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these men will much more than compensate for their inahility to deat 

 fully with actual fire extinguishment. 



Mitchell State Park 



The administration of this park, which includes the summit of Mt. 

 Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern United States, has heen turned 

 over to the State forester. One of the chief objects of the creation of 

 this park was to save for the people of the State a small area of spruce 

 forest, which reaches its southern limit on the highest mountains in 

 North Carolina. These spruce forests, which were practically un- 

 touched 15 years ago, are now nearly all destroyed by lumbering fol- 

 lowed by fire. Last spring fire from an adjoining lumbering operation 

 entered the park and destroyed 15 acres of the best timber. The sale 

 of the burned timber, however, has produced a fund which is being 

 used for the construction of fire lines, the improvement of trails, and 

 the general administrative expenses of the park. A scenic railroad 

 carries thousands of visitors to within a mile of the summit of Mt. 

 Mitchell, and one of the chief problems is to protect the young trees, 

 shrubs, and flowers from the despoiling visitors. 



I'^arm forestry 



The State has secured a farm forestry specialist as an expert in the 

 Division of Extension of the Federal States Relations Service, to work 

 under the joint direction of the State Director of Extension, the State 

 forester, and the U. S. Forest Service. Already examinations have 

 been made for a large number of farmers who wish to sell the products 

 of their woodlands to the best advantage or who are interested in 

 their better management. North Carolina is the first State to secure 

 the services of a farm forestry specialist in this capacity, although 

 farm forestry has been specialized in by some of the State forestry 

 departments. 



