THE SLIGHTED MOUNTAINS OF UPPER EAST TENNESSEE∗

∗Research supported by National Endowment for the Humanities; thanks also to Nan Lowerre, Maximus Inc., McLean, Virginia, for bibliographical help.

ABSTRACT

The United States of America owns nearly 150,000 hectares of mountain land in northeastern Tennessee. Administered as the northern half of the Cherokee National Forest, these lands were purchased primarily between 1915 and 1941 under Weeks Act authority. The United States Forest Service has not established the intensive forestry that it originally hoped to bring to this area, nor has it created the jobs that it once planned. But the land is in far better condition than it was eighty years ago. An urban forest more than a tree farm, this national forest is still to be appreciated.

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∗Research supported by National Endowment for the Humanities; thanks also to Nan Lowerre, Maximus Inc., McLean, Virginia, for bibliographical help.