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  • FOREST RESERVE IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. if COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. District of Columbia.—M. V. Richards, chairman. Georgia.—Pleasant A. Stovall. South Carolina.—N. G. Gonzales. North Carolina.—E. P. McKissick, Charles McNamee, J. A. Holmes, J. F. Hayes, George H. Smathers, J. S. Carr, S. P. Ravenel, jr., Frank Loughran, A. M. Waddeil, Josephus Daniels, H. S. Harkins. RESOLUTIONS. [American Association for the Advancement of Science, June 23, 1900, New York City.] Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognizing the importance of the preservation in its original condition of some portion of the hard-wood forests of the Southern Appalachian region, respectfully petitions Congress to provide for the establishment in that region of a national forest reserve. [American Forestry Association, December IS, 1900, Washington, D. C] Resolved, That the action of Congress in making an appropriation to investigate the forest conditions of the Southern Appalachian Mountains meets with our cordial approval, and that we recommend that further steps be taken for the creation by purchase of a national Appalachian park in the high mountain region of the States of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. [National Board of Trade, January 23, 1901, Washington, D. C] Resolved, That the National Board of Trade respectfully urges upon Congress the establishment of the proposed Minnesota National Park and of the proposed Southern Appalachian Forest Reserve as a just and necessary measure of forest protection to those portions of our country which at present contain no national forest reserves. [Prof. J. A. Holmes, State geologist of North Carolina, in The Forester, July, 1900.] The region is accessible through the winter as well as in the summer seasons, and can be reached within a twenty-four hours' ride by more than one-half of the total population of the United States. It is unsurpassed in healthfulness by any other in the country. In it we have the head waters of streams which have to do with manufacturing enterprises and with navigation in the two Virginias, the two Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. Only those who have studied this Southern Appalachian region have any intelligent conception of the richness and variety of its forest and floral growth. Botanists are agreed that it is unequaled elsewhere in America. Here the forests of New England meet those of the extreme Southern States; so that, ascending from the tops of the gorges to the tops of the higher mountains, one sees much the same variety of plants as he would in traveling from Alabama to Canada. In the cool moist coves of this mountain region the hardwood forest trees reach their maximum development. Oaks from 5 to 7 feet in diameter, chestnuts still larger, and tulip poplars from 6 to 10 feet in diameter are associated with beeches, birches, lindens, maples, and numerous other species which have found conditions most favorable to their growth. Here they have lived together for centuries without man's interference. In the gorges of deeper valleys one finds the trees and shrubs which are common over the Piedmont plains, which lie to the east, south, and west. Ascending the mountains along the lower slopes one passes through the splendid growth of maples, oaks, and poplars; above these come the beeches, birches, hemlocks, and their associates; but higher still one passes through groves of balsams and fir trees. At the tops of the higher mountains even these last have generally disappeared, giving place to grass and the rose-colored rhododendron. Interspersed among these trees in the coves, on the crags, and up the mountain slopes one finds the rhododendron, the kalmias, and hundreds of other beautiful shrubs, and a rich variety of delicate flowering plants.
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