The writings of John Muir (1838-1914), American naturalist and explorer, are important for their scientific observations and their contributions to the cause of conservation. John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, on April 21, 1838. If his recollections...
On a May morning in 1903 two men pose for a photograph at Glacier Point, above Yosemite Valley in the heart of the Sierra Nevada of California. They have slept the night in the open and have woken under a blanket of four inches of snow. The man dressed i...
John Muir is one of the most important figures in the history of the American conservation movement. A self-styled "poetico-trampo-geologist-bot. and ornith-natural, etc!-!-!," he remains a strong influence on environmentalists, and except for the influe...
The Santa Monica Mountains are a paradoxical paradise Sandstone Peak, the tallest point in the Santa Monica Mountains, is not made of sandstone. And many of the Santa Monicas are not technically mountains, at least according to the traditional minimum standard of 2,000...
Misguided environmentalists and animal rights advocates managed to get an initiative passed that upheld the ban against hunting mountain lions. These animals have been responsible for an alarming spate of attacks on humans and pets recently. FOR years mountain lions were thought to...
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