Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1905 Mar 23.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
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Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1905 Mar 23
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0355-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
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