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Yellowstone, the First National Park

Few people know Yellowstone Country and America's national parks better than wildlife biologist Jeremy Schmidt. Join Jeremy as he explores the animals in Yellowstone's backyard and takes us on a journey through the history of the U.S. National Park System.

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Seven people who influenced our national parks

The national parks system represents one of the largest and most well-known examples of environmental protection in the United States, and yet — from Acadia to Zion — the popular version of this story often begins and ends with familiar figures (ahem, Theodore Roosevelt) championing the majesty of its landscapes.

In reality, of course, these incredible places were known and cared for long before ranger stations welcomed the lines of cars rolling into them on a packed summer day. All 63 national parks sit on what were once Indigenous lands. And for thousands of years, before the National Park Service was created, people carefully tended these ecosystems and stewarded these resources.

In the course of my research and reporting for The Post’s “Field Trip” podcast , I discovered many people whose efforts during more than over 150 years of land management helped change how these fragile and dynamic landscapes will be protected into the future. Out of them, here are seven whose unique contributions captivated me.

George Meléndez Wright

One of the first Hispanic park rangers, George Meléndez Wright had studied zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and was appalled at what he saw in Yosemite during the 1920s: The National Park Service was feeding bears from trash cans for visitors’ entertainment. Park employees were also killing mountain lions as part of a broader predator eradication effort across U.S. public lands.

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“For him, that was all so completely unnatural and against why national parks were created,” said Jerry Emory, author of the biography “George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks.”

Although only in his early 20s, Wright became one of the first major surveyors of wildlife in the national parks. In addition to Yosemite, he traveled across the western United States, using his own money to finance the National Park Service’s first coordinated wildlife survey. He documented those findings in a seminal report called “Fauna No. 1.”

In 1933, the National Park Service appointed Wright the leader of its new Wildlife Division, and he thus also became the first Hispanic person to hold a leadership role within the service. A few years later, at the age of 31, he died in a car accident when leaving what would become Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Despite his brief career, Wright’s recommendations laid the foundation for many of the core wildlife conservation policies the Park Service has adopted.

Mardy Murie

In many ways, Mardy Murie continued Wright’s efforts, advocating for the National Park Service to make wildlife its central priority and to preserve ecosystems for their own sake.

“In order to be successful in protecting wildlife, you have to protect land,” said Bill Meadows, former president of the Wilderness Society. “And she knew this.”

Murie initially found her way into conservation work through her husband, a prominent wildlife biologist named Olaus Murie who studied the migration of elk and caribou. Together, they became vocal advocates both for adding new areas to the national park system — such as the Grand Tetons — and for redrawing the boundaries of existing national parks to keep whole ecosystems intact.

An expedition the Muries led in 1956 to northeastern Alaska helped convince President Dwight D. Eisenhower to establish what is now called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. After Murie’s husband died in 1963, she began lobbying for legislation — later signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 — that turned enormous parts of Alaska into federally protected lands, doubling the total footprint managed by the National Park Service. And in 1998, at the age of 96, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her decades of work to protect wildlife.

“She was in awe of her husband and those around him,” Meadows said, “and grew to a place where people were in awe of her.”

George Masa

Many know the work of Ansel Adams and the role his stunning landscape photography played in helping to protect Yosemite National Park, but few people are aware of similar efforts on the other side of the country at around the same time.

George Masa, a Japanese immigrant living in North Carolina during the 1920s, spent years hiking deep into the woods with his large-format cameras and documenting the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains: storm clouds gathering over an undulating ridgeline of mountains, sunshine glaring off a still lake.

“Anyone who’s spent time in the Smokies knows the haze, knows the rain showers,” said Janet McCue, co-author of an upcoming biography of Masa. “Not unless you’ve been there do you understand how hard they are to photograph and also how hard Masa worked in order to get those views.”

