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Ansel F. Hall edited Handbook of Yosemite National Park after arriving at Yosemite in 1920. The young National Park Service was just established in 1916, and Ansel Hall, on his own initiative, established the Yosemite Museum and began continuous, innovative interpretative programs in Yosemite National Park. Various sections of the Handbook were written by specialists in various fields, such as Willis Linn Jepson’s chapters on plants or A. L. Kroeber’s section on Yosemite Indians. While some chapters drag on with too much detail on park telephone lines and NPS badge designs, others, such as Kroeber’s “Indians of Yosemite,” provide concise, authoritative information in a readable, interesting style.

Keep in mind that since this book was published in 1921, many new discoveries have been made in Yosemite Park history and science. That said, most of the ideas and facts given in the Handbook are still relevant to Yosemite National Park today.

—Dan Anderson, August 2004

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Cover and wrapper [images] Title Page Introductory Note Table of Contents Illustrations History of the Yosemite Region by Ralph S. Kuykendall Indians of Yosemite by A. L. Kroeber Ideals and Policy of the National Park Service by Stephen T. Mather Administration of Yosemite National Park by W. B. Lewis Geology of Yosemite National Park by Andrew C. Lawson Life Zones of the Yosemite Region by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer Some Birds of Yosemite National Park by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

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Some Mammals of Yosemite National Park by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer The Fishes of Yosemite National Park by Barton Warren Evermann Insects of Yosemite National Park by Edwin C. Van Dyke Trees of Yosemite National Park by Ansel F. Hall The Giant Sequoia by Willis Linn Jepson Flowers of Yosemite National Park by Willis Linn Jepson Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park by Raymond H. Bailey Motoring in Yosemite National Park by Wallace B. Curtis Photography in Yosemite National Park by Arthur C. Pillsbury Appendix [Weather, Lakes, Streams, & Tree Identification] Map of Yosemite National Park

About the Editor

Ansel F. Hall was born May 6, 1894 in Oakland, California. He graduated in 1917 from University of California in forestry. He served first in Sequoia National Park as a ranger, then served during World War I in France. After the war, he was a park naturalist in Yosemite National Park during 1920 to 1923, when he wrote the Handbook. He established innovative interpretative program in Yosemite, started the Yosemite Museum Association, made geological models, native crafts, and mounted natural history specimens. Mr. Hall rose in the ranks as chief naturalist of the Park Service and similar positions. Ansel Hall wrote two other books on Yosemite. Guide to Yosemite (1920) describes trails in the park (98 pages and map). Yosemite Valley: An Intimate Guide (1920) is a pocket book that describes the valley for tourists (90 pages, maps, and illustrations). Mr. Hall married June Alexander in 1924, and they had 6 children, including triplets. He left the Ansel F. Hall park service in 1938 to operate concessions in Mesa Verde National Park. Later he worked as (Merrie Winkler Collection) a consultant in park design and interpretation and wrote books on the topic. Ansel Hall died suddenly in 1962. A biographical sketch of Ansel Hall by John Bingaman is in Guardians of the Yosemite (1961), p. 111. Bibliographical Information

Hall, Ansel Franklin (1894-1962) Handbook of Yosemite National Park: a compendium of articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authorities (New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921). 347 pp. ill. folded map. 20 cm. Brown cloth covering with ivory and black lettering and cover art. Dust jacket with green lettering and art. LCCN 21014069. Library of Congress Call No. F 868.Y6 H18

Digitized by Dan Anderson, August 2004, from a copy in the UCSD Library. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice is left intact. —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

YOSEMitE NatiONaL PaRK needs no introduction to the American public. Much has been written in appreciation of "The Valley Incomparable" and of the eleven hundred square miles of scenic High Sierra which have been set aside as a playground for the people.

Men like Le Conte and Muir were as "a voice crying in the wilderness" telling the outside world of the wonders of the region; others have written of its trails and its scenery; there still remains the task, however, of satisfying the thousands who now ask for definite information concerning the history, ethnology, botany, geology, camp- and trail- craft, natural history, and related subjects so well exemplified by the Park. Obviously no one may can be a master of all these branches of knowledge, so the Editor presents this collection of articles, each by an eminent authority.

