The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . carrying the mineral products. As the forests are destroyed, wild life disaj)-pears, the streams become irregular and filled with silt and the productiveness offarms and mines is seriously impaired. The South, ])articularly the Southern Appalachians, is rich in forests. Theye
The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . carrying the mineral products. As the forests are destroyed, wild life disaj)-pears, the streams become irregular and filled with silt and the productiveness offarms and mines is seriously impaired. The South, ])articularly the Southern Appalachians, is rich in forests. Theyellow pine forests of the coast states have long lead over all other kinds of timberin this country in the amount lumbered, and in the Southern Appalachian region,the finest hardwoods of the country grow in luxuriance. The Appalachians arerapidlv becoming the center and soon will be flic sole proiiiijicut source of flicliardiiood siipf>ly. In these Southern Ap])alachian mountains all the ]irinci])rilspecies of trees which grow anywhere in the East reach tlieir highest develop-ment. The department of forests of the National Conservation Exposition showedthe forest wealth of the country and ]iarticularly of the SoUth, how these forestscontrol the countrys prosperity directly and through their influence upon other. I- I X HZUJ Sza: > O a QZ -< -J < o I oz 5 -1 5m Q2
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