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Show 168 there little natural rock was to outcrop the preclude gr-owth of vegetation. of course, It was, which the report of both terES commission the carne and rer.1edies. causes "on Davis County to show that h2.d the :plant na te its to e qu a.L Ly natur-al. oricin2.l in that section from the rains if not serious, less denuded areas. ticclly no 3ven yons wh i.ch or add i, tion to also anount to of arnourrt the have been far vzou Ld gullies--the present only in covered ar-e as there were by ds ch apar-r-a'l brush. we e prac gras- , Those can denuded than others had, be- In greatest devastation. of runoff is cover. to .report a sUDntion of inversely proportionate 'Ihe commi s s i on 'went to support its conclusion that large canyons were, 27Flood f'Lood irig the EXaJilination of those included in its p12.nt equally great lengths of the approxi- scientific studies in suppor-t of the conten tion that the 2.re2.S been commission's many convincing observations L.'1 it 2J_ recent or of watersheds cover steeper slopes more sponsored the this regard, oak by visibly were yond question, the the on such marks within and shrubs, aevez the torrential runoff--were of tell take marks .... prevented.,,27 ample evi is con.dition, 1930 around to revolve--in hd disclosed that sheet erosion and canyons se s of vegetation "There commissioners asserted, the dence," of the mat tez- of in fact, badly denuded. Commission, Torrenti2.l Floods, pp. 7, 17. |