Acknowledgment and sincere thanks are due to the scientists whose coöperation has made this volume possible. These contributors are so well known in their respective fields of science that they need no introduction. The Editor is indebted to many others who have supplied photographs and to Messrs. Herbert Maier and Duncan Dunning whose drawings appear as chapter headings.

This little volume is offered with the hope that it will point the way to the better understanding and the fuller enjoyment of the Yosemite region.

ANSEL F. HaLL In Charge of Information, Yosemite National Park.

January 1, 1921

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[Editor’s note: Herbert Maier was the NPS Architect who designed the Yosemite Museum.]

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PLATE I Yosemite Valley from Old Inspiration Point. The view which greeted the men of the Mariposa Battalion on March 21, 1851 when they entered this valley of Awahnee Photo by A. C. Pillsbury

HANDBOOK OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

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COMPILED AND EDITED BY ANSEL F. HALL U. S. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN FORESTRY, A E F UNIVERSITY, BEAUNE, FRANCE.

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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921

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CONTENTS

pAGE IntRODUctORy NOtE v

HiStORy OF thE YOSEMitE REGiOn 3 By RAlph S. KUykEnDAll, N.S.G.W., Fellow in Pacific Coast History, University of California

InDiAnS OF YOSEMitE 51 By A. L. KROEbER, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Anthropological Museum, University of California

IDEAlS AnD POlicy OF thE NAtiOnAl PARk SERVicE 77 By StEphEn T. MAthER, Director, U. S. National Park Service

ADMiniStRAtiOn OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 89 By W. B. LEwiS, Superintendent, Yosemite National Park

GEOlOGy OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 99 By AnDREw C. LAwSOn, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of California

LiFE ZOnES OF thE YOSEMitE REGiOn 125 By JOSEph GRinnEll, Director, and TRAcy IRwin StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

SOME BiRDS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 135 By JOSEph GRinnEll, Director, and TRAcy IRwin StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/contents.html[2/12/2013 10:00:07 AM] Contents, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

SOME MAMMAlS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 155 By JOSEph GRinnEll, Director, and TRAcy IRwin StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

REptilES AnD AMphibiAnS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 177 By JOSEph GRinnEll, Director, and TRAcy IRwin StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

ThE FiShES OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 185 By BARtOn WARREn EVERMAnn, Director, Museum, California Academy of Sciences

InSEctS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 205 By EDwin C. VAn DykE, Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of California

TREES OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 221 By AnSEl F. HAll, U. S. National Park Service

ThE GiAnt SEQUOiA 237 By WilliS Linn JEpSOn, Professor of Botany, University of California

FlOwERS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 249 By WilliS Linn JEpSOn, Professor of Botany, University of California

CAMpinG AnD MOUntAinEERinG in YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 271 By RAyMOnD H. BAilEy, Manager of the Camping Tours Department, Yosemite National Park Co.

MOtORinG in YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 307 By WAllAcE B. CURtiS, Associate Manager, Curry Camping Company

PhOtOGRAphy in YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARk 313 By ARthUR C. PillSbURy, Yosemite, California

AppEnDiX 319

InDEX 333

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FAcinG plAtE pAGE I— YOSEMitE VAllEy FROM OlD InSpiRAtiOn POint Frontispiece II— TEnAyA LAKE, WhERE thE LASt REMnAnt OF thE YOSEMitE TRiBE wAS CAptURED 16 III— LiBERty CAp AnD NEvADA FAllS 32 IV— FRAnciScO, A YOSEMitE InDiAn, in DAncE COStUME 56 V— MiwOK WOMAn POUnDinG AcORnS in BEDROcK MORtAR HOlE 64 KAlApinE, An OlD YOSEMitE MEDicinE WOMAn, MAKinG A COilED BASKEt VI— TwO YOSEMitE DOMES. MOUnt StAR KinG AnD HAlF DOME 104 VII— LyEll CAnyOn with MOUnt LyEll AnD itS GlAciER SEvERAl MilES DiStAnt 112 VIII— MAlE WEStERn WARBlinG ViREO On thE NESt 136 IX— ThE WAtER OUZEl 144 X— ROcKy MOUntAin MUlE DEER 156 XI— MOUntAin LiOn OR COUGAR 160 XII— AMERicAn BlAcK BEAR 164 XIII— ThE CAliFORniA GRAy SQUiRREl, TAhOE ChipMUnK, AnD PAciFic RAttlESnAKE 168 XIV— SOME TROUt OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARK 186 XV— SOME TROUt OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARK 192 XVI— SOME BUttERFliES AnD MOthS OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARK 208 XVII— SOME BEEtlES, WASpS, AnD FliES OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARK 216 XVIII— YOSEMitE FORESt OF PinE, FiR, IncEnSE CEDAR, AnD SEQUOiA 222 XIX— RED FiR-WhitE FiR FORESt On thE POhOnO TRAil 224 XX— WEStERn JUnipER TREES At BEnSOn LAKE 228

