Earle H. Clapp, acting chief of the U.S. Forest Service speaking to approximately 7,000 people at the dedication ceremonies of the Forest of Discovery, the new National Forest in Tipton County, Tennessee, September 28, 1941. "Not as a dead monument of bronze and stone, but as a living monument of eternal growth, this forest is dedicated," said Clapp in accepting the tract for the federal government.

Photo from U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection at the Forest History Society