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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2004/2005, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies Dec 2004

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2004/2005, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Newsletter UNiVfeftsnY or the Pacific, Stockton, cA Volume 15, Number 1 Winter 2004/2005 Black Sheep of the in Muir's Motivations for Yosemite National hi] Jeimij Krone ERRA: GREAT! Park (he expansive 760,000-acre Yosemite National Park consists of meadows, forests, and mountains that presently awe over three million visitors annually.1 Yosemite Valley became the second national park in 1890 after an intense nationwide conflict that most tourists neglect to acknowledge when scaling the glacial-smoothened sides of Half Dome or navigating woodlands of sugar pines and giant sequoias. John Muir, a foremost figure in the early conservation movement, spearheaded the proposal and …


John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies Jun 1992

John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

John Muir Newsletter ^H^^^^H summer, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 3 THE PASSING OF RICHARD HANNA The third child of Thomas R. Hanna and his wife Wanda (John Muir's eldest daughter), Richard died May 9 of this year in Hamilton, Montana. He and his younger sister, the late Jean Hanna Clark, were instrumental in turning over the John Muir Papers to the custody of the University of the Pacific in 1970. He was also the principal custodian of John Muir's personal library, and during the 1970s donated over a thousand volumes from that monumental collection to the …