At a time when trails were barely marked, camera equipment was extremely heavy and even a modest photograph demanded exact conditions, Masa was able to create images that stirred a public reverence for Appalachia. His photographs accompanied numerous articles advocating for protecting the Smokies from the logging industry. They played an important role in persuading President Calvin Coolidge and Congress to establish the Great Smoky Mountains as a national park, and they also played a crucial role in convincing donors like the Rockefellers to spend millions of dollars to purchase the land and then turn it over to the federal government.

Today, roughly 100 years after Masa hiked among its oaks and hemlocks, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular of all 63 national parks in the system. More than 13 million people visited it in 2023, experiencing much of the same magic in its ever-shifting forests. As McCue said, “It was Masa who was able to capture that better than anyone else.”

For national park aficionados, Polly Dyer’s name is synonymous with environmental activism in the Pacific Northwest. Starting in the 1950s, she became a central champion of the region’s natural wonders — from its dramatic coastlines to its temperate rainforests to its subalpine meadows.

“Polly was a very strong, articulate, forceful advocate for doing the right thing,” said Destry Jarvis, a former assistant director for the National Park Service. “She was a presence.”

In 1953, Dyer’s powers of persuasion helped end an effort to open part of Olympic National Park to logging. In 1958, she also helped quash a proposal for a road in the park that would have damaged miles of Pacific coastline.

As a founding member of the North Cascades Conservation Council, she convinced members of Congress to create North Cascades National Park in 1968, protecting more than 500,000 acres of mountains, glaciers and alpine forest.

“There was a fair amount of opposition to establishing North Cascades,” Jarvis said. But, he added, “she was extremely persistent.”

Howard Zahniser

There are few pieces of conservation legislation as significant as the Wilderness Act, which created high levels of protection for some of the most pristine areas in the United States. Howard Zahniser envisioned the plan, wrote the legislation and then advocated for it.

Working at the Wilderness Society, Zahniser drafted the bill in 1956 after he had participated in an effort to prevent a dam from being built within Dinosaur National Monument, a landscape of rivers, deserts and canyons on the border between Colorado and Utah. The political struggle convinced him that better legal safeguards should exist to protect land from development.

The road to establishing the Wilderness Act was a long one, though. Zahniser would spend eight years revising the potential bill’s language. He wrote 66 drafts before Congress finally passed it in 1964 — just a few months after his death.

“He didn’t give up,” said Meadows, the former Wilderness Society president. “And he did it through words. Some people call it the most lyrical legislation that’s ever been passed.”

Thanks to the Wilderness Act, more than 100 million acres of land — many of which sit within national parks — are now off-limits to any development, including industrial projects like dams but also basic infrastructure such as visitor centers, roads and even campgrounds.

Designated wilderness areas currently make up more than 80 percent of all land managed by the National Park Service. So even as visitation to the national parks continues to increase, large parts of their ecosystems remain shielded from excessive human impact.

“This has affected the makeup of the Park Service,” Meadows said. “It really put in place the values that parks need to be protected, as well as open to the public.”

Carl Stokes

Carl Stokes was the mayor of Cleveland, and the first elected Black mayor of a major U.S. city, when the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969 because of pollution. A story in Time magazine that summer described the river as “chocolate-brown, oily, bubbling with subsurface gases, it oozes rather than flows.”

While the fire did relatively minimal damage, Stokes used the incident to help draw national media attention to the environmental hazards facing urban and minority communities, including the lack of clean water. His outspokenness about the state of the Cuyahoga River helped push forward the Clean Water Act a couple of years later and also set the stage for the nearby Cuyahoga Valley to be managed by the National Park Service starting in 1974 as a national recreation area. (It would later become the rare national park to have a superfund site within it.)

And yet, on the first Earth Day, which occurred less than a year after the Cuyahoga River fire, Stokes also urged that current environmental efforts not “come at the expense” of other priorities that affect low-income communities. An early voice in the environmental justice movement, Stokes convinced people that urban places deserve just as much protection as remote places of unadulterated beauty.

