Creator
Charles Keeler
Recipient
Theodore Roosevelt
Transcription
2727 Dwight Way,
Berkeley, California,
Oct. 23, 1907.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States.
My dear Sir:
As an American citizen interested in the preservation of our national parks in their integrity, I venture to address you concerning the projected use of Hetch Hetchy Valley as a reservoir for a San Francisco water supply.
The Yosemite National Park comprises two great canyons which are of preeminent beauty -- the Yosemite Valley and Hetchy Hetchy Valley. Behind them extends the lofty range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains with peaks accessible mainly by raods and trails either built or . projected up the floors of these two valleys. A dam across the mouth of Hetch Hetchy Valley would forever close one of the two natural avenues of approach to some of the noblest mountain peaks of California. It would eliminate the meadows and woodlands -which are now the camping ground of this valley.
If there were no other available sources of pure mountain water for the use of San Francisco, these objections would indeed be far overweighed by public necessity, but since there are a number of other propositions for supplying San Francisco with water without encroaching upon any public park, it would seem right to grant any concessions in this national recreation ground, only after the feasibility of all other projects had been disproved.
Assuring you that there are here in California very many lovers of nature who are jealous of any encroachment upon those tracts of land which have been set apart in perpetuity for the instruction and enjoyment of all people, I am,
Very truly yours,
Charles Keeler
06235
Location
Berkeley, Calif.
Date Original
1907 Oct 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Keeler, Charles, "Letter from Charles Keeler to Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Oct 23." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3800.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3800
Resource Identifier
muir16_1121-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 1121
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
