Excerpt from Visual Preferences of Travelers Along the Blue Ridge Parkway Our role today is to protect and preserve the integrity of these natural features as well as the cultural and natural visual resources that make the parkway so unique. We want future generations to experience the independence, the self-sufficiency, and the pride of the mountain folk. At the same time, we want them to learn more about us, the National Park Service, and our stewardship responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.