Muir Woods
His words and deeds helped inspire President Theodore Roosevelt's innovative conservation programs, including establishing the first National Monuments by Presidential Proclamation, and Yosemite National Park by congressional action. In 1892, John Muir and other supporters formed the Sierra Club "to make the mountains glad." John Muir was the Club's first president, an office he held until his death in 1914. Muir's Sierra Club has gone on to help establish a series of new National Parks and a National Wilderness Preservation System.
From The Sierra Club's John Muir Exhibit
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California
From The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
My first summer in the Sierra
By John Muir
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Maps of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Half Dome, Yosemite by Gigapxl