Annual Report of the Forest Commission of the State of New York, Volume 2The Commission, 1887 - Forests and forestry "Compendium of laws relative to the Adirondack wilderness from 1774-1894": 1893, v. 2. |
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... flooding ( by means of dams ) and fires , both having undoubtedly been largely instrumental in denuding and wasting the soil and drying up ( by exhaustion at certain seasons of the year ) the smaller tributary streams . This is ...
... flooding ( by means of dams ) and fires , both having undoubtedly been largely instrumental in denuding and wasting the soil and drying up ( by exhaustion at certain seasons of the year ) the smaller tributary streams . This is ...
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... flood and drought are obvious to all who dwell near them , whether they are intelligent enough to assign the proper causes of them or not . The occasional testimony of the eye is all sufficient . But , it is 44 SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF.
... flood and drought are obvious to all who dwell near them , whether they are intelligent enough to assign the proper causes of them or not . The occasional testimony of the eye is all sufficient . But , it is 44 SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF.
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... floods after the exportation of timber had been followed by relentless fires , leaving the bare rock in rugged masses as the sole covering of the surface . The work of restoration , commenced nearly twenty years ago , was one of ...
... floods after the exportation of timber had been followed by relentless fires , leaving the bare rock in rugged masses as the sole covering of the surface . The work of restoration , commenced nearly twenty years ago , was one of ...
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... floods in the valley of the Garonne some years ago destroyed , it is estimated , 15,000 lives . The losses of life and property caused by these torrential floods induced the French Government to take steps to reclothe the mountains with ...
... floods in the valley of the Garonne some years ago destroyed , it is estimated , 15,000 lives . The losses of life and property caused by these torrential floods induced the French Government to take steps to reclothe the mountains with ...
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... floods in springtime are more frequent and more destructive . Trace the stream to its source and the cause of these things is apparent . The old Tamarack swamp , that used to supply the boys and girls with aromatic gum , and in which ...
... floods in springtime are more frequent and more destructive . Trace the stream to its source and the cause of these things is apparent . The old Tamarack swamp , that used to supply the boys and girls with aromatic gum , and in which ...
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Page 152 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 35 - And this devastation is now become epidemical, that, unless some favourable expedient offer itself, and a way be seriously and speedily resolved upon for a future store, one of the most glorious and considerable bulwarks of this nation, will, within a short time, be totally wanting to it.
Page 69 - France, one can form no conception of those parched mountain gorges where not even a bush can be found to shelter a bird, where, at most, the wanderer sees in summer here and there a withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails.
Page 69 - Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet in thickness, which have rolled down and spread far over the plain, surround large trees, bury even their tops, and rise above them, leaving to the husbandman no longer a ray of hope. One can imagine no sadder spectacle than the deep fissures in the flanks of the mountains, which seem to have burst forth in eruption to cover the plains with their ruins. These gorges, under the influence of the sun which cracks and shivers to fragments the very rocks, and...
Page 152 - ... shall prevent or operate to prevent the free use of any road, stream or- water as the same may have been heretofore used, or as may be reasonably required in the prosecution of any lawful business.
Page 151 - All the lands now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the State of New York, within the counties of Clinton, excepting the towns of Altona and Dannemora, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, Washington, Greene, Ulster, and Sullivan, shall constitute and be known as the forest preserve.
Page 85 - It is certain that a desolation like that which has overwhelmed many once beautiful and fertile regions of Europe, awaits an important part of the territory of the United States, unless prompt measures are taken to check the action of destructive causes already in operation.
Page 48 - ... life. As the forests are destroyed, the springs which flowed from the woods, and, consequently, the greater water-courses fed by them, diminish both in number and volume.
Page 49 - ... due in each case, says Senator Torrelli, of Italy, to the clearings around their feeders. A remarkable illustration of the fact that the clearing of hilly countries is likely to result in the complete failing of springs is given by Mr. Ney, who states that in the Provence, after all the olive trees, which there formed regular forests, had been frozen in 1822 and cut down, a great number of springs failed totally ; and...
Page 152 - ... powers now vested in the commissioners of the land office and in the comptroller, as to such of the said lands as are now owned by the State.