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by the Club is mainly so precipitous and so devoid of timber or 

 large grazing areas that it can easily be handled as a strictly 

 tourist region. 



The Forest Service does not propose to allow the grazing 

 of sheep in the great area between the Middle Fork and South 

 Fork of King's River. Cattle have already been excluded from 

 Roaring River and Cloudy Canon, also from Bubb's Creek to 

 the summit. In fact, the only live-stock at present using meadows 

 in this region are pack-trains and saddle-horses. 



It is fortunate, I think, that the leaders of the new American 

 forest movement are men of broad culture as well as of business 

 training. In Washington, as well as here in the Sierra Reserve, 

 there has never been any difference of opinion respecting the 

 fundamental principles of reserve management. 



Briefly, we aim at a wise and careful balancing of closely 

 related interests. The reserves must be made self-supporting; 

 the forests must be maintained, improved in quality, increased 

 in area; the multitude of local industries, such as grazing, which 

 were established before the reserves, must be considered. All 

 these taken together make up the commercial side of reserve 

 work, and secure the livelihood of thousands of American citi- 

 zens. Any reckless or too sentimental interference with this side 

 of reserve work by well-meaning lovers of outdoor life would 

 result in an upheaval which in the end would go far towards 

 ruining not only the reserve system but the National park system. 



But over and beyond all the commercial interests involved, 

 foresters and the reserve leaders recognize our full responsibility 

 as guardians of the High Sierra. It is our duty as well as our 

 happiness to keep inviolate for all time to come, as far as the 

 many interests involved will permit, the real mountain land 

 where the tired people of great cities and throbbing valleys can 

 come and find rest. 



There is ample room in the reserves for the fostering of every 

 possible interest involved. There are broad acres which dis- 

 tinctly belong to tourists, campers, and friends of the wilderness. 

 To the reasonable withdrawal of such areas from grazing, the 

 stockmen make no objections, — the meadows are too small and 

 the mountains too rough and too distant for profitable use. As 

 the number of tourists increases, the areas which they need 

 will enlarge. The building of hotels, cabins, etc., will in time 

 use much of the scattered timber which is unprofitable from the 

 commercial standpoint. The tourist travel itself will in time 

 yield a sufficient income to construct the necessary roads and 

 trails and bridges. It will be proper to charge for licenses to 

 take in pack-trains, to run hotels, and to shoot game. 



