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National Lumber Manufacturers' Association meeting

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  • Science, American Forestry Association, National Board of Trade, and various other scientific and business organizations in different parts of the country. It has received the support of both the general and technical press, including that of lumber journals and engineering magazines. After careful examination, it is advocated by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Government Bureau of Forestry ; and it has received the earnest approval of both President McKinley and President Roosevelt. In view of the rapidity with which the soils are being washed from these mountain slopes, as they are now being cleared, silting up the navigable channels of the Ohio, Mississippi and other Southeastern rivers; and in view of the increasingly destructive floods in many of these streams— due to this recent forest destruction—the preservation and renewal of the forests on these southern mountain slopes is now being understood as a public necessity. The variations in altitude, climate and soil in this region make it favorable to the growth of nearly all the species of hardwood trees in this country. This Association, therefore, respectfully urges upon Congress that it establish in this Southern Appalachian region a National forest reserve which, while meeting this public necessity, will also serve as a great. practical experiment station for the developement of such better methods of forest management as will benefit and help to perpetuate the hardwood forests in different portions of this country. And the Association respectfully further urges, as the best means of accomplishing this resr i the prompt passage by the House of Representatives of the Senate bill 521 i as favorably reported to the House by its Committee on Agriculture. \ Tfie National Lumber Manufacturers' Ass'n,1, St. Louis, Dec. 15th, 1902. GEO. K. SMITH, Secretary,
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