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Minutes of initial meeting of the Appalachian National Park Association

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  • IB Stovall says, they are spending down in Savannah to make things look like nature, and when they are done , it is mighty poor nature/ I want to say that I am heartily in sympathy with this movement, and shall do all in my power to further i"1$ establishment, but I do not like the proposed name. I do not want any "Southern" National Park. I want a national park for the northern people, for the central people, for the western people and for all the people. Why, nooody from the east or the south scarcely ever $®v. & the Yellow otone Park. But there is an ever present interest in keeping the Ye-iow Stone Park up; it is to preserve the upper floods of water at the head of the Missouri river, which If the real Missisiip Hiixx pi. That is one reason, and perhaps the main reason, for maintaining it, to Keep the snow from melting suddenly on those high mountains and. coming down in great floods to the destruction of the lower country. We have no such reason as that for a park hen^ but we do want a park for everybody from everywhere, and a park too where people can come with but little "expense. It costs hundreds of dollars to spend a week or two in the Yellow Stone Park. Now then, I suggest that vou gel a proper committee to properly suggest to Congress these ideas and trie usefulness of this park, because once established, it is here forever. See the English people; they have their great parks everywhere, and they would rather see the whole country blotted out than their oeautifuljtparks.
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