John Muir: The Yosemite National Park Project
There have been many influential people over many decades that have devoted their lives to making our ecosystems and land healthier. The purpose of this report is to inform high school students about one of the most well known environmentalists and naturalists, John Muir. His most famous project was helping to make the Yosemite Grant into Yosemite National Park.
John Muir was born in Scotland in 1838 but 11 years later he and his family moved to the United States. He began a job at a factory, but after a nearly blinding accident from a machine he decided he was more interested in a “world unaltered by man or machine” (Yosemite National Park). Years later he enrolled at he University of Wisconsin but he wasn’t satisfied enough so he decided …show more content…
He said that the land and ecosystem could only be saved if Yosemite became a national park (National Park Service). Johnson wrote a publication about this and Congress became interested, not even one year later The Yosemite Grant became Yosemite National Park. Muir knew more could be done to preserve Yosemite. In 1906 he took President Theodore Roosevelt on a three-day camping trip to try and persuade him to allow more protection for Yosemite. He accomplished his goal of the trip and now instead of only being protected by the state of California, it is federally protected (Sierra Club). He went on to influence California, among other states, even more with his …show more content…
He often travelled to the Sequoia National park, as it is located near Yosemite, and got to be very popular there. However, when he went there over 100 years ago it wasn’t a national park quite yet. Similar to Yosemite, Muir advocated the preservation of the Sequoia area and believed it should be a national park. Soon enough, this wish came true and eventually a lodge was named after him, John Muir Lodge (Sequoia and Kings Canyon). Although not physically helping to make The Grand Canyon a national park, his writings also helped to spark the process of making it become official. All of his hard work, determination, and goals earned him many recognitions and
John Muir was born in Scotland in 1838 but 11 years later he and his family moved to the United States. He began a job at a factory, but after a nearly blinding accident from a machine he decided he was more interested in a “world unaltered by man or machine” (Yosemite National Park). Years later he enrolled at he University of Wisconsin but he wasn’t satisfied enough so he decided …show more content…
He said that the land and ecosystem could only be saved if Yosemite became a national park (National Park Service). Johnson wrote a publication about this and Congress became interested, not even one year later The Yosemite Grant became Yosemite National Park. Muir knew more could be done to preserve Yosemite. In 1906 he took President Theodore Roosevelt on a three-day camping trip to try and persuade him to allow more protection for Yosemite. He accomplished his goal of the trip and now instead of only being protected by the state of California, it is federally protected (Sierra Club). He went on to influence California, among other states, even more with his …show more content…
He often travelled to the Sequoia National park, as it is located near Yosemite, and got to be very popular there. However, when he went there over 100 years ago it wasn’t a national park quite yet. Similar to Yosemite, Muir advocated the preservation of the Sequoia area and believed it should be a national park. Soon enough, this wish came true and eventually a lodge was named after him, John Muir Lodge (Sequoia and Kings Canyon). Although not physically helping to make The Grand Canyon a national park, his writings also helped to spark the process of making it become official. All of his hard work, determination, and goals earned him many recognitions and