Image ID:   Views1
Image Date:   Aug. 1926
Image Title:   Forest Cover
Image Caption:   [Caption 1:] Forest cover, adequately maintained, helps prevent floods such as that on the Mississippi and its tributaries, which in 1927 inundated 18,000 square miles, drove 750,000 people from their homes, took 246 human lives. Floods wreak havoc in many states. The damage in South Carolina, for example, has averaged nearly $1,000,000 per year fro 20 years. And expenditures for engineering works for flood control run into the hundreds of millions. Yet floods and erosion may well continue unless headwaters are kept in forest cover. Timbered slopes of the Presidential Range, on the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire. (1-212,069)

[Caption 2:] Mt. Washington (highest elevation extreme left skyline). Red spruce center foreground. Taken in Glen House fields (private land) 300 yards south of Glen House looking across Pinkham Notch forest highway. Peabody River, end Mt. Washington Auto Road to National Forest land on east slope of Mt. Washington. [Dirt road and automobile barely visible in lower right corner.] August 1926.

[This image is from an album produced in the mid-1930s by the U.S. Forest Service for placement on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's California Limited in an attempt to introduce passengers to the National Forests. Includes 36 black-and-white photographs, dating 1914-1933, from National Forests across the country with accompanying captions addressing such topics as recreation, wildlife, reforestation, timber management and use, fire control, forage, and the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps.]
Photographer:   Shipp, E. S., for the U.S. Forest Service
Use Restrictions:   Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:   Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.