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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 33 both Houses of Congress in 1911 and brought about the establishment of a forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. For it was only by working through their friends in the New England States, with the senators and representatives of the Southeastern States, and urging them to ask for the same thing in the New England States that we were asking in the Southern States, that the present forest reserves were established in the Southern Appalachians. The American Forestry Assoelation was taking an active interest in the efforts to establish the forest reserve and had pledged themselves to do everything in their power. On January 6, 1905, a meeting of the Forestry Congress was held in Washington at the oall of the American forestry Association and a oopy of the resolution passed by tnis Congress will be found on page 241 of the Minute Book, "Exhibit C". Following this action by the American Forestry Association, a meeting of the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association was held in Asheville and after a free and thorough discussion, it was the belief of the directors of the A.N.F.R.A. that the aotual work of pushing the matter should be at that time turned over to the American Forestry Association. Accordingly, on December
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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.