Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (20) View all

Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906

items 68 of 72 items
  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-14581.jpg
Item
?

Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).

  • Page VIII all the soil had been eroded, leaving the hillsides barren and unproductive and illustrating very completely why the streams rising in the vicinity of these badly eroded hillsides were subjeot to heavier freshets and longer periods of low water than formerly." In arranging for this trip of the President's Conservation Commission, the Southern Railway Company very kindly provided a special train with private oar for the use of the Commission, and the train was the headquarters of the Commission while making the investigation. The investigation trip was in oharge of the State Geologist. The information obtained by this investigating committee, which was embodied in its reports to the President and then to the Senate and House, was undoubtedly a big faotor in finally bringing about favorable consideration by the House of Representatives for the passage of the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill, now known as the Weeks Bill. In the annual report of the State Geologist for the year ending November 30, 1905, he stated: "The question of the establishment of the Appalachian Forest Reserve, which includes a large portion of Western North Carolina, has been discussed and
Object
?

Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).

  • 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.