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Grants - John Muir Trust Find information about current grant opportunities from the John Muir Trust, including the Des Rubens and Bill Wallace grant
10 Presidents Dedicated to the Outdoors and the Environment In 1872, President Grant established Yellowstone National Park, the country's first national park Grant was also known for being one of the first presidents to publicly express that exploring nature should be considered a recreational and leisurely act
John Muir - Yosemite National Park (U. S. National Park Service) Johnson’s publication of Muir’s exposés sparked a bill in the U S Congress that proposed creating a new federally administered park surrounding the old Yosemite Grant Yosemite National Park became a reality in 1890
How John Muirs Incessant Study Saved Yosemite In 1908 Muir joined another president, William Howard Taft, in Yosemite, seeking to stop a campaign by the city of San Francisco to build a reservoir in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which lay inside the national park Muir declared in outrage,“Dam Hetch Hetchy!
The Camping Trip that Changed the Nation | National Parks . . . But MacGillivray captures the essence of it via perhaps the most famed, and most unusual, camping trip in U S history: naturalist John Muir’s 3-day escapade roughing it with U S President Theodore Roosevelt through Yosemite Valley in 1903 It was a moment of precipitous change
Today in History - June 30 - Library of Congress President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act, Senate Bill 203, on June 30, 1864 The legislation gave California the Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Big Tree Grove “upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use, resort, and recreation ”
Father of the National Parks John Muir, the Father of the National Parks, left behind more than just beautiful prose and inspirational quotes—he gave America a conservation ethic that has stood the test of time
John Muir, Yosemite National Park’s Protector Around the campfire one night, Muir urged Roosevelt to give the Yosemite Grant lands back to the federal government as part of the existing national park system to streamline their protection, as well as to set aside more lands nationwide
Yosemite National Park: Topics in Chronicling America President Abraham Lincoln signs federal legislation which establishes the “Yosemite Grant,” the first time the US Federal Government sets aside land for use as a park Frederick Law Olmsted, as a commissioner managing the Yosemite Grant, writes a report on Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove which the commission suppresses
John Muir - Wikipedia One week later Muir was elected president, Warren Olney was elected vice-president, and a board of directors was chosen that included David Starr Jordan, president of the new Stanford University