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Proposed Appalachian National Forest Reserve

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  • THE PROPOSED APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST RESERVE. .V3 Government ownership or control of the fore3ts is common in foreign countries; and both as a policy and a reality it is increasing rapidly in the United States. Experience has shown that 11 mountain forests, and especially those in southern latitudes, should he under governmental control, as the floods and frainfall dependent upon them affect not only the people of the mountain regions, but also people living on the plains for an hundred miles and ~ore beyond the mountains. The French government after long neglecting the mountain forests, has found it necessary to expend many millions of dollarB in trying to restore them on mountain slopes from which these forests had been destroyed by their original owners; and these efforts have been only partially nuooessful, owing to the fact that the destruction of these forests waB rapidly followed by the washing away of the soils on the mountain slopes. Other foreign govern* ments are having ft similar oostly experience in trying to restore life and beauty to regions already destroyed/ It is far wiser for us to prevent this destruction. We can destroy these beautiful Appalachians in a decade, in such a way that all our millions of money and centuries of time oannot restore them. In the United States, after more than a century of reckless forest destruction, our people have come to realise that their supposed inexhaustible supply of timber would soon be a thine of the past; and that our water supplies are being rendered irregular and uncertain; and that our floods have increased as our forests are being destroyed. Fortunately, thes- important Matlonal facts were being realized before many of the large forests on the public domain in the West were disposed of; and nearly ten years ago Congress wisely authorised the setting aside of portions of these lands about the mountains and the sources of important stresms in these western states and territories as national forest reserves.
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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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