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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 26 partial list of the owners and acreage will be found on page 300 of theOash book of the Association, "Exhibit DV. During 1901 and 1902, there was opposition in oertain quarters to the establishment of a forest reserve or national park in the Appalachian Mountains and most of this opposition oame from the large lumbering interests. In the meantime, oivio bodies, national associations, medical societies; in fact, both national and state associations of all kinds were endorsing the movement and by May 16, 1892, a resolution favoring the proposed national forest reservation in the hardwood region of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was adopted by the National Hardwood Lumber Association at its meeting in St. Louis. When this resolution was passed by the hardwood lumber association, most of the opposition to the bill subsided; and, whereas previously the lumbering Interests had opposed the measure, now It was shown that it was not a proposition to stop lumbering operations but to simply out the lumber on a scientific basis and the opposition of the lumbering interests ceased. When the Appalachian National Park Association started publishing and forwarding literature each month to the five hundred newspapers already mentioned, the services of the Burrelle Clipping Bureau were secured
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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.