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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



ited forest can have no appreciable effect, but it may 

 be safely accepted that over large areas forests do 

 have a very tempering influence. The upper hills 

 and mountains are often swathed in clouds without a 

 drop of rain falling, but trees through their leaves 



For catastrophies of this nature forest planting is the only permanent 

 remedy. 



or needles act very much like the wick of a kerosene 

 lamp, catching the moisture from cloud and fog and 

 allowing it to drip upon the ground, thus continually 

 feeding the streams and watering the valleys below. 

 Careful observations made over a period of many 

 years as between a wooded mountain section and a 



