# F

**FALL RIVER BANKS DESCRIPTION, (SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, Ca.)**

STEEP TRAILS, pgs.105-109

## FAITH

"...natural faith casts out fear."

MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH, pg.17

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## FEAR

"Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.57

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## FIGHTING 

"...the school war ended as most wars between nations do; and some of
them begin in much the same way."

MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH, pg.30

## FIRE AS A NATURAL FEATURE OF THE FOREST

"...but as the plateau became drier and fires began to run, they were
driven up the mountains, and into the wet spots and islands where we now
find them, leaving nearly all the park to the lodge-pole pine, which,
though as thin-skinned as they and as easily killed by fire, takes pains
to store up its seeds in firmly closed cones, and holds them from three
to nine years, so that, let the fire come when it may, it is ready to
die and ready to live again in a new generation. For when the killing
fires have devoured the leaves and thin resinous bark, many of the
cones, only scorched, open as soon as the smoke clears away; the hoarded
store of seeds is sown broadcast on the cleared ground, and a new growth
immediately springs up triumphant out of the ashes."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pgs.68-69

## FIRE ECOLOGY

"Here also I noted eighty six young sequoias from one to fifty feet high
on less than half an acre of ground that had been cleared and prepared
for their reception by fire. This was a small bay burned into dense
chaparral, showing that fire, the great destroyer of tree life, is
sometimes followed by conditions favorable for new growths."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.297

"Even the fires of the Indians and the fierce shattering lightning
seemed to work together only for the good in clearing spots here and
there for smooth garden prairies, and openings for sunflowers seeking
the light."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.335

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## FISHING 

"Catching trout with a bit of bent wire is a rather trivial business,
but fortunately people fish better than they know. In most cases it is
the man who is caught. Trout fishing regarded as bait for catching men,
for the saving of both body and soul, is important, and deserves all the
expense and care bestowed on it."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.212

## FLOWERS AS MOUNTAINEERS

"For all the way up the long red slate slopes, that in the distance
seemed barren, you find little garden beds and tufts of dwarf phlox,
ivesia, and blue arctic daisies that go straight to your heart, blessed
fellow mountaineers kept safe and warm by a thousand miracles."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.94

## FLOWERS AT NIGHT 

"Around your camp fire the flowers seem to be looking eagerly at the
light, and the crystals shine unweariedly, making fine company as you
lie at rest in the very heart of the vast, serene, majestic night."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.163

## FOOD, MAN'S DEPENDENCE ON

"Able to live on the buds of pine, spruce, and fir, they are forever
independent in the matter of food supply, which gives so many of us
trouble, dragging us here and there away from our best work. How gladly
I would live on pine buds, however pitchy, for the sake of this grand
independence! With all his superior resources, man makes more
distracting difficulty concerning food than any other of the family."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.219

## FORESTS, AMERICAN

"American forests! The glory of the world!"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.334

"The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great
delight to God; for they were the best He ever planted."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.331

"The Indians with stone axes could do them no more harm than could
gnawing beavers and browsing moose."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.335

## FOREST, ANTI-RESERVATION

"The outcries we hear against forest reservations come mostly from
thieves who are wealthy and steal timber by wholesale."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.360

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## FOREST MISMANAGEMENT

"Emerson says that things refuse to be mismanaged long. An exception
would seem to be found in the case of our forests, which have been
mismanaged rather long, and now come desperately near being like smashed
eggs and spilled milk."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.361

## FORESTS, NEED FOR CHANGING ATTITUDES

"In any case, it will be hard to teach the pioneers that it is wrong to
steal Government timber. Taking from the Government is with them the
same as taking from nature, and their consciences flinch no more in
cutting timber from the wild forests than in drawing water from a lake
or river. As for reservation and protection of forests, it seems as
silly and needless to them as protection and reservation of the ocean
would be, both appearing to be boundless and inexhaustible."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.343

## FOREST PROTECTION

"Notwithstanding all the waste and use which have been going on
unchecked for more than two centuries, it is not too late\-\--though it
is high time\-\--for the Government to begin a rational administration
of its forests."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.359

## FOREST RANGERS, OUTNUMBERED

"The annual appropriation for so-called "protection service" is hardly
sufficient to keep twenty-five timber agents in the field, and as far as
efficient protection of timber is concerned the agents themselves might
as well be timber."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pgs.344-45

## FORESTS, CARE OF AS A NECESSITY FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL

### "Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.337

**FOREST DESTRUCTION, SHAKE MAKERS (for cabins)**

"Only the lower, perfectly clear, free-splitting portions of the giant
pines are used,-perhaps ten to twenty feet from a tree two hundred and
fifty in height; all the rest is left a mass of ruins, to rot or to feed
the forest fires, while thousands are hacked deeply and rejected in
proving the grain. ...Happy robbers! ...They buy no land, pay no taxes,
dwell in a paradise with no forbidding angel either from Washington or
from heaven."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pgs.355-56

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## FOREST REGULATION

"Mere destroyers, however, tree-killers, wool and mutton men, spreading
death and confusion in the fairest groves and gardens ever
planted,\-\--let the government hasten to cast them out and make an end
of them."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.363

## FORESTS=SAFETY

"One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.28

"Yet it is far safer to wander in God's woods than to travel on black
highways or stay home."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.28

## FORESTRY, U.S. BACKWARDNESS

"So far our government has done nothing effective with its forests,
though the best in the world, but is like a rich and foolish spendthrift
who has inherited a magnificent estate in perfect order, and then has
left his fields and meadows, forests and parks, to be sold and plundered
and wasted at will..."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.340

## FORESTS, UTILITY OF

"...Farmers, also, are beginning to realize that when the timber is
stripped from the mountains the irrigating streams dry up in summer, and
are destructive in winter; that soil, scenery, and everything slips off
with the trees: so of course they are coming into the ranks of
tree-friends."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.346

## FOREST WASTE

"...not one denuded acre in a hundred is allowed to raise a new forest
growth. On the contrary, all the brains, religion, and superstition of
the neighborhood are brought into play to prevent a new growth. The
sprouts from the roots and stumps are cut off again and again, with
zealous concern as to the best time and method of making death sure. In
the clearings of one of the largest mills on the coast we found thirty
men at work, last summer cutting off redwood shoots 'in the dark of the
moon', claiming that all the stumps and roots cleared at this auspicious
time would send up no more shoots."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.349

## FORESTS, WISE USE

"In their natural condition, or under wise management...these forests
would be a never failing fountain of wealth and beauty."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.360

## FREEDOM

"Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked
with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and
making so much money\-\--or so little, they are no longer good for
themselves."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.3

"Having escaped restraint, (the sheep) were, like some people we know
of, afraid of their freedom, did not know what to do with it, and seemed
glad to get back into the old familiar bondage."

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA, pg.57

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## FROGS

"Frogs abound in all the bogs, marshes, pools, and lakes, however cold
and high and isolated. How did they manage to get up these high
mountains? Surely not by jumping. Long and dry excursions through weary
miles of boulders and brush would be trying to frogs. Most likely their
stringy spawn is carried on the feet of ducks, cranes, and other
waterbirds. Anyhow, they are most thoroughly distributed, and flourish
famously. What a cheery, hearty set they are, and how bravely their
krink and tronk concerts enliven the rocky wilderness!"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.211

## FROSTBITE, MUIR'S TREATMENT

"Our feet were frozen, and thawing them was painful, and had to be done
very slowly by keeping them buried in soft snow for several hours, which
avoided permanent damage."

STEEP TRAILS pg.56

(**Note**: The above is **NOT** an effective treatment and Muir did
suffer lifelong effects from frostbite.)