Harold Wood

Harold Wood has been a wilderness advocate and environmental activist and educator for over 30 years. In the Sixties he devoured the writings of John Muir as a high school student. In the Seventies, while attending college and graduate school, he worked on grassroots efforts to pass wilderness legislation in California and Washington State, which included congressional establishment of the Clearwater Wilderness in Washington and efforts supporting the Alaska Lands Act. In the Eighties, he worked on everything from international environmental issues like tropical rainforests to oak tree preservation in his home town of Visalia, California. In the Nineties he focused on environmental education and the Sierra Club John Muir Education Committee. Now in the Oughts and Teens, he feels we oughta Restore Hetch Hetchy, restore the Earth, and Fight Global Climate Change.

Harold is active in the U.S.A.'s oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization, the Sierra Club, and currently chairs and is webmaster for the LeConte Memorial Lodge Committee, and the John Muir Education Team in the Sierra Club Activist Network. He is the volunteer webmaster for the award-winning John Muir Exhibit website.