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Choirman of Stote Pork Commission

Gratefully Acknowledges Public Spirited Cooperotion of The Pociftc Lumber Compony

The California State Park Commission has reported through the Director of Natural Resources to Goiernor J.-.j Rolph, Jr., that negotiations with The Pacific Lumber Uompany, owners of the famed Bull Cr.eek and Dyer- ville groves of Redwoods., have reached a successful iottclusion and that 10,000 acres. which includes the watersheds of Bull Creek, Decker Creek and Cabin Creek. as well as the North and South Dyerville Flats. will be acquired for a State Park.

These wonderful groves of big Redwoods are considered to be of the same national importance as Yos,emite, Grand Canyon and other unique national wonders.

Under the terms of the State Bond Act passed by the I-eglslature in 1927, and ratified by the people of the St"tu, half of the total cost is to be borne by-the State and hali by private subscription.

The gift of $1,00O,000 by John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. and a pledge of a second million dollars to match privite subscriptions as r'eceived made possible the suctess of the project. Organizations such as The Garden Club of America, the California Federation of Women's Clubs and the Native Daughters of the Golden West contributed substantrial amounts.

':Timber Owners Cooperate

In making its announcement the State Park Commission expressed its appreciation of the attitude of the owners. whose sympathetic cooperation has been the greatest factoi in the preservation of these splendid groves 6f California's giant Redwoods as a part of the California State park System. "A great deal of credit is due to president A. Stanwood Murphy, of The Pacific Lumber Company, and his associates, for their public_spirited cooperation thiough- out.the negqtiations," said Chairman William E. Col6y, of th,e State Park Commission. "In agreeing to dispose 6i these timberlands, they are relinquishing' -some oi their most desirable holdings from the standpo-int of qualitv of timber and accessibility for lumbering. - For sev&al years they have withheld the logging of these lands pending the outcome of negotiations." Among the officers arrd direitors of the company who have contributed to the reaching of a settlement are its former president, John H. Emmed, of Detroit, and directors Henry_M. Robinson of Los Angeles and Dr. Fred T. Murphy of-Detroit.

{-9ague Conducts l0-Year Campaign

The acquisition of these Redwood grovei is-the result of a campaign_of over 10 years conducied by the Save-TheRedwoods- League. _ Th_is campaign waj begun by the League's founders, Dr. John -C. -Mirriam of tle Cainegie Institution of Washington, Madison Grant of New y;k, and Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History.