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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 V botanical resources of the mountain counties has been inaugurated during the year under Mr. George F. Atkinson, Professor of Botany in Cornell University. Mr. Atkinson spent portions of the months of July, August, and September in Watauga, Mitchell and Yancey Counties making examinations and collecting materials for his report. He was assisted in this work by Dr. E. J. Durand. The arrangement made witn both Professor Atkins and Dr. Durand was that their expenses should be paid by the Survey, but that they receive no compensation except sufficient to oover their necessary traveling expenses. Of the specimens collected by them, one set goes to Cornell University and all otner collections come to the State Geologioal Survey." In the Report for 1903-1904, it is stated: "To the forestry work of the Survey our forester, Mr. W. W. Ashe, has given only a part of his time during the past two years; and this has been devoted mainly to tae preparation of his reports on the forests and forest oonditions in North Carolina. The cooperative work between the U. S. Bureau of Forestry and the state Geologioal Survey, covering the examination of the forests in the mountain counties of the State, has been highly beneficial in arousing public1 attention to the rapidity
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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.