Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
detract from it's beauties or natural grandeur" but I oannot believe that Pinohot, if be really knows tfce Valley, has made'any suob statement, for it would be just the sane as saying that flooding Yosemite would do it no harm.
This darning of Hetoh Hetohy and Lake Eleanor is an old scheme that we had to fight ten or twelve years ago. As good reservoirs can easily be made outside the park, though at greater cost.
I hope the Fates will be kind to you and send you all out here this summer, i want to have a long talk with you about the management of the Valley now that we have at last got it out of the hands of the California politioians.
Faithfully yours.
[illegible]
95
Martinez, Cal., March 23/053
Dear Mr. Johnson:-
I knew that the management of the public lands in general had been transfered to the Bureau of Forestry of the Agricultural Department, but I got the impression somehow that the National Parks were not included in the transfer, and - that – they would continue to be protected by soldiers , under direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Anyhow I suppose no important change will be made for the coming season. What a glorious change this gives Pinchct to distinguish himself and bless all the world; but politicians, I fear, will try as hard as ever to get in their deadly work in spite of all we can do.
v.Can you tell me whether the superintendents, guards, rangers etc. have yet been brought under Cival Service rules? if not the services of the military can hardly be spared.
By the way, a lot of talk has been going on here about turning the Hetch Hetchy Yosemte into a reservoir by a dam 3.50 feet hight and I saw it stated in the newspapers that Pinchct had been detailed to examine into the merits of the scheme and that he had reported to the President and the Secretary of the Interior that darning of Hetch Hetchy "would not injure the National Park or
BANCROFT
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1905 Mar 23
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1905 Mar 23." (1905). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3308.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3308
Resource Identifier
muir15_0354-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0354
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
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
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
