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Excerpt from The Diminished Flow of the Rock River in Wisconsin and Illinois: And Its Relation to the Surrounding Forests
While the changes thus far observed in the ?ow of the Rock River appear not to have been so great as to cause serious apprehension, the interests affected are sufficiently important to give to the question of the conditions on which the river ?ow depends and the possible means of preventing further decrease a decided local significance. It was in consequence of an expressed desire on the part of citizens of the parts of Wisconsin and Illinois involved that the investigation of this question was originally undertaken by the Bureau of Forestry.
The special problem in stream ?ow presented by the Rock River watershed is rather simple in character, and the main facts can be compassed in a brief report. But in view of the general interest that attaches to the subject of water ?ow, that part of the report dealing with the in?uence of the forest cover has been extended so as to include certain suggestive results of recent observations made in Europe. In the light of the facts thus established it is also possible to draw more definite conclusions than could be arrived at by any study of local conditions which it was practicable to make.
The writer wishes to express his obligations to the following gentle men who have rendered assistance in this investigation: The Hon. R. R. Hitt, Representative in Congress for the Ninth district of Illi nois, at whose request the investigation was undertaken; Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, and Prof. C. R. Van Hise and Mr. C. K. Leith, of the University of W'isconsin.
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