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NCWRA_019_12_04_07_39Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
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20 APPALACHIAN AND WHITE MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS. This kind of erosion occurs on close-grained, compact clay soils, the particles of which cling together firmly and resist the downward cutting of small currents of water. Another type of erosion results in parallel gullies extending straight up and down the slopes. As these gullies grow deeper they widen, the smaller ones are obliterated by the larger until they become of huge size, their bottoms sharp, their sides steep, and their edges irregular and jagged. Such erosion results from clay soils of homogeneous texture and somewhat softer and more loamy than the type mentioned above. It is a very common type, and the process once started can be stopped only with great difficulty. It nearly always results in the early abandonment of the field on which it begins. Of all types of erosion, that of gullying, in which rapid down-cutting is accompanied by undercutting and caving, is the most rapid in its progress and the most difficult to check, as well as the most destructive in its effects. This type occurs in soils of relatively soft micaceous subsoil. The surface may be a fairly compact clay that offers moderate resistance to water, but once broken a gully results in the soft subsoil. It rapidly deepens, the micaceous material on the sides is easily undermined and slips in, leaving vertical or overhanging walls. Into such gullies many square yards of soil may cave during a single heavy rain, and as the decomposed micaceous material is usually scores of feet in thickness such gullies frequently become chasms of great depth and width. This kind of erosion when started on cleared land may advance into a forested area and undermine even the largest trees. The rocks which produce soil subject to this kind of erosion are found over a large part of the Southern Appalachian region, and especially in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Still another type of erosion is that started by small landslides, which occur on steep slopes when the soil is saturated during periods of [>rolonged rainfall. Such landslides are often started by the tramping of cattle over the steep slopes during wet weather. One animal in climbing up or down a slope may start a number of such slides, each of which usually grows m width and length and soon makes a great bare scar in the field. The soils subject to serious erosion are very extensive in the Southern Appalachian region. Where on such soils nature has placed a forest that brings about a balance between rainfall and run-off, the danger in widespread clearing is obvious. The loss resulting from erosion means not only the loss of the soil from the fields; it means also the loss which has already been described in the failure of water power and navigation. MINING. While in the Blue Ridge and Great Smokies no valuable coal deposits are known to exist, these mountains have a great variety of mineral resources. Many of them have never been developed, while others have become the basis of important mining operations. Large investments have been made in the mining of copper, marble, mica, corundum, talc, asbestos, slate, kaolin, and other minerals, and the mineral products are said to amount to several million dollars annually. Such mining as is carried on does not require large quantities of timber, since but a small part of it is underground mining, and some
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This 41-page “Report of the Secretary of Agriculture on The Southern Appalachian and White Mountain Watersheds” is in the collection of the Appalachian National Park Association records. The Senate report was written in 1907. Even before the dawn of the 20th century, the association raised awareness of the importance of forests to water.
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The Art of Getting Lost
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America
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Park dedication: President Roosevelt
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Petitions supporting a National Park and Forest Reserve
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Rocky Spur hikers
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Appalachian Trail
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Charlies Bunion hikers
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Map of Great Smoky Mountains region
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Civilian Conservation Corps Annual: District "C"
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Memorandum to association president and members
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Minutes of Meetings of the Appalachian National Park Association
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Mount LeConte with Brushy and Cove Mountains
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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club
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Mag Caldwell
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Big Oak on Rich Gap
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Congressional bill for the purchase of a national forest reserve
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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1899-1902
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Kephart personal belongings inventory
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Chimney Tops
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Times' Explorers at Camp in Smokies
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Wears Cove
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Senate Bill 5228: Senator Simmon's speech
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Camp at foot of LeConte in Bear Pen Hollow
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Trees of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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National Parks Bulletin, 1925
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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1902-1907, 1925, 1928
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Letters supporting Appalachian National Park movement
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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club
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Senator Pritchard's questions regarding the park movement
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Tom DeWine, Harriet Fowlkes, and Margaret Broome, on Cheoah Bald
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Petitions supporting a National Park and Forest Reserve
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Cataloochee tract 253: Mack W. Hannah
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