John Muir was an important environmentalist who spoke proudly for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. John Muir was born in Scotland but emigrated to the United States with family. He also was a conservationist, author, and an environmental philosopher. He founded the idea of conservationist and inspired many others around the world to cherish what our beautiful earth has to offer. He favored preserving nature and building national parks in the United States to allow others to find the meaning of earth's wilderness. He has been called many different types of names including "John of the Mountains", "Father of the National Parks", and "Citizens of the Universe." John felt a strong connection to nature and urged the federal government numerous times to adopt a forest conservation policy in the United States. His teaching taught people the essential characteristic of science of ecology and the connection of all living things. John Muir said "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it Hitched to everything else in the Universe." He continued his legacy of by co-finding the Sierra Club (which is an environmental organization in the US) and was the president until his death in 1914. He is considered to be one the most famous Scottish-American influential environmentalist, who got people to broaden their horizon to the natural beauty of our world. His activism and profound work help preserve many national parks around the country. With his talented hard work and dedication, he helped people grasp the value of why our earth is special.
In 1892, John Muir founded the
Sierra Club in California and became its first president until his passing in 1914. The Sierra Club helps promote solutions, preservation, and especially environmental movements around the country. Right before the club was founded, many different events were occurring in the United States. Many modern cities and buildings were being constructed at the time of all of this. As many different people saw these cities being built, John Muir decided to advocate for the preservation of earth's natural beauty. The club has helped create a series of new National Parks and a National Wilderness Preservation System, here in America. Since the Sierra Club was founded, it also helped create the National Parks Services, preventing environmental damages to canyons, and helped organize the first Earth Day in the United States. Today, the Sierra Club is still here to protect acres of land across the country and inform the public of current issues in the environment.
One of the parks that John Muir had a huge environmental impact on was Yosemite National Park. If you don't know where Yosemite is, it is located California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. Inside the park, you can see deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, and a vast wilderness. John Muir helped draw up Yosemite's proposed boundaries in 1889. Muir also wrote numerous magazines articles that led to its birth in
1890. By this time, the United States citizens were realizing and began to open their eyes to more environmental issues that was happening in the most rural areas of the country. This park was the first of many different projects that the Sierra Club created from 1890 to 1900. With this creation, Yosemite National Park is the most visited parks in the
United States. By protecting this National Park, different walks of life can go visit this piece of art and treasure its natural glow.
Like I mentioned above, John Muir is one of the most famous and inspiring environmentalist that America has ever seen. His hard work and dedication to the job he loves the most made impacts on such a growing country at the time of these events. If John Muir didn't create our National Park System, it is possible our NPS would not have been create properly for all. Without a proper set of regulations, the area of Keene would have renovated for urbanization. This would permanently destroy the natural beauty that Keene has to offer to the world. Since the club didn't help out the area of Keene, it motivated people to stand up for the land around this vicinity. If Muir didn't create the Sierra Club, who know what the land would look like in the United States and in Keene. Even though John Muir is not with us today, his environmental legacy and his determination to get this done are now in the hands of the american people to continue what he started in the past.
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