EDITOR S NOTE 



author s glowing description of what was one 

 time called the New Northwest. Almost in 

 conceivably great have been the changes 

 wrought in that region during the past gener 

 ation. Henceforth the landscapes that Muir 

 saw there will live in good part only in his 

 writings, for fire, axe, plough, and gunpowder 

 have made away with the supposedly bound 

 less forest wildernesses and their teeming life. 

 WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE 



BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 

 May, 1918 



