Would you like to be involved in the world of John Muir?

Join our John Muir Fans Facebook Group

Join one of the organizations featured in the Global Muir section.

Or, you can get involved in one of these hands-on projects:

• Help the Sierra Club get back on track about the truth of John Muir. 
• John Muir in Sculpture – Get a John Muir sculpture for your home, or visit one of the sculptures in California and Scotland.
• John Muir Education Team – Sierra Club
  The John Muir Education Team assists people: to learn about John Muir through its educational publications, website, and curricula; to commemorate Muir’s life through John Muir Day celebrated annually on April 21; and other programs to encourage people explore, enjoy, study and protect wild landscapes and wildlife in the tradition of John Muir.
• Online Transcription Project  – Help transcribe John Muir’s letters and journals! The University of the Pacific’s Holt-Atherton Special Collections is the home to the largest collection of John Muir material in the world and includes 78 of Muir’s personal journals. Though the journals have been digitized, only a few have been transcribed – they can be viewed online, but are not keyword searchable. Volunteers can transcribe an entire journal or even just a single page. Even transcribing one or two pages increases the discoverability for historians, Muir enthusiasts, students, or anyone searching the internet.
• Attend a John Muir Conference or Symposium or read prior conference proceedings. The University of the Pacific sponsors these regularly. We link below to archive sites (archived by the Sierra Club John Muir Exhibit website) for these:
  • 1980 The World of John Muir – An illustrated book jacket summary of the University’s first John Muir conference, (from the book’s front matter), including the table of contents and author biographies.
  • 1985 John Muir: Life and Legacy – reprint from The Pacific Historian , Vol, 29, Numbers 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 1985)
  • 1990 John Muir: Life and Work (1993) – publisher’s press release about this book based on papers presented at the 1990 John Muir conference
  • 1993: John Muir: Life and Work, by the University of New Mexico Press; a new volume based on the presentations made to the California History Institute in 1996, entitled John Muir in Historical Perspective was published in 1999;
  • 1996 John Muir Conference Abstracts of Papers – by University of the Pacific
  • 2001 Conference: John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (2005) – publisher’s press release and book jacket and table of contents about this book derived from papers presented at the 2001 John Muir Conference.
  • 2006 Conference: John Muir in Global Perspective.
  • 2010 Conference: John Muir: Naturalist and Scientist
  • 2014 Conference : What has been saved; what has been lost: John Muir’s Legacy, 1914-2014
  • 2018 Conference: The Practical John Muir (Sierra Club John Muir Exhibit website hosted details)
  • 2018 John Muir Symposium (University of the Pacific 
  • 2019 John Muir Legacy Fair and Celebration of Muir-Hanna family’s gift of John Muir Papers– Program, Presentations, and Details
  • 2022 Muir Symposium: New Perspectives on Peoples and Parks – April 23, 2022 at University of the Pacific. This year’s Symposium explores Muir’s world in the context of his influence on creation of parks and other natural areas. The organizers are especially interested in the speakers’ and audience’s contribution to the current discussion on Muir and race, as well as the questions: for whom were parks created and who has had open access to “America’s Best Idea?” Schedule and Registration now available. (off-site link)
• Join one of the campaigns to complete John Muir’s Unfinished Business – Protect our national parks, national monuments, wild rivers, and wilderness areas.
• Participate in or start a Poster or Essay contest, or create a Muir-themed  History Day Project.
• Volunteer to do research, typing, and/or scanning of Muir historical documents and photographs.
• Make a display, or host an existing one, at your local library or museum about John Muir.
• Show a John Muir video at your school, library, museum, or club meeting.