Land Clearing In Eastern North Carolina Chowan Pasquotank River Basins Study Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Land Clearing in Eastern North Carolina Chowan-Pasquotank River Basins Study Land clearing on the Virginia portions of the Chowan River Basin is discussed only briefly in this report because clearing is proceeding much more rapidly in North Carolina. Although considerable areas physi cally suitable for drainage are identified in Virginia, these lands have been designated for natural uses and are administered largely by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Land Clearing and Drainage in Eastern North Carolina The Coastal Plain of eastern North Carolina is nearly level in the extensive lower areas and rolling to hilly in the higher inner part. Two-thirds of the total land area of the Coastal Plain of eastern North Carolina is in forest. Estimates of the United States Soil Conservation Service indicate that if cleared and drained, more than a third of the present forest area would be adapted to cultivation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Peat Mining and Large-Scale Land Clearing: Report to the 1985 General Assembly of North Carolina The Study of Peat Mining and large-scale Land Clearing was authorized by Chapter 905 of the 1983 Session Laws. That act made reference to House Joint Resolution 220 introduced by Representative Evans. Copies of Chapter 905 of the 1983 Session Laws and House Joint Resolution 220 may be found in Appendix A of this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled more than 10,000 years ago, but because early inhabitants left no written record, their story must be painstakingly reconstructed from the fragmentary and fragile archaeological record they left behind. Time before History is the first comprehensive account of the archaeology of North Carolina. Weaving together a wealth of information gleaned from archaeological excavations and surveys carried out across the state--from the mountains to the coast--it presents a fascinating, readable narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period, when the first immigrants to North America crossed a land bridge that spanned the Bering Strait, through the arrival of European traders and settlers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.