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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 VI with which the southern mountain slopes are being denuded of their forests and the permanent injury resulting therefrom. The splendid report published by the National Government on this subjeot has done much to advertise the many advantages of Western North Carolina, and to increase the tourist travel to that region. It has also done much to arouse public opinion in favor of the establishment there of a permanent National Forest Reserve with a view to the protection of the forests, the streams and lands of the mountain slopes, and the streams which rise in these mountains and flow across adjacent States. The establishment of suoh a forest reserve cannot be much longer delayed." In the report for 1905-06, the state geologist stated: "Perhaps the most important work in forestry that has been undertaken the last two years has been in relation to the establishment of the Appalachian Forest Reserve in the Southern Appalachians. Numerous newspaper and magazine articles have been written and published by different members of the Geological Survey staff, setting forth the great value and need of such a forest reserve to North Carolina. The following article by the State Geologist takes up these questions in detail: " In the State Geologist's report for 1907-1908,
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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.