Crowley County Combined Library

A biography of John Muir, naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, whose travels, speeches and writings led directly to the creation of the Yosemite National Park in 1890 and other national parks that followed. From the meadows of Scotland to the farms of Wisconsin, from the swamps of Florida to the Alaskan tundra, John Muir loved the land. Born in 1838, he was a writer, a scholar, an inventor, a shepherd, a farmer, and an explorer, but above all,...

Biography of naturalist John Muir, whose love for the wilderness and battles on behalf of the environment, inspired him to found the Sierra Club.

This is a simple biography of the naturalist who founded the Sierra Club and was influential in establishing the national park system.

A biography of the naturalist and activist whose efforts on behalf of the study and preservation of the American Wilderness earned him the title The Father of National Parks.

World famous as a naturalist, geologist, writer and explorer, John Muir was instrumental in obtaining vigorous support of the conservation movement and in the establishment of such great national parks as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, and Mount Ranier.

Gifford Pinchot is regarded as the father of the conservation movement. Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt set aside large areas and designated them public lands; these are today's National Forests.

"Brothers John and Frank Craighead knew there was a problem when they saw fewer and fewer grizzly bears at Yellowstone National Park. But how did grizzlies-with a population size once as big as 100,000-wind up on the endangered species list? Follow along in this graphic adventure based on a true story of how the Craighead brothers learned all they could about these beautiful bears in order to save the silvertip. Then, learn more about grizzlies and...