Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress, Volumen3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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... flood . Meunier the geologist , is of the opinion that the heavy rains preceding the flood found the soil of the watershed so thoroughly impermeable , because of saturation , that the water ran off as swiftly as it would from the ...
... flood . Meunier the geologist , is of the opinion that the heavy rains preceding the flood found the soil of the watershed so thoroughly impermeable , because of saturation , that the water ran off as swiftly as it would from the ...
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... floods and droughts , profits only about 4 per cent of the water - power industries of the United States , because the forests reserved have been located without reference to the wants of water power already developed . We must now ...
... floods and droughts , profits only about 4 per cent of the water - power industries of the United States , because the forests reserved have been located without reference to the wants of water power already developed . We must now ...
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... floods , but not so specifically the relation between forests and floods as the rela- tion between forest and erosion . The critics of the forestry move- ment urge that forests do not reduce the highest floods . They say that the floods ...
... floods , but not so specifically the relation between forests and floods as the rela- tion between forest and erosion . The critics of the forestry move- ment urge that forests do not reduce the highest floods . They say that the floods ...
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... floods in the River Rhone would have acted , if built . These reservoirs were to have open outlets , not capable of being closed- That is , ordinary lakes-- which were intended to restrain only a portion of the flow . A careful study of ...
... floods in the River Rhone would have acted , if built . These reservoirs were to have open outlets , not capable of being closed- That is , ordinary lakes-- which were intended to restrain only a portion of the flow . A careful study of ...
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... floods come , it is very easy for them to carry it away . The action of the forest , then , is extremely simple . In the sum- iner time it retards the flowing off of the water . In the winter time it retards the melting of the snow . Of ...
... floods come , it is very easy for them to carry it away . The action of the forest , then , is extremely simple . In the sum- iner time it retards the flowing off of the water . In the winter time it retards the melting of the snow . Of ...
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