Canadian Forestry Journal, Septi 



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10 1 6 



743 



The Picture Abroad. 



To put under forest all land not 

 under annual crop is the dream of 

 the conservationist. Even in that 

 land of intensive cultivation, China, 

 there are large areas which, hav- 

 ing been denuded of their trees, 

 have been subsequently washed 

 by heavy rains until all the sur- 

 face that had been enriched by 

 plant life has been eroded and the 

 rolling clay hills are dead land on 

 which the water falling immediatelv 

 runs off to the rivers, to cause 

 floods in wet seasons far away. Anv- 

 one who has travelled through such 

 deforested areas as South Africa and 

 seen its dry kloofs transformed bv 

 an hour of rain into dangerous tor- 

 rents, gets some conception ot the 

 extent to which forests act as reser- 

 voirs. Is the wilderness of Sinai 

 dry? One traveller tells how he 

 saw a torrent in those bare moun- 

 tains rise thirty feet in half an hour. 

 The world is full of glaring exam- 

 ples of the devastation caused bv de- 



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