The Upper Tisa Valley. Preparatory proposal for Ramsay

Figure 21. Forest cover of the Upper Tisa (after the hydrological atlas published in
1955 by VITUKI)
A solution would be if we only reflected the changes of the 20th century, if we had
any data at all. It is known that we do not possess official figures about the widespread
deforestation along River Tisa or the main changes in the branches of cultivation. The
forests of the Carpathian Basin and the surrounding mountainous areas are planted
forests, the trees of which should be exploited and the area reforested in a planned
way, thus their natural decay cannot be permitted. Forest soil stores water, while field
soil wastes water. A forest decreases water output of precipitation until the forest floor
and the soil is soaked with water. After that it cannot act as a water retainer.
Before human interference, deforestation and swamp draining activities, the
wooded-steppe areas of the interior of the basin system were surrounded by forests of
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