In 1838 John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland. He worked on a farm as a child. He also learned about literature and mathematics. When he grew up, Muir moved to the United States. Muir began herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in 1869. He loved mountains. He wanted other people to love them, too.
 With help, Muir started the Sierra Club to celebrate the wilderness and save it. In 1890 Congress preserved two large parts of California’s Sierra Nevada range. The two pieces became Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park. There also is a national monument named after Muir. Muir Woods has many tall old redwood trees.
Muir died in 1914. Two years later, Congress created the National Park Service. The park service now protects millions of acres all over the United States.
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