Excerpt from Reboisement in France: Or Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees With Trees, Herbage, and Bush, With a View to Arresting and Preventing the Destructive Consequences and Effects of TorrentsThus may one see clearly whither tends this fatal chain of causes and effects, which commences with the destruction of the forests and ends in suffering and misery for the population, condemning man also to share the ruin of the soil which he devastated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.