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when fishermen take up temporary quarters during part of the 
fishing season. 
To the north of Cape Lookout, the more important forest areas 
are on Hatteras Island, between the inlet and the cape, one just 
to the west of the Cape consisting largely of loblolly pine, and 
another near Hatteras village, composed largely of red cedar, pine 
and live oak. To the southwest of the inlet there are small scat- 
tered areas, containing a good many olive trees. These latter 
trees make especially good binders in checking the advance of the 
sand dunes inasmuch as they are able to sprout from their 
branches, after the main part of the tree has been covered by the 
sand. 
There is one element of the situation which, so far as is known, 
is different from the conditions where sandbinding work has been 
instituted, as, for instance, Cape Cod. The winds which cause 
the sands to move are from the south, blowing pretty constantly 
during the spring and summer, or growing season. The stronger 
northeast winds of winter have little effect on the sand . What 
effect they have consists in blowing the sand back towards the 
ocean. They are less effective as sand movers than the south 
winds of summer, partly because they blow less constantly and 
partly because their force is greatest when the sand is wet from 
winter rains and not easily to be moved . At any rate, the sand 
is moving north, carried so chiefly in the summer months, whereas 
at other points where conditions have been studied, it moves south 
and west, being blown by winter winds. This condition, which 
probably obtains along the South Atlantic and Gulf coast, causes 
the problem to to be presented in a slightly different aspect from 
that usually considered, and serves to emphasize the desirability 
of experimental work at this point. 
A special report was made for the N. C. Geological and Eco- 
nomic Survey, by Mr. Jay F. Bond of the U. S. Forest Service on 
the practicability of forest protection on the Banks and how to 
accomplish it. Mr. Bond’s report is as follows: 
EXAMINATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BANKS 
Introduction 
The following report is the result of a brief examination of the 
