page_title: John Muir
section_title: Tributes and honors
hierarchical_section_title: John Muir / Tributes and honors
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context_page_description: John Muir also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.
  His letters, essays, and books describing his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park, and his example has served as an inspiration for the preservation of many other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he co-founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. As part of the campaign to make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in The Century Magazine, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"; this helped support the push for U.S. Congress to pass a bill in 1890 establishing Yosemite National Park.
context_section_description: California celebrates John Muir Day on April 21 each year. Muir was the first person honored with a California commemorative day when legislation signed in 1988 created John Muir Day, effective from 1989 onward. Muir is one of three people so honored in California, along with Harvey Milk Day and Ronald Reagan Day.
  Mountain Days, a 2000 musical by Craig Bohmler and Mary Bracken Phillips, celebrates Muir's life and was performed annually in a custom-built amphitheater in Muir's adult hometown of Martinez, California.
  The play Thank God for John Muir, by Andrew Dallmeyer is based on his life.
  The following places are named after Muir:
  Mount Muir in the Sierra Nevada, California
  Mount Muir in Chugach Mountains of Alaska (probable)
  Mount Muir (elevation 4,688 ft or 1,429 m) in Angeles National Forest north of Pasadena, California
  Black Butte, also known as Muir's Peak, next to Mount Shasta, California
  Muir Glacier and Muir Inlet, Alaska
  John Muir Trails in California, Tennessee, Connecticut, and Wisconsin
  John Muir Wilderness (southern and central Sierra Nevada)
  Muir Pass Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, the divide at 11,955 ft (3,644 m) above sea level, between Evolution Creek and Middle Fork of Kings River
  Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco, California
  John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California
  Camp Muir in Mount Rainier National Park
  John Muir College, one of the six undergraduate colleges of University of California, San Diego
  John Muir Highway, a section of California State Route 132 between Coulterville and Smith Station at California State Route 120. This road roughly follows part of the route Muir took on his first walk to Yosemite.
  The main-belt asteroid 128523 Johnmuir
  John Muir Country Park, East Lothian. Scotland.
  John Muir Way long-distance trail in southern Scotland
  John Muir House, the headquarters building of East Lothian Council, Scotland.
  John Muir Campus, Dunbar One of two campuses of Dunbar Primary School, the successor to the school Muir attended.
  John Muir was featured on two U.S. commemorative postage stamps. A 5-cent stamp issued on April 29, 1964, was designed by Rudolph Wendelin, and showed Muir's face superimposed on a grove of redwood trees, and the inscription, "John Muir Conservationist". A 32-cent stamp issued on February 3, 1998, was part of the "Celebrate the Century" series, and showed Muir in Yosemite Valley, with the inscription "John Muir, Preservationist". An image of Muir, with the California condor and Half Dome, appears on the California state quarter released in 2005. A quotation of his appears on the reverse side of the Indianapolis Prize Lilly Medal for conservation. On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted John Muir into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
  Muir and Hudson Stuck are honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on April 22.
  The John Muir Trust is a Scottish charity established as a membership organization in 1983 to conserve wild land and wild places. It has more than 11,000 members internationally.
  The John Muir Birthplace Charitable Trust is a Scottish charity whose aim is to support John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar and develop it as an interpretative centre focused on Muir's work.
  Muirite (a mineral), Erigeron muirii, Carlquistia muirii (two species of aster), Ivesia muirii (a member of the rose family), Troglodytes troglodytes muiri (a wren), Ochotona princeps muiri (a pika), Thecla muirii (a butterfly), and Amplaria muiri (a millipede) were all named after John Muir.
  In 2006, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
caption: John Muir on a 1964 U.S. commemorative stamp
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