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Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906

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  • Page 22 work whioh Professor Holmes had been carrying on. Invaluable assistance was given the movement by these state officials,—men who were paid salaries by the state and who were devoting the resouroes of the state to the furtherance of the project. During the summer of 1900, the government Forestry Bureau, with the cooperation of the Geological Survey, made a thorough investigation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains from Virginia to Alabama, and on January 1, 1901, the Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson, sent a report to Congress, through the President, regarding the investigation. On January 10, 1901, Senator Pritchard introduced a bill praying for the appropriation of five million dollars for the establishment of a forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, approximating two millions of acres. The bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. On January 19, 1901, after the personal solicitation on the part of the secietary of the Association, C. P. Ambler, President McKinley sent a special message to Congress recommending the rej-ort to the favorable consideration of Congress. The week from July 3 to 10, 1901, Secretary Wilson, accompanied by Prof. Gifford Pinohot, chief of the
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  • This 72-page journal recording “The Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906” was compiled by the association’s secretary and founding member Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932). The manuscript was created in 1929, the year Ambler donated the association’s records to the State Archives. The Appalachian National Park Association was formed in 1899 for the purpose of promoting the idea of a national park in the eastern U.S. Although housed in Asheville, North Carolina, the organization was a multi-state effort, attracting representatives from six southern states. The association lobbied Congress for the creation of a park, but with limited success. The association disbanded in 1905.