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East Tennessee Valley, farms and water jDower 16, 17, 18 



Elevation of Southern Appalachian Mountains 19, 20, 113, 125 



effect on climate 23, 128 



forest species 22, 118 



Elk Creek, gaging stations 136 



Mountains 48 



Ellijay River, water power on 142 



Elm, size, distribution, species, etc 99 



Erosion of mountain lands, burned or cleared 27, 59, 1 22 



forest covered 32 



grass covered ■'. 27 



valley lands 27, 38 



effects of 26,129 



extent of, in detail 69 



prevention of, by Government control 28, 59 



Etowah Eiver, measurement of 137 



Evaporation from soil increased by denudation 122 



Ewing Mountain 48 



Extent of proposed reserve 38, 113 



F. 



Falls. (See Waterfalls.) 



Farmers, clearing and cultivation by 24, 26, 58, 133 



Farms, existing, not to be disturbed 38 



(See also Clearings.) 



Faulty trees, removal of 67 



Federal Government, necessity for action hy 34 



Felling trees, careless methods in 24, 57, 64, 65, 66, 131, 132 



Fertility of soil (see also under Soil) 122, 133 



Fires, area recently injured by 56 



causes of 65 



damages from 24, 55, 65 



in Europe 56 



Rocky Mountains 57 



danger from, in»reased by lumbering 57 



effects of, on forests, reproduction, humus 24, 55, 56, 133 



soil, floods, water storage 25, 56, 132, 133 



surface and pasture 25, 65, 66 



prevention of, under Government forestry 56, 59, 65 



First Broad River Basin. (See Saluda River Basin. ) 



Flathead National Forest Reserve, purchase of Indian lands 36 



Flat Top Mountain 55 



Floods, caused by excessive rainfall, clearings, etc 28, 122, 129, 133 



damages from, in spring of 1901 130 



recent 32 



erosion of lands bj^ 27 



increasing frequency of 131 



Flow of streams. (See Stream-flow. ) 



Forage plants destroyed by fires 25, 133 



Forest area, examined 21,45,46 



extent of 26, 31, 45 



by river basins 69 



clearing, method and effects of 23, 24, 28, 31, 45, 47, 57, 69, 122, 131, 133 



