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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



LOGGING CABIN ON BIG CREEK ABOUT THREE MILES BELOW THE VANDERBILT LODGE ON TOP OF 



MT. PISGAH. 



before my husband's death, my offer to 

 the Government of Pisgah Forest now 

 being at a price of five dollars per acre. 



"I make this contribution towards 

 the public ownership of Pisgah Forest 

 with the earnest hope that in this way 

 I may help to perpetuate my husband's 

 pioneer work in forest conservation, 

 and to insure the protection and the use 

 and enjoyment of Pisgah Forest as a 

 National Forest by the American people 

 for all time. 



"In the event that my offer is ac- 

 cepted, I shall be glad for the Govern- 

 ment to assume control of Pisgah For- 

 est as soon as it may desire. In the 

 same event, it would be a source of very 

 keen gratification to me if the tract re- 

 tained, as a National Forest, the title 

 of "Pisgah Forest," which my late hus- 

 band gave it." 



GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE NAME 



In accordance with Mrs. Vanderbilt's 

 desire, the National Forest Reservation 

 Commission will retain the name of 



'Tisgah Forest" ; in fact, the general 

 area, in which this forest is located and 

 in which other purchases may be made, 

 is already designated as the "Pisgah 

 Area." It is proposed also to make it 

 a game refuge for the preservation of 

 the fauna of the eastern mountains. It 

 is particularly well suited to this pur- 

 pose since it is already well stocked 

 with game and fish, including deer, tur- 

 key, and pheasant, and in the streams 

 rainbow trout and brook trout, with 

 which they have been systematically 

 stocked from year to year. 



The tract includes portions of Tran- 

 sylvania, Henderson, Buncombe, and 

 Hayward Counties, in North Carolina. 

 It covers the entire eastern slope and 

 portions of the northern and western 

 slopes of the Pisgah range, one of the 

 most prominent of the southern Appa- 

 lachians. Its forests influence for the 

 most part tributaries of the French 

 Broad river, which unites with the Hoi- 

 stein river at Knoxville, Tennessee, to 

 form the Tennessee river. 



