The Appalachian Forests 



The fate of the Southern Appalachian and White Moun- 

 tain forests, the watersheds of many of the most important 

 rivers of the eastern United States, the sources of a great 

 part of the remaining timber supply of this part of the 

 country, hangs in the balance. Only the intervention of 

 the United States government can save these great moun- 

 tain watersheds from rapid denudation and keep them for 

 future generations what they have been to the present and 

 past generations 



Reservoirs, Timber Farms, Sanitaria 

 and Recreation Places 



This is the concern of many states — not of one or two. 

 The task of protection and maintenance is too great for 

 one or two ; it is a national job, like reclamation, the 

 Panama Canal, or the improvement of the waterways for 

 the permanence and usefulness of which these mountain 

 forests are necessary. 



THE WEEKS BILL 



for the acquisition of national forests is a measure of 

 national scope, but in it lies the hope of the Southern 

 Appalachians and White Mountains, the most immediately 

 necessary and definite opportunity for conservation of nat- 

 ural resources now before the American people. 



This bill passed the House of Representatives of the 

 Sixtieth Congress by a vote of 157 to 147. It failed for 

 lack of time in the Senate. It is now before the Committee 

 on Agriculture of the House. 



