VICE PRESIDENT 
BENTON MAcKAYE 
 
     COUNCIL 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
L. A. BARRETT 
   CALIFORNIA 
HARVEY BROOME 
   TENNESSEE 
IRVING M. CLARK 
   WASHINGTON 
BERNARD FRANK 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
ERNEST STACEY GRIFFITH 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
ROBERT FISKE GRIGGS 
   MARYLAND 
DOROTHY SACHS JACKSON 
   MARYLAND 
 
 
          PRESIDENT AND PERMANENT SECRETARY 
             ROBERT STERLING YARD 
 
 
 
 
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY 
 
         1840 MINTWOOD PLACE 
 
            WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
 
March 31, 1942 
 
 
      TREASURER 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
 
     COUNCIL 
ALDO LEOPOLD 
   WISCONSIN 
BENTON MAcKAYE 
   MASSACHUSETTS 
GEORGE MARSHALL 
   NEW YORK 
 
JAMES MARSHALL 
   NEW YORK 
OLAUS MURIE 
   WYOMING 
 
ERNEST C. OBERHOLTZER 
   MINNESOTA 
ROBERT STERLING YARD 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 
Professor Aldo Leopold 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, Wisconsin 
 
My dear Aldo: 
 
 
Here are two questions preliminary to a problem in wilderness. 
 
A lumber company of high standing demands a particular lumber, part of whose

trunks are necessary for manufacturing airplanes, in the 800,000 acres of
the 
North Cascade Wilderness Area, Washington State. In this instance all these

trees are found within a hundred thousand acres. The rorest Service is con-

sidering eliminating the hundred thousand acres, thus holding the remaining

seven-eighths of the area unchanged. 
 
Another lumber company of high standing is about to demand an equal amount

of the same lumber, scattered in small lots over four hundred thousand acres

of a wilderness area of the same size as above. To eliminate all the con-

taining area would cut out half of it. So, instead, the Forest Service is

considering cutting out the small lots of trees and replanting, without re-

ducing the size of the original area. 
 
What in your belief should be the attitude of the Wilderness Society? 
 
These propositions will come to us in detail later on, but I should like
to 
have the views of several of our Councillors first on the principle. This
is 
not, of course, for publication. 
 
 
                                                          Sincerely, 
 
 
RSY:va 
 
 
RCBZRT STERLING YARD