DEC 11918 
N. Y. STATE 
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. 
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 
INSTITUTED 1852 
TRANSACTIONS 
Paper No. 1098 
FORESTS AND RESERVOIRS 
IN THEIR RELATION TO STREAM FLOW, 
WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO NAVIGABLE 
RIVERS.* 
By H. M. Cuirrenpen,t M. Am. Soc. C. E. 
‘WITH DISCUSSION BY MEssks. F. COLLINGWooD, THoMAS P. ROBERTS, 
STEPHEN CHILD, L. J. LE Conte, F. B. Martsy, J. FRANCIS 
Le Baron, Epwarp P. Nortu, A. MILLER Topp, WILLIAM W. 
HARTS, GEORGE OTIS SMITH, GEORGE F. Swan, W. H. LEFFING- 
WELL AND A. M. STRONG, BAILEY WILLIS, M. O. LEIGHTON, W. 
D. PIcKETT, ROBERT E. McMata, H. F. LABELLE, Emit Kuicu- 
LING, ROBERT FLETCHER, J. P. SNow, CLARENCE T. JOHNSTON, 
GIFFORD PINCHOT, AND H. M. CHITTENDEN. 
The following paper is presented at this time with the purpose of 
eliciting from the Society membership the results of observation and 
experience touching the important matters of which it treats. They 
are vital features of one of the chief living questions before the 
public to-day, and an expression of views by men accustomed to look 
at things from a practical standpoint cannot fail to be of great value 
to our legislators upon whom the ultimate responsibility for action 
must rest. 
While the writer’s views traverse, to some extent, currently 
accepted theories, they are based upon long observation and study, and 
are what seem to be unavoidable conclusions therefrom; but he is com- 
*Presented at the meeting of November 4th, 1908. 
+Lieut.-Col., Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. 
