Let them be welcomed still as nature welcomes them, to the woods as well as to the prairies and plains. Not only do the shepherds, at the driest time of the year, set fire to everything that will burn, but the sheep consume every green leaf, not sparing even the young conifers when they are in a starving condition from crowding, and they rake and dibble the loose soil of the mountain sides for the spring floods to wash away, and thus at last leave the ground barren. According to the everlasting laws of righteousness, even the fraudful buyers at less than one per cent of its value are making little or nothing, on account of fierce competition. Every place is made better by them. Chuck Roe -A Sesquicentennial Account of John Muir's 1,000 Mile Walk - A review of the landscape 150 years after Muir's walk, with a focus on the progress of land conservation and identification of the many publicly-accessible, protected natural areas now located immediately along Muir's route. Roe's intent was to observe and describe the publicly accessible parks, nature preserves, forests . Muir emigrated from Scotland with his family to Wisconsin in 1849. During the course of his political term, Roosevelt set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves, created 50 regions for the protection of wildlife, founded 16 national monuments and established 5 new national parks. Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain. travel our way. Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992. Word Count: 490. Railroad tracks were just . President Teddy Roosevelt was profoundly influenced by Muir and the conservation movement. Being rather partial to trees, I could not resist reading "A wind-storm in the forests" by Scottish-born American naturalist/enviromentalist John Muir (1838-1914) when it lobbed in by email today as this week's Library of America story of the week.Anyone who has been to the stunning Yosemite - or visited the peaceful Muir Woods north of San Francisco - will have heard of John Muir. In "The American Forests", John Muir's purpose is to reveal the disloyalty that Americans have towards their agriculture. The Yosemite National Park 4. 14 minutes. John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Wisconsin as a young boy. Of all the magnificent coniferous forests around the Great Lakes, once the property of the United States, scarcely any belong to it now. American forests! Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. It is not a book of forestry, but the forest is the most . The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe These forests were composed of about five hundred species of trees, all of them in some way useful to man, ranging in size from twenty-five feet in height and less than one foot in diameter at the ground to four hundred feet in height and more than twenty feet in diameterlordly monarchs proclaiming the gospel of beauty like apostles. O ver 150 years ago, John Muir set out on a thousand mile journey across the US, from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, on foot. Poem About Beauty Of Forest And Trees Naturalist John Muir and my love of trees inspired this poem. His visit with the naturalist had a tremendous impact on his political actions. In the settlement and civilization of the country, bread more than timber or beauty was wanted; and in the blindness of hunger, the early settlers, claiming Heaven as their guide, regarded Gods trees as only a larger kind of pernicious weeds, extremely hard to get rid of. Katherine S. Talmadge. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Muir walked through these groves of giant sequoias and thought them to be among the most fascinating of ecosystems certainly worth whatever protection humans could afford them. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/234. John Muir; At Home in the Wild. By looking at their views and uses of language we can gain a better understanding of the environmental movement both during their lifetimes and as it . Muir became politically active to protect Yosemite from being threatened by commercial developments. Thus, with abundance of fuel, shelter and comfort by his own fireside are secured. But light is surely coming, and the friends of destruction will preach and bewail in vain. As timber the redwood is too good to live. He played a significant role in preserving and protecting important areas of our country. The Indians with stone axes could do them no more harm than could gnawing beavers and browsing moose. He is best known for his work as a conservationist, particularly his role in the establishment of Yosemite National Park in California. At least none is in sight from the lowlands, and they all might as well be on the moon, as far as scenery is concerned. John Muir, in The American Forests, speaks fondly of the American forests, calling them the "glory of the world." He discusses the genera of each coast, and describes the vast diversity between species, size, and some wildlife. FAQ | By such methods have our magnificent redwoods and much of the sugar-pine forests of the Sierra Nevada been absorbed by foreign and resident capitalists. The remnant protected will yield plenty of timber, a perennial harvest for every right use, without further diminution of its area, and will continue to cover the springs of the rivers that rise in the mountains and give irrigating waters to the dry valleys at