Posts about Yosemite National Park — its history, preservation, and connection to John Muir’s conservation legacy.
While filming in Yosemite, Michael Conti had an unexpected close encounter with a black bear — a reminder that the wilderness John Muir spent his life protecting is still very much alive, and still has the power to surprise us.
Read moreFifteen of John Muir's most enduring quotes about the outdoors — on storms, silence, trees, wilderness, and the spiritual nourishment that only wild places can provide.
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Yosemite National Park owes much of its federal protection to a famous four-day camping trip between John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 — a conversation that changed American conservation history.
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