The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by conservationist John Muir.  Since then, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself.  The Sierra Club is headquartered in San Francisco and is the largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States.  Inspired by nature, Sierra Club members number over half a million and are working together to protect our communities and the planet.  Among our goals are to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth, and to enlist humanity to conserve and restore the quality of the natural and human environment.  If you are interested in: day hikes/overnight camping trips/backpacking trips/canoe trips/trails projects/conservation, education and activism/being involved in helping to develop policies for our national parks, state parks, local parks, etc., then please join us!  We meet once a month at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens for our regular meeting, and also have group outings both locally and in other areas of Texas and the U.S.  For more information about the Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club, please visit http://texas.sierraclub.org/fortworth/.  To find out more about the history of the Sierra Club and what we're all about, please visit our national website at http://www.sierraclub.org/.