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California, who was about to visit the Redwoods 

 in Humboldt County, asking him to take steps 

 to preserve this stand of giant trees. See page 

 90. 



During 1918 the writer again went to Cali- 

 fornia and endeavored to interest the California 

 Highway Commission in securing a strip of tim- 

 ber along the new highways, but owing to the 

 war and other causes no substantial progress 

 was made until the winter of 1918-19, when Dr. 

 Merriam and the writer finally succeeded in 

 enlisting the support of a group of patriotic 

 Californians in the proposed League, which was 

 then organized as follows: 



President 



FRANKLIN K. LANE 



Secretary and Treasurer 



ROBERT G. SPROUL 



Executive Committee 

 JOHN C. MERRIAM, Chairman 



Madison Grant Henry S. Graves 



William E. Colby Stephen Tyng Mather 



George M. Cornwall Ralph P. Merritt 



Wigginton E. Creed Charles F. Stern 



William H. Crocker Walter Mulford 



William Kent Benjamin Ide Wheeler 

 Henry Fairfteld Osborn Ray Lyman Wilbur 



Frank S. Daggett Charles B. Wing 



Joseph D. Grant Wilbur L. Jepson 



This League is at present under the active 

 direction of Dr. John C. Merriam, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, Berkeley, California, and 

 to him all applications for membership should 

 be addressed. 



Subscriptions also of any amount are greatly 

 needed. 



The purposes of the League are as follows: 



( 1 ) To purchase Redwood groves by private 

 subscriptions and by county bond issues. 



(2) To secure a state bond issue to buy 

 the finest Redwood groves along state highways. 



(3) To establish through Federal aid a Na- 

 tonal Redwoods Park. 



(4<) To obtain through state and county aid 

 the protection of timber along the scenic high- 

 ways now in course of construction throughout 

 California. 



(5) To encourage the state to purchase cut- 

 over Redwood areas for reforestation by natural 

 means, or by replanting where repeated fires 

 have made sprout reproduction impossible. 



Committees have been formed to study the 

 subjects of Redwood distribution, variation and 

 the most efficient commercial use of Redwood 

 products, in the belief that nearly all the pur- 

 poses for which this lumber is now used can be 

 adequately served by second growth trees. 



A committee of ladies has been formed and 

 the assistance of automobile and other associa- 



tions and clubs in California has been enlisted. 

 The salvation of these great trees probably 

 will depend on two factors just entering into 

 active political life, one the automobilists and 

 the other the women voters. The California 

 Redwoods League is primarily indebted to 

 two men, Stephen Tyng Mather and William 

 Kent, for the funds to start work. These gentle- 

 men guaranteed $10,000 and thus made possible 

 the preliminary organization and later made 

 other subscriptions as described above. 



Conditions in Oregon and Washington 



After leaving California Mr. Mather and the 

 writer traversed the entire breadth of central 

 Oregon and Washington, motoring up the east 

 side of the Cascades, down the Columbia high- 

 way to Portland, and up the Cowlitz Valley to 

 Mount Ranier in Washington, thence southward 

 through the Willamette Valley in Oregon, over 

 to Klamath Falls and then south through the 

 Pitt River Canon back to San Francisco, a total 

 of about 2,200 miles. 



Preliminary steps were taken for the organi- 

 zation of leagues in Portland and in Seattle, 

 under the direction of the ablest men on the 

 coast. The objects in view were to preserve the 

 timber along the main roads and along the shores 

 of lakes and rivers, and to protect by the estab- 

 lishment of state parks the high peaks and 

 crests of the Cascade Mountains. Both Oregon 

 and Washington are constructing a system of 

 great highways without adequate protection to 

 the scenic features along the route. 



Among other purposes in view are the exten- 

 sion of Crater Lake National Park to include 

 the Diamond Lake region, so that the finest 

 game district in Oregon can be protected as a 

 game sanctuary. Crooked River Canon also is 

 under consideration as a national monument or 

 state park. 



Burney Falls in California should be pre- 

 served as a state park, but this is a matter 

 outside of the scope of the Redwoods League 

 and must be handled by the state. The sale of 

 the wonderful beach road south of Monterey, 

 known as the Seventeen Mile Drive, and the 

 threatened destruction of its extraordinary 

 cypress forests, unique in the whole world, for a 

 real estate development scheme is another state 

 matter which must demand attention. 



The most immediate need in Oregon and 

 Washington is for highway commissions of 

 greater vision than those that are now con- 

 structing roads in accordance with obsolete 

 methods. The state highway leading from 

 Tacoma to Mount Ranier recently ran through 

 the welcome shade of giant pines and firs, but 



