Volume 2, Number 11 · July 9, 1964
Commonweal or Common Woe
By Eleanor Clark
The Quiet Crisis
by Stewart L. Udall
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 209 pp., $5.00
This is a centennial worth some meditation and prayer. In 1864 Congress passed and President Lincoln signed a bill preserving Yosemite Valley 'for public use, resort and recreation.' In the present nightmare condition of our land, both city and country, this may not sound like much. The valley, as Secretary Udall puts it mildly enough 'was the first scenic reserve created by federal action, and the event is a landmark in the history of conservation.' The main mover in the affair was the landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park.
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