Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Mar 27.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact
this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1898 Mar 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0124-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
in margin: 30.00 mdr 59 Martinez, March 27 1898 My dear Johnson You are incorrigible. You should go to Alaska nothing
less cooling than things hyperborean will cure you. I still look for lots of good work from Pinchot. His differences with
Sargent on Forest administration I dont much mind, but his giving way like snow in than to the sheep owners political agents
of forest robbers is mighty discouraging. He told me last summer that in his opinion sheep in moderate numbers did no harm
to Washington Oregon forests. But if any are allowed all will push in. Nowhere are the destructive effects of sheep shepherds
more deplorably displayed than in the forests of the Cascades. Thank heaven we have at least one unspoilable reservation in
the North. Come on let us go to it, retreat from your editorial battles into the peaceful society of Polar bears the storms
of the Arctic Highlands. 'Here bring your wounded heart' to? Ever yours truly John Muir *As to forest administration
costly experience indicates that any scheme excluding the military will be a dismal failure however able faithful the directing
experts may be.