John Muir The Muckraker

Explanation: John Muir felt so captivated by the Calypso Borealis. He was stunned with feelings and passion just from looking at it. He felt so much joy by looking at the plant that he cried because of how beautiful it was.

In Wallace Stegner’s “Wilderness Letter,” he is arguing that the countries wilderness and forests need to be saved. For a person to become whole, Stegner argues that the mere idea of the wild and the forests are to thank. The wilderness needs to be saved for the sake of the idea. He insinuates that anyone in America can just think of Old faithful, Mt. Rainier, or any other spectacular landform, even if they have not visited there, and brought to a calm. These thoughts he argues are what makes us as people whole.

It was John Muir one of the first advocates for the national park idea who developed the idea and also scientific theory that Yosemite Valley had been carved by glaciers. Muir was a very spiritual person coming from a religious family in which his father was a itinerant Presbyterian minister. John Muir had such a huge love and appreciation for nature, and being the religious man that he was he believed that “God is revealed

     Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of

Muir Woods National Monument is located in Marin County, about 15 miles away from San Francisco. Muir Woods contains a large portion of Redwood Canyon and is near the base of Mount Tamalpais. The park was established in 1907 when William Kent, a California congressman and philanthropist, gifted 298 acres of costal redwoods to the federal government in attempt to preserve the area from development. The now historic redwoods were the target of the North Coast Water Company who planned to build a new reservoir. A year later on January 9th, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the proclamation establishing Muir Woods as a National Monument (Dilsaver, 294).

So, if Muir has been credited for that discovery then we can thank him for all the beautiful national parks system. Without John Muir, we might not have places such as Yosemite National Park, or the Grand Canyon. Beyond that John Muir, and several of his followers also came up with the invention of the Sierra Club. The goal of the Sierra

John believed that turning places into national parks would be a great way to conserve them, this allows for wild life and plants to be monitored and kept under control. With his great love for the idea of national parks, came a lot of pro’s for the environment. Biodiversity plays an important role in national parks, biodiversity helps to keep environments clean and healthy for wild life. It allows for climate regulation, pollination and water purification. Yosemite National Park was one of Muir’s creates accomplishments. He first traveled there in 1868 an loved the beauty and scenery so much that he decided to come back the next year and get a job as a rancher. Soon he became very concerned about natural landscape preservation.

John Muir was a farmer, inventor, sheepherder, explorer, and writer. Without him lots of places we love, like Yosemite and many more, would not be here today. John Muir was born was born on April 21st in 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. He was the third of his parents eight children. John’s father was religious and very harsh. He forced John and his siblings to work in the fields. Their father also did not let them read books at a young age, so he found a way. He was interested in inventing, so he built a bed that would tilt at a steep angle causing him to slip out of bed. This was one of John’s earliest inventions. His family moved to America when he was about eleven.

For years these two men wander the endless bouty of America. John Muir and Christopher McCandless are these two wonders. Throughout their many adventures, these two men have so much in common, but they lived two very different lives. At a young age both John and Chris fell in love with nature.

John Muir is one of California’s most important historical personalities. Born in Scotland, he has been called “The Father of our National Parks,” “Wilderness Profit,” and “Citizen of the Universe.” As a wilderness explorer, his exciting adventures in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska’s glaciers led him searching for nature’s beauty. Gifford Pinchot was born to a wealthy family on

Over the past two units, we have discussed in great detail the progression of the criminal justice system over the 18th century. As the British criminal justice moved away from executions and capital punishment it transitioned into solutions of imprisonment and transportations of those convicted of a crime. In this time, we also see the move towards attitudes of imprisonment and convict transportation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The purpose of this chapter was to discuss the third punitive option developed in the nineteenth century. This was the option of transportation, which was widely discussed amongst reformers for a more humanitarian approach, as convicts

Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be one of the leading founders of conservation biology. From a very young age, he had a heightened interest in the outdoors and later pursued a career in the U.S. Forest Service. In 1949, he published a book about conservation called, “A Sand County Almanac”. Contained within the book is one of his writings, “The Land Ethic”, an influential writing that was designed to inform and inspire others to do their part in conserving the earths remaining wilderness.

John Muir’s “Save the Redwoods” was first featured in his very own Sierra Club Bulletin, an environmentalist newsletter, in 1920. At the time, loggers were threatening the already sparse population of California’s giant redwoods. Muir’s essay expresses his growing concern for the future of California’s ecology and emphasizes the need for swift human intervention.

The few voices that did express concern went unheard, that is until the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Sigurd Olson, and Archibald MacLeish (Cantrill & Oravec, 1996; Dunaway, 2005; Neuzil, 2008; Spaulding, 1995). Although Thoreau’s writings of the natural world did not have much impact during his lifetime, as discussed later, they did influence many great thinkers that followed. Other notable naturalists and politicians that sought for preservation of the land include John Muir, David Brower, Joseph LeConte, Aldo Leopold, George Perkins Marsh, Gifford Pinchot, also wrote and spoke out about preservation of land, nature, and wildlife. For example, Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most influential writers

The book, A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold in 1949 describes the importance of idea land ethics. Aldo Leopold is considered to be the father of wildlife management and of the U.S wilderness system. Born in 1887 in Burlington, Iowa, he went on to write a book that sold over 2 million copies. His book in many ways could almost be described as the conservationist bible. The Sand County Almanac challenged people to change their views of nature, and to take a more active role in the conservation of it.