Literature: Influencing the Environmental

Movements of the 20th Century

Created by: Katie Tollmann

Save the Redwood’s League

Sierra Club Audubon

Society

California Federation of Women’s Clubs

General Johnson a Big Tree in the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite

These magazines got the message out to the

public…

Audubon

Magazine

Century Magazine

Sierra Club Magazine

Getting the public involved through…

• Education Campaigns • Telegram

Campaign• Newspapers• Circulars• Photos

Riverside Geyser

Morning Glory Pool

Old Faithful

Mystic Falls Firehol

e RiverMidway Geyser

Basin

Yellowstone, The Nations First National Park 1872

Bison

Yosemite National Park 1906

Yosemite was a state park in 1864

Entrance to Hetch Hetchy Valley

from Smith Trail

Kolana Rock

Upper Yosemite Falls

Yosemite Valley

Half dome

Bear in Yosemit

e

Influential

Environmental

Writers Changing the

views of powerfu

l people

….

John Burroughs

John Muir

Fredrick

OlmstedHenry David

Thoreau

Ralph Waldo

Emerson

John Muir and Teddy RooseveltConflicting Views:Conservation

V.S. Preservation

Hetch Hetchy

would be the issue between

them.

Leading to the National Park Act of 1916.

Attempts were

made but utility

prevailed.

Inspiring the idea

Primary & Secondary

sources

Influential Literature

to my topic…