{"id":8992,"date":"2003-05-04T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/huell-howser-archives\/2017\/02\/24\/john-muir-special-californias-gold-143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:49:09","slug":"john-muir-special-californias-gold-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2003\/05\/04\/john-muir-special-californias-gold-143\/","title":{"rendered":"John Muir Special &#8211; California&#039;s Gold (143)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Join Huell on this special episode where he meets and speaks to John Muir*, the Scottish-American naturalist who was an early advocate for the preservation and conservation of the America&#8217;s beautiful\u00a0 wilderness areas. John Muir also founded the Sierra Club, a prominent conservation organization. Huell gets the rare opportunity to speak with the man himself and learn about his life, his philosophy, and his passion for Yosemite and the environment. In the second half of this special, Huell visits John Muir&#8217;s house in Martinez, California and takes an educational tour and learns the history of the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Yosemite National Park<br \/>\nPO Box 577<br \/>\nYosemite National Park, CA 95389<br \/>\n209-372-0200<br \/>\nwww.nps.gov\/yose<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sierra Club<br \/>\nNational Headquarters<br \/>\n85 Second Street, 2nd Floor<br \/>\nSan Francisco, CA 94105<br \/>\n415-977-5500<br \/>\nwww.sierraclub.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">*John Muir was portrayed by Lee Stetson, actor and John Muir scholar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> #conservation #conservation movement #Faire Sax #John Muir #Lee Stetson #Martinez #Scott Gediman #Tad Shay #Yosemite #Yosemite National Park<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/video.chapman.edu\/V\/Video?v=9827396&amp;node=43163199&amp;a=206593498&amp;preload=false\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Huell on this special episode where he meets and speaks to John Muir*, the Scottish-American naturalist who was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2346,2457,4034,2458,2459,2813,2252,4035,468,469],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-californias-gold","tag-conservation","tag-conservation-movement","tag-faire-sax","tag-john-muir","tag-lee-stetson","tag-martinez","tag-scott-gediman","tag-tad-shay","tag-yosemite","tag-yosemite-national-park"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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