Yosemite in a sentence

The Yosemite Park Company had built the Yosemite Lodge and Yosemite Village had its own group of merchants.

A view of Yosemite falls as snow blanked Yosemite National Park.

Those partnering with the park to restore Ackerson Meadow include American Rivers, U.S. Forest Service-Stanislaus National Forest, Yosemite Conservancy, and Yosemite National Park.

YOSEMITE (CBS13) — Park officials at Yosemite National Park announced Sunday that current portions of the park will remain closed indefinitely due to the increased fire activity from the Ferguson Fire.

Yosemite Valley To Reopen Next WeekAfter being closed during the height of the summer tourist season due to a wildfire, Yosemite Valley is set to reopen next week.

First, Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln 's signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864.

Located in Yosemite Valley, the Yosemite Falls is the highest in North America at convert.

Many Yosemite glaciers, including Merced Glacier, which was discovered by John Muir in 1871 and bolstered his glacial origins theory of the Yosemite area, have disappeared and most of the others have lost up to 75% of their surface area.

No. 4 President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on July 1, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias (later becoming Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California.

The Curry Company and its rival, the Yosemite National Park Company, were forced to merge in 1925 to form the Yosemite Park & Curry Company (YP&CC).sfn The company built the Ahwahnee Hotel in 1927.

The parallel Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Canyon glaciers were, at their largest, 2,000 feet (600 m) deep where they flowed into the Yosemite Valley near the base of Half Dome.

This trip persuaded Roosevelt to return "Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park". citation John Muir wrote articles popularizing the area and increasing scientific interest in it.

A California Highway Patrol officer was injured by a sliding tow truck near Yosemite's south entrance.

A documentary that’s not for those who are afraid of heights, as he ascends Yosemite’s El Capitan with no safety ropes.

And the National Weather Service has issued a rare Blizzard Warning for Yosemite National Park above 8,000 feet, until 4 PM Saturday.

California’s signature blue skies put in an appearance on Wednesday, meaning visitors to Yosemite — who were in exactly the right place at exactly the right time — got their chance to see the firefall.

Dr. McDowell said that pieces likely landed somewhere around Yosemite National Park.

Every year in Yosemite, roughly a dozen people die, often from heart attacks and car accidents.

It focuses on building community capacity, developing equitable adaptation strategies and positioning Yosemite Slough for federal funding.

Last year’s visitation was more than 1.5 million above the park’s ten-year average, and more than the visitation of Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon national parks combined.