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1898 Gifford Pinchot was appointed chief of the Division of Forestry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, beginning an era of...

1893 President Benjamin Harrison created the 13 million acres of forest reserves including four million acres covering much of the High...

June 4, 1892 Sierra Club incorporated with John Muir as President

1891 Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act, empowering the President to create “forest reserves.” This created the legislative...

October 1, 1890 Congress passed legislation establishing Yosemite and General Grant National Parks in California.

September 25, 1890 Congress passed legislation establishing Sequoia National Park in California

1886 Audubon Society founded

1872 Congress passed the now-infamous Mining Law under which companies and individuals may buy the mining rights for public land thought...

1872 Congress passed legislation making Yellowstone the world’s first official National Park.

1869 John Muir moved to Yosemite Valley.

1876 Appalachian Mountain Club founded

1866 The word “ecology” was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

1864 Congress passed legislation giving Yosemite Valley to the state of California as a park.

1864 Posthumous publication of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods, in which Thoreau called for the establishment of “national...

1847 George Perkins Marsh gave a speech to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, Vermont. He called attention to the destructive...

July 4, 1845 Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond.

The following press release was web published on the Sierra Club’s Sprawl listserv in August, 1999. It gives as good an explanation as...

by Shelley Gerstein This essay first appeared in Coast Magazine’s Holiday Issue, 1996 reprinted with permission of the author It’s said...

Restoring the Earth Healing the Mind Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner Reviewed by Don Weiss Millions of...

by John Steinbeck Reviewed by Don Weiss Steinbeck is best known as the author of The Grapes of Wrath, which brought him the Nobel Prize...