Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
4In the few years since the Yosemite National Park was organized & defended a wonderful change for the better has been made. The floor of the forest was dust & ashes. The sheepherder made his campfire against trees twenty to thirty feet in diameter which were waving their green domes in the sky at the time Christ walked the earth.Now these forests--the noblest in the world are saved & the beneficent wealth-bearing wilderness rejoices & begins to look like paradise before the devil began operations there.No. Instead of contracting the boundaries of the forest reserves let them by all means be extended to comprehend all the fountains of the streams on which they fertility of the lowlands dependsBancroft Library
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-12-06T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0583-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0583
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
