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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



exploitation into barren 

 slopes devoid of vegetation. 



It remains for an edn- 

 cated and keen minded 

 Chinese forester, Dau Van<r 

 Lin, a graduate of the Yale 

 Forest School at New Hav- 

 en, Connecticut, and a pio- 

 neer in the awakening of 

 new China, to present these 

 facts to the world in a man- 

 ner thoroughly convinciiit;. 



Mr. Lin is connected with 

 the University of Nanking. 

 and has devoted his entire 

 time for three years to 

 studying the effects of 

 floods and the influence of 

 forests on their control. In 



A RIVER BED IN SOUTH MANCHURIA 



Broad and stony, with almost no water, this shows clearly the evil 

 results of deforestation. The region is also notorious for the many 



robbers which infest it. 



Photograpit by Frmik X. }fryrr 



a pamphlet prepared by 

 him and issued by the Chi- 

 nese Forestry Association, 

 entitled, "Forests and the 

 Chihli Floods," he sums up 

 the evidence. Mr. Lin does 

 not rely on his own judg- 

 ment, but quotes from the 

 published statements of 

 many ])rominent engineers, 

 none of them foresters 

 ( until within a few years 

 there have been no for- 

 esters in China), in support 

 of his conclusions. These 

 are : 



I. That the river chan- 

 nels in the Chinese plains 

 are incapable of carrying 



ARTIFICIAL TERRACING 

 A striking picture taken in Shansi Province, China, showing other deforested mountains with artificial terracing to prevent further erosion. 



