the john muir exhibit - related resources
Related Resources on the Internet
Other Sites or Articles about or by John Muir
- Facebook Group - Fans of John Muir
- John Muir Global Network -
A portal to celebrating and encouraging environmental protection through the inspiring life of John Muir, the founder of the worldwide conservation movement.
Includes resources keyed to varied locations around the world and in the U.S.A., conference archives, and other unique items.
- Discover John Muir -
Website hosted by the John Muir Trust and funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and Year of Natural Scotland.
- John Muir National Historic
Site
- National Park Service
- Holt-Atherton
Digital Collections - University of the Pacific's collection of John
Muir photographs, journals, and drawings.
- John Muir Papers - University
of the Pacific's repository for the John Muir Papers.
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John Muir Memorial Association
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Friends of John Muir's Birthplace
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John Muir on My Hero: Earthkeepers
by Harold W. Wood, Jr., John Muir Exhibit volunteer webmaster.
- Cornell
University's Making of America Journal Collection - includes searchable
database of scanned images of many publications which Muir wrote in such
as Century, Harper's Scribner's, etc.
- Wikepedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Entry on John
Muir
- Original
manuscript letters of John Muir, 1861-1914, Wisconsin Historical
Society
These 30 letters, totaling
more than 100 pages, were written by Muir to five correspondents. Twenty are
to his old friend Emily Pelton, with whose family he boarded in Prairie du
Chien in 1860-61, or to her aunt Frances.
Four other letters are to childhood friends from Wisconsin, James Whitehead
and Milton Griswold. A few
other letters of a routine business nature are also included. All but six of
the letters have never been previously published in their entirety
(though typed copies of most were included in Muir's manuscripts at the University
of the Pacific).
- Articles
and Manuscripts about John Muir and Conservation, Wisconsin Historical
Society
Includes Recollections of John Muir in Prairie du Chien, 1860-61,
Muir's younger brother recalls their boyhood, A visit to John Muir in his dorm
room, ca. 1862
- Wisconsin
Local History and Biography Articles About John Muir, Wisconsin Historical
Society, from its Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles Collection.
Includes approximately 17 articles from various Wisconsin newspapers, dated
from 1915 to 1942, about Muir.
- John Muir's Botany -
A photo gallery of close-ups of John Muir's botanical collections, (no longer online), previewing
the book Nature’s Beloved Son, Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy by Bonnie Johanna Gisel with
photographs by Stephen
Joseph (Berkeley, Heyday Books).
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2422 John Muir , feature in Engines of Our Ingenuity -Text and radio program about Muir as
an engineer. from the University of Houston's School of Engineering. A streaming
audio of this episode is available.
- The National
Parks: America's Best Idea - John Muir - PBS
Other Literary Naturalists
Nature Writing and Interpretation Resources
Environmental Education
- Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center - the Sierra Club's museum, library, and education center in Yosemite Valley, California.
- John Muir Day
Camp - A summer day camp for kids 7 - 12 at John Muir National Historic
Site, Martinez, California.
- John Muir Geotourism Center - Based in Coulterville, California, exploring, learning, sharing, and preserving the natural environment for mental, spiritual and physical development, as exemplified in John Muir's life.
- John Muir Highway -
The John Muir Highway was established to honor the legendary naturalist John Muir by developing visitor sites along the County Road J132 route of Muir’s 1868 walk to Yosemite from San Francisco.
See also Sierra Nevada Tourism Mapguide for John Muir Highway.
- Wilderness Connect - Connecting federal employees, scientists, educators, and the public with their wilderness heritage
- Sharing Nature Foundation - Joseph Cornell's website, inspired by his ground-breaking 1979 book, first book, Sharing Nature with Children®,helping people of all ages deepen their relationship with nature, including Cornell's superb book John Muir, My Life With Nature.
- Muir Trek- A sunrise to sunset journey through a natural
wild place no one knows, inspired by John Muir. Sponsored by the Institute
for Earth Education.
Geography
Environmental History
John Muir's Unfinished Business
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Friends of John Muir's Birthplace - John Muir's Birthplace in Dunbar, Scotland.
- John Muir Trail Wilderness Conservancy - a non-profit organization formed in 2018 dedicated to the conservation of the John Muir Trail (est.1915).
- Restore Hetch Hetchy - A membership organization devoted to removing the dam, draining the reservoir, and restoring the "second Yosemite."
- Sierra Club Restore Hetch Hetchy Task Force - Historical
and current information and photos on the campaign to restore Muir's beloved Hetch Hetchy Valley.
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Preserving the Giant Sequoias - The Sequoia Portal contains historic documents from the campaigns by Sierra Club and local groups to protrect Muir's beloved Giant Sequoias.
- Forests and Climate - Sierra Club efforts to protect and restore the forests John Muir once saw.
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John Muir Trust
- Scotland's premiere organization preserving wild places in Muir's birthplace, Scotland.
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Lands, Air,Water, and Wildlife
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Sierra Club
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Sierra Club Yosemite Committee -
Restoring beauty, peace, and quiet to Yosemite Valley
- Alaska Wilderness League - Preserving John Muir's beloved Alaska
- Wild Arizona - Formerly the Arizona Wilderness Coalition, after merger with and the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Wild Arizona's mission is to protect, unite, and restore wild lands and waters across Arizona and beyond. John Muir spent significant time exploring northern Arizona, particularly the Petrified Forest region.
- Greater Yellowstone Coalition - Muir traveled and wrote extensively about this region
- California Wilderness Coalition - Leading organization for California wilderness
- Friends of Nevada Wilderness - Muir also visited and loved Nevada
- New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
- Oregon Wild - formerly named the Oregon Natural Resources Council, Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations. Muir wrote lovingly of Oregon's wilderness
- see articles by Ron Eber
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - The pre-eminent organization working to preserve Southern Utah's wild places.They will never give up on their goal to pass America's Red Rock Wilderness Act, the bill to protect 9.2 million acres of Utah's stunning BLM wilderness lands. John Muir only traveled in northern Utah, but he would have
loved southern Utah if he had had the chance to visit it!
- Ventana Wilderness Alliance - dedicated to protecting the wildlands of California's northern Santa Lucia mountain range.
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Washington Wilderness Coalition- Muir inspired some leading conservationists in this state
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The Wilderness Society - Founded by Howard Zahniser and other early wilderness proponents, the Wilderness Society is well-known as the the guiding impetus for the 1964 Wilderness Act. The principal author of the Act, Zahniser described himself as "a follower of Muir" and wrote: "It is of course, John Muir's leadership to which we are more directly committed in our preservation efforts."
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Sierra Club - Grassroots conservation organization of which John Muir was the first president.
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