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letterhead Ca Jan. 1908 The Honorable Secretary of the Interior Sir: The Sierra Club begs to submit the following
suggestion as to road building other needed improvements in Yosemite National Park. -1- That a general plan for the treatment
of the floor of Yosemite Valley be made by a competent landscape artist carried out under his supervision? at a cost of about
one hundred fifty thousand dollars? This would include the thinning clearing of undergrowth jungles; the building of a permanent
system of roads located with reference to scenery aesthetic effects etc, instead? of the present haphazard dust sand mud ruts?
called roads; the restoration of the downtrodden herbaceous vegetation to something like the beauty of wildness, etc