Rex Harvey

12/6/22
WILD-2200
John Muir was a farmer, inventor, sheepherder, naturalist, explorer, writer, and

conservationist born on April 21, 1838, in Danbur in Scotland. When he was eleven

years old he and his family immigrated to America. Muir had attended the University of

Wisconsin but his time was cut short due to the Civil war. After the war, he returned to

portage and helped his sister build a house. Rather than study at an academic

university, he studied at the university of wilderness and was able to wander around the

Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers which was the beginning of his conservation work.

John had worked in the factory once and it caught on fire which resulted was him

losing his eyesight in 1866. Around September 1867, he regained his eyesight and an

understanding of how important is was to let be uninterrupted. Muir first wrote articles

on were on Yosemite Valley. Due to his extensive study, John developed a theory that

could keep it safe and found a living glacier that backed up his controversial theory. He

is most famous around the world for this theory in addition to important the relationship

between humans and function ecological systems.

One of the four National Parks that he had helped found was Rainer National

Park in 1899. He first visited the area on August 8 1888 and Muir was accompanied by

2 mountaineers as they tried to make the summit. After a harsh week, only six people

had made it up there Muir was president of the Sierra Club so he had strongly

advocated for the preservation of the glaciated peak of Mount Rainer.

Muir had played many significant roles in preserving areas in is what our National

Parks and public lands. His main focus this whole time was to designate and protect

forested lands along with establishing untouched areas that are today National Parks.
He even went camping with president Theodore Roosevelt in Yosemite National Park.

John had helped set the foundation for Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Mount Rainer, and

Yosemite Park. But 20 years later he relinquished the position of his passing on

December 24, 1914.