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Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park

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  • 630 THE LAST OF THE EASTERN WILDERNESS MOUNT LE CONTE, FROM CATS ST. bloom of the great rhododendron is waxy-white. The wild animals of the Smokies have abundant food. Untold thousands of bushels of blackberries, dewberries, wild raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, huckleberries, buckberries, service-berries, haws, and grapes supply them in summer. In autumn there is inexhaustible "mast" of acorns, chestnuts, hickory-nuts, beechnuts, and edible seeds. 1 The charm of the Smokies, and their '(economic value to the nation as well, is fdue in great part to their abundant stream-How. Here are the springheads of Svild rivers whose feeders come tumbling down over their rocky beds, rollicking, bubbling, splashing along, taking roaring plunges over the waterfalls. They are crystal-clear and alive with trout—brook trout in the upper reaches, rainbow trout in the lower courses where they have been introduced. There is scarcely any standing water in this whole region—arjd^ by_the by, there are no mosquitoes. Last summer I was called to Asheville to meet Robert Sterling Yard, executive secretary of the National Parks Association. He said to me: "Our association is pledged to defend the high standards of the national parks system and to promote the recreational use of public lands. We have an affiliated membership of more than four million Americans who work together for these ends. I have been sent here to visit the Smoky Mountains and report back to the association whether this area is worthy of being included among our national parks; whether, in its own way, it measures up to the standard set by the Yellowstone, the Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and the other parks in the Far West. IN BEAR PEN HOLLOW
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