85 Second Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
www.sierraclub.org
Phone : 415.977.5500
Email : information@sierraclub.org
Members: 1300000
Carl Pope,Executive Director
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The Sierra Club's members and supporters are more than 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
Through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying and litigation, the Sierra Club works to protect the health of our environment and the preserve our remaining wild places.
Here are just a few of the accomplishments that the Sierra Club has helped bring about:
- establishment, expansion, and protection many national parks, including significant parts of Yosemite and Yellowstone
- enactment of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act
- national monument status for Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act designating more than 100 million acres of parks, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas
The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by John Muir. Click here to learn more about the Sierra Club history and the Club’s accomplishments over the past century.
Our Mission Statement
- Explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.
- Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources.
- Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment.
- Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
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