114 MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. 



' As results of the works executed in the perimetre of 

 Roissard, in Isere, the properties adjacent to the torrent 

 of the Rif-Fol have been again brought under cultivation ; 

 and the village of Fau, formerly threatened by the torrent, 

 has not been afraid to open across the restored perimetre 

 a canal which leads off the water of the torrent itself t6 

 the basin of the public fountain ; and there is now no 

 interruption to the communication along the road from 

 Grenoble to Sisteron. 



' The town of Bourg-d'Oisans, built upon an old cone 

 of dejections or rubbish brought down and deposited by 

 the torrent of Sain-Antoine, and having its very existence 

 threatened by this torrent, has now allowed to tumble into 

 ruins the dykes, which the inhabitants had raised at great 

 expense, but which are now no longer needed. 



' Since the execution of the works of consolidation and 

 reboisement undertaken in the perimetre of Luz-la-Croix- 

 Haute, in Drome, the torrents and the ravines, the destruc- 

 tive effects of which spread themselves over the greater 

 part of the lands in the plains, especially over the dwelling 

 places in the hamlets of the Grisil and of the Granges, 

 have become inoffensive water courses, almost never 

 bringing down rubbish. And more than 120 hectares of 

 fertile fields, representing a value of 300,000 francs, are 

 now protected from the invasions formerly so frequent and 

 so damaging. 



' In the Lower Alps the value of the interests safe- 

 guarded by the works executed in the perimetre of Seyne 

 is estimated at three millions of francs ; and at another 

 spot in the department the reboisement of the perimetres 

 of Fauon and of Saint-Pons will give protection to lands 

 of at least an equal value.' 



Again : ' Amongst the perimetres of reboisement under- 

 taken in the Lower Alps, that of Laboret presents to-day 

 the most complete specimen of the results which we have 

 a right to expect from the works entrusted to the execu- 

 tion of the Forest Administration by the law of 1860. 

 This perimetre combines indeed, on a limited scale it is 



