Sierra Club

through the Grand Canyon. The two leaders of this expedition are David Brower and Floyd Dominy, who are considered to be two of the biggest rivals and influential people in conservation history. David Brower was the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Brower was a huge conversationalist and was very passionate about protecting natural landscapes from human destruction. Floyd Dominy was the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and he believed that natural resources should be used not just

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 majority of people are indifferent, allowing destruction to occur around them “in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief” (Muir 1)

photographers was astounding. He was close friends with many famous photographers himself, and yet they still came to him for help with techniques and styles. Becuase of that influence, he was apart of many great art movements and clubs, such as the Group f/64 and the Sierra Club. Adams was not only well known in the freelance art world but was a big part of commercial photography as well. The National Parks system hired Adams to take photos of their parks, which he did for them and even in his own free

photographic technique used to determine optimal film exposure and development. ("Ansel Adams"). Ansel Adams was a big environmentalist as well. He joined the Sierra Club at the age 0f 17 as a janitor for the LeConte Memorial Lodge. In 1928 he became the club photographer. And was elected to the board of directors and stayed there for 37 years. The Sierra Club operated in Yosemite National Park. A park that spreads 747,956 acres across the Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Madera Counties in Northern California. It is

Talent Not Left Undiscovered Everyone has a natural strength or talent for something, but some never find out what it is. Luckily, Ansel Adams wasn’t one of those people. A natural photographer, Adams is most known for his breathtaking landscapes, both in black and white and in color, and his great impact on the preservation and conservation of nature in the United States. Born in San Francisco, California, Adams‘s first real experience with photography took place in 1916 in Yosemite National Park

Many people that go out and enjoy the wilderness or the outdoors head to those places because they need to get away from the world and relax. The opportunity you have to go out and enjoy these beautiful areas all started with the beginning of this country by many men and their ideas and views of the outdoors. I will conduct a rhetorical analysis of J. Baird Callicott and Priscilla Solis Ybarra’s article, The Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement, and critique there use of rhetorical

As President Mckinley condition stabilized, post being shot, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt embarked to view the vastness of nature in the less developed west. His trip was cut short, as he got word that Mckinley’s condition had turned for the worse. Mckinley was pronounced dead September 14, 1901; subsequently, Roosevelt was sworn into the presidency, along with his progressive views. Although this was not the start of the conservation and preservation movements, extended from the late 19th through

Chris McCandless was a young man from a wealthy family , he had a serious idea about finding inner happiness. To do so he believed he had to hitchhike across the country with nothing but the clothes on his back, he burned his money, ditched his car, and abandoned his parents. The question we ask now after reviewing the life of McCandless’s was this a selfish move by Chris? Yes, Chris was selfish and ignorant when he left on a trek across the country including Alaska. The definition of selfish is

Philmont Scout Ranch wrote the Wilderness pledge to protect the 137,000 acres of land, so that the lucky scouts that get to go and see the beauty of the land see the same thing as the person before them (Philmont). When over one million people have gone through the camp, the Wilderness Pledge that was created had to have helped because the land has not changed much, except of the trail. In the 1960s the US government wanted a plan to protect the environment and came up with Leave No Trace (Marion)

Sutter also wrote in his book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies, that “the burden of southern environmental history, then, has been to reintroduce the environment as a casual force while avoiding the determinisms of the past.” In short, Sutter is presenting perhaps the biggest problem within environmental history which is environmental determinism. Environmental determinism meaning the idea that this environment is predisposed to act a certain way regardless and there was no way to avoid it. Sutter