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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • other natural agent has done so auch for the huaon race, and has been so reeklesslf used and so little Understood** Pa have reached the point in Aaerioa where vandalism in our forests aust be checked. Fortunately we have seen the evils that the ruthless luiaberaan imy do, before- his invaeioa of our southern forests. has bases* irresistible, but the Wanton destruction that ho has wrought elsewhere, now drives laia to us. Of the woods of the South-cm Appalachian region, perhaps one- fourth have already disappeared, the remainder may ba saved, oy prompt action of congress, bet us not charge all the harsi that has been done to the strange IsatNiraaa* The natives are sy no means without fault, -The thousands of "eld sedge fields*", scattered through the south, attest the inca|-acity and the improvidence of our small farmers. They wars couriered by perpetual crops of corn, la the aountains the belief still prevails that the chief end Of aan and of the earth, is to raise cam without ceasing, the - .svy-f coding corn quickly devours the soil of the little valleys and the faraer begins to clear the hills, The steep slope is Isid bar© and a b fell-to uguo plow, steer iopollod, cakes straggling incisions thro® inches deep, a) sag the rocks and stogqas* The vir ?in||p, soli yields fair returns. The fall and a inter rains wash sjsay the soil that has been loosened; the next year the bull-tongue scratches three inches deeper, and in the Fail another three inches of soil is sashed away* As the soil departs the crop decreases* In five or six years the soil all |©»«, and the plowman aust ciiab higher* -At last he reaches the
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