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in the reservation of all the forest lands left in the possession of the Government the illegible tion adoption of a rational
forest management. Every year for the last 25 years more Sequoias have been felled, blasted, sawed into lumber on the Fresno,
Kings, Kaweah, Tule rivers than are contained in the Calaveras Grove perhaps twice as many with scarce a whimper from the
public. But the world moves, better late than never. With best wishes Thanks for you thundering letter I am very truly Yours
John Muir