 The "Los Angeles Times" published an obituary on Theodore Lukens on July 5, 1918, which stated in part, "There is a new, growing forest of neglected pine trees on the slopes of the Sierras [San Gabriel Mountains] above Pasadena that stand as a living proof that Lukens could have reforested our mountains if we had only given him the help he asked.He would have restored to us the lost beauty of the hills and he would have, at the same time, saved us from a disaster which may one day overtake us.