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In 1903, with the family deep in debt after losses in the panic of 1902–1903, William and Elizabeth Thacher Kent bought 600 acres of redwood forest in Marin, California, then called Redwood Canyon. Elizabeth hesitated. William answered: "If we lost all the money we have and saved these trees, it would be worthwhile, wouldn't it?" Five years later the canyon was Muir Woods National Monument, which millions now visit every year.
William Kent and Gifford Pinchot among the redwoods at Muir Woods. From the National Park Service.
From purchase to monument
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| November 1905 | At a Thanksgiving dinner among the redwoods, the botanist Alice Eastwood and friends toast the name Kent has chosen for the canyon: Muir Woods |
| December 2, 1907 | A water company files condemnation proceedings against the Kents' land, proposing to log the trees and dam the confluence of Fern Creek and Redwood Creek |
| December 3, 1907 | Back from Hawaii, the Kents wire Gifford Pinchot that they mean to save the woods and keep them open to the public; Olmsted suggests the Antiquities Act as a way to do it |
| December 10, 1907 | Kent writes to the water company that saving the woods may be a higher purpose than water rights, and begins a large public campaign |
| December 14, 1907 | Encouraging news from Washington; a deed is drawn up to donate the land |
| December 17, 1907 | Olmsted visits and values the woods at 35 million board feet of lumber, worth $150,000 |
| December 26, 1907 | Olmsted's report arrives; the deed giving 298 acres goes to the Department of the Interior |
| December 31, 1907 | Secretary of the Interior Garfield accepts the gift under the Antiquities Act |
| January 9, 1908 | President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the land a national monument |
| January 22, 1908 | The land office registers the deed and confirms the name, at Kent's request: Muir Woods National Monument |
| February 10, 1908 | Kent invites John Muir to speak with him at the Native Sons dinner in San Rafael on the value of nature and protecting the Mount Tamalpais region |
| September 1908 | Muir accepts Kent's invitation to visit the monument (he had visited in 1903 and would again in 1909) |
| December 22, 1908 | The condemnation suit is finally dropped |
John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite. Credit: Library of Congress.
The proclamation
Proclamation No. 793 of January 9, 1908 (35 Stat. 2174) records that William Kent and his wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, of Chicago, had on December 26, 1907, under the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities of June 8, 1906, given the land to the United States. It continues:
"Whereas, an extensive growth of redwood trees embraced in said land is of extraordinary scientific interest and importance because of the primeval character of the forest in which it is located, and of the character, age and size of the trees,
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Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested … do hereby declare and proclaim that said grove and all of the land hereinbefore described … set apart as a National Monument, to be known and recognized as the Muir Woods National Monument..."
Sources
Based on "Muir Woods Proclamation," National Park Service (Muir Woods National Monument), a work of the United States government in the public domain.
В изданияхGolden Gate National Recreation AreaMuir Woods National Monument
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