PBS presentation of the life of John Muir highlighted the reasons many of
us, who feel exactly as Muir did about wilderness and wildlife,--for many
wilderness is the core of our spiritual being--joined Sierra Club.  We
wanted to protect wilderness and wildlife.  The program also highlighted
differences of opinions among Sierra club members--almost a third of
Sierra Club members living in San Francisco voted to damn a valley in a
national park!  Not much has changed, and despite differences of opinion,
 we're still fighting the same battles to save some of the last remaining
pristine wilderness now called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  In
the Arctic Refuge you can still experience nature as it was created, free
of human manipulation.  I think enough of us are filled with the spirit
of John Muir and we will succeed as members of a greater Alaska
Wilderness Coalition.   Phyllis

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