Who Is John Muir's Greatest Accomplishments

John Muir passed away December 24, 1914, at the age of 76. He was a resident of Los Angeles, California at the time of his passing. He passed from complications of pneumonia at the Los Angeles Hospital, he is survived by his two daughters, Helen and Wanda Muir. He lived a wonderful and amazing life full of many accomplishments.

John was born April 21, 1838, in the town of Dunbar, Scotland. His parents were Daniel and Anne Muir, who also had two other children. In 1949, John and his family moved to their farm in Wisconsin. John spent his teen years going to school and spent long hours in the field helping his father maintain the farm. In his free time, he loved to read. John would stay up all night to read or wake up hours before he had to

Many people would call him the “father of our National Parks”. He was able to start a revolution of people caring about nature and all it has to offer. His actions lead to the government putting in regulations that preserved certain areas of land from further development and damage. His most important accomplishment was taking president Theodore Roosevelt camping in what is now Yosemite National Park, where he was able to show the president that land as magnificent as Yosemite needs to be protected so future generations will be able to enjoy it. As a result of their trip, Roosevelt decided that land this incredible needs to be preserved, so he set forth regulations that enabled a series of preserved areas and more national parks to be created. John Muir was also founder and president of the Sierra Club, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the environment.

John was a very talented and diverse man, he never had a specific career. He was an inventor, a writer, a naturalist, a geologist and was skilled at many other professions. Later in his life, he ended up doing a lot of research to discover the natural history of many places. He also loved going on adventures and would join groups going on various expeditions in order to get to travel to new places discover and record what they would