Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States and Canada. It also hires people for campaigns through the Fund for Public Interest Research, as do some other members of the activism industry.In the early 20th century, the organization fought against the damming and flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Despite their lobbying, Congress authorized the construction of O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River. The Hetch Hetchy reservoir today provides much of the water for San Francisco, yet the Sierra Club continues to lobby for its removal, along with many other hydro-electric dams in California.
See also: Ansel Adams
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