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Senate 5518 report
Senate 5518 report
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4 FOREST RESERVE IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. in the United States; it is admirably adapted to the purposes of a public resort for health and recreation; the land may be purchased at a reasonable price; the preservation of the forest is essential not only to the well-being of the region itself, but to- that of great rivers which flow from it and to the interests they subserve; and 1 am entirely confident that very soon after its creation the proposed reserve would, under conservative forestry, be self-supporting from the sale of timber. Very respectfully, James Wilson, Secretary. Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, United States Senate. You will find a more detailed statement of my position in my letter to the President,, transmitted by him to the Congress January 16. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, in which he presents a preliminary report of investigations upon the* forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountain region. Upon the basis of the facts established by this investigation the Secretary of Agriculture recommends the purchase of land for a national forest reserve in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and adjacent States. I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the reasons upon which the recommendation rests. William McKinley. Executive Mansion, January 16, 1901. United States Department op Agriculture, Office op the Secretary, Washington, I). C, January S, 1901. The President: The bill making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, provides that a "sum not to exceed $5,000 may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be used to investigate the forest conditions in the southern Appalachian Mountain region of western North Carolina and adjacent States." In accordance with this provision I have made a thorough investigation of the forests in a portion of the southern Appalachian Mountains, as directed above, including an estimate of the amount and condition of the standing timber, an inquiry as to the suitability of this region for a national park, as proposed by the Appalachian National Park Association, and an examination of the validity of the reasons advanced by its advocates for the creation of such a park. In this task I have received generous and effective cooperation and assistance through the United States Geological Survey,. from the Department of the Interior, which recognized in this way the deep and widely diffused public interest in the plan. The forest investigation was made to include a study of the character and distribution of the species of timber trees, the density and value of forest growth, the extent to which the timber has been cut or damaged" by fire, the size and nature of the present holdings, the prices at which these forest lands can now be purchased, and the general and special conditions that affect the prosecution of conservative forestry on a large scale. The hydrographic survey of the region, conducted by the United States Geological Survey, includes a general study of its topographic features; of the relation of the soils, forest cover, and rainfall; of the quantity of water flowing out of it through the various streams during different seasons, and of the influence exerted on the regularity of this flow by forest clearings. More than 750 stream measurements have already been made and much additional data of special value has been secured. In addition to these investigations I have given thorough attention to the arguments advanced by the movers for the proposed park and to those of their opponents, and as a result I am strongly of opinion that this matter is worthy of careful consideration. I have the honor to transmit herewith a mounted original copy of a large map, which shows in detail the mapping of forests accomplished during the past summer over an area of nearly 8,000 square miles. A full report of the work and of its results is now in preparation and will be submitted for your consideration at an early date.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) was an American historian and U.S. Senator from Indiana. In 1901, Beveridge authored this report suggesting passage of Senate bill 5518. Previously, the Senate had passed a bill authorizing a study, taking the first steps in authorizing a forest reserve. While the Appalachian National Park Association initially argued for a national park, it used the terms “national park” and “forest reserve” somewhat interchangeably. The association raised public support for a national park, but disbanded before the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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