Word: appalachian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Weeks proposed and was instrumental in the passing of the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill, which provides for the purchase by the government of forest lands about the headwaters of navigable rivers in the mountains of Maine and New Hampshire. Considerable difficulty was at first experienced because of some doubt as to the constitutionality of the measure, but this was overcome by the fact that the government is empowered to protect navigable streams...
...recess by Professors W. M. Davis '69 and D. W. Johnson, and Mr. F. H. Lahee 3G., in company with some of their students and a number of instructors and students from other institutions. The locality offers excellent opportunity for the study of geological structure, especially folding of the Appalachian Mountain type; for the collection of fossils; and for the description of topographical features...