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XXI— MOUntAin HEMlOcKS On RiM OF MAttERhORn CAnyOn 232 XXII— BiG TREE CABin in thE MARipOSA GROvE 238 XXIII— TypicAl FORESt in thE MARipOSA GROvE 244 XXIV— WAShinGtOn Lily 250 XXV— RED HEAthER, EvEninG PRiMROSE, AnD InDiAn PAint BRUSh 256 XXVI— ThE SnOw PlAnt 260 XXVII— ShOOtinG StAR, BlEEDinG HEARt, AnD ElEphAnt HEADS 264 MAp OF YOSEMitE NAtiOnAl PARK 332

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HISTORY OF THE YOSEMITE REGION

By RAlph S. KUykEnDAll

N. S. G. W., Fellow in Pacific Coast History, University of California

It is probable that the first white men to look upon Yosemite Valley were members of the Joseph R. Walker expedition of 1833, which descended the western slope of the Sierra Nevada along the ridge between the Merced and the Tuolumne rivers. But the best contemporary evidence makes it clear that this party did not go down into the Valley. There are vague reports of hunters having entered the Valley as early as 1844, but the effective discovery of the Yosemite was made in 1851 by members of the Mariposa Battalion while in pursuit of hostile Indians.

THE MARIPOSA INDIAN WAR

When white men flocked into the foothills of the Sierra in search of gold it was not long before difficulties arose with the Indians. On this frontier was repeated the old story of the red man’s fight to keep possession of his ancestral home. The struggle was short, since the California Indians were not capable of maintaining a long contest. In this connection we are concerned with only that part of the struggle which is known as the Mariposa Indian War.

In the beginning of 1850, James D. Savage had a trading post and mining camp on the Merced River some twenty miles below Yosemite Valley, which was at that time unknown to the whites. During the spring of that year Indians

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came down the river and made an attack on this post. They were driven off, but Savage thought it best to abandon the place and remove his store to Mariposa Creek. He also established a branch post on the Fresno River and at both places built up a prosperous trade. Savage had several Indian wives and obtained quite a remarkable influence over the tribes with which he was connected. But there were malcontents among them and the tribes in the mountains were suspicious and easily incited to acts of hostility.

On December 17, 1850, Savage’s Indians deserted the Mariposa camp and on the same or the following day his post on the Fresno was attacked and two of the three men there present were killed. Adam Johnston, the Indian agent, visited the place two days later and describes it as "a horrid scene of savage cruelty. The Indians had destroyed everything they could not use, or carry with them. The store was stripped of blankets, clothing, flour, and everything of value; the safe was broken open and rifled of its contents; the cattle, horses, and mules had been run into the mountains; the murdered men had been stripped of their clothing and lay before us filled with arrows; one of them had yet 20 perfect arrows sticking in him." Several similar outrages occurred soon after and signalized the beginning of a general Indian war.

Under these circumstances the white settlers took prompt action to protect themselves. Under the lead of Sheriff James Burney and James D. Savage, a volunteer company was formed, January 6, 1851, with Burney in command. This force had several indecisive skirmishes with the Indians. Meanwhile the governor was appealed to and he at once authorized Sheriff Burney to call out two hundred militiamen and organize a battalion for service as the emergency might demand. Under this authorization the Mariposa Battalion was formed February 10th, at Savage’s partially ruined store on Mariposa Creek. Savage was elected major, and three companies were organized under command of Captains John J. Kuykendall, John Bowling, and William Dill. Headquarters were established on Mariposa Creek and here the battalion was drilled in preparation for the campaign, and occasional scouting forays were made into the enemy’s country.

