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1984 (8th Session) Yosemite National Park (/ joʊˈsɛmɪti / yoh-SEM-ih-tee[ 5 ]) is a national park of the United States in California. [ 6 ][ 7 ] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi ...
Contents. History of the Yosemite area. Galen Clark, the first California-state-appointed guardian of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove, pictured in front of the Grizzly Giant Tree, Mariposa Grove around 1858–9. Human habitation in the Sierra Nevada region of California reaches back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. [ 1 ]
John Muir (/ mjʊər / MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), [ 1 ] also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks ", [ 2 ] was a Scottish-born American [ 3 ][ 4 ]: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the ...
Yosemite Valley (/ joʊˈsɛməti / yoh-SEM-ə-tee; Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States. The valley is about 7.5 mi (12.1 km) long and 3,000–3,500 ft (910–1,070 m) deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and ...
Galen Clark. Galen Clark (March 28, 1814 – March 24, 1910) was a British North America-born American conservationist and writer. He is known as the first European American to discover the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees, and is notable for his role in gaining legislation to protect it and the Yosemite area, and for 24 years serving as ...
The exposed geology of the Yosemite area includes primarily granitic rocks with some older metamorphic rock. The first rocks were laid down in Precambrian times, when the area around Yosemite National Park was on the edge of a very young North American continent. The sediment that formed the area first settled in the waters of a shallow sea ...
Sequoia National Park, a Geological Album [32] The Story of the Yosemite Valley [33] (includes photographs by Frank C. Calkins) Geologic History of the Yosemite Valley [34] Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Account of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys [35] Mount Rainier and its glaciers: Mount Rainier National Park [36]
The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1805-7. OCLC 714731511. Kruska, Dennis (2009). James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite. A Biography and Bibliography. San Francisco: Book Club of California. ISBN 978-0-9819-5971-9. OCLC 461317451.
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