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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 II Southern Appalachian region, the effects of erosion, the determining the ownership and value of these forest lands, and in acquiring option on them, and in determining the areas that were considered suitable for National Forests, are: J. A. Holmes, State Geologist, and later Director U. S. Bureau of Mines; v.. W. Ashe, forester, now with the U. S. Forest Servioe; Prof. L. 0. Glenn, geologist, now professor of Geology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Prof. J. Volney Lewis, geologist, now professor of Geology at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, I. J.; E. W. Myers, Hydraulic engineer, now with Ludlow & Myers, Winston-Salem, N.C.; J. S. Holmes, forester, now State Forester, Raleigh, North Carolina; Joseph Hyde Pratt, geologist, later (1905- 1924) State Geologist of North Carolina, now consulting engineer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. These men assisted very materially In obtaining information for the U. S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Forestry, which was used in compiling the report of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, entitled: "In Relation to the Forests, Rivers and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region", and trans-
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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.