The New Forest Reservation

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

207

Original Date

4-3-1897

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

"Uncle Sam is trying to have his forests-what is left of them-at the same time trying to find out how best they can be put to use forever for the benefit of miners, farmers, lumbermen, and people in general." Muir stresses the urgent need for some kind of governmental control. Believing that the disastrous results of the present destructive practices are gaining support for reform, even from some of the "devastators" he concludes that "things refuse to be mismanaged long. Light is beginning to bring the question into fair view, and the policy or use without destruction, and fair play to all, must win at last."

Publication

Mining and Scientific Press [San Francisco], v. 74, no. 14

Page/Column

p. 283, cols. 2-3

See also Kimes Entry Number

For a further expansion and development of this theme, see no. 208.

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "The New Forest Reservation" (1897). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 232.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/232