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Congressional speech for forest reserve

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  • 12 The water powers, therefore, in the not far distant future- Says the report— may become as valuable as coal mines, and, as the local supply becomes more costly by reason of deeper mining, the water powers will increase in value. This wealth should not be wantonly wasted. It has been ascertained that in sections comparatively level, but where the forests have been cleared from areas aggregating from 60 to 80 per cent of the land, floods are frequent and excessive, and that some of the smaller streams in seasons of drought almost wholly disappear, and the use of their water power is substantially abandoned, whereas the flow of streams whose sources have not been cleared of forests shows striking uniformity. The important thing is uniformity of flow—in contrast to a rushing torrent after each heavy rain followed by a weak flow. The report proceeds: This is just what one would expect who has been, during a rainy season, in the heart of a mountain region where the lands have not been cleared nor have forest fires destroyed the humus cover from their surface. The raindrops are battered to pieces and their forco broken by the leaves and twigs of the trees, and when their spray reaches the ferns, the grass, and the flowers below, instead of running away down the surface slope, it passes into the spongy humus and thence into the soil and the crevices among the rocks below. As much of this supply as is not subsequently used by the growing plants emerges from the storehouse weeks or months later in numberless springs. The rain must be extremely abundant or long protracted to produce any excessive increase in the flow of the adjacent brooks. Of course, the damage is not all owing to the destruction of the forests in the mountains. Anyone passing through my State can see the same process in operation on every hillside that has been cleared for cultivation and now abandoned. There is nothing on the lands to hold the water, which, after each rain, rushes into numerous rivulets, then into the swollen creeks, then into the rivers, already overflowing with the torrents that have rushed down the mountains. And it may with much force be said that the preservation of the mountain forests will avail but little unless the cooperation of individual landowners can be procured. One of the most beneficial results from passing this bill, Mr. Chairman, will be that it will give an object lesson to our people of the benefits of forestry. The late Mr. Morton, formerly Secretary of Agriculture, had printed at the head of every one of 5266
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