Gerard Baker

The National Park Service manages roughly 400 areas other than the 63 large national parks. They include places that have historical as well as environmental significance, including Montana’s Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument — the site of a famous showdown between the U.S. Army and several tribes of Plains Indians.

For nearly 50 years, it bore the name Custer Battlefield National Monument, commemorating the Army officer and his troops on the losing side of the fight. Then in 1989, Barbara Sutteer became the first Native American superintendent of the site and began the process of changing its name. That work continued under the following superintendent, Gerard Baker, a member of the Mandan-Hidatsa Tribe of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, who oversaw both the official renaming and several additional efforts to make the park unit more inclusive of Indigenous perspectives.

“He got the first serious recognition of the native role, the native presence, the native impact,” said Jarvis, the former assistant Park Service director. “And that was a huge change for the Park Service in direction.”

In 2004, Baker became the first Native superintendent of Mount Rushmore, another Park Service site where he helped surface Indigenous history that had long been obscured. (The Black Hills, where four presidents’ faces are chiseled into the rock, are highly sacred to the Lakota Sioux.)

Native people were the original environmental stewards of all the lands that now make up the national park system. Today, there is a greater effort within the National Park Service both to acknowledge that fact and to better incorporate Indigenous knowledge into park management. In 2021, Charles Sams III was appointed as the first Native American director of the National Park Service.

“We’re seeing the Park Service open its doors much more widely,” Jarvis said. “Gerard was the first person, really, to set that whole move in motion.”

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How to plan an epic summer trip to a national park

We’ve got insider tips on the best times to visit the most popular parks, timed entry passes, and where to stay.

As summer approaches, the siren call of national park adventures grows stronger. However, these iconic sites are bringing in unprecedented crowds.

In 2023, the National Park Service (NPS) reported over 300 million visits , a four percent increase from the previous year. This surge isn’t limited to famous spots; lesser known parks such as Congaree and Dry Tortugas are also experiencing record-breaking numbers. To manage the influx, park authorities are implementing innovative strategies to improve the guest experience.  

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From snagging the perfect stay to timing your bookings just right, we’ve got insider tips to ensure your national park vacation is nothing short of epic. Here’s what you need to know.

Best time to visit

Timing is crucial in planning your summer getaway, especially if you’re eyeing popular national parks. Finding affordable lodging and activities during the high season can be tricky.

During the shoulder seasons—early- to mid-spring and late fall—you can expect pleasant weather and a reprieve from the crowds, but there are a few trade-offs to consider. Some hotels and lodges might close during the off-season and reopen later in the year, potentially limiting your accommodation options. Additionally, parks at higher elevations, such as Glacier or Lassen Volcanic , may not have all their trails open and could require snowshoes or traction cleats to get around.

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Arriving before sunrise has its perks, too. Typically, most visitors don’t arrive until mid-to-late morning, allowing you to enjoy attractions like Arches ’ Windows or Delicate Arch with minimal crowds, provided you arrive early enough.

When permitted, exploring the parks in winter offers a unique perspective that few experience. Yosemite Valley, for instance, transforms into a winter wonderland —a sight cherished by photographers and nature enthusiasts alike.

Tony McDaniel, a Yosemite   Mariposa County spokesperson, says the best way to plan a visit is to avoid taking a “checklist approach” to your visit.

“Slow down and immerse yourself in the destination,” McDaniel says. “There’s no place on earth like Yosemite National Park , and it’s best seen slowly and outside of a vehicle where you can fully embrace the sights, sounds, and smells.”

What parks require timed entry passes?

Timed entry reservations typically provide access within a two-hour window. The price of the pass, however, does not include the standard park entry fee. But, a separate timed entry permit is unnecessary if you already have campground reservations, a wilderness permit, or bookings for a pre-arranged, park-sponsored activity. Additionally, if you plan to stay inside the park for multiple days, only one timed entry reservation is required—just make sure not to leave the park during your visit.

