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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1998/99, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWSLETTER Winter 1998-99 The Importance of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, CA INTRODUCTION his article focuses on Muir's first public lecture and its importance as one of several turning points in his evolution as a public figure. The venue was the Congregational Church in Sacramento on January 25, 1876. The lecture was the fifth in a series sponsored by the Sacramento Literary Institute. Muir approached this task with fear, began poorly and with apology, finally recalled his topic, enthralled the large audience with his discussion and illustration of the current and ancient glaciers …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 13, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Tundra Swan. Julie G. Bradshaw
• What kind of educational courses and publications does the Wetlands Program offer? William Roberts
• Mummichog. Lyle Varnell
• Using Remote Sensing and GIS To Perform Jurisdictional Wetlands Determinations. Marcia Berman
• United States v. Wilson: Muddy Waters in the Search for Wetlands Protection. S. Fagan and Jim Perry
• Responding to the Chesapeake Executive Council Directive for Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals. Carl Hershner
• Wetlands: A Critical Resource in the Revolutionary War? Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 8, Number 4 . I Fall 1998 NEWSLETTER The Muir Renaissance in Scotl by Graham White (Editor's note: A leading voice in the Scottish effort to wkdiscover John Muir, Graham White wrote the introduction to the Canongate collection of Muir's wilderness essays, and is completing a second volume of Muir Writings for that publisher. He can be reached at Brox- mouth Gardens, Dunbar, Scotland EH42 Iqw, or by e-mail at 101320.5 7@compuserve.com.) W. he John Muir Newsletter has invited me to outline the resurgence of interest in John Muir in the land of his birth, and to clarify various …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 13, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Wood Duck. Julie G. Bradshaw
• Striped Killifish. Lyle Varnell
• An Update on the Virginia Geographic Information Network. Marcia R. Berman
• Wild Rice. Pam Mason
• What is riprap? Is it preferred over a bulkhead for shoreline erosion control? William Roberts
• An Introduction to Stressed Habitats. James E. Perry, John E. Anderson, and Arnold F. Theisen

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

John Muir On Mount Ritter: A New Wilderness Aesthetic by Philip G. Terrie (Editor's note: Philip G. Terrie is Professor of English and f American Studies at Bowling Green State University, and author •f Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack wporest Preserve (1985). This article first appeared in The Pacific Historian (1987), and is reproduced here by permission.) hile John Muir has been the subject of considerable scholarly scrutiny in recent years, we have yet to arrive at a complete understanding of his response to nature.1 One on is that we are often too eager to portray him as …

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The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWSLETTER YOSEMITE'S POETS: JOHN MUIR'S INFLUENCE ON THE CAREER OF ANSEL ADAMS by Joshua Greenfield, Master's Candidate at Hunter College, City University of New York John Muir was one of those exceptional men whose writing touches us deeply, revealing the world which is potentially avail- Wble to us all. The quality of Muir's vision has undeniably colored my own moods and response and clarified the statements of my camera. Ansel Adams Mm Muir and Ansel Adams were the two great poets of Yosemite H alley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. As novelist Wallace fltegner pointed out in a 1985 memorial …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 13, No. 1, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Northern Pintail. Julie G. Bradshaw
• Sheepshead Minnow. Lyle Varnell
• Classifying Satellite Imagery to Detect Land Cover Features. Marcia Berman
• Monitoring Wetlands Status and Trends: The Remote Sensing Solution. Carl Hershner
• Roof Thatching: Phragmites as a Building Material. Pam Mason
• Are nonvegetated, muddy shorelines valuable to the health of the Chesapeake Bay? William Roberts

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

mm IWinter 1998 NEWSLETTER Writing or Living? John Muir's Writerly Identity and Ambivalence by Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City (Editor's note: As many fans of John Muir realize, Muir was not comfortable with writing for publication. This analysis of that ■'issue is a revision of a paper presented earlier to the Western Literature Association. We wish to thank the State University of lew York Press for permission to print this excerpt from the forthcoming book, Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing, by Randall Roorda.) lite aspect of John Muir's lite I offer is that …