FOREST SCENE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION 

 Compare the French fore9t on page 208, recreated at great cost, because necessary 



plete removal of all soil, laying bare the 

 solid rock and thus preventing all fu- 

 ture forest growth. In other places 

 thousands of acres have been washed 

 into unsightly and useless gully lands, 

 and throughout the mountains and over 

 thousands of acres, all intermediate 



stages of erosion, deterioration and de- 

 struction can be seen. 



5. This erosion and gullying has pro- 

 duced natural paths for the water and 

 during everv rain or thaw the waters 

 rush down through these channels and 

 thus leave the ground and the moun- 



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