Although these passes can reduce a trip’s spontaneity, NPS spokeswoman Kathy Kupper says they also lead to better park experiences.

“Visitors love the timed entry system,” Kupper says, “because it gives them increased confidence that they’ll be able to get in and get where they want to go.”

If you miss out on a timed entry reservation, don’t fret. Ditch your car and opt to walk or bike into the park at any time of day. Glacier National Park adjusts its timed entry program annually, including relocating entry gates beyond the visitor center, where guests can hop on a shuttle bus to access the park.

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Arches: Timed entry reservations will be required from April 1 to October 31. The reservation system operates on a rolling basis. For example, June 1–30 bookings opened March 1; July 1–31 reservations opened April 1. A limited number of reservations will also be released at 7 p.m. MST the day before, providing some flexibility for last-minute planners to Utah.

Glacier: For travelers intending to drive along the iconic Going-to-the-Sun Road or head to North Fork, Montana, a vehicle reservation is mandatory between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. from May 24 to September 8. Similarly, from July 1 to September 8, a reservation is required to access Many Glacier between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. These reservations can be secured up to 120 days or approximately four months in advance, starting at 8 a.m. MST. Additionally, a limited number of next-day vehicle reservations will be released at 7 p.m. MST for those seeking entry on the following day on a rolling basis.

Mount Rainier : Two areas of this Washington State park—Paradise Corridor from the south and Sunrise Corridor from the northeast—will require reservations from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 24-September 2, and July 4-September 2, respectively. Each corridor requires a separate vehicle reservation, valid for a single day per vehicle. Note that reservations are unnecessary when entering the park from a different entrance.

Rocky Mountain :   Between May 24 and October 20, reservations are required for entry into this Colorado park. Two types of reservations will be available: one granting access to the entire park, including the bustling Bear Lake Road Corridor from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., and another from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. that excludes access to this corridor. Reservations for May 24 to June 30 can be secured starting at 8 a.m. on May 1. Subsequent reservation releases will follow, with reservations for July becoming available on June 1, and so forth.

Yosemite: Reservations are needed from April to October. On Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (May 27, June 19, September 2, and October 14) from April 13 to June 30 and August 17 to October 27, reservations are required from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. From July 1 to August 16, reservations are needed daily during the same hours.

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What parks require a specific area pass?

Acadia : In Maine, Cadillac Mountain Summit Road vehicle reservations are required from May 22 to October 27. About one-third of them can be purchased 90 days in advance, while the rest become available two days before, starting at 10 a.m. Reservations cost $6 and are sold only at https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/400000 .

Great Smoky Mountains : While you don’t need a timed entry reservation to enter this Tennessee-North Carolina park, you will need a parking permit to stop for more than 15 minutes. Passes are $5 (daily),   $15 (weekly), and $40 (annually). Permits can be purchased in person or online . Passes are good for one vehicle only.

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Haleakalā : To park at Hawaii’s Haleakalā summit for sunrise, you’ll need a parking pass from 3 to 7 a.m. throughout the year.

Shenandoah : Visitors hiking Virginia’s Old Rag Mountain must obtain a $2 day-use ticket in advance from March 1 to November 30. Of the 800 tickets issued daily, 400 will be released 30 days in advance, with the remaining 400 released five days beforehand on https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/10088450/ticket/10088451 .

Zion: You’ll need a timed permit to hike Angel’s Landing in Utah. Lotteries open for June-August hikes on April 1, September-November on July 1, and December-February on October 1. A limited number of next-day licenses will be available at 12:01 a.m. the day before. Hiking groups of up to six people can apply for a permit. Winning groups will be charged an additional $3 per person.

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Best alternatives to national parks

If you’re visiting in the summer, don’t have a reservation, and couldn’t get into the park early enough, you still have options. State parks and national forests surrounding official national parks often offer similar views but with few visitors.  

