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Our Mountain Forests

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  • C O UNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA lume II — Number i May, 1902 Price, 25 Cents $3 a Year Postpaid Mount Pisgah from Vanderbilt hunting lodge OUR MOUNTAIN FORESTS THE VALUE OF THE A CONCRETE MOUNTAIN FORESTS AND THE NEED OF PRESERVING THEM— ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS — A PROPOSED NATIONAL PARK By CHASE P. AMBLER FROM the time of the earliest settlement in America up to the middle of the eighteenth century the destruction of forests and the clearing of lands for cultivation constituted one of the greatest improvements of our country. Every state invited the settler who would hew out a claim; the work was looked upon and really considered as one of the greatest importance; each coming generation was born with an idea to destroy the woodland, to claim it for cultivation, and as long as our millions of square miles were covered with forests, the work was necessary for progression. Our forefathers never thought of a time to come when forests would cease to exist. They never dreamed of climatic changes to be brought about, of streams which would by this destruction become dry; they figured but little as to the price and value of lumber to coming generations, and even if they had it would have made no difference, the work would have gone on the same; it was necessary, it was right, and those hardy pioneers are deserving of the greatest praise for what they did; we owe our country of to-day to them. Since those early times we have treated our forests as if they were inexhaustible. There is nothing remarkable in this fact, however, as we have pursued this same policy toward every form of our natural wealth. We have been living like spendthrifts in the time of plenty. We have destroyed our game; only in recent years have we begun to realize that our supply of fish is exhaustible. Our oysters were threatened with extinction. One of the great aims of the civilized race should be to use the resources which have been received from nature so that they can be handed down to posterity undiminished in value and improved for our successors. The shifting and ever-increasing sand-banks which now cover thousands of acres along the shore, especially at Cape Cod, owe their presence and their extension to the carelessness and thoughtlessness of man. This sand desert of the coast of our country is not natural, but was created by human energy; by man's greed and man's thoughtlessness thousands of acres of coast lands have been rendered valueless and the shifting sands are ever extending farther inland. Great sums of money have (3)
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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