Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
Board of Directors of the Sierra Club
Transcription
Board of Director of tho Sierra Club,
809 Market street,
San Francisco, Cal.
Dear sirs: -
Will you permit me very respectfully to suggest whether the Sierra Club might not now profitably set on foot a campaign with the purpose of procuring the recession of the old Yosemite Valley Reservation to the united states Government at the next session of the Legislature. The polioy of establishing the great Yo somite National Park and the adjoining Sierra forest reservation has now been thoroughly [cindi-cated],and it is beyond contention that the government protection of such reserves,as in the case of the Yellowstone National Park, is very much more effective then state control.
It seems to me that in view of tho fact thrt tho administration of tho Yosemite Valley has been a source o-f continual oriticism both in relation to the treatment of the natural features and in the relation of the commissioners to the commercial interests connected with the valley, the Club has in the nature of its character and purpose a certain responsibility toward public sentiment in this matter, I am of those who think that perhaps such a desirable result as the merging of the old reservation into the newer ones, and its control by the general government, could be brought about without a campaign of recrimination and personal criticism, though for that matter I do not know that in the public inter-est one should shirk from such a contest if necessary. It is as true now as it was five years ago that thin reservation has not been taken care of in a way commensurata with its importan and no expert has ever been consulted as to the management of
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Location
[New York]
Circa Date
[1893]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, [ca. 1893]." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1030.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1030
Resource Identifier
muir07_1480-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1480
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
