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To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning
them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the peusilc and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural
features of the Sie rra Nevada Mountains. Board of Directors-1907-1908 Mr. John Muir, President .... Martinez Prof. A.
G. McAdie, Vice-President . San Francisco Prof. J. N. Le Conte, Treasurer . Berkeley Mr. William E. Colby. Secretary . Berkeley
Prof. Wm. P. Bade . . . . . Berkley Prof. George Davidson . 2221 Washington St., S. F. Prof. W. R. Dudley . . . Stanford
University Mr. Warren Olney . . . . San Francisco Mr. E. T. Parsons . University Club. San Francisco Outing Committee
Mr. Wm. E. Colby, Chairman Prof. J. N. La Conte Mr. B. T. Parsons Honorary Vice-Presidents Prof. George Davidson San
Francisco Mr. R. U. Johnson . . The Century. New York Pres. David Starr Jordan . Stanford University Mr. Gifford Pinchot
Washington. D. C. Committee on Publications Mr. Elliott McAllister. Editor San Francisco Prof. Wm. P. Bade, Book Reviews
Berkeley Prof. Wm. R. Dudley. Forestry Notes . Stanford Univ. Mr. Alex. O. Bella Prof. H. W. Roise Mr. B. T. Parsons Mr.
Willoughby Rodman SIERRA CLUB 2901 Channing Way Berkeley, Cal. wonders become better known it will be visited by countless
thousands of admiring travelers from all parts of the world; Whereas, if dammed and submerged 175 feet deep as proposed,
Hetch Hetchy would be rendered utterly inaccessible for travel, since no road could be built around the borders of the reservoir
without tunnelling through solid granite cliffs; and Whereas, these camp-grounds would be destroyed and access to other important
places to the north and south of the Valley interfered with, and the gate-way of the sublime Tuolumne Canyon leading up to
the grand Central High Sierra Camp-ground the Upper Tuolumne Valley would be completely blocked and closed; and Whereas,
no greater damage could be done to the great National Park excepting the damming of Yosemite itself; and Whereas all of the
arguments advanced in favor of making Hetch Hetchy into a reservoir could be made to apply with equal force to the case of
making Yosemite into a reservoir, except that the cost of a dam in the latter case would be greater; Whereas, such use would
to a great extent, defeat the purpose and nullify the effect of the law creating the Park; and Whereas, the proponents of
the San Francisco water scheme desire