Hi Everyone!
On Monday, June 30, Yosemite as a park will turn 150 years old. Yosemite is a national park in California, USA. But it was "fair game" for exploitation until June 30 1864. That was the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act. The act was the first of its kind in the US. It set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias for public recreation, forever. When Lincoln signed the act, the concept of preserving wilderness instead of exploiting it was a novel idea.
I wrote about the Yosemite Grant Act and shared some of my personal experiences in the park here: Yosemite Turns 150.
I plan to spend the next week or so posting an account of my favorite Yosemite trip, for anyone who might be interested. It is a 7-day 54-mile loop through Yosemite's High Country.
More than 4,000,000 people visit Yosemite annually from all over the world. So I wondered if anyone on the forum has a favorite Yosemite trip or memory. I would love to hear them!
- Woodsorrel
On Monday, June 30, Yosemite as a park will turn 150 years old. Yosemite is a national park in California, USA. But it was "fair game" for exploitation until June 30 1864. That was the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act. The act was the first of its kind in the US. It set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias for public recreation, forever. When Lincoln signed the act, the concept of preserving wilderness instead of exploiting it was a novel idea.
I wrote about the Yosemite Grant Act and shared some of my personal experiences in the park here: Yosemite Turns 150.
I plan to spend the next week or so posting an account of my favorite Yosemite trip, for anyone who might be interested. It is a 7-day 54-mile loop through Yosemite's High Country.
More than 4,000,000 people visit Yosemite annually from all over the world. So I wondered if anyone on the forum has a favorite Yosemite trip or memory. I would love to hear them!
- Woodsorrel
