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F0RE5TAXI0X, SAlS^D HILLS XEBILISKA AXD KAXSAS. 



SO easily overcome; however,, that there is no real obstacle to foresta- 

 tion except fire. The damage through fire depends very largely on 

 public sentiment; since sentiment has elsewhere been educated to 

 consider fij-e a common enemy, it seems probable that the grass fires 

 of the sand hills will cease to be treated as matters of no moment 

 and will come to an end as they have in the prahies farther east. 

 With the prairie fii'e controlled, forests may easily be grown in the 

 sand hills. 



_- LEGEND 



^^M AREA OF SANDHILLS 



fffl^g???^ PRESENT RAN6E OF WESTERN YELLOW PINE 



■^■1 A'^EAS WHERE REMA:\'S CF YELLOW Pl\'E HAVE BEES' FOU,\D 



Fij. 1— The sand-hill regions of Nebraska and Kansas. 



THE SANB-KCLL REGION. 



LOCATIOX AXD AREA. 



The sand hiUs of Nebraska are mamly m the northwestern thhd of 

 the State: they occupy an area of approximately 20.000 square miles 

 north of the Platte River and west of the middle Ime of Holt and 

 Greeley Counties. Hall, Perkins, Chase, and Dundy Counties also 

 contain sand-hill areas. (See Fig. 1.) Of the entne area of 76;S40 

 square miles within the State they occupy approximately one-fourth. 

 The line between sand hills and sandy ground of the Pine Ridge, 



