Forest acene in tne Souihern Appalachian Kegion 



the Ohio, and all of the important 

 rivers of the East and South seriously 

 affected. 



It is generaly observed that erosion 

 on uncovered lands in the southern 

 mountains is much more destructive 

 than farther north, due probably in 

 part to the winters' protection of snow 

 on the northern lands and difference 

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in texture of the soil and underlying- 

 earth; but also largely to the use of 

 the northern mountain lands for 

 meadow and pasture, while the south- 

 ern lands are more generally cultivated 

 and tended in annual crops, so long as 

 they will pay for cultivation. They are 

 then abandoned to their fate. There 

 are now millions of acres in all possible 



