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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • / 10 limit of bis land or of the steers to csliswb capacity to cliiab, he has killed the trees, Lis farm baa seen washes' away, sail he -pas west in search of new lands to destroy. Upon the barren waste he Las Hade, there la nothing to hold the heavy rains that fall; the water gathers and rushes into the valleys, the streams nro swollen and floods are upon the lowlands. To another place cosies the lumberman, Ee docs not own the land, ho cares nothing for the- trees, and the floods do not affect him* He ia a hunter and a slayer of trees. Having fastened upon his prey ho falls it to the earth, oaring nothing how or where it falls* If it crush and mutilate a dozen other tr«es as it falls, it is no concern of bin. Ho lops off the branches and leaves th&a where they fall to feed the forest fires. Having made ready his logs ha clears the way to give then a start down the mountain and gravity does the rest, Young trees and even old trees fall feoffors these asonsters that go rearing and crashing down the steep inclines, If the topography be unfit for this forrn of destruction, & skid-way or saakaw&y is cleared with regard solely for convenience, ■ en the mint; fail upon the slopes, the skidway bocoE.cs a waterway. It would be difficult to overstate the injur*/ done by the skldways, akewayg and chutes of the lumbermen* These are soiae of the ways in which our noble Appalachian forests are being destroyed. Bay by day these splendid gifts of nature are wantonly . wasted, a ailiiea acre© have bmn despoiled and are washing away.
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