Department Bulletin 1430 
PLATE XV 
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Opportunity for Planting Trees 
Fig. 1.— Employing brush in gullies to hold earth washed from slopes above the gullies. 
Planting trees is permanently more effective 
The Wrong Use of Trees 
Fig. 2. — Brush dams are an expedient for checking the deepening of gullies. If rough hillside 
lands were kept in wood, gullies would not form; the land would not be destroyed. Such 
raw spots should be planted to trees 
