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  • PcMxe 32- Calendar No., 2227. 56th Congress, ) SENATE. j Report U Session. f 1 No. 2221. D') FOREST RESERVE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN REGION. February 12, 1901.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, from the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 5518.] A majority of the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, having had under consideration the bill (S. 5518) to provide for the establishment of a national forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountain region, reports the bill with the recommendation that it do pass and submits the following report: An investigation of the forests of this region, authorized by Congress at its last session, has been conducted during the past year by the Department of Agriculture, with the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey. A preliminary report from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitted to Congress with a brief commendatory message by the President, is herewith included. It is preceded by a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, which declares his full approval of this bill. The plan to purchase a forest reserve or park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains has been favorably considered and is advocated hj the National Board of Trade, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, \>y the American Forestry Association, and by numerous similar organizations throughout the United States. Resolutions from the bodies named are presented in the appendix as showing that the movement for the establishment of this forest reserve is based, not upon local or selfish interests, but upon the widespread, intelligent national appreciation of the importance of prompt and favorable action by Congress. That such a forest reserve should be established in the hard-wood regions of the East is the general conviction of men of science, experts in forestry, intelligent lumbermen, and of men connected with the great business interests of the country; and this view finds frequent and emphatic expression in the technical and general press. Reckless cutting and the forest tires which follow are now destining these hard-wood forests at a rate and to an extent which is already having
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