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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachian region

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  • 158 SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. to that time. This report was transmitted to Congress by President McKinley in a brief commendatory message on January 16,1901. On January 10, 1901, a bill was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, which provided an appropriation of $5,000,000, to be expended under the Secretary of Agriculture in the purchase of not less than 2,000,000 acres of mountain lands in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. This bill was favorably reported to the Senate by the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, February 12, 1901.a This movement has from its beginning received the active support of both the general and the technical press of the country, and it may be said that this agency has done more than all others to awaken the American people to the importance of preserving the remnants of our forests before it is too late, and of educating them to a knowledge of the fact that these forests are for this generation to legitimately use, but not to destroy. The list of papers and periodical publications that have contained articles favoring the proposed Appalachian forest reserve is too long to be enumerated here, but it may not be improper to mention especially two such articles which have recently appeared, viz, one by Prof. W J McGee, of Washington, D. C, in the World's Work for November, 1901, and another by Prof. N. S. Shaler, in the North American Review for December, 1901. On page 180 will be found brief extracts relative to the proposed forest reserve from a few papers and magazines. The following papers, arranged somewhat in the order of their adoption, are here reproduced so as to make them more accessible to those who may have occasion to refer to them: MEMORIAL, OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America: The petition of the Appalachian Mountain Club respectfully shows. That your petitioner is an organization of about 1,200 members, composed principally of residents of Boston, Mass., and New England, with scattering members throughout the Union, organized in January. 187,i, and reorganized and chartered as a corporation by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in April, 1878. That its object is to bring together for cooperation all those inter- ested in the mountains of New England and adjacent regions. * * * To combine the energies of all those who are interested in efforts not only to preserve the present beauty and attractiveness of our mountain resorts and m particular their forests- but also to render then, more •Seep. 168.
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