Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the Southern Appalachian region.
Subtitle: December 19, 1901. -- Read, referred to the Committee on forest reservations and the protection of game and ordered to be printed.
Contributors: United States. Forest Service.; Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Weather Bureau.
Series: 57th. Cong., 1st. sess. Senate. Doc. no. 84; Senate document (United States. Congress (57th, 1st session). Senate) -- 57th Congress, 1st session, no. 84.
Publisher: Govt. print. off.
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; Appalachian Region, Southern.
Notes: Issued also without document series note ("Bureau ed.").

Running title: Southern Appalachian region.

Prepared in cooperation with the Department of the Interior. Appendix A is submitted by the Bureau of forestry, B-C by the Geological survey and D by the Weather bureau.
Table of contents: title: Letter of transmittal.; title: Report.; title: App. A: Forests and forest conditions ... by H.B. Ayres and W.W. Ashe. Lumbering... by O.W. Price. Description of the southern Appalachian forests, by river basins, by H.B. Ayres and W.W. Ashe. Trees ... by W.W. Ashe and H.B. Ayres. List of shrubs... by W.W. Ashe.; title: App. B: Topography and geology ... by Arthur Keith.; title: App. C: Hydrography ... by H.A. Pressey ... and E.W. Myers.; title: App. D: Climate ... by Alfred J. Henry.; title: App. E: The present status of the movement for the proposed forest reserve in the southern Appalachians : Memorials, resolutions, etc.