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Appalachian National Park: Synopsis of work accomplished

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  • THE CAUSE OF THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION. The most experienced travellers and those whose interest in the lumber trade gives them a wide knowledge of our forestry and the great scenic beauties of America have uttered warnings time and again against the denudation of our forest lands and the defacement of the grand scenery of the mountain regions of the Southern Appalachians. For many years there has been more or less talk of the opportunities and great advantages to the country at large to be derived from the establishment of a Forest Reserve in the Blue Ridge or great Smoky Mountains. The lumber supply of the United States is rapidly diminishing, the value of timber is proportionately rapidly increasing. Within a very few years these forests which have hitherto been considered of small value on account of their being located on the slopes of our inaccessible mountains, will become so valuable that it will enable the lumberman to market the same, even by the expensive methods which will be necessary. These forests will be destroyed unless something is done for their protection. In the destruction of these forests the whole water shed of the Southeastern states has been and will be further influenced ; streams will dry up during the dry season and become raging torrents in the wet season. The financial loss in the agricultural 3
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  • This 32-page booklet is titled, “Appalachian National Park: Synopsis of work accomplished” since the founding of the Appalachian National Park Association. While the booklet is titled “fourth edition,” the first three editions have a different title and content. The first, second, and third editions are titled, “Reasons in Favor of the Establishment of a National Park in the Mountains of Western North Carolina.”