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  - Western Carolina University
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  - GSMNP_13150_48_1255_51
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NATURE MAGAZINE FOR MAY 193 1 327 being cut into lumber. These mountain forests have been cut more or less heavily depending on whether they were logged by rail to a big mill or whether culled by the selection of two or three of the leading and most valuable species. There are still a few areas of virgin timber containing most or all of the kinds mentioned, but the larger lumber output of fifteen to twenty years ago when nearly three billion feet were cut annually in the two states will never be restored. If properly protected and intelligently managed, these forests, which are not only valuable timber- producers, but also protectors of the head waters of interstate and navigable streams, will be restored to their former usefulness, although not to their early magnificence. Capping these Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina is the southern extension of the northern spruce forests lying on such isolated peaks as Grandfather and Roan Mountains and in much more extended areas on the Black, Balsam and Great Smoky Mountains. These lands have been so cut and devastated since the beginning of the present century as to leave only small areas in the Pisgah National Forests and the Mount Mitchell State Park and a larger area in the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is said that the red spruce, which with the southern balsam forms the entire forest, reaches its maximum development on these high mountain slopes above an elevation of 4500 feet. The value of spruce as a long-fibered wood almost necessary in the production of news print, and the abnormal demand for this wood as an aeroplane material during the World War, finally wrote "finis" on this thick carpet which once covered the hills. The development of forestry in the Carolinas dates back to the early nineties when George Vanderbilt began the acquisition of an estate which finally exceeded 85,000 acres lying in three counties of western North Carolina. Here Gifford Pinchot began his career as consulting forester to the Vanderbilt Estate and here was established a few years later the first fotestry school in the United States, an institution which ceased its usefulness only when its Director, Dr. C. A. Schenck, left for his native land before the opening of the World War. The greater part of the Vanderbilt ownings was purchased by the federal government as one of the first large acquisitions under the Weeks Law and now forms a most interesting section of the Pisgah National Forest. This unit, the Nantahala Forest, extending into South Carolina and Georgia, and the Cherokee Forest, only 7000 acres of which are at present within these states, together comprise some four hundred and fifty thousand acres federally owned in the Carolinas. While the Weeks Law stipulated that these forests were E. T. H. SHAFFER VIRGIN FOREST IN SUMMERVILLE The pine has always been sacred to this town and the rewards of protection have been both practical and aesthetic secured for the protection of streams, the Clarke-McNary Law under which they are being enlarged emphasizes also the production of timber. Providing recreational facilities is also an important part of the national forest policy. At present these thtee great uses of our forest lands are being stressed, and the national forest administration thus demonstrates to public and private land owners improved methods of forest management. Unfortunately the states have not kept pace ■with the federal government in the application of forestry principles to this valuable heritage. No definite policy governing the acquisition or administration of publicly owned forest lands has been adopted; however, the need for state parks and state forests is being agitated and a few parks have already been established. Mount Mitchell State Park which contains the highest peak east of the Rocky Mountains was purchased in 1916 by the state of North Carolina at the insistence of Governor Craig, who saw the necessity of ptesetving a specimen of the spruce and balsam forest before the commercial activities had destroyed them all. Fort Macon State Park on the coast of North Carolina containing the well-preserved ruin of old Fort Macon was donated (Continued on page 344)

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Several articles on the Carolinas appear in this 1931 issue of Nature Magazine. The magazine was collected by George Masa. Born Masahara Iizuka and raised in Japan, George Masa (1881-1933) emigrated to the U.S. when he was 20 years old and, in 1915, came to Asheville, where he lived the rest of his life. Masa was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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  - American Nature Association
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  - Publications (documents)
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  - Date original: 1931-05
  - Date digitized: 2015-11-02
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  - Dimension: 11.5" x 8.5"
  - Pages: 78 pages
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - George Masa Collection
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  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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