Sierra Club Bulletin, Volumen9

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The Club., 1915
 

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Página 152 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine. And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont...
Página 62 - For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improving surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts from the belt-line road to the western border from the Thumb Station to the southern border, and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motorpropelled vehicles, $38,700.
Página 98 - To explore, enjoy and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and cooperation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Página 100 - Members of the Sierra Club will be interested to LEAVES THE COAST, learn that Director Alexander G. McAdie has accepted the Professorship of Meteorology at Harvard, and the Directorship of the Meteorological Observatory at Blue Hill, Mass., where so much work in exploring the upper air has been done in the past few years. While we deeply regret his going, the best wishes of the Club follow him into his new field of labor. REPORTS. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. MAY 4, 1912, TO MAY 3, 1913. The Sierra Club...
Página 61 - These holdings seriously interfere with the proper administration of the parks and impair their usefulness and beauty in many ways. They can be extinguished either by way of direct appropriation for their purchase or by authorizing their exchange for lands or timber within the particular parks or within the national forest reserve adjacent thereto. The public timber so exchanged can, in many cases, be confined to dead or matured timber which can be removed from the parks without injuriously affecting...
Página 62 - For widening and improving surface of roads, and for building bridges and culverts, from the belt-line road to the western border; H D— 62-3— vol 135 53 from the Thumb Station to the southern border; and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border...
Página 5 - A more absurd theory was never advanced than that by which it was sought to ascribe to glaciers the sawing out of these vertical walls, and the rounding of the domes. Nothing more unlike the real work of ice, as exhibited in the Alps, could be found. Besides, there is no reason to suppose, or at least no proof, that glaciers have ever occupied the Valley or any portion of it...
Página 60 - ... is anticipated that marked increases in gross receipts by national-park concessioners will be noted. Third national-park conference: In prior annual reports attention has been directed to the very satisfactory results obtained from bringing together in conference the various park superintendents for the purpose of discussing the many difficult problems presented in the administration of these reservations. In March of the present year the third conference of superintendents was held at Berkeley,...
Página 120 - Steps," and Valley "Treads." In Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. XLIV. 1910. Camp, Charles Lewis (Museum of Paleontology, University of California). Several contributions to University of California Publications in Zoology. 1916-1918. Eastwood, Alice. A Flora of the South Fork of Kings River from Millwood to the Headwaters of Bubbs Creek. Publications of the Sierra Club, No. 27. 1902.
Página 307 - As stated in the last annual report, the administrative conditions continue to be unsatisfactory, since no appropriation of funds has yet been made available for this important, protective, and preservative work. Such supervision as has been possible in the cases of a few monuments only has been wholly inadequate and has not prevented vandalism, unauthorized exploitation, or spoliation of relics found in those prehistoric ruins, whose preservation is contemplated by the passage of the act of June...

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