FILE - In this March 25, 2008, file photo, visitors walk along a pathway near the entrance to the Muir Woods National Monument, named after John Muir, in Marin County, Calif.
The Sierra Club is reckoning with the racist views of founder John Muir, the naturalist who helped spawn environmentalism.
The San Francisco-based environmental group said Wednesday, July 22, 2020, that Muir was part of the group's history perpetuating white supremacy.
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)LOS ANGELES The Sierra Club is calling out its founder, naturalist John Muir, for racist remarks he made more then a century ago as the influential environmental group grapples with a harmful history that perpetuated white supremacy.
As the most iconic figure in Sierra Club history, Muirs words and actions carry an especially heavy weight.