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For example, if you get shut out of Utah’s Bryce Canyon , you can always drive 15 minutes away to the picturesque Dixie National Forest . Instead of being shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of other visitors on the trails, you’ll be almost entirely alone while overlooking nearly identical scenes.

Where to stay in or near a popular park

Most NPS campgrounds can be reserved six months in advance on a rolling basis through Recreation.gov, but the most popular sites, including Yellowstone ’s Slough Creek or Watchman in Zion , can sell out within minutes. Even if you miss out, you still have plenty of options.  

“For something similar to camping in Yosemite Valley, Housekeeping Camp or Curry Village are as close as you’ll get to camping, plus you don’t need to bring a tent,” says McDaniel. “In areas like Wawona, Yosemite West, and Foresta, there are cabin rentals that will still get you into the park. Outside the park, there are hundreds of more options in great locations and historic towns that are generally more budget-friendly and put visitors close to more dining options.”

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Nearby national forests and Bureau of Land Management areas typically offer established campgrounds or free dispersed camping (areas outside a designated campground). Sites are generally first-come, first-served. Arrive at an established campground between 10 a.m. and noon to score a recently vacated site.

Apps like AllStays and sites like freecampsites.net and Campendium can help tremendously. Signal Mountain Campground in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park sells out almost immediately, but on a recent trip to the park, I found an incredible mountaintop dispersed campsite, in   Bridger-Teton National Forest . The view of the Tetons was spectacular, made even better because the campsite was free.

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• 100 million years of erosion to create landscape
• 2,000 cataloged arches from 3 ft openings to Landscape Arch (306 ft from base to base)
• New arches are continually being created
• Old arches are being worn down and eroded away
• intermixed layers of marine, freshwater and eolian deposition
• several thousands feet thick
• nearly horizontal layers but slight dip to the north
• quarter of area is exposed bedrock
• Jurassic Navajo Sandstone
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• arid conditions during the early Jurassic Period deposited a vast sand desert, not unlike todays Sahara
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Yosemite National Park

Oct 24, 2014

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Yosemite National Park. Aaron Villarreal. When Yosemite was Built (Founded).

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Yosemite National Park Aaron Villarreal

When Yosemite was Built (Founded) • Yosemite became a national park in June 30, 1864. John Muir was also the founder of this great park. This is how cool things happen in this park. He was 30 years old when he went to Yosemite National Park. We know that he founded this park.

Where Yosemite is • Yosemite is in California where there is lots of food and water. It is 195 miles south from San Francisco and 313 miles north from Los Angeles. Yosemite is also located at 9039 Village Dr. So that’s how we find Yosemite National Park.

John Muir • John Muir was the founder of Yosemite National Park. He was the one who made it a national Park! He was a fruit rancher, family man, and a writer. John Muir was America’s most famous naturalist and conservationist. He was the father of Yosemite.

Founder of YosemiteNational Park • In 1892 John Muir found Yosemite National park. He wanted to make Yosemite a National Park. He was the one who got all the people. He also let Yosemite be a place where animals can live. Now this is where you can camp and see the wonderful outdoors.

Different parts of Yosemite

Wild life at Yosemite • In Yosemite there are tons of animals like the great gray owl, the black bears, and the big horn sheep. At Yosemite there 300-500 black bears. The great gray owls is one of the most important animals living in Yosemite because it is the great gray owl in Yosemite National Park.

Indian tribes in Yosemite • An Indian tribe lived in Yosemite and it was called Miwoks. They had to work very hard and they ate mule deer. They had to work every day. They have hard days and they don’t have heath care or any thing else. So they have to be careful

Rangers at Yosemite • Rangers protect the animals ,plants ,and the red wood trees. Rangers protect the people from getting hurt from the dangerous animals. Rangers are on the watch just in case of any hunters want to kill any of these poor animals. That’s why we need rangers at Yosemite National Park.

