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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... supply is rapidly decreasing . Second . For the value of our forests as sanitariums - health resorts for invalids , summer breathing places for all . Third . For the conservation of our sources of water supply . Both science and ...
... supply is rapidly decreasing . Second . For the value of our forests as sanitariums - health resorts for invalids , summer breathing places for all . Third . For the conservation of our sources of water supply . Both science and ...
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... supply their place by extensive tree plantations . Even in England , in spite of forest laws and other vigorous legislation , the forests have disappeared , until indigenous timber is extremely scarce there . In the reign of Henry VIII ...
... supply their place by extensive tree plantations . Even in England , in spite of forest laws and other vigorous legislation , the forests have disappeared , until indigenous timber is extremely scarce there . In the reign of Henry VIII ...
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... SUPPLY . All the problems connected with the influences of forests on the climate , on human health , on the amount of precipitation , and the supply of water to our springs and rivers have been , for many years , undergoing discussion ...
... SUPPLY . All the problems connected with the influences of forests on the climate , on human health , on the amount of precipitation , and the supply of water to our springs and rivers have been , for many years , undergoing discussion ...
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... supply . As to the aid that forests lend to the accomplishment of these ends there seems to be little doubt , and a fair unanimity of opinion . Whether , or not , rainfall is actually augmented by forests is still a mooted question ...
... supply . As to the aid that forests lend to the accomplishment of these ends there seems to be little doubt , and a fair unanimity of opinion . Whether , or not , rainfall is actually augmented by forests is still a mooted question ...
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... supply , suited to more temperate conditions , a lower temperature and less evaporation . Yet the droughts that occassionally prevail , and which are most severe on the borders of he wooded belt , as in Texas , Kansas , Missouri and ...
... supply , suited to more temperate conditions , a lower temperature and less evaporation . Yet the droughts that occassionally prevail , and which are most severe on the borders of he wooded belt , as in Texas , Kansas , Missouri and ...
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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.