Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an American 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 is affiliated with Sierra Club of/du Canada.

Priorities and campaigns

In order to focus attention on particular issues the Sierra Club's national and local entities select priorities and organize campaigns. The current national priorities (as of 2004) are: clean water, an end to commercial logging in national and other public forests, stopping sprawl, and protecting wildlands. Campaigns to achieve those and other priorities are planned and conducted chiefly by volunteers in the various club entities, with help of small support staffs. The club also hires people for campaigns through the Fund for Public Interest Research, as do some other organizations in the environmental movement.

Related Topics:
2004 - Water - Logging - Sprawl - Wildlands - Fund for Public Interest Research

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