Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is united state’s most influential grassroots organization to date. They helped pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. The Sierra Club was founded on May 28th, 1892 in San Francisco, California by a preservationist by the name of John Muir. Essentially associated with the progressive movement in the 20th century, The Sierra Club was actually one the first large scale environmental organization in the world. Their main goal is “to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth”. Doing so they focus on all of the ways the environment is negatively affected. The ways consist of pollution, illegal hunting, deforestation, Global Warming, and more. To conclude the Sierra Club is a team full…

Would National Park exist without John Muir? Throughout his life John Muir stood up for the environment in three ways. He wrote letters to politicians, books that defended the wilderness, and he founded the Sierra Club. All of these motivated people, such as Theodore Roosevelt to enjoy and preserve nature.  Historical Context John Muir was born on April 21st 1838. He grew up in Dunbar, Scotland until the age 11 when his family moved to the United States. His family bought a farm in Portage,…

their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community. In my opinion, the human rights campaign is a critical part of America’s journey towards full equality. Often times, minorities, such as the LGBTQ community, are under represented, if represented at all, on the nation’s largest platforms. LGBTQ people deserve the visibility that everyone else receives without a second thought. The Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against the LGBTQ…

Park in 1916 he would not have become passionate about what he was doing. He continues his passion for years and then in 1920, he spent the first of four summers as a custodian in Yosemite. After being there working he was given the opportunity by Harry Cassie Best to practice piano in the studio that he had. This is where he met his soon to be wife Virginia Rose Best, after years of being together they got married and had two children. In 1936, Virginia passed away and the Adams family became…

In 1931, at the Smithsonian Institution, Adams put on his first unaccompanied museum exhibition where he presented sixty prints that he had taken of the High Sierra. The Washington Post gave him an exceptional review. In 1932, he had a display at the M.H. de Young Museum. This show was with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston; together they made up Group f/64, which is an aperture setting. This group favored “pure or straight photography” instead of pictorialsm. In the fall of 1941, he began…

Lunch With John Muir! Hannah- Q: John Muir, how would you describe yourself? Muir- A: I would consider myself to be an optimistic, witty man with strong opinions. I am a conscientious environmentalist, naturalist, and conservationist who possess great zeal for nature. My thoughts are meticulously and thoroughly recorded in my journal. When I am surrounded by vast mountain ranges in the Sierras or a breathtaking sunset in Alaska, a thousand thoughts run through my mind of how thankful I am…

"In wilderness is the salvation of the world."(Leopold 2) This quote from "Thinking Like a Mountain," supports the fact that author Aldo Leopold believes an ecosystem needs to be balanced in order to grow and be stronger. Similarly, in the documentary Cold Warriors: Wolver vs. Buffalo, director Jeff Turner explains that the world has beautiful places with high valleys, canyons, and stunning forest. We should watch and learn from Nature. For this, and other reasons, Aldo Leopold would feel…

A wilderness experience occur when one perceive phenomena in the wilderness. It is important to keep in mind that achieving a globally agreed-upon definition for wilderness is difficult, and may not even be entirely necessary. However, a common definition of wilderness is an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region. It is an area essentially undisturbed by human activity together with its naturally developed life community. Wilderness leaves no place for human beings, save perhaps as…

displaying wartime injustice. Also, Ansel fought for the conservation of forests. Most often,(prep) people would critique Ansel because he never photographed people, only nature. Calmly(ly), Ansel answered those critics.(vss) “To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” An example of his instrumental environmental activism is that he lobbied before Congress for the preservation of Kings Canyon National…

I am Jonathan Blackwell and I was born in 1870 in Great Britain. I was born into a bourgeois family in London and my father owned two factories. From a young age I was groomed by my family and my social group to become a capitalist. Therefore when I went to one of the best boarding schools in the country and went on to Oxford. However, one day as I was walking to one of my classes while in college a man handed me a pamphlet about the exploitation of factory workers in London by the wealthy…