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 BadJ; 



Berkeley, Calipobnia 

 May, 1918 



