Introduction: A Long Way from Earth Day

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otis L. Graham
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
Gifford Pinchot

The third Conservation movement was summoned to life between Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring (1962) and the Santa Barbara Oil Spill at the end of the movement-spawning Sixties, and would be called by a more nature-evoking term—environmentalism. Looking back from there, those of us with some historical memory were struck by how far we had come from the first Conservation crusade led by John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot, or the second led by FDR in the 1930s. In those early days they thought the problem was loss of forests, soil erosion, water and air pollution, and that the solutions were National Parks and National Forests watched over by civil servants in their gray or tan-brown uniforms, along with a Soil Conservation Service for farmers.

Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Compelling Stories and Missed Opportunities

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward T. Linenthal
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The Many ◽  
Gifford Pinchot

Abstract Burns's documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea offers compelling portraits of “American originals,” including John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, Stephen Mather, and Horace Albright. It offers breathtaking “god's-eye” views of national park landscapes. It offers fascinating biographies of Yellowstone and Yosemite, in particular the enduring tension between processes of preservation and commercialization. However, there were missed opportunities to focus on so-called historic sites, to inform viewers of the many enduring threats to the “park idea,” and to help viewers appreciate the creative potential of this idea in a new century.

Civic Engagement and Environmentalism in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Positive Engagement

Chapter 9 focuses on contexts of positive engagement in the domain of the wider society among emerging adults. The authors examine the growing research literature on civic engagement and volunteering, covering patterns of development and change during emerging to young adulthood, describing how this development is linked to the three personality levels of the McAdams and Pals model. They also describe work on one salient contemporary type of civic engagement, environmentalism, and review what is known on this particular topic in youth. The authors cover the evidence on both of these domains from their Futures Study sample, using both questionnaire and narrative material to expand these findings. As a way of illuminating the key points, the chapter ends with a case study of the early life story of John Muir, an important founder of the environmental and conservation movement in the United States.

scholarly journals Shakespeare in Yosemite

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Katherine Steele Brokaw ◽  
Paul Prescott
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Earth Day

Shakespeare in Yosemite, founded in 2017, consists of an annual outdoor production of Shakespeare in Yosemite National Park on the weekend closest to World Earth Day and Shakespeare’s birthday. The productions are site-specific and heavily adapted for a general audience; admission is free. In this article, the co-founders describe the origins and aims of the festival within the contexts of applied theatre, eco-criticism and the American tradition of free outdoor Shakespeare. In describing the festival’s inaugural show – a collage piece that counterpointed Shakespeare’s words with those of early environmentalist John Muir – we make the case for leveraging Shakespeare’s cultural currency to play a part (however small or unknowable) in encouraging environmental awareness and activism.

scholarly journals John Muir

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen M. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Core Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
City Parks ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Do So

A century after John Muir’s death, Glen MacDonald examines his legacy and argues that while Muir’s message of the value of wilderness to society might need to evolve for a twenty-first century audience, it is still relevant. For instance, Muir believed in the transformative power of visiting remote wildernesses such as Yosemite and urged everyone to do so, and his conception of nature preservation as preserving nature in a specific moment in time is now understood to be misguided. His specific prescriptions for relating to the natural world now seem old-fashioned, but his core values and his passion for getting Californians out in nature is just as important today, whether those natural places are national parks or city parks.

John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Michael J. Brodhead ◽  
Stephen Fox
Keyword(s):  
John Muir ◽  
Conservation Movement

John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement

1984 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 900
Author(s):  
Roderick Nash ◽  
Stephen Fox
Keyword(s):  
John Muir ◽  
Conservation Movement

Milestones in California History: John Muir and the California National Parks

1990 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
California History ◽  
John Muir
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