for geographic, hydrographic, and forest reasons, and, as a conse- quence, for economic reasons as well. These great mountains are old in the history of the continent which has grown up about them. The hard- have lived on to the present day. Under the varying conditions of soil, elevation, and climate many of the Appalachian tree species have de- veloped. Hence it is that in this re- gion occur that marvelous variety and richness of plant growth which have

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