![]() Muir was an amateur naturalist, and his descriptions of rocks and vegetation show a command of basic mineralogy and botany. Published in 1911, only three years before his death, Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra recalls his first trip to the range more than forty years earlier. Muir also co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892, providing a formal organization for environmental activists to continue working for the preservation of the nation's mountain ranges. His work was instrumental in the creation of the national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rainier, and Grand Canyon National Park, and his writing inspired many of the conservation programs enacted by President Theodore Roosevelt, including the first National Monuments by Presidential Proclamation. ![]() ![]() Muir feared that the United States as he had witnessed it would gradually become overdeveloped, and he wrote extensively about the importance of protecting the natural landscape and wildlife of the country. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.Ībout the Author: Naturalist John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-born wilderness explorer, best known for his adventures in the glaciers of Alaska and California's Sierra Nevada. ![]()
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