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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 30 adjacent to the mountains. This flood, together with the demonstration made before the Committee on Agriculture, was one of the most oonvinoing things to awaken Congress to the necessity of taking some action. And, still the bill was not allowed to pass; although everybody agreed that it should be passed. Lands oould be bought at that time for a very nominal sum. A million acres would not have cost over five million dollars. While the great strides were made by the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association in arousing interest throughout the country and while the bill had repeatedly been put through one of the houses of Congress, it became the opinion of the officers of the Association by 1905 that the prospects were not good for receiving favorable consideration at the hands of Congress and several reasons Justified us in assuming this position. 1st: The measure was a Southern proposition. 2nd: Congress was in the hands of the Republican Party and the bills presented by Demoorats from the South did not receive the consideration which they should have received. In November 1902, the secretary, C. P. Ambler, oalled the attention of the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association to the fact that in his opinion the only way by which a bill oould be passed would be to secure
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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.