The Sierra Club is a liberal American environmental organization co-founded in 1892 by John Muir and Joseph LeConte. The Sierra Club is a coalition partner of the liberal coalition America Votes.[1]
Their stated mission is to:[2]
By 2011, however, it had become a $100-million-per-year entity with declining membership and reliance on at least one multimillion-dollar deal with the corporate world.
In 2016, current President Aaron Mair asked the National Park Service Director to rename the LeConte Memorial Lodge in the Yosemite Valley. It appears that the co-founder LeConte had a long history of racist views.[3]
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