About this time the United States Indian Commissioners, McKee, Barbour, and Wozencraft arrived in California with instructions to make treaties with the Indian tribes. It was agreed that the commissioners would go at once to the disaffected region and endeavor to treat with the hostile tribes, and that the volunteer battalion which had been raised should be subject to their directions. If negotiations failed, force would be used to bring the Indians to terms. The commissioners arrived at the Mariposa camp about the first of March, and immediately sent out runners inviting the various tribes to come in and have a talk. A meeting was arranged for the ninth of arch, and on the nineteenth a treaty was made with six tribes, which were at once removed to a reservation between the Merced and the Tuolumne rivers. The commissioners then went on to talk with the tribes south of the Merced River, and left part of the volunteer battalion to deal with the Indians who had refused to enter into the treaty.

Among these were the Yosemites, and reports brought in by friendly Indians indicated that they had no intention of coming in to make peace. It was therefore deemed necessary to send a military force after them.

On the evening of March nineteenth, the very day on which the treaty was signed, Major Savage set out with the companies of Captains Bowling and Dill. "The march was over rugged mountains and through deep defiles covered with snows and was one of considerable exposure and hardship. . . . Part of the march was exceedingly difficult and dangerous. It lay along a deep canyon and a part of it had to be made through the water and a part over precipitous cliffs covered with snow and ice."

On the morning of the twenty-second, a Nuchu rancheria, on the South Fork of the Merced River was surprised and captured without a fight. At this point a camp was established and messengers were sent ahead to the Yosemites with a request that they come into camp. Next day the old Chief Tenaya came in alone, and after an interview with Savage promised that if allowed to return to his people he would bring them in. Part of the tribe came in and Tenaya was sent with them to the camp on the South Fork.

DISCOVERY OF YOSEMITE VALLEY

In order to round up the remainder, Savage took one of the young braves as a guide and continued his march toward the north. Within a short time the company came to old Inspiration Point and the full view of the Valley was presented

to their gaze. It must be confessed, however, that the scenic wonder of this valley made a very slight impression on these rough men of action, and without much ado they hastened down the trail and camped for the night on the south side of the Merced River, a little below El Capitan. The day of the discovery was March 25, 1851.

As the tired campaigners sat about the camp fire that night the events of the day were passed in review and the question arose of giving a name to the valley which they had found. Dr. L. H. Bunnell, upon whom the scenes and events of this campaign made a deeper impression than upon any of the others, suggested the appropriateness of naming it after the aborigines who dwelt there. The suggestion was greed to after some good-natured banter, and since the white men called these Indians Yosemites the name Yosemite was given to the Valley

The next day was spent in a search of the Valley, but no Indians were found save an ancient squaw who was too old and decrepit to make her escape. Indian huts, evidently deserted but a few hours before, and large caches of acorns and other provisions were found and destroyed. The Valley was thoroughly explored by the volunteers, one party going up Tenaya Creek beyond Mirror Lake and another ascending the Merced to a point above Nevada Fall. The search proving fruitless and the supplies running low it was decided to abandon the chase and return to the camp on the South Fork. From there the Indians who had been gathered together were started toward the commissioners on the Fresno, but before they arrived at their destination the negligence of the guard permitted them to escape and they returned to their mountain fastnesses.

SECOND EXPEDITION TO YOSEMITE

Early in May, Captain Bowling and his men were sent out a second time in pursuit of the Yosemites. His orders from Major Savage were to "surprise them and whip them well," and in case that proved impossible then to use any means in his power to induce them to come down and treat. The following account of this expedition is quoted from Captain Bowling’s report in the form of two letters, one of which is beyond any question the first letter ever written in the Yosemite Valley. Writing from the "Yo-Semety Village, May 15, 1851," he says1: [1 The following authentic account was recently found by the author in the San Francisco Alta California for June 12 and 14, 1851, and differs in some details from the narratives presented in Bunnell’s Discovery of the Yosemite and Hutchings’ In the Heart of the Sierras. Editor’s note.]

