Sir: … The article “Lament for a Lost Eden,” by Eliot Porter [October, 1969], affords an excellent example of what I feared in connection with your publication going “conservationist”… In the last paragraph, the author says: “This is the monument men have built —you and I —not
It has been called the Redwood Empire, and it stretched along Northern California's fog-shrouded coast, but its reign is imperiled.
It has been called the Redwood Empire, and not many years ago it stretched unbroken for 450 miles along the wet northern coast of California.