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  • 14 FOREST RESERVE IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION project. It ought to go without much pushing. All that is needed is to set people thinking about it. Look at what the Government might do, and at what, on the contrary, will be done if the National Government does not come in and protect nature there. Once done the mischief could never be undone. The loss would not be local, but national. Everybody who fails to see the North Carolina mountains suffers a direct loss, whether he knows it or not. Open the region to the whole country and let these sights be assured and available at all times, and the park wo^id be one of the most popular resorts in the United States. Congress ought to jump at the chance to get possession of the great tract, at least 500,000 acres, said to be purchasable now at hardly more than nominal figures. The cost of a single battle ship would give us this park, available for future generations as well as for ourselves. It is to be hoped the committee will set the work going early and carry it to the success that the American people will wish for it and for themselves. [The Scientific American.] Within about a day's travel of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and most of the Atlantic seaboard, and quite as accessible to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, and St. Louis there are vast stretches of virgin forests—along the line of the Great Smoky Mountains, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina—that are thoroughly suited to the purposes of a great game and forest preserve. Going up from the lowlands of Walhalla, S. C, to the high plateau surrounding Highlands, N. C, a stage trip of about 30 miles, the late Professor Gray, the eminent botanist of Harvard, tells us that he encountered a greater number of species of indigenous trees than could be observed in a trip from Turkey to England through Europe, or from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountain plateau. The region surrounding that described by Professor Gray, especially to the west, with the headwaters of the Tennessee, the French Broad, and the Savannah rivers, all within a few miles of each other, wdth fertile valleys and mountain elevations of 5,000 feet or more, and a density of verdure unapproached elsewhere, is an ideal spot for a preserve, where every sort of North American animal or fish would thrive, and where almost every tree or plant found within our borders, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, would grow uncared for. [The Richmond Dispatch.] Senator Pritchard's bill making an appropriation for the purchase of a region in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama for a national forest reserve, to be known as the Appalachian National Park, is a commendable measure. As matters stand, the wonderful and beautiful region in question is rapidly being despoiled by the timber hunter and other irrespecter of the merely sesthetic. It should be preserved in its native grandeur and picturesque- ness as far as possible, and this preservation would tend to the material benefit of all contiguous regions in the arrest of the process of denudation now going on in the proposed park area. The Federal provision of national park lands in the West has proved a good investment, from the general business point of view, as well as otherwise. There is every reason to believe that a similar venture in the Appalachian region would prove equally wise, from the standpoint of the principle of the greatest good to the largest number. [The Wilmington (Del.) Star.] The efforts of the Appalachian National Park Association are succeeding far beyond the anticipation of the most urgent supporters of this great movement. * * * Prominent and influential men in every part of the country have given their aid, numerous newspapers have advocated the project, and as yet no adverse or unfavorable criticism has been heard or written, and it seems practically certain that with a united movement the park can be secured. * * * o
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This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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