"On reaching this valley, which we did on the 9th instant, I selected for our encampment the most secluded place that I could find, lest our arrival might be discovered by the Indians. Spies were immediately dispatched in different directions, some of which crossed the river to examine for signs on the opposite side. Trails were soon found, leading up and down the river, which had been made since the last rain. On the morning of the 10th we took up the line of march for the upper end of the valley, and having traveled about 5 miles we discovered five Indians running up the river on the north side. All of my companions, except a sufficient number to take care of the pack animals, put spurs to their animals, swam the river and caught them before they. could get into the mountains. One of them proved to be the son the old Yosemite chief. I informed them that if they would come down from the mountains and go with me to the United States Indian commissioners, they would not be hurt; but if they would not, I would remain in their neighborhood as long as there was a fresh track to be found; informing him at the same time that all the Indians except his father’s people and the Chouchillas had treated. . . . He then informed me that . . . if I would let him loose with another Indian, he would bring in his father and all his people by twelve o’clock the next day.

"I then gave them plenty to eat and started him and his companion out. We watched the others close, intending to hold them as hostages until the dispatch-bearers returned. They appeared well satisfied and we were not suspicious of them, in consequence of which one of them escaped. We commenced searching for him, which alarmed the other two still in custody, and they attempted to make their escape. The boys took after them and, finding they could not catch them, fired and killed them both. This circumstance, connected with the fact of the two whom we had sent out not returning, satisfied me that they had no intention of coming in. My command then set out to search for the rancheria. The party which went up the left toward Canyarthia [?] found the rancheria at the head of a little valley, and from the signs it appeared that the Indians had left but a few minutes. The boys pursued them up the mountain on the north side of the river, and when they had got near the top, helping each other from rock to rock on account of the abruptness of the mountains, the first intimation they had of the Indians being near was a shower of huge rocks which came tumbling down the mountain, threatening instant destruction. Several of the men were knocked down, and some of them rolled and fell some distance before. they could recover, wounding and bruising them generally. One man’s gun was knocked

out of his hand and fell 70 feet before it stopped, whilst another man’s hat was knocked off his head without hurting him. The men immediately took shelter behind large rocks, from which they could get an occasional shot, which soon forced the Indians to retreat, and by pressing them close they caught the old Yosemite Chief, whom we yet hold as a prisoner. In this skirmish they killed one Indian and wounded several others.

"You are aware that I know this old fellow well enough to look out well for him, lest by some stratagem he makes his escape. I shall aim to use him to the best advantage in pursuing his people. I send down a few of my command with the pack animals for provisions; and I am satisfied if you will send me 10 or 12 of old Ponwatchi’s best men I could catch the women and children and thereby force the men to come in. The Indians I have with me have acted in good faith and agree with me in this opinion." The account is continued in the second letter which was written May 29th at the camp on the Fresno River:

". . . Notwithstanding the number of our party being reduced to 22 men, by the absence of the detachment necessary to escort with safety the pack train, we continued the chase with such rapidity, that we forced a large portion of the Indians to take refuge in the plains with the friendly Indians, while the remainder sought to conceal themselves among the rugged cliffs in the snowy region of the Sierra Nevada.

"Thus far I have made it a point to give as little alarm as possible. After capturing some of them I set a portion at liberty, in order that they might assure the others that if they come in they would not be harmed. Notwithstanding the treachery of the old chief, who contrived to lie and deceive us all the time, his grey hairs saved the boys from inflicting on him that justice which would have been administered under other circumstances. Having become satisfied that we could not persuade him to come in, I determined on hunting them, and if possible running them down, lest by leaving them in the mountains they would form a new settlement and a place of refuge for other ill-disposed Indians who might do mischief and retreat to the mountains, and finally entice off those who are quiet and settled in the reserve. On the 20th [of May] the train of pack animals and provisions arrived, accompanied by a few more men than the party which went out after provisions, and Ponwatchi, the chief of the Nuchtucs, [Nuchu] tribe with 12 of his warriors.

"On the morning of the 21st we discovered the trail of a small party of Indians traveling in the direction of the Monos’ country. We followed this trail until 2 o’clock next day, 22d, when one of the scouting parties reported a rancheria near at hand. Almost at the same instant a spy was discovered watching our movements. We made chase after him immediately and succeeded in catching him before he arrived at the rancheria, and we also succeeded in surrounding the ranch and capturing the whole of them. This chase in reality was not that source of amusement which it should seem to be when anticipated. Each man in the chase was stripped to his drawers, in which situation all hands ran at full speed at least four miles, some portion of the time over and through snow ten feet deep, and in this four-mile heat all Ponwatchi gained on my boys was only distance enough to enable them to surround the rancheria while my men ran up in front. Two Indians strung their bows and seized their arrows, when they were told if they did not surrender they would be instantly killed.

