Perhaps more than half of all the big trees have been thoughtlessly sold and are now in the hands of speculators and mill men.
It appears, therefore, that far the largest and important section of protected big trees is in the great Sequoia National Park, now easily accessible by rail to Lemon Cove and thence by a good stage road into the giant forest of the Kaweah and thence by rail to other parts of the park; but large as it is it should be made much larger.

Its natural eastern boundary is the High Sierra and the northern and southern boundaries are the Kings and Kern Rivers.

Thus could be included the sublime scenery on the headwaters of these rivers and perhaps nine-tenths of all the big trees in existence.

All private claims within these bounds should be gradually extinguished by purchase by the Government.

The big tree, leaving all its higher uses out of the count, is a tree of life to the dwellers of the plain dependent on irrigation, a never-failing spring, sending living waters to the lowland.