FORESTS AND RAINFALL.
OPINIONS OF SCIENTISTS. BV CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, LONDON, Sept. 5. “Al eteorologists Jo not believe that forests have any practical effect on rainfall,” said Dr. G. C. Simpson, the director -of Meteorology Office at the British Association meeting. He added that the amount of energy in a single storm was entirely out of proportion to anything that could be done by altering the ground. Dr. Brooks said that a forest thirty feet high would increase a local rainfall one per cent. The chairman, in. summing up the debate, showed that a forest did not much affect a rainfall, but might greatly affect water storage and erosion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 7
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