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The Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of NSW Volume 8

The Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales Index - Volume 8 - 1952
Publisher: Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales
Cost: Free
Language: English
File: PDF 9.77 MB / Pages 36
Name: journal-soil-conservation-service-nsw-vol-8-1952-01.pdf
 
Tags: Land and soilPublication

In recent years the State of New South Wales has suffered a succession of the most disastrous and widespread floods in its history. During the floods public attention is focussed on the tragic loss of stock, property and human distress, but the greatest loss, and the one which cannot be replaced, occurs when acres of the rich alluvial lands themselves are lost, as they have been, particularly on many of our coastal river valleys.