Significant Events at Yosemite In 1996-1997 there was a big flood in Yosemite. It flooded everything though meadows and the exit. This happened because the snow melted and the water over flooded in Yosemite. It was in the winter in January and May. Soon the flood was gone during the summer.

Current Use of Yosemite • We use Yosemite for lots of things like hiking, camping, and lots more. Yosemite is used for habitats for lots of animals like the bears need caves to sleep in. Also this is has lots of water for different kinds of plants. That’s what Yosemite is for.

What I Liked in Yosemite • What made me interested in Yosemite. The waterfalls, meadows, the animals, and more others. What made me interested is because I like animals that I never knew that were in Yosemite. That was the best because I got to learn about bear, big horn sheep, and the great gray owl.

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Yosemite National Park. By: S. Holcomb. Where is it located?. 37.8499° N, 119.5677° W: Yosemite, Coordinates Yosemite National Park is a Park in Mariposa County , California . It has an elevation of 2,434 meters , or 7,986 feet . Reasons why you might go to the Yosemite National Park.

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Yosemite National Park. By Emily Toth. Biome. At higher elevations, fewer wildlife species tend to be found due to the lower complexity of the forest Above the tree line, climate becomes harsh with a short growing season Many rich, diverse habitats: Chaparral Coniferous forests Alpine rock.

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Yosemite National Park. California. History. Earlier inhabitants included the Ahwahneechee people before European immigrants arrived in the mid-1800s.

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Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada: California’s Water Tower. Meadows. Chico. Reno. Tahoe NF. AR. Lake Tahoe. SNAMP. El Dorado NF. Sacramento. Stanislaus NF. Pinecrest. UMB. Yosemite National Park. Stockton. Oakland. San Francisco. Modesto. YFS. SNAMP. San Jose. Merced.

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Yosemite National Park. By Julia Hall. Location. Region -West State -California Capital -Sacramento Latitude -37.8333°N Longitude -119.5000°w. Landforms. Half Dome Located in the southwest quadrant of the park Rises about 8,800 feet from the valley floor Made out of granite

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OVERVIEW OF RECENT HYDROCLIMATIC RESEARCH AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

OVERVIEW OF RECENT HYDROCLIMATIC RESEARCH AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. Dan Cayan 1, 2 Dave Clow 3 Mike Dettinger 2, 1 Jeanne Di Leo 4 Frank Gehrke 5 Steve Hager 4 Brian Huggett 6 Jessica Lundquist 1 Greg McCurdy 7 David Peterson 4 Kelly Redmond 7 Larry Riddle 1 , Richard Smith 4

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Yosemite National Park. Location. California, United States of America. Weather/Climate. Receives most precipitation from January – March Summers are warm and dry, while Winter is the season of snow and solitude

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Yosemite National Park. By Nicholas and Shad. location. Tololumne ,Mariposa, and Madera California. When It Was Formed. October 1 st , 1890. Size of the park. 761,268 acres. Comparison park the size of R.I. (Rhode Island). R.I.: 1,214 sq. miles Yosemite: 1,200 sq. miles.

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Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite National Park, California. View from Glacier Point. Yosemite National Park, California. Geology lecture. Yosemite National Park, California Exfoliation features. Yosemite National Park, California Glacially carved lake.

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DGP 15: The Smiths often hike in Yosemite National Park.

DGP 15: The Smiths often hike in Yosemite National Park. Label the parts of speech. Vocabulary Giddy (adjective) dizzy; silly. Describe a time you or a person you know has been giddy. Use the word in the paragraph. DGP 15: The Smiths often hike in Yosemite National Park.

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Yosemite National Park. By Nicholas Harter and Shad Pinthiere. location. Tololumne ,Mariposa, and Madera California. When It Was Formed. October 1 st , 1890. Size of the park. 761,268 acres. Comparison park the size of R.I . (Rhode Island). R.I.: 1,214 sq. miles

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Yosemite National Park. By Jackie Guzman. Location. Yosemite National Park is located in east central California. It east of the city of Modesto, California. Near the scenic foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. History. 2,200 B.C. to 1833 A.D. The Miwoks inhabit Yosemite.

