MARTINEZ (KPIX 5) -- The John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez is where America's most famous conservationist spent the last 24 years of his life. It is also where Muir lived when he founded ...

FILE - This 1907 photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows naturalist John Muir in Yosemite National Park, Calif. The Sierra Club is reckoning with the racist views of founder John Muir, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid the ongoing cultural reckoning over Confederate statues, the Sierra Club announced on Wednesday that it will consider ...

John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21, 1838. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old and settled in Wisconsin. Muir was an inventor, farmer, sheepherder, logger and ...

Prologue : The gospel of glaciers -- Part One: 1879-1880. The heaven right here ; A skookum-house of ice ; It is not a sin to go home ; We must risk our lives in order to save them -- Part Two: ...

Who was John Muir? You’ve probably seen his immortal line “the mountains are calling and I must go", quoted countless times on Instagram or printed on any number of hoodies or camping mugs. You may ...

PORTAGE, Wis. - Two Emmy award-winning filmmakers are putting together a biography about world-famous environmentalist John Muir. Muir spent his younger years on a farmstead near Portage before ...

LOS ANGELES — The Sierra Club apologized Wednesday for racist remarks its founder, naturalist John Muir, made more than a century ago as the influential environmental group grapples with a harmful ...

The head of the environmental organization Sierra Club has denounced the group's founder, John Muir, as racist. The move reflects wider workplace turmoil after national protests over systemic racism.