Sierra Club Bulletin 



FOUNDED 1892 



Edited for the Club by 

 William Frederic Bade 



JANUARY. 1913 



Vol. IX No. 1 



CONTENTS 



Milestone Mountain and a New 



Kings-Kern Pass William Edward Colby. . . i 



Plates I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. 



Little Studies in the Yosemite 



Valley Francois E. Matthes 7 



The Kern River Outing of 1912.. 



Frederic Bruce Johnstone and Elsie Leale Johnstone 16 



Plates X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, 

 XIX, XX, XXI. 



A Lightning-Struck Tree in Kern 



Canon Willis Linn Jepson 25 



Plates XXII, XXIII. 



National Parks — The Need of the 



Future James Bryce 28 



The Discovery of the Nest and 



Eggs of the California Pine 



Grosbeak Milton S.Ray 33 



Plates XXIV, XXV. 



The Soda Springs Property in the 



Tuolumne Meadows J.N.Le Conte 36 



Plate XXVI, Sketch. 



Mountain Misery Willis Linn Jepson 40 



Fig. I, Fig. 2. 



Organization of the Sierra Club 43 



Editorials 44 



Reports 48 



Plates XXVII, XXVIII. 



Notes and Correspondence 52 



Plates XXIX, XXX. 



National Parks 60 



Forestry Notes 70 



Plates XXXI, XXXII. 



Book Reviews 76 



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