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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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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. 173 NORTH CAROLINA. A RESOLUTION favoring the establishment of a national forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountain region. Resolved by the house of representatives, the senate concurring: The general assembly of North Carolina hereby expresses its approval of the movement looking to the establishment by the Federal Government of an extensive national forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountain region as a wise and beneficent measure, such as many other nations have already adopted, and which this country should adopt before it is too late, looking to the conservation of its forests and the protection of the sources of important streams; and Whereas the proposal to establish this forest reserve has been approved and urged by the leading scientific societies and forestry associations of this country, and by the general press; and Whereas this general assembly has passed an act granting its consent to the acquisition of lands in western North Carolina by the Federal Government for incorporation in such a forest reserve, believing the reserve to be one of great importance to the people of this State; and Whereas a bill is now before the Federal Congress providing for the purchase of lands for this purpose: Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State are hereby requested to urge upon Congress the importance of prompt and favorable action in behalf of this measure. In the general assembly, read three times, and ratified this the 18th day of January, A. D. 1901. W. I). Tuener, /'resident of Senate. Walter E. Moore. Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to give consent by the State of North Carolina to the acquisition by the United States of such lands as may be needed for the establishment of a national forest reserve in said State. Whereas it is proposed that the Federal Government purchase lands in the high mountain regions of western North Carolina and adjacent States for the purpose of establishing there a national forest reserve which will perpetuate these forests and forever preserve the headwaters of many important streams, and which will thus prove of great and permanent benefit to the people of this State; and whereas a bill has been introduced in the Federal Congress providing for the purchase of such lands for said purpose: Therefore, the general assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1. That the consent of the general assembly of North Carolina be, and is hereby, given to the acquisition by the United States, by pur-
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This 386-page report of the Secretary of Agriculture discusses the state of the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachians in 1902. Theodore Roosevelt was president at the time. The report is illustrated with many photographs and fold out maps that are uploaded into this collection separately.
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