"They took the proper view of this precaution and immediately surrendered. The inquiry was made of those unfortunate people if they were then satisfied to go with us; their reply was they were more than willing, as they could go to no other place. From all we could see and learn from those people we were then on the main range of the Sierra Nevada. The snow was in many places more than 10 feet deep, and generally where it was deep the crust was sufficiently strong to bear a man’s weight, which facilitated our traveling very much. Here there was a large lake completely frozen over, which had evidently not yet felt the influence of the spring season.1 [1 This was Tenaya Lake, named after the old chief. ] The trail which we were bound to travel lay along the side of a steep mountain so slippery that it was difficult to get along barefoot without slipping and falling hundreds of yards. This place appearing to be their last resort or place where they considered themselves perfectly secure from the intrusion of the white man. In fact those people appear to look upon this place as their last home, composed of nature’s own materials, unaided by the skill of man.

"The conduct of Ponwatchi and his warriors during this expedition entitled him and them to much credit. They performed important service voluntarily and cheerfully, making themselves generally useful, particularly in catching the scattered Indians after surprising a rancheria. of the Yosemites, few, if any, are now left in the mountains. . . .

"It seems that their determined obstinacy is entirely attributable to the influence of their chief, whom we have a prisoner, among others of his tribe, and whom we intend to take care of. They have now been taught the double lesson —that the white man would not give up the chase without the game, and at the same time if they would come down from the mountains and behave themselves they would be kindly treated.

Altogether Captain Bowling’s command spent about two weeks in the Valley on this occasion. The main purpose of the expedition having been accomplished, a return was made to the headquarters on the Fresno and the Indians were placed on the reservation. Tenaya, however, chafed under restraint and appealed repeatedly for permission to return to the mountains. Finally, on his solemn promise to behave, he was allowed to go back to the Valley, taking his immediate family with him. In a short time a number of his old followers made their escape from the reservation and were supposed to have joined him. No attempt was made to bring them back, and no complaint was heard against the Yosemites during the winter of 1851-52.

EXPEDITION OF 1852

On the 20th of May, 1852, a party of eight prospectors started from Coarse Gold Gulch on a trip to the upper waters of the Merced River. They had just entered the Yosemite Valley when they were set upon, by a band of Indians and two of them, named Rose and Shurborn, were killed and a third badly wounded. The others got away and after enduring great hardships arrived again at Coarse Gold Gulch on the 2d of June. The same day about thirty or forty miners set out to punish the treacherous Yosemites. This party found the bodies of the murdered men and buried them at the edge of Bridalveil Meadow, where their graves are still to be seen, but they were compelled to return without punishing the murderers.

The commander at Fort Miller being informed of these events, a detachment of Regulars under Lieutenant Moore was at once dispatched into the mountains. On arriving in the Yosemite Valley this expedition surprised and captured five Indians. Clothing said to belong to the murdered men being found upon them, they were summarily shot. The remainder of the Yosemites with their old Chief Tenaya made their escape and fled over the mountains into the Mono country. Thither the soldiers pursued, but were unable to catch any of them. The party lost a few horses, killed by the Indians, explored the region about Mono Lake, discovered some gold deposits, and then returned to the fort on the San Joaquin by a route that led south of the Yosemite Valley. A diary of this expedition, published in one of the Stockton newspapers about the 1st of October, 1852, contains one of our earliest descriptions of Mono Lake and vicinity. After the return of the expedition, a party of miners under the leadership of Leroy Vining, attracted by the reported gold discoveries, crossed over the mountains and established themselves on what came to be known as Vining’s Gulch or Creek. (The name appears on the maps a little later as Lee Vining Creek and upon the present maps as Leevining Creek.)

