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23
Apr

National Park Week Reading List

For National Park Week, UC Press is highlighting books that give us new ways of understanding and seeing our national parks. These titles explore how our national parks came to be and …

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26
Jul

Carleton Watkins at Yosemite Falls

Best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, Carleton Watkins made his first trip there in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. …

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16
Jan

In Defense of National Park Entrance Fees

by Stephen Nash, author of Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change The Trump administration has announced that it is considering big increases in entrance …

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20
Sep

Frederick Law Olmsted and Yosemite Valley

Excerpted from The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life by Craig H. Jones In June of 1864, with the Civil War raging and re-election uncertain, President Abraham Lincoln signed a …

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30
Jun

A Yosemite National Park Reading List

On this day in 1864 President Lincoln signed a law leading to the protection of what we know today as Yosemite National Park. Dive deeper into the history of this iconic landscape …

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