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Letters supporting Appalachian National Park movement

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  • o. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ■ ■ ■ ^00 ■ Philadelphia, November 23d, 1901. The Botanical Society of Pennsylvania is eager to help forward the movement of the Appalachian National Park Association for a National Forest Reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Within the last quarter century, there has been a great awakening in this country to the need of forest preservation, and, in response to it, the Government has set aside in the Western forest reserves, some 70,000 square miles. There is, as yet, no government forest reserve in the East. The movement contemplates the purchase, within the States of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, of an area not to exceed 2,000,000 acres. The region asked for includes the highest and largest mountain masses east of the Mississippi River ; these contain the head-waters of the streams of the Southeastern States, to preserve which the mountains must be preserved, and to prolong the life of the mountains, the forests must be preserved. And only less important than the preservation of the forests is the preservation for future generations of such typical bits of our native flora as are unique in these mountains, and should be rescued from extinction. The region has been one of perfect healthfulness, but under deforestation will not remain so ; it is one of exceptional beauty and picturesqueness, still rich in game and fish and characteristic native plants. It lies within a day's travel of a large portion of the population of the country. Here are the best hardwood forests left in the United States, but the early destruction of the more valuable timber is imminent. Moreover, it is a region where large operations in practical forestry may be carried on throughout the year; and the Secretary of Agriculture states it to be fully shown by the investigation made, in accordance with the provision of Congress, in the summer of 1900, that such a reserve would be self-supporting from the sale of timber under conservative forestry. We would respectfully call your attention to the enclosed preliminary report of the Secretary of Agriculture on an Appalachian Forest Reserve as forwarded by President McKinley to Congress, January 16, 1901, with his recommendation to favorable consideration. The Honorary President of the Botanical Society, Charles C. Harrison, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the Vice-Presidents of the Appalachian National Park Association. The Council of the Society earnestly asks the active co-operation of all interested individuals and, even more, of affiliated organizations throughout the State of Pennsylvania. Appreciable help may be rendered financially by enrollment in the Appalachian National Park Association ; the membership fee is a single assessment of two dollars, which could be sent directly to Dr. C. P. Ambler, Secretary-Treasurer, Appalachian National Park Association, Asheville, N. C, or would be forwarded with like sums by our Treasurer, Robert C. Banes, 2021 Spring Garden Street. And we beg, even more earnestly, for every possible personal appeal to the Congressmen of Pennsylvania to urge their careful consideration of the matter when the subject is brought up in the next Congress. Very respectfully, / 3 st- A-4 £m*f 7 0. <
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