Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871

At Ballarat, Creswick, Beechworth, Yackandandah, Sand hurst, Heathcote, Maryborough, Avoca, Castlemaine, Fryer's Creek and Ararat, some of the timber for the mines has to be brought already from distances as remote as 10 to 16 miles, according to returns of the Mining Surveyor, kindly furnished by Mr. R. Brough Smyth. At Pleasant Creek the miners have to go every year a mile further for their wood.

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Excerpt from Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871

Then followed the first gold period, with all its bustle, turmoils and agitations, preventing reflection on almost anything except the immediate wants of that stormy time. Subsequently, when the commotion and excitement of the earlier gold era had calmed down, other obstacles arose, which in their conflicts brought much sadness on this young country, and retarded for years its full progress. But now, when apparently also these difficulties have been surmounted, it will be all the more incumbent on our statesmen and legislators, to exclude no longer from their consideration and watchfulness that remaining portion of a bequest, which bountiful nature, in its rich woods, has entrusted to our care. The maintenance of these forest riches should engage not only the loftiest forethought, but also a well-guided and scrupulous vigilance.

How forests beneficially affect a clime, how they supply equable humidity, how they afford extensive shelter, create springs, and control the flow of rivers: all this the teachings of science, the records of history, and, more forcibly still, the sufferings or even ruin of numerous and vast communities, have demonstrated in sad experiences, not only in times long past, but even in very recent periods. In what manner the forests arrest passing miasmata, or set a limit to the spreading of rust-spores from ruined cornfields; in what manner their humid atmosphere and their feathered singers effectually obstruct the march of armies of locusts in the Orient, or hinder the progress of vast masses of acrydia in North America, or oppose the wanderings of other insects elsewhere - all this has been clearly witnessed in our own age. How the forests, as slow conductors of heat, lessen the temperature of warm climes, or banish siroccos; how forests, as ready conductors of electricity, much influence and attract the current of the vapours, or impede the elastic flow of the air with its storms and its humidity far above the actual height of the trees, and how they condense the moisture of the clouds by lowering the temperature of the atmosphere, has over and over again been ascertained by many a thoughtful observer.

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