Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma


Page 60 Clippings from Senate Document 84. Upper left image: "Newly cleared mountain field planted in corn, rapidly washing away." Upper right image: "Land erosion on the cleared clopes of the southern appalachians." Middle left image: "Recently cleared field impoverished and abandoned." Middle right image: "Flood destruction of an Appalachian Mountain Valley." Lower image: "Protection against erosion by parallel ditches."	Page 61 Clippings from Senate Document 84. Upper left image: "Erosion checked by brush dams, Walnutrun, N.C." Upper right image: "Valley lands badly washed by floods." Middle right image: "Valley lands ruined by recent floods and abandoned." Lower left image: "Erosion checked by covering gulleys with brush, Longcreek, VA." Lower right image: "'Bald' of Big Yellow Mountain, Mitchell County, N.C."
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Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma is presented by Hunter Library Special Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center. This project was supported in whole or in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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