their feet, prevent wasting floods and be a blessing to everybody forever. Muir strategically uses God to appeal to the readers of the time. 234, Muir describes the beauty of trees in the many varied regions across America as "they appeared a few centuries ago when they were rejoicing in wildness." Even Japan is ahead of us in the management of her forests. The abstract is typically a short summary of the . Timber is as necessary as bread, and no scheme of management failing to recognize and properly provide for this want can possibly be maintained. Then he strikes off into the virgin woods, where the sugar-pine, king of all the hundred species of pines in the world in size and beauty, towers on the open sunny slopes of the Sierra in the fullness of its glory. Land commissioners and Secretaries of the Interior have repeatedly called attention to this ruinous state of affairs, and asked Congress to enact the requisite legislation for reasonable reform. Sapling poles form the frame of the airy building, usually about six feet by eight in size, on which the shakes are nailed, with the edges overlapping. Nor will the woods be the worse for this use, or their benign influences be diminished any more than the sun is diminished by shining. Have you ever wondered why your favorite National Park is surrounded by a National Forest? Back at the turn of the 20th Century Gifford Pinchot and John Muir had radically contrasting views of how to manage . With a cheap mustang or mule to carry a pair of blankets, a sack of flour, a few pounds of coffee, and an axe, a frow, and a cross-cut saw, the shake-maker ascends the mountains to the pine belt where it is most accessible, usually by some mine or mill road. John Muir. In the settlement and civilization of the country, bread more than timber or beauty was wanted; and in the blindness of hunger, the early settlers, claiming Heaven as their guide, regarded Gods trees as only a larger kind of pernicious weeds, extremely hard to get rid of. No place is too good for good men, and still there is room. It is the citizens of this country who are robbing from and destroying the beautiful forest. In decrying the destruction of woodlands by loggers, settlers, and industrialists, Muir, the father of Americas conservation movement, advanced the notion that natural resources ought to be preservedan idea that spawned vast new parks as well as the creation of the U.S. Forest Service. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christs time and long before that God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools, only Uncle Sam can do that. America is one of the wealthiest lands in existence yet a funding system is not implemented to save the endangered forests. Muir's conservation efforts saved many forests and natural areas for all of us. Under its provisions, the cantons must appoint and pay the number of suitably educated foresters required for the fulfillment of the forest law; and in the organization of a normally stocked forest, the object of first importance must be the cutting each year of an amount of timber equal to the total annual increase, and no more. He was a Scottish-American environmentalist, naturalist, and writer who is best known as the founder of the Sierra Club and one of the earliest promotors of the national parks. To the northward, over Maine and the Ottawa, rose hosts of spiry, rosiny evergreens, white pine and spruce, hemlock and cedar, shoulder to shoulder, laden with purple cones, their myriad needles sparkling and shimmering, covering hills and swamps, rocky headlands and domes, ever bravely aspiring and seeking the sky; the ground in their shade now snow-clad and frozen, now mossy and flowery; beaver meadows here and there, full of lilies and grass; lakes gleaming like eyes, and a silvery embroidery of rivers and creeks watering and brightening all the vast glad wilderness. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain. Theres big money in it, and your grub costs nothing. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, Download the official NPS app before your next visit. John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892, whose main goal was to "do something for nature and make the mountains glad.". John Muir remains worthy of honor and respect as a person who studied, recorded, and shared the natural areas of the United States and the world, and the role of humans within the environment. But when the steel axe of the white man rang out in the startled air their doom was sealed. The directors of a line that guarded against fires, and cleared a clean gap edged with living trees, and fringed and mantled with the grass and flowers and beautiful seedlings that are ever ready and willing to spring up, might justly boast of the beauty of their road; for nature is always ready to heal every scar. A champion of America's great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation's history and culture. A leaf, a flower, a stone - the simple beauty of nature filled John Muir with joy. Any fool can destroy trees. With such variety, harmony, and triumphant exuberance, even nature, it would seem, might have rested content with the forests of North America, and planted no more. Year by year the remnant is growing smaller before the axe and fire, while the laws in existence provide neither for the protection of the timber from destruction nor for its use where it is most needed. Abstract. Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! It has been planted and is flourishing over a great part of Europe, and magnificent sections of the aboriginal forests have been reserved as national and state parks, the Mariposa Sequoia Grove, near Yosemite, managed by the State of California, and the General Grant and Sequoia national parks on the Kings, the Kaweah, and Tule rivers, efficiently guarded by a small troop of United States cavalry under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. An exception would seem to be found in the case of our forests, which have been mismanaged rather long, and now come desperately near being like smashed eggs and spilt milk. Shirley Sargent. Of course a way had to be cleared through the woods. And in the fullness of time it was planted in groves, and belts, and broad, exuberant, mantling forests, with the largest, most varied, most fruitful, and most beautiful trees in the world. He explains that "any fool can destroy trees" as "they cannot run away" (Muir, 2006, p. 364). Accordingly, with no eye to the future, these pious destroyers waged interminable forest wars; chips flew thick and fast; trees in their beauty fell crashing by millions, smashed to confusion, and the smoke of their burning has been rising to heaven more than two hundred years. In most mills only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends. The great naturalist also visits the. As is shown by Mr. E. A. Bowers, formerly Inspector of the Public Land Service, the foundation of our protective policy, which has never protected, is an act passed March 1, 1817, which authorized the Secretary of the Navy to reserve lands producing live-oak and cedar, for the sole purpose of supplying timber for the navy of the United States. In crafting a sense of place for the forests, Muir is passively working his readers . Emerson says that things refuse to be mismanaged long. While reading the John Muir excerpt from the reader, I was struck with how closely he followed the traditions of Emerson and Thoreau while still expanding on his own style. Merely what belongs to all alike is reserved, and every acre that is left should be held together under the federal government as a basis for a general policy of administration for the public good. But there is no such road on the western side of the continent. Still, in the long run the world does not move backward Light is surely coming, and the friends of destruction will preach and bewail in vain. But, busied with tariffs, etc., Congress has given no heed to these or other appeals, and our forests, the most valuable and the most destructible of all the natural resources of the country, are being robbed and burned more rapidly than ever. 234. These residual forests are generally on mountain slopes, just where they are doing the most good, and where their removal would be followed by the greatest number of evils; the lands they cover are too rocky and high for agriculture, and can never be made as valuable for any other crop as for the present crop of trees. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. There will be a period of indifference on the part of the rich, sleepy with wealth, and of the toiling millions, sleepy with poverty, most of whom never saw a forest; a period of screaming protest and objection from the plunderers, who are as unconscionable and enterprising as Satan. Theres always a market for bear grease, and sometimes you can sell the hams. The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed. It has been shown over and over again that if these mountains were to be stripped of their trees and underbrush, and kept bare and sodless by hordes of sheep and the innumerable fires the shepherds set, besides those of the millmen, prospectors, shake-makers, and all sorts of adventurers, both lowlands and mountains would speedily become little better than deserts, compared with their present beneficent fertility. The prospector deliberately sets fires to clear off the woods just where they are densest, to lay the rocks bare and make the discovery of mines easier. To show the results of the timber-planting act, it need only be stated that of the 38,000,000 acres entered under it, less than 1,000,000 acres have been patented. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. In 1903, Roosevelt spent four days in Yosemite with Muir, camping with him and learning about the value of the untamed land. Its focus is the general geology and characteristics of the Sierra Nevada. A large portion of the best timber is thus shattered and destroyed, and, with the huge knotty tops, is left in ruins for tremendous fires that kill every tree within their range, great and small. Muir is credited with both the creation of the National Park System and the establishment of the Sierra Club. Born April 21, 1838, Muir has become America's most famous naturalist and conservationist. During heavy rainfalls and while the winter accumulations of snow were melting, the larger streams would swell into destructive torrents; cutting deep, rugged-edged gullies, carrying away the fertile humus and soil as well as sand and rocks, filling up and overflowing their lower channels, and covering the lowland fields with raw detritus. Conservation in the United States can be traced back to the 19th century with the formation of the first National Park. The most significant battle that Muir and