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INDEX. 



Page. 



Forest conditioiit:, general 23 



by mountain groups 14, 23, 46 



changes in 55 



cover, necessity for 31, IIS 



fires. (See Fijvs. ) 



lands, cost of 36 



management, difficulty of 66 



by (Tovernment 62, 65 



maps 21 



policy, necessity for changes in 25, 28, 66 



l^rotection, a national prol)lem 34, 35, 65 



trees, species of 93 



Forests, complexity 66 



composition 69 



culling 67 



description by mountain groups 46 



river basins 69 



destruction by lumbermen 24, 63, 64, 131, 132 



for tanbark 132 



distribution of 69 



effect on erosion 32 



floods 30, 150 



water-] 1(1 wer 142 



winds 118 



general character of 46 



of particular localities (see under name of Mountain or River basins) . 46, 69 



reproduction of 69 



species contained in the 69, 93 



variations in the 22 



Forest reserve, acts of State legislatures concerning 172 



benefits anticipated from 37 



boundaries of proposed 38 



extent of proposed 38 



extracts from press concerning 180 



Government purchase of land for a 37 



management of proposed 67 



memorials and resolutions concerning 13, 158 



movement for, present status of 157 



profit anticipated from 37, 62, 162 



reserves, value as examples 62 



Western 13,36 



Forestry, conditions-favorable for 63 



French Broad River 116, 126 



Basin, topography and soil 76 



erosion and agriculture 76, 77 



forests, distribution, etc... 77 



floods in 1901 130 



flow and gaging of 135, 136 



water power on 142 



Freshets. (See Floods.) 



Fringe tree, size, distribution, etc 106 