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YOSEMITE PARK

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2002 Air Quality Lessons Learned Yosemite National Park

2002 Air Quality Lessons Learned Yosemite National Park. Vegetation Types. Low/mid-elevation ponderosa & mixed conifer has missed more fire cycles, since historic interval was short – in need of ecosystem restoration.

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San Francisco to Yosemite National Park

Extranomical Tours is a San Francisco sightseeing tour company that specializes in tours for people who usually don't like to take trips. Our client is very independent and likes to venture to places where most tour companies don't go to.

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Beautiful Yosemite Park | Justin Lumiere

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A Proclamation on National Park Week,   2024

    America’s natural wonders and historic treasures are the heart and soul of our Nation.  From the high plateaus and deep ravines of the Grand Canyon to the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg and the rolling forests of the Great Smoky Mountains, our national parks unite and inspire us, connecting us to something bigger than ourselves.  This week, we recommit to protecting and caring for all 429 parks and encourage Americans everywhere to enjoy them.

     Protecting our national parks preserves their majestic beauty as well as meaningful pieces of our Nation’s history and future.  They contain irreplaceable ecosystems that help sustain the air we breathe and the water we drink, and make our Nation more resilient to the threat of climate change. They give families priceless memories of sharing the great outdoors and exploring our past, and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in recreation.  Many of them help preserve sites and places that are sacred to Tribal Nations, who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.

     My Administration has pursued the most ambitious land and water conservation agenda in American history — and I am on track to conserve more lands and waters than any other President in history.  That work began with setting our first-ever national conservation goal:  to protect and conserve at least 30 percent of all our Nation’s lands and waters by 2030 by investing in locally led, voluntary conservation and restoration efforts through our “America the Beautiful” Initiative.  I signed an Executive Order protecting America’s forests and harnessing the power of nature to fight climate change while also launching a new National Nature Assessment to help evaluate the status of our lands, waters, and wildlife.  

     Since I took office, my Administration has conserved over 41 million acres of our Nation’s precious lands and waters — from safeguarding the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the Nation’s largest national forest, to restoring protections for the desert buttes of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.  I established five new national monuments, including Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni on the edge of the Grand Canyon, a place that is sacred to many Tribal Nations, and the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, which tells the story of the events surrounding Emmett Till’s murder and their significance in the civil rights movement.  Just last month, I signed an Executive Order to better recognize and integrate the history of women and girls into the parks, monuments, and historic sites that the National Park Service helps protect.

     National parks and the complex ecosystems they contain also help make our Nation more resilient to the existential threat of climate change.  My Administration has made the biggest investment in conservation and climate action in history, including $700 million in our national parks for increased staff and much-needed maintenance.  My Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests in sustaining our lands and waters with projects to protect salt marshes, remove invasive species from sagebrush ecosystems to reduce wildfire risk, and more.  It is helping to build new trails, roads, bridges, and other transportation for our national parks as well, making our parks easier to visit.  It pays for bonuses and training opportunities for over 20,000 wildland firefighters.  Meanwhile, we have been working closely with Tribal Nations to recognize the value of their Indigenous Knowledge and expand Tribal co-stewardship of national parks.  My recent Budget asks for over $3 billion for the National Park Service itself to upgrade park infrastructure, work with Tribal Nations in stewarding and managing culturally significant lands, support youth programs that can lead to good-paying jobs, and more.  Through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership, the National Park Service is helping to create and renovate parks and outdoor spaces in communities that have been without them for too long.    

     I encourage everyone to explore America’s national parks — and on April 20, entry will be free. Each time my family and I have visited one, we have left feeling inspired by our Nation’s natural beauty and humbled by the responsibility that we all share to make sure that it endures.  This National Park Week, we recommit to the work of protecting our Nation’s natural treasures for the ages.

     NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 20 through April 28, 2024, as National Park Week.  I encourage all Americans to find their park, recreate responsibly, and enjoy the benefits that come from spending time in the natural world.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.                                            JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.  

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Love national parks? There's a holiday for that! Join us for National Park Week, a nine-day celebration of everything "parks". Not just about more than 400 national parks nationwide of different shapes, sizes, and types. Also discover what the National Park Service does through our programs and partners to preserve natural and cultural heritage and provide recreational opportunities in places across the country—and even the world! National Park Week is happening April 20 to April 28 this year. Entrance fees will be waived on April 20, 2024, to kick off the celebration and to encourage everyone to enjoy their national parks in person. National Park Service parks, programs, and partners will host events and activities all week! Follow National Park Week on social media and join the fun all week using #NationalParkWeek .

2024 Theme Days

Each day of National Park Week has a special theme to showcase many ways to experience, learn, or get involved with national parks and what we do outside of our park boundaries.

Saturday, April 20: Discovery. What will you discover? A new place, a new interesting fact, a new activity... To kick off National Park Week and encourage you make that new discovery, entrance fees are waived on April 20! Sunday, April 21: Volunteers. Use your time and talents as a volunteer in your national parks. Find opportunities to volunteer for a single event or long term position. Monday, April 22: Earth Day. Join the global celebration encouraging education and stewardship of the planet's natural resources. Many parks are hosting volunteer events. You can also find ways to practice conservation at home . Tuesday, April 23: Innovation. History of our nation's innovation is preserved in national parks. Also learn about the innovative projects happening in parks or through our programs today. Wednesday, April 24: Workforce Wednesday. Meet our incredible workforce of employees, interns, fellows, volunteers, contractors, partners, and more. Consider joining our team ! Thursday, April 25: Youth Engagement. Calling the rising generation of stewards! Learn about the opportunities for youth and young adults to get involved and see what your peers are up to. Friday, April 26: Community Connections. Learn about the important work our programs and partners are doing in communities across the country both within and outside of our park boundaries. Saturday, April 27: Junior Ranger Day. For kids (and kids at heart), become a Junior Ranger through in-person or online activities to learn about special places or topics. You may even earn a Junior Ranger badge! Sunday, April 28: Arts in Parks. Home of many arts past and present, find your muse creating arts within parks. Also learn about preserving and practicing arts in your communities through the work of our programs and partners.

Visit a Park

Did you know there are more than 400 national parks? They come in different shapes, sizes, and naming designations (not all are named "National Park!") and may be a lot closer to home than you think. Entrance fees are waived the first day of National Park Week to encourage people to come out to enjoy their national parks.

There are more than 400 national parks across the country. Search for parks by state or an activity or topic of interest to you.

Stay connected with national parks across the country with online resources and virtual experiences.

Explore national parks during National Park Week using the official NPS App! Check out fun new features!

Find ways to participate in National Park Week as a partner to promote enjoyment and stewardship of public lands and more!

Find an Event

Check out these featured events or set the calendar to April to find in-person and virtual programs for National Park Week at any of the more than 400 national parks around the country.

We are kicking off National Park Week by waiving entrance fees at national parks!

Doctors orders: Get yourself to a park. Enjoy the physical and mental health benefits that can be experienced in national parks.

In addition to National Park Week, we joining a nationwide celebration by thanking our 300,000 volunteers for their amazing contributions!

It's all connected. Join a global celebration and effort to protect our planet— and our national parks—for future generations to also enjoy.

Join a virtual event with our partners to hear directly from youth working and serving on public lands.

Calling kids of all ages. Get ready to "explore, learn, and protect" while earning your Junior Ranger badge!

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National Park Week News Releases

Members of the media can find news releases about National Park Week starting the weeks leading up to and through the last day.

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