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FOKESTATION, SAND HILLS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. 



so easily overcome, however, that there is no real obstacle to foresta- 

 tion except fire. The damage through fire depends very largely on 

 public sentiment; since sentiment has elsewhere been educated to 

 consider fire a common enemy, it seems probable that the grass fires 

 of the sand hills will cease to be treated as matters of no moment 

 and will come to an end as they have in the prairies farther east. 

 With the prairie fire controlled, forests may easily be grown in the 

 sand hills. 



LEGEND 

 AREA OF SANDHILLS 



PRESENT RANGE OF WESTERN YELLOW PINE 



AREAS WHERE REMAINS OF YELLOW PINE HAVE BEEN FOUND 



FIG. 1. The sand-hill regions of Nebraska and Kansas. 



THE SAND-HILL REGION. 



LOCATION AND AREA. 



The sand hills of Nebraska are mainly in the northwestern third of 

 the State; they occupy an area of approximately 20,000 square miles 

 north of the Platte Eiver and west of the middle line of Holt and 

 Greeley Counties. Hall, Perkins, Chase, and Dundy Counties also 

 contain sand-hill areas. (See Fig. 1.) Of the entire area of 76,840 

 square miles within the State they occupy approximately one-fourth. 

 The line between sand hills and sandy ground of the Pine Eidge, 



