―naturalist, author and “Father of the National Parks,” quoted by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir, (1915). Image: With Teddy Roosevelt, Yosemite, 1903.
Editorial Comment: That is the kind of news we all could use about now.
Note: In July, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune told club members, “we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy,” including the racism of conservation’s patron saint, John Muir. The statement and the responses from Sierra Club members was an extraordinary moment of institutional mea culpa. See “Pulling Down Our Monuments,” July 22, 2020
Good. Night.
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