Forestry Notes. 



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considerable number of men in the field of forest work in 

 California during the past summer, working along the lines 

 indicated in the June Bulletin. Mr. Pinchot himself spent 

 some weeks here in August and September, giving a number 

 of important addresses. On the evening of August 31st 

 some of the members of the Sierra Club and the University- 

 Club gave a banquet in his honor, at which President 

 Wheeler, President Jordan, Mr. Pinchot, Mr. Wm. H. Mills, 

 and others spoke. 



^ ^ On September 14th a meeting important in the 



The Parks of 



annals of future San Francisco was held on 

 California. grounds of the Tamalpais Country Club. 



The master spirit was William Kent, of Mill Valley. The object 

 was the establishment of a public park on Mt. Tamalpais. It 

 was a representative meeting, many men and women of wealth 

 and public spirit, and no professional orators, were present. 

 Working committees have since been appointed on which the 

 Sierra Club is largely represented. The park must be estab- 

 lished through purchase and private gift, as there is no public 

 land on the mountain. Already Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard 

 and her son, Shafter Howard, have signified their desire to 

 give their interest in the large Shafter property on the mountain 

 to this public park if the project is carried out. It is proposed 

 that the park be under national control. 



On November 17th, Mr. Gillett of California introduced a 

 bill providing for the purchase by Congress of the two Calaveras 

 groves of Sequoia gigantea, with a view to making a national 

 park thereof. An extraordinary interest has been created in this 

 movement by the Outdoor Art League and the members of the 

 California Club, not only among the women's clubs of America, 

 but among public men all over the United States. The women 

 of California are right; the nation should purchase these 

 groves, — not at an extraordinary price, but at a fair valuation, 

 and the nation should control this property. We wish it could 

 control all the forest park property in the Sierras, thus insuring 

 uniform treatment and care. 



Efforts are being made to induce the Government to set 

 aside the " Pinnacles " and a tract adjoining, in San Benito, for 

 a permanent reservation, on the ground of the beauty, pic- 

 turesqueness, and variety of color of these masses of sand- 

 stone. It is an attractive, indeed wonderful, piece of natural 

 scenery and should be carefully treated for its future use as a 

 public resort. It is all on Government land and hence would 

 not call for Congressional purchase. 



