APPENDIX I DETAILED DISCUSSION OF INDIVIDUAL The data given for the individual drainage basins in the accompanying appendix have been prepared by a number of men in the Forest Service who have been engaged during the past year in collecting and bringing together the available information upon cover conditions in the minor drainage basins of the Mississippi. Credit for much of the work of the following is due to these men and the staffs of the various forest experiment stations and national forest districts, who have participated in this study. The credit for the preparation of these individual reports goes to the following Author E. F. McCarthy, director Central States Forest Raphael Zon, director Lake States Forest Experi- W. W. Ashe, senior inspector, eastern national forest district. E. L. Demmon, director Southern Forest Experiment Station. M. H. Wolff, assistant district forester, northern national forest district. H. D. Cochran, inspector Rocky Mountain Na- P. Keplinger, inspector Rocky Mountain National F. R. Johnson, chief of planting, Rocky Mountain Jay Higgins, supervisor, Nebraska National Forest. W. W. Ashe, senior inspector, eastern national forest district. W. W. Ashe, senior inspector, eastern national forest district and F. R. Johnson, chief of planting, Rocky Mountain National Forest district. W. W. Ashe, senior inspector, eastern national forest district. E. L. Demmon, director Southern Forest Experiment Station. ALLEGHENY DRAINAGE AREA (Area 1) LOCATION The source of the Ohio River is at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers; and the Allegheny, flowing from the north, is one of the more important tributaries. The basin of the |