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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 28 wreck whioh ooourred at Salisbury and in which a large amount of mail being transmitted from Washington to the South had been destroyed. Due to the aotivity of the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association in Asheville, sentiment all over the country waB constantly growing. Represents© tives of the association made frequent trips to Washington and appeared before the Committee on Agrioulture, interviewed the President and many congressmen, presented all kinds of argument and attempted to smooth out all opposition. One of the most memorable meetings in Washington was held in the halls of the Agriculture Committee In May 1902. Before this, the question had been raised by the Chief of the Weather Bureau as to whether or not the denudation of covered mountain slopes had anything to do with the regulation of the water supply to the agricultural lands lying at the foot of the mountain. Our Association had from the very first claimed that it had everything to do with It but our opposition pooh-hoohed the idea and laughed at us. At the meeting in May just referred to, the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association had built and prepared two miniature mountains which they carried into the Agriculture Committee's rooms. These model mountains
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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.