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Minutes of initial meeting of the Appalachian National Park Association

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  • of it and are warm and ardent admirers of the State and of the scenery, the climate and other attractions of this rtgion, and will, I am sure; become ardent supporters of your K&tMCcrk. effort to establish this national park. But till those who have not been here have been informed as to the desirableness of this section for a park and forest for all the people, they will be opposed to it. So there is much work yet to be done. You will have to show them the advantages of this region and the necessity for the government to lay out parks in every portion of the country in order to preserve what nature has do ne. And righx here, let me say that the government is already in the park business. It has already expended considerable money on a park out west; the Yellow Stone National Park. It is a park of very large size in the Rockies, very nearly of the size of the State of Connect icux. Indeed, it is much larger than there is any necessity for. The government has bought up the lard and spent a geeat deal of money to improve it. But that park has many objections. It is a great distance from the center of population of the country, and so it is very expensive to get to and also expensive to go through /\ it on account of its vastness. It is thus impossible for a large <i number of the people of the United States to ever vi3itA, and it might as well not exist for them. Then again, after vou get there, on account of its great size, it is very troublesome and expensive
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