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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • December 14 INSTALLATION—BIRD PRESERVE And now it is time for our annual pilgrimage to that delightful little wilderness spot right here in the city—the Bird Preserve. Our 1931 officers will be formally (yes, very formally) installed, reports of the year's activities presented and plans for the future discussed. We will take a short hike over the Bird Preserve before the meeting, and maybe Mr. or Mrs. H. P. Ijams will show us about their wooded hillsides and bluffs! The serious affairs come next, and then the weiner and marshmallow roast. It is true that Dutch Roth's pack will look like he had supplies for the whole bunch, but those who know Dutch's capacity for food--and who doesn't?—will bring their own "vittels". Leave Saunders System at 3 P. M. with your "warm puppies" and carfare or other transportation. Leaders: Florence Arp (Phone 3—9223) and Pearl Henderson (Phone 2—4538). GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK As this booklet was going to press, announcement was made that Feb. 6, 1930, has been set by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to formally receive the first 150,000 acres of land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Approximately 90,000 acres of this initial area is in Tennessee and 60,000 acres in North Carolina. Both states have many thousands of additional acres purchased, and as soon as three larger tracts, for which negotiations or condemnation proceedings are under way (Jan. 1930) are secured, the entire 428,000 acres will be ready to present to the Federal Government and these unique mountains, which contain the world's largest variety of trees, flowering shrubs and wild flowers—and America's largest remaining area of virgin hardwood forests, will be held inviolate for all time for the enjoyment and education of hikers, nature-lovers and the public generally. The many distinctive features of these 69
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