Wallace Stegner

A Path to Conservation

Oct 13, 2022–Mar 5, 2023

Outdoor Exhibit

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner was known largely for his writing, but he was also an impassioned conservationist. Los Altos History Museum focuses on the inspiring contributions Stegner made as an environmentalist locally and globally.

“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.” - Wallace Stegner, from his famed “Wilderness Letter.”

About the Exhibit

Learn about the impact Wallace Stegner had on the conservation movement as you stroll the Museum grounds and access photos, videos and audio recordings via QR codes on your electronic device.

Experience Wallace Stegner’s visionary passion for conservation from the varying perspectives of those who worked closely with him over the years at national environmental organizations such as The Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, The Nature Conservancy, and locally, Green Foothills of which Wallace was one of the founders.