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Appalachian National Park: Synopsis of work accomplished

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  • ional Forest preserve in this part of the country impossible. Ninth, the region is within easy access of all the Eastern and Southern States. Tenth, such a forest reserve would soon ibecome stocked with game and fishing, and ' Finally, it is the duty of the people of this generation to preserve such a section of the Southern Appalachian mountains to hand down to posterity a part of the country in its primeval condition. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. Editorial, Ithaca, N. Y., Journal: The Appalachian forests are as necessary to the Southern water supply as to the preservation of the beauties of the National Park now on the way. Senator Hawley, in Hartford, Conn., Courant: It ought to go without much pushing. Editorial, Hudson, N. Y. Republican: The scheme, we think, a good one. The mountains of Western North Carolina are " glorious" and they should be made "everlasting." Editorial, Birmingham, Ala., Herald: It would be the outlying park of the national capital. Yellowstone National Park is much too far away for the use of any but the wealthy and leisurely, while the toiling millions could hope to visit now and then a park in Western North Carolina. If national parks are to be multiplied, there is not any reason why North Carolina should not secure one that would preserve her woodlands and crystal mountain streams from the depredations of the timber fiends. 13
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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.”