the Sierra Club ever fought was over the damming of Yosemites Hetch Hetchy Valley. Accordingly, with no eye to the future, these pious destroyers waged interminable forest wars, Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end So far our government has done nothing effective with its forests, though the best in the world, but is like a rich and foolish spendthrift who has inherited a magnificent estate in perfect order, and then has left his rich fields and meadows, forests and parks, to be sold and plundered and wasted at will, depending on their inexhaustible abundance, Emerson says that things refuse to be mismanaged long. On the contrary, they are made to produce as much timber as is possible without spoiling them. John Muirthe surprise star of Ken Burns's recent PBS documentary, The National Parks is most remembered for founding the Sierra Club in 1911 and for the preservation of Yosemite, but another of his great legacies is his prose, which introduced a new vocabulary to the genre of nature writing. A part of the John Muir Exhibit, by Harold Wood and Harvey Chinn. Its a mighty good business, and youre your own boss, and the whole things fun.. Madison Grant's nature was the last redoubt of nobility in a levelling and hybridizing democracy. He was a strong voice in preserving the area known today as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Working in concert with many individuals and organizations, the Roosevelt administration was responsible for the following: the Newlands Act of 1902 . After becoming president in 1901, Roosevelt used his authority to establish 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, five national parks and . Conservation generally refers to the act of consciously and efficiently using land and/or its natural resources. Most notably, this was John Muir's first published essay (1871). His lifelong passion for hiking began when he hiked 1,000 miles from Indianapolis to the Gulf of Mexico in. The Civil War had just ended. The Mountains of California, his first book, was published in. He returned with the famous story. These forests were composed of about five hundred species of trees, all of them in some way useful to man, ranging in size from twenty-five feet in height and less than one foot in diameter at the ground to four hundred feet in height and more than twenty feet in diameter, lordly monarchs proclaiming the gospel of beauty like apostles. Listen to the trailer for. President Roosevelt's concern for the environment was influenced by American naturalists, such as John Muir, and by his own political appointees, including Gifford Pinchot, Chief of Forestry. dwelling in the most beautiful woods, in the most salubrious climate, breathing delightful doors both day and night, drinking cool living water, roses and lilies at their feet in the spring, shedding fragrance and ringing bells as if cheering them on in their desolating work. The Indians with stone axes could do them no more harm than could gnawing beavers and browsing moose. Our National Parks, by John Muir (1901, c. 1909) - The Writings of John Muir - John Muir Exhibit (John Muir Education Project, Sierra Club California) Our National Parks by John Muir Contents List of Illustrations Preface The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West The Yellowstone National Park The Yosemite National Park Last summer, of the unrivaled redwood forests of the Pacific Coast Range the United States Forestry Commission could not find a single quarter-section that remained in the hands of the government. Both environmentalists were great activists that informed the . Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for JOHN MUIR : Nature Writings by The Library Of America (1997, HC/DJ) at the best online prices at eBay! Even the fires of the Indians and the fierce shattering lightning seemed to work together only for good in clearing spots here and there for smooth garden prairies, and openings for sunflowers seeking the light. 1971. Type the abstract of the document here. The volume is from the press of Houghton . He wrote many magazine articles and books, inspiring other people to love nature and drawing attention to the need to protect the environment. The ground will be glad to feed them, and the pines will come down from the mountains for their homes as willingly as the cedars came from Lebanon for Solomons temple. This can be in the form of setting aside tracts of land for protection from hunting or urban development, or it can take the form of using less resources such as . The gigantea attains a greater girth, and is heavier, more noble in port, and more sublimely beautiful. "A wind-storm in the forests" by American naturalist/environmentalist John Muir (1838-1914) was the first Library of America (LOA) story of the week that I ever reviewed here. John Muir in the Sierra Nevada mountains This excerpt from "The American Forests," was part of John Muir's 1897 campaign to save the American wilderness. Muir, John, 1838-1914 Publication date 1901 Topics National parks and reserves -- United States, Yosemite National Park (Calif.) Publisher Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company Collection cdl; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor University of California Libraries Language English In "The American Forests", John Muir's purpose is to reveal the disloyalty that Americans have towards their