Save our Mountains

Save our Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Promotional materials

“Save our Mountains” is an eight-page brochure that makes a plea for conserving what “remains of the original American forest,” noting that logging is destroying a million trees per year and citing poet, Joyce Kilmer. To that end, the brochure advocates for the creation of a national park in the Smokies, while acknowledging a competing effort to designate the area a national forest. The booklet makes the distinction, “National parks, unlike national forests, are not properties in the commercial sense, but natural preserves.” The booklet was issued by North Carolina and Tennessee organizations, coming together across state lines to take a strong political view for preservation.

Great Smoky Mountains, Inc.

Printed Documents

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association

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publications (documents)

eng

Text

19642

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2014-05-13

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

8 pages(pages)

9" x 6"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America