Environmental directions. 2001-07-22, no. 1230

"John Olmsted, founder, California Institute of Man in Nature, and creator, Tahoe-Pacific Heritage Parks and Reserves, discusses making a necklace of parks based on John Muir's first California walk from the coast to the Sierras, as well as creating Jug Handle State Reserve and South Yuba River State Park, illustrating the ecology of John Muir's 1868 walk across California, and personal connection to land and trail to provide inspiration and funding for this "necklace" of ecological areas. Dr. Bonnie J. Gisel, interim director, John Muir Center for Regional Studies, University of the Pacific, and editor of Kindred and related sprits: the letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr, discusses the connection of connections to help John Muir's activism, as well as the value of a conference on John Muir."