This chronology of Muir's life plots a history of his travels, career in writing, conservation... John Muir in the New World Read a Biographical Essay, John Muir: Nature’s Witness Read a short ...

MARTINEZ (KPIX 5) -- The John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez is where America's most famous conservationist spent the last 24 years of his life. It is also where Muir lived when he founded ...

John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21, 1838. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old and settled in Wisconsin. Muir was an inventor, farmer, sheepherder, logger and ...

Amid the ongoing cultural reckoning over Confederate statues, the Sierra Club announced on Wednesday that it will consider renaming or pulling down monuments dedicated to its founder, the iconic ...

CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. The Sierra Club has called founder John Muir America’s most influential naturalist. His work inspired the preservation of ...

The Sierra Club apologized Wednesday for racist remarks its founder, naturalist John Muir, made more than a century ago as the influential environmental group grapples with a harmful history that ...

By WILL PERKINS Glasgow News 1 For history lovers wanting to follow John Muir's trek from the Louisville area to the Gulf of ...

An early photograph of John Muir, taken in Madison, Wisconsin around 1875. Source: Wisconsin Historical Society. John Muir was eleven years old when his family emigrated from Scotland to Wisconsin in ...

In 1889, John Muir drew lines across a map of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California to propose a grand idea: enshrining what he saw as a treasure of natural beauty in the form of Yosemite ...

The head of the environmental organization Sierra Club has denounced the group's founder, John Muir, as racist. The move reflects wider workplace turmoil after national protests over systemic racism.