Conservation

Overview

John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892 with 182 charter members, and immediately the Club set about protecting America's forests and wild lands. For over a century, the Sierra Club has played a key role in saving more than 132 million acres in America's National Parks and Wilderness Systems.

To achieve its conservation goals, the Sierra Club works aggressively to influence policies and decisions affecting the environment of North America and the rest of the world.

Issues do change, and the Sierra Club's program changes with them. John Muir never worried about the clean air or urban sprawl, yet these problems now threaten the parks and wilderness areas he and early Club volunteers helped protect. And increasingly, environmental dilemmas reach around the planet: global warming, and the protection of habitat worldwide have become major concerns for our conservation program.

The Sierra Club's goal remains constant, securing respect for the rights of all living things... and for the integrity of the natural environment upon which we all depend.

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