Title:
Letter from John Muir to [C. Hart] Merriam, [1902 Jan ?].
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[C. Hart] Merriam
Date:
[1902 Jan ?]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0156-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Washington, D. C.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
To Dr. C Hart(Eligible) Jan. 1902 My dear Dr. Merriam, I send these clippings to give a few hints as to the sheep and
forests. Please return them. If you have a file of The Forester handy you might turn to the Feb. and July numbers of 1898,
and the June of one 1900, for solemn discussions of the proper regulation of sheep grazing. With the patronage of the business
in the hands of the Western politician, the so-called proper regulation of sheep grazing by the Forestry Dept. is as hopelessly
vain as would be laws and regulations for the proper management of ocean currents and earthquakes. The politicians in the
interest of wealthy mine, mill, sheep, and cattle owners of course nominate superintendents and supervisors of reservations
supposed to be harmlessly blind to their stealings. Only from the Military Dept., free from political spoils poison, has any
real good worth mention been gained for forests, and so, as far as I can see, it will be no matter how well the Forestry Dept.
may organized, until the supervisors, superintendents and rangers are brought under Civil Service Reform. Ever yours, JOHN
MUIR