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[26]: 56 Afterwards, he sailed to New York City and booked passage to California. [19]: 40–41 In 1878, Muir served as a guide and artist for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey on the survey of the 39th parallel across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah. [27] [28]
20 cze 2011 · In September of 1867, age 29, John Muir set out for a walking tour of the South, which extended to Cuba and eventually ended in California. Visiting home in Wisconsin, Muir traveled by train to Jeffersonville, Indiana, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky, and started walking.
But in 1889, with Louie’s blessing, Robert Underwood Johnson drew him back into the literary world. On a camping trip in Yosemite’s high country, Johnson convinced Muir that he was just the person to lead the still-tiny conservation movement in arguing for national park status for Yosemite.
2 kwi 2014 · Who Was John Muir? As early as 1876, John Muir urged the federal government to adopt a forest conservation policy through articles published in popular periodicals. In 1892 he founded the...
27 wrz 2024 · John Muir was a naturalist and conservation advocate who was largely responsible for the creation of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks. He was one of a group who founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
16 sie 2010 · John Muir has long been known as a significant figure in the history of conservation, including for promoting the recognition of the Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California as a national park by the American people and government.
John Muir (1838-1914), a self-described “poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist” was a Scottish American naturalist, preservationist, and explorer. 1. Muir contributed to studies of the natural world throughout his extensive travels across America, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.
