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JOHN MUIR
The John Muir Papers and Related Collections - University of the Pacific
John Muir Institute of the Environment - UC Davis
Original manuscript letters by John Muir 1861 to 1914
Manuscript letter by Muir's brother David
John Muir Center--University of the Pacific
Letters from John Muir in Nevada while assisting in the survey of the 39th Parallel
Download >>BBC RADIO: MP3 CLIP OF MUIR'S TRAVELS IN ALASKA BBC Radio Scotland programme on "Embracing the Earth": Ethics and the Environment. It's 'John Muir' talking about an epiphany in Alaska when he watched the sunrise over the 18,000 ft Fairweather Mountains. . (2.1 megabyte mp3 file)
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
- National Association for Olmsted Parks
- The Master List of Design Projects of The Olmsted Firm, 1857-1950
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Biography, Philosophy, Works, and Other Web Resources
- Olmsted Center
for Landscape Preservation
- Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865
- A unit of the University of California, hosts high-altitude research and maintains a weather station in the White Mountains, just to the east of the Sierra Nevada.
- Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains, or Cirmount
Sponsors scientific meetings and workgroups, drawing scientists from several agencies and institutions
Located in Reno, the Desert Research Institute is a nonprofit research enterprise that includes climate studies of the Sierra and other ecosystems of the West.
Provides summaries and links to federal research on global climate issues, including work on the Sierra by Michael Dettinger of the US Geological Survey and Climate Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (tenaya.ucsd.edu/~dettinge/).
California Restoration Organizations and other Links
- Nature Conservancy
- Nevada County Gold History
- Sierra Nevada Conservancy
- Nevada County Land Trust
- Sierra Nevada Deep Ecology Institute
- The Sierra Fund
- American River Conservancy - Partners for Habitat
- California Society Ecological Restoration
- California Oak Foundation
- American Discovery Trail - News and Information
- South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL)
- Parks for all Forever - Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
- Organic Consumers Organization
- Sierra Club