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but above all we want our members to be in hearty 

 sympathy with the highest and most important work of 

 the Club, and in order to strengthen the Club in such 

 work they should remain members even if it becomes 

 impossible for them to attend the Outings. 



The Club aided very materially in the establishment 

 of our forest reserves, and exercises a powerful moral 

 influence whenever any question arises affecting the wel- 

 fare of the forests and natural scenery of the Sierra. 



Every member of the Club should read President 

 Roosevelt's address delivered at Stanford University last 

 spring. A brief quotation is appropriate here: — 



"I want to-day, here in California, to make a special 

 appeal to all of you, and to California as a whole, for 

 work along a certain line — the line of preserving your 

 great natural advantages alike from the standpoint of 

 use and from the standpoint of beauty. . . . Here in 

 California you have some of the great wonders of the 

 world. You have a singularly beautiful landscape, sin- 

 gularly beautiful and singularly majestic scenery, and 

 it should certainly be your aim to try to preserve for 

 those who are to come after you that beauty; to try to 

 keep unmarred that majesty. . . . 



"There is nothing more practical in the end than 

 the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of 

 anything that appeals to the higher emotions of 

 mankind. 



"California has for years, I am happy to say, taken 

 a more sensible, a more intelligent interest in forest 

 preservation than any other State. It early appointed 

 a Forest Commission; later on some of the functions 

 of that commission were replaced by the Sierra Club, 

 a club which has done much on the Pacific Coast to 

 perpetuate the spirit of the explorer and pioneer." 



The Club is honored by this recognition, and should 

 enter upon the work of the future with redoubled zeal. 

 There is not the slightest question but that the Sierra 



