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Thursday, Feb. 8, 1962 peon Don SpraDgjfefldll! BIRDS IN YOUR BACKYARD Klew 001? I Ln mJ JVL First National Stores 5, AT 727 MO RiS TURNPIKE Springfie By Roland C. Clement National Audubon Society NATURE'S RAIN BARRELS Few experiences are more mind-stretching than to go afield with an expert naturalist. This is particularly so if this friend knows country you thought you knew. It is like going out with Sherlock Holmes.

There are, of course, all the mysteries of birds and other wildlife to explore, but your sleuthing can take you right down to the earth itself. I first learned to read the landscape in New England and New York State. This is glaciated country, and I was lucky in having a geologist as guide. "Look at that steep slope over there," he would say. "Notice that the top is perfectly flat.

When we dig into it we will find it is all sand and gravel. The steep slope was built against an ice block during the melting stages of the Ice Age. A stream did the building by dumping sand and gravel there. When the ice block melted away, later, it left that sand bank standing steeply. We geologists call this a kame." At another place he called my attention to a broad, flat-floored valley in sandy country.

All of this region, I knew from earlier discussions, was "outwash country," an area where the melting glacier had spread its tons of ice-carried sands and gravels. These were materials it had "picked up" as it moved slowly down from the North, freezing the earth to its icy bottom, then carrying it along. It ground large rocks into gravel in the process. But I also knew that valleys are cut by streams. They are at first V-shaped, then become broadly U-shaped as the stream cuts its walls back little by little.

"But this broad valley couldn't have been cut by the small stream we see down there," I objected. "Correct!" he cried, apparently glad that I was beginning to see things for myself. "That valley was cut by a much larger stream during early postglacial days, when there was a lot of melt water from the wast ing glaciers to feed it. Today's rainfall is ample enough, but not enough to maintain a big stream in this short basin. "Besides." he said, "much of the rainfall soaks right into these loose soils." This was something new.

I had, of course, heard of "disappearing streams" in the West, where rivers course under ground for miles, only to reappear at the surface farther cn. "How deep are these soils?" I asked, suspecting that there might be more to this story than met the eye. "Oh, in cases where the post-glacial streams have filled some ancient pre-glacial valley with sand and gravel, they may be as much as 200 feet deep." This was indeed an exciting glimpse into the history of the local landscape, I thought. Well, It turned out that these glacial deposits of sand and gravel in old valleys are saturated with water all the time. Since the old valleys they occupy were slightly inclined toward the sea, so are the present-day deposits.

This "ground water" thus flows slowly down the valley. This does not make it an "underground river" you hear so often in places like New England. My friend, Bill Allen of the U.S. Geological Survey's Ground Water Branch, explained that these ground water deposits are extremely valuable to people wherever they occur. Ironically, not only does the northeastern U.S.

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