California is Running Low on Natural Resources

Cody Harding
Nov 6 · 7 min read

In the Golden State there isn’t enough nature to go around.

By 1912 the seventy-four year old John Muir had spent a lifetime advocating for America’s wild places. He co-founded the Sierra Club, pushed presidents to designate National Parks and wrote numerous books preaching his gospel of nature. That year he published “The Yosemite”, writing:

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