The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917–1978

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NOTES A KEY to the abbreviations used in the notes appears on pages 321-23. Chapter 1: Progressives and Scenic Preservation Quotes from John Merriam, "Forest Windows," Scribners Magazine 83, no. 6 (June 1928): 733. See also M. Grant to Everett Griggs, 16 September 1919, Save-the-Redwoods League, Files, History Folders (SRL/F/History) [hereafter all repository and collection designations are abbreviated]; Merriam to Childs Frick, 4 August 1917, LC/JM/195. 2 Merriam, "Forest Windows," pp. 733-34. 3 Osborn and M. Grant to Governor William Stephens, 8 August 1917, M. Grant to J. D. Grant, 26 August 1918, SRLlF/History; Merriam to M. Grant, 8 August 1930, 12 August 1932, LC/JM/82; Newton Drury, "Parks and Redwoods: 1919-1971," interview conducted by Amelia Fry and Susan R. Schrepfer (Berkeley: University of California Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office [hereafter abbreviated ROHO], 1972), p. 106. 4 Quote from Joseph D. Grant, "Twenty Rings in the Redwoods: An Informal History of the Save-the-Redwoods League" (1940), p. 1, manuscript held by the Save-the-Redwoods League [hereafter abbreviated SRL]. Madison Grant, The Origin and Relationship of the Large Mammals of North America (New York: New York Zoological Society, 1904); Madison Grant, The Passing ofthe Great Race (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916, 1917); Frederick Woods, review in Science 67, no. 1243 (25 October 1918): 419-20; Merriam to Osborn, 7 February 1906, B/JM/l:l; Merriam to Frick, 22 August 1917, Merriam to M. Grant, 15 September 1917, LCI JM/195. 5 Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia, North America (New York: Macmillan Company, 1910); Men of the Old Stone Age: The Earth Speaks to Bryan; and Impressions of Great Naturalists (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, 1928). 6 William Gregory, "Dr. Merriam's Contributions to the Development of Vertebrate Paleontology on the Pacific Coast," The Scientific Monthly 42, 247 248 NOTES TO PAGES 5-7 no. 4 (April 1936): 377-80; Ralph Chaney, "John Campbell Merriam," American Philosophical Society Yearbook (1945), pp. 381-87; Chester Stock, "J. C. Merriam as Scientist and Philosopher," Cooperation in Research (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1938), pp. 765-78; Merriam, "Asphalt Beds of Rancho La Brea," Published Papers and Addresses ofJohn Campbell Merriam, Carnegie Institution of Washington pub. no. 500, (Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1938),2:848-49. 7 John Merriam, "Statement Concerning Research Work of J. C. Merriam transmitted in reply to University of California Research Board Circular of January 5, 1917," pp. 1-2, LC/JM/197; Ralph Chaney to R. M. Field,S January 1931, LC/JM/40. 8 Merriam, "Ultimate Values of Science" and "Science and Human Values," Published Papers, 4:2104-24. 9 George Sudworth, Forest Trees of the PacIfic Slope (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1908), p. 146; Ralph Chaney, Redwoods of the Past, rev. ed. (San Francisco: SRL, 1965), p. 1. 10 Quote from John Merriam, A Living Link in History, rev. ed. (San Francisco : SRL, 1968), pp. 5-6. See also M. Grant to Merriam, 30 May 1928, LC/JM/82. 11 Quotes from Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Sequoia-the Auld Lang Syne of Trees," Natural History 19 (November-December 1919): 601. See also Madison Grant, "Saving the Redwoods," National Geographic Magazine 37, no. 6 (June 1920): 525. 12 W. G. Bonner, "The Trail in the Redwoods," Overland Monthly, 2d ser., 37, no. 6 (June 1901): 1062. 13 Grant, "Saving the Redwoods," p. 527. 14 C. Raymond Clar, Callfornia Government and Forestry, vol. 1 (Sacramento : Department of Natural Resources, 1959), p. 68-78; "The Fate of the Redwoods," Pacific Coast Wood and Iron [Pioneer Western Lumbermen ] 11 (June 1889): 150. 15 Quotes from Bertha F. Herrick, "The California Redwoods," Sunshine 11, no. 2 (July 1889): 99. For similar sentiments, see H. W. Plummer, "The Redwood Lands of California," Timberman [American Lumberman] 21 May 1887, p. 4; Ernest Ingersoll, "In a Redwood Logging Camp," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 66, no. 391 (January 1883): 203. 16 Robert Sterling Yard, "Historical Notes on the Primitive in National Parks" (1932), pp. 5-6, mimeographed, in Library of Congress. 17 Quote from Alfred Runte, "Origins and Paradox of the American Experience ," Journal ofForest History 21, no. 2 (April 1977): 70. See also Alfred Runte, '''Worthless' Lands: Our National Parks," American West 10 (May 1973): 4-11; Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1979), pp. 33-64. 18 Interview with Enoch P. French conducted by Susan...