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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform)
Identifier: areasofdesolatio01roth (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rothrock, Joseph T. , 1839-1922
Subjects: Forests and forestry; Reforestation; Waste lands
Publisher: Philadelphia : Herbert Welsh
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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12 gators that the level of tlic ground water is steadily becoming lower; that in order to secure a permanent water supply for our homes we must dig to greater depths. We cannot well overestimate the impoHance of this discovery; for the rapidity \\i(h wliich the wjiter level has lowered over wide areas starts wcv serious questions as to the many future ihmhIs of a constantly increasing pi)j)ulation. There is stili anolhcr relation existing hetween our forests and water in which we can readily notice the danger of water ,m clearetl ground. To piit the prob- lem in concrete form, study the condition alon- the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad ncar.%ay, Tuscarora Station. On the one side you have .luniata River, on the other the sioiie wincli lias descended a thousand or more feet from a timher-covered, rocky mountain. We will suppose that one of the torrential summer rains has occurred a few hours before. On the river side you will see a muddy, more or less swollen stream. The muddy color is due to the wash from the fertile farm lands through «iii-h the riv(-r has come It represents the best, most sohil.le i,ait (,f the sod.' Its loss is in every instance a detriment to tlic farm from which it has come. On the mountain side of the road- bed you will see many small streams tumhiin- down over a rocky bed; but, if you olwrve cl(,sclv, vou will find that the water is usually almost clear,"sonielim<.s It IS wholly ckar, and it is almost never nuiddy though, owing to the steeper slope down which tjiat water has come, the tendency to washimr out of n is plain: on the forest floor tlie bed of leaves arrested the rapid flow of water, covered and protected the soil, \
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