Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume 8Sierra Club, 1912 Includes section "Book reviews." |
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acres alpine altitude ascent basin beautiful birds Bluebird botanist Bureau of National California camp cliffs climb clouds COLBY color Congress crater E. T. PARSONS east Edward Whymper Falls feet fire flowers Forest Service Forestry Glacier golden trout Government Hetch Hetchy Hetch Hetchy Valley High Sierra interest Interior Ixtaccihuatl J. N. LE CONTE John Muir Kern River Kings River Lodge Committee Lone Pine Merced miles morning mountain Mountain Bluebird National Forest National Monument nest party Pass patented lands peaks Photograph plants PLATE Popocatepetl preservation Prof RAE LAKE Rainier reached region ridge River Cañon road rock rocky San Francisco scenery season Secretary Sequoia Sequoia National Park Sherbrooke Lake side SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN slope snow South Fork steep stream summer summit timber tion trail trees tributary trip Tuolumne Meadows VIII Whitney wild wonderful Yellowstone Yosemite National Park Yosemite Valley
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Page 224 - Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act for the preservation of American antiquities," do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public
Page 229 - 4. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, for the management, care, and preservation of such parks,
Page 46 - explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Page 278 - I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks. Such legislation is essential to the proper management of those wondrous manifestations of nature, so startling and so beautiful that everyone recognizes the obligations of the Government to preserve them for the edification and recreation of the people. The Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite, the Grand
Page 132 - Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring, a being Trod the flowery April blithely for a while, Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing, Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.
Page 224 - be forthwith transmitted by the chief clerk of the Assembly to the President of the Senate of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, and a copy hereof to each member of Congress from the State of California.
Page 287 - Water rivers work openly where people dwell, and so does the rain, and the sea, thundering on all the shores of the world ; and the universal ocean of air, though invisible, speaks aloud in a thousand voices and explains its modes of working and its power. But glaciers, back in their white
Page 228 - consent of the Senate, and who shall receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum : and there shall also be in said bureau such experts, assistants, and other employees as may from time to time be authorized by Congress.
Page 284 - SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior may also sell and permit the removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or improvement of the park, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be
Page 149 - He must go—go—go away from here ! On the other side the world he's overdue, Send your road is clear before you When the old spring fret comes o'er you And the Red Gods call for you