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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1936
Page
8
A hillside in the Tennessee valley shows erosion with gullies on the left undisturbed and others in the center and right dammed or filled and planted. The image highlights the progress of flood control measures on the landscape.
The piece links Can Do floods in the Conemaugh and Ohio valleys to a century of flood memory, notes how storms paralyzed cities and crippled infrastructure, and argues floods stem from rapid rainfall on bare, eroded terrain. It urges reforestation and land management to reduce future risk and asks if the nation will act.
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