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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



To the scientist, whether he be botanist, geologist, or zoolo- 

 gist; to the artist in search of grand subjects for his canvas; to 

 the camper who loves to pitch his tent where he may listen to the 

 music of falling water and fill his lungs with the pure breath of 

 the hills ; to the mountain-climber seeking heights worthy of his 

 ambition ; or to the tired business man whose weary brain de- 

 mands rest away from the busy routine of mercantile life, Para- 

 dise Park is happily named. The diversity of the landscape, the 

 solemnity of the silent forests, the prodigality and wonderful 

 coloring of the floral display, the foaming water of the streams 

 that rush down the valleys and plunge over the cliffs in many 

 picturesque falls, with the mighty white dome of Rainier 

 towering majestically over all and clasping with the icy fingers 

 of its glaciers the green slopes below, all combine to make this 

 mountain park a region of irresistible charm. 



Comparison of Mt. Rainier National Park with Other Great 

 Scenic Regions. 



This appreciation is not confined to persons of our own nation- 

 ality or race. Foreign world-travelers, lovers of the grandly 

 picturesque, unite in highest admiration of the Rainier region. 



Hon. James Bryce, the well-known publicist and a member of 

 the English Alpine Club, and Professor Karl Zittel, of Munich, 

 a geologist familiar with all the aspects of Europe, several years 

 ago, in a joint letter suggesting in advance of National action 

 that the Mt. Rainier region should be reserved as a national 

 park, wrote as follows : — 



"The scenery of Mount Rainier is of rare and varied beauty. 

 The peak itself is as noble a mountain as we have ever seen in 

 its lines and structure. The glaciers which descend from its 

 snow-fields present all the characteristic features of those in the 

 Alps, and though less extensive than the ice-streams of the Mont 

 Blanc or Monte Rosa groups, are in their crevasses and seracs 

 equally striking and equally worthy of close study. We have 

 seen nothing more beautiful in Switzerland or Tyrol, in Norway 

 or in the Pyrenees than the Carbon River glacier and the great 

 Puyallup glaciers ; indeed, the ice in the latter is unusually pure 

 and the crevasses unusually fine. The combination of ice scenery 

 with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found no- 

 where in the Old World, unless it be in the Himalayas, and, so 

 far as we know, nowhere else on the American Continent. . . ." 



Destruction of Forest Growth, with Recommendation for 

 Investigation. 



Our Committee has few recommendations to present as to 

 means to be taken to conserve the existing natural features. As 

 an example of what might be done to prevent a deterioration in 



