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Strategies for supporting the Appalachian National Park movement

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  • J. A. HOLMES, State Geologist. NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. i 1 j CPA #2 0 region into south Carolina and Georgia and this party will later in the season move northwrd along the we*3t slope of the great Smoky fountains, measuring the streams as far north as Pigeon river. On July 1st, one forester and two assistants began the examination of the forests on the Black Mountain region. Later they will examine the forests of the extreme northwestern portion of this State, including the northeastern portion of Tennessee and the adjacent territory in Virginia; and during August and September they will examine the forests of the great Smoky Miuntd. n region south toward the Pigeon river, of the Balsam mountains and across to the region about Caesar*s Head and Table Rock in south Carolina, and in the extreme northern portion of Georgia. Another of the Government forest experts will enter upon this work in the course of a few days and from time to time during the summer season all of the work mentioned will receive the personal attention of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Government forestry bureau; Mr. P. H. Newell, the chief hydrographer of the U. S. Geological Survey; and myself. So that you will see frcra thisgeneral statement things are moving along in a fairly satisf ctory manner. I have recently sent on for publication in the July number of the Porester, which is the journal of the American Forestry Association, of which our present Secretary of Agriculture if the President, a short article setting forth some facts with regard to the proposed Park and Forest Reserve. It is desired that this article be accompanied by several illustrations, and I have forwarded for use in this connection, three of the full page half tone plates which I have on a former occasion used in one of the publications of the Geological Survey. I have also ordered prepared for use in this same connection a map of the U. S., showing the position of the great western forest reserves and the two principal National Parks (, ellowstone and Yoserdte),
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