agriculture. Ours is the blackest. Then he goes to work sawing and splitting for the market, tying the shakes in bundles of fifty or a hundred. Muir made extended journeys throughout America, observing both scientifically and enthusiastically the beauties of the wilderness. He closes his long essay with his now-famous statements: "Any fool can destroy trees. The same thing is true of the mines, which consume and destroy indirectly immense quantities of timber with their innumerable fires, accidental or set to make open ways, and often without regard to how far they run. But not one denuded acre in a hundred is allowed to raise a new forest growth. The feudal lords valued the woodlands, and enacted vigorous protective laws; and when, in the latest civil war, the Mikado government destroyed the feudal system, it declared the forests that had belonged to the feudal lords to be the property of the state, promulgated a forest law binding on the whole kingdom, and founded a school of forestry in Tokio. Muir ended his life living in the care of his Chinese employees. He closes his long essay with his now-famous statements: "Any fool can destroy trees. The American Forests by John Muir (1901) . As the title suggests, this essay is a study of the glaciers found in the region of the ensuing Yosemite National Park. Chapter 2: How is Sustainability a Political Issue? In the nature of things they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? > (Boston, 1901), chapter 10, "The American Forests." Originally published as John Muir, "The American Forests," Atlantic Monthly 80 (August 1897): 145-57. Muir's nature was a pristine refuge from the city. John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure. Author: SAISD Created Date: 06/16/2016 20:10:00 Last modified by: SAISD Anyhow, these vigorous, almost immortal trees are killed at last, and black stumps are now their only monuments over most of the chopped and burned areas. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world. But the felled timber is not worked up into firewood for the engines and into lumber for the companys use; it is left lying in vulgar confusion, and is fired from time to time by sparks from locomotives or by the workmen camping along the line. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World (Brundtland Report) On the contrary, all the brains, religion, and superstition of the neighborhood are brought into play to prevent a new growth. In its calmer moments in the midst of bewildering hunger and war and restless over-industry, Prussia has learned that the forest plays an important part in human progress, and that the advance in civilization only makes it more indispensable. He educated Americans about the value of the countrys wilderness, inspiring generations of wilderness advocates. Critics including the . Yet the dawn of a new day in forestry is breaking. Taking from the government is with them the same as taking from nature, and their consciences flinch no more in cutting timber from the wild forests than in drawing water from a lake or river. To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately, The slow-going, un-thrifty farmers, also, are beginning to realize that when the timber is stripped from the mountains the irrigating streams dry up in summer, and are destructive in winter; that soil, scenery, and everything slips off with the trees: so of course they are coming into the ranks of tree-friends. John Muir wrote a great essay, known as the "The American Forest" which spoke about the great beauty of nature and Chief Seattle gave a great speech known as the " Environmentalist Statement" which spoke about sustainability and the respect we need to provide and invoke. Theyre good as hog hams any day. Only the forests of the West are significant in size and value, and these, although still great, are rapidly vanishing. After the Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia had been mostly cleared and scorched into melancholy ruins, the overflowing multitude of bread and money seekers poured over the Alleghanies into the fertile middle West, spreading ruthless devastation ever wider and farther over the rich valley of the Mississippi and the vast shadowy pine region about the Great Lakes. An exception would seem to be found in the case of our forests, which have been mismanaged rather long, and now come desperately near being like smashed eggs and spilt milk. In its reading, one must keep in mind that compared with today, very little was known about glacial activity. University Libraries This tree is one of the most variable and most widely distributed of American pines. The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. In India systematic forest management was begun about forty years ago, under difficulties presented by the character of the country, the prevalence of running fires, opposition from lumbermen, settlers, etc. Many of the miners find that timber is already becoming scarce and dear on the denuded hills around their mills, and they too are asking for protection of forests, at least against fire. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. Under the timber and stone act of 1878, which might well have been called the dust and ashes act, any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land, and by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it obtain title. 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