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| ownership_type  = Public
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| stock_symbol    = NASDAQ:MSFT
| foundation_date  = 1975
| foundation_date  = 1892
| founded_by      = [[Bill Gates]]
| founded_by      = [[John Muir]]
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| location_city    = San Francisco
| location_state  = Washington
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===Founding===
===Founding===


This subsection should provide some historical context for the founding of your group, explain the motivations behind it, and describe the steps taken and challenges faced by its founders to get the ball rolling.<ref>John Q. Sample, ''Why and How Interest Group X Was Founded''. City: Publisher, 2015.</ref>
Naturalist John Muir founded the '''Sierra Club''' in 1892.  During the club's first 60 years membership was mostly limited to residents of California.  With most of Sierra Club's activites limited to promoting outdoor activity.  The Club's first goal was to preserve the Sierra Nevada Mountain Chain.  Their success led them to jumpstart a number of other campaigns to preserve dozens of natinal treasures. Muir was vigilant in trying to spar wilderness from the effects of human activites.  He belived people could learn more by lviing in nature, while practicing quiet observation.  Muir's nautralist ideals laid the foundation for the Sierra Club to evnetually delve into the public arena of due process.  As in 1952 David Brower took over as director, helping make the club more agressive politcally. ref>John Q. Sample, ''Why and How Interest Group X Was Founded''. City: Publisher, 2015.</ref>


==Current objectives and activities==
==Current objectives and activities==


This section should discuss the group's current initiatives and tactics for influencing political outcomes (which may or may not be very different from its original goals and modus operandi).<ref>"The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from [http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html]</ref>
Sierra Club has a policy of always supporting proenviromental incumbents for relection.  .<ref>"The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from [http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html]</ref>


==Organizational structure==
==Organizational structure==


This section should describe the group's organizational structure, including its principal leadership positions and their current incumbents.<ref>First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," ''Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship'' 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.</ref>
Sierra Club is comprised of over 700,000 members.  Its headquarters is located in San Francisco.  It also operates with with a large washington staff and field staff .<ref>First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," ''Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship'' 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.</ref>


==Achievements==
==Achievements==

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Sierra Club
File:Http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/images/2008-10/sierra-club.jpg
Website http://www.sierraclub.org/
Ownership type Public, NASDAQ:MSFT
Founded 1892, by John Muir
Headquarters San Francisco , California
United States
Industry Enviromental activism


A brief overview of your interest group (be sure to put its name in bold in the first sentence) and the scope of the article goes here.[1]

The following list of sections should serve as a loose guideline for developing the body of your article. The works cited in references 2-5 are all fake; their purpose is to serve as a formatting model for your own citations.

History

This section should describe the interest group's founding and development. It would probably be a good idea to divide it into chronological subsections, for example:

Founding

Naturalist John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892. During the club's first 60 years membership was mostly limited to residents of California. With most of Sierra Club's activites limited to promoting outdoor activity. The Club's first goal was to preserve the Sierra Nevada Mountain Chain. Their success led them to jumpstart a number of other campaigns to preserve dozens of natinal treasures. Muir was vigilant in trying to spar wilderness from the effects of human activites. He belived people could learn more by lviing in nature, while practicing quiet observation. Muir's nautralist ideals laid the foundation for the Sierra Club to evnetually delve into the public arena of due process. As in 1952 David Brower took over as director, helping make the club more agressive politcally. ref>John Q. Sample, Why and How Interest Group X Was Founded. City: Publisher, 2015.</ref>

Current objectives and activities

Sierra Club has a policy of always supporting proenviromental incumbents for relection. .[2]

Organizational structure

Sierra Club is comprised of over 700,000 members. Its headquarters is located in San Francisco. It also operates with with a large washington staff and field staff .[3]

Achievements

This section should recount the group's major achievements, including but not limited to legislative and/or legal victories.[4]

Public perception and controversies

In developing this final section, be especially careful about maintaining a neutral stance and tone. Your aim should be to document the public's perception of your group and/or any controversies in which it is or has been embroiled without weighing in with your own opinion about them.

References

  1. See the "Writing an Encyclopedia Article" handout for more details.
  2. "The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html
  3. First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.
  4. "Major Success for Interest Group X," Anytown Daily News, January 1, 2015, p. A6.