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

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  • think I'm a liar; but hit's sol" Mosses and ferns and mushrooms are everywhere, and in delightful variety, amid the fallen and decaying trunks. There is not a oranny in the rocks, not a foot of the wild glen, but harbors something lovable or rare. Here are the unimproved works of God. These flowers that spring up under the dense oanopy of the ancient forests are such as defy cultivation. They oan exist nowhere but in the untouched wildwood, which has been left to itself these many thousands of years and provides a mold rich in organic matter and so spongy as to hold moisture at all times. The decaying trunk of a fallen tree, despised by foresters, is really a priceless thing, giving life and sustenance to forms of beauty that nothing else can nourish. Leaving the cove, a steep climb of a oouple of thousand feet brings the visitor to the top of one of the ridges that lead on up to the main divide. From here, as far as one oan see in every direction, are wooded mountains without a clearing or other trace of man's activity. On the drier slopes, especially on the south side, the prevailing growth is oak and chestnut, with considerable locust interspersed. The ridge tops have many pines. Hemlocks orowd the deep, cool recesses at the heads of small tributary streams. Beech, yellow biroh, buokeye, and chestnut are found within a wide range of altitude, persisting to the edge of the sub-arctic zone, which begins at about five thousand feet in the region east of Siler's Bald. The natives of this region do not consider that one knows anything about the Smokies until he has been "up among the balsams." A spray of balsam in his hatband, or a climbing staff of peeled balsam, shiny white with whorls of
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