6 The Mountaineer 
A year ago the ofticers of the club heard that majestic cedar 
trees were being illegally destroyed along the wonderfully 
beautiful road in the Mount Rainier National Park. It was 
being done under the screen of a perfectly sensible contract 
permitting the use of dead and down cedar timber. Instantly 
agents of the club were sent to the ground who with cameras 
obtained evidence that caused the authorities at Washington 
City to stop the vandalism. Every reader of these words 
should applaud that work for the National Park belongs to 
all the people. 
For a similar measure of protection this club persuaded 
President Roosevelt to proclaim the Olympic Mountains as a 
National Monument. There is another immense and beautiful 
park that belongs to all the people for all time. 
On every outing the club expends much money and labor 
in constructing new trails or improving old ones that those 
who follow may find and enjoy the same beauties. By ex- 
ample, precept and law, where needed, the ciub seeks to pre- 
vent forest fires, the destruction of trees, plants, birds and 
animals, the pollution of streams, or any other harmful thing 
to the wonderful inheritance God has so lavishly bequeathed 
to the children of this favored Pacific Northwest. 
The Club has a committee at work preparing a card cata- 
logue of all the trails in Washington. All helpful information 
is to be recorded on the cards so that they will serve any party 
planning a trip into forests or hills. It is, of course, an 
enormous undertaking but every card completed is that much 
gain and years of patient effort ought to bring the catatlogue 
near completion. It is proposed to keep this catalogue on file 
in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for the use of the public. 
We wish to save old names and to bestow new ones of an 
appropriate kind where no names are known. With this in 
view we now have a committee at work in cooperation with 
the national authorities. 
There has also been appointed an Edelweiss Committee 
charged with the duty of securing seeds and plants of the 
Iidelweiss from the Alps to further beautify the grand peaks 
of Washington. This committee will then expand its functions 
by establishing in Paradise Valley a garden of mountain 
flowers and shrubs such as are maintained by five of the 
nations of Europe. Correspondence to this end has already 
