An article about William Dool and his noble efforts to preserve Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It meanders between Dool's early life, the history of the park's other founders and how they overlap, the author's theories on the intimate persuasion Dool had in fouding the park, and Dool's later life.

Notables: Don Waters, William Henry Dool / W H Dool / Mayor Dool, Thomas Maddock / Tom Maddock, Andrew P Hill / A P Hill, H L Middleton / Henry L Middleton, Newell Browne, Maddock's cabin, Madrone Villa, Emily Dool, Leland Stanford, Timothy Hopkins, sequoia sempervirens, Sempervirens Club, C C Young, Martha Fritch Pilger / Martha Pilger, George Cress