DEATH OF TENAYA

Tenaya and his fellow tribesmen seem to have remained among the Monos until the summer of 1853, when they returned once more to Yosemite Valley. They repaid the hospitality of the Monos by stealing a number of their horses. This proceeding stirred the wrath of the Monos, and they determined to wreak vengeance upon their erstwhile guests. They put on their war paint and descended suddenly upon the Yosemites while the latter were in the midst of a gluttonous feast. Old Tenaya had his skull crushed by a rock hurled from the hand of a Mono warrior and all except a handful of his followers were slain. The tribe was virtually exterminated, though a few of their descendants still survive.

EARLY DEVELOPMENT

In spite of the exciting events which have been related above, Yosemite Valley was little disturbed by the visits of white men for some years longer. The Californians of that day, and particularly those in the mining region, were on the whole very little interested in scenery. Early in 1855, however, one of the very meager descriptions of the Valley which had found its way into print came by chance to the notice of J. M. Hutchings. Hutchings was at the moment

laying plans for the publication of his California Magazine, and for that reason the mention of a waterfall a thousand feet high arrested his attention, and he resolved to investigate the matter.

Early in the summer Hutchings organized what may fairly be considered the first tourist party to visit the Yosemite, consisting of himself, Walter Millard, and Thomas Ayres, an artist. At Mariposa, a fourth member, Alexander Stair, joined the party. Some difficulty was experienced in the matter of a guide, but finally, through the assistance of Captain Bowling and some other members of the Mariposa Battalion, two Indians were found to perform that essential service, and in due time the party found their way into the Valley, where they spent, says Hutchings, "five glorious days in luxurious scenic banqueting." Upon their return to the settlements these men gave an enthusiastic account of their experiences. Hutchings wrote an article which was printed in the Mariposa Gazette of August 16th, and parts of which were quoted in the San Francisco California Chronicle of August 18th. A picture drawn by Ayres was lithographed and published soon after, and before the year was out two other parties made their way into the Valley In the same year the construction of the first trail into the Valley was begun by Milton and Houston Mann. It was completed the next year but did not prove a paying investment and was soon sold to the county of Mariposa and made free. The old Coulterville trail was opened within a year or two and the Valley thus made accessible. from both north and south; but accessible by rather a hard and painful journey. As time went by roads approached ever

PLATE II Tenaya Lake where the last remnant of the Yosemite tribe was captured by the Mariposa Battalion on June 5, 1851. Photo by A. C. Pillsbury nearer from various directions, but it was many years before they reached the floor of the Valley. In the early days it required fortitude as well as enthusiasm to make a trip to Yosemite, and travelers of that time have left us many accounts of their discomforting experiences.

In 1855 the walls of a cabin were erected in the lower end of the Valley by a party of surveyors who were seeking water for the Mariposa dry diggings, but the first house actually completed was built in 1856-1857. Being severely damaged by snow, it was replaced in 1858 by a more substantial structure, which was kept as a hotel during the next decade by a number of different parties. Included in the number of these early Yosemite inn-keepers was the Longhurst whom Clarence King describes as a "weather-beaten round-the-worlder, whose function .. . . was to tell yarns, sing songs, and feed the inner man," and whose flapjacks the same fascinating writer professed a reluctance to eat, because that would seem like "breakfasting in sacrilege upon works of art." In 1859 was completed the central portion of the building which later became known as the Hutchings House, the lumber all being hewed or sawed out by hand. It may be of interest to note that this building (the present Cedar Cottage) was the subject of the first photograph ever taken in Yosemite. [Editor’s note: Charles Leander Weed’s first photograph, taken June 18, 1859 was of Yosemite Falls, not what was latter known as the Hutchings House, which was photographed 3 days later—DEA.]

The first permanent resident in the Valley was James C. Lamon, who took up a preëmption claim in its upper end in

the fall of 1859, built a cabin, and laid out a garden and orchard which became famous in after years. From 1862 he resided in the Valley both summer and winter until his death in 1876.

In the spring of 1864 J. M. Hutchings came to Yosemite with his family, having purchased a claim and arranged to buy the building to which his name became attached. After his advent as a permanent resident Hutchings was for a decade the leading figure in the Valley’s history. He was "mine host" to a large proportion of the people who visited Yosemite in that period, and while there is abundant evidence that as an hotel-keeper he was not an overwhelming success, we may, perhaps, assume that his hospitable enthusiasm compensated in some degree at least for the defects of his hostelry.

AN HISTORIC SAWMILL

In order to make necessary improvements in his establishment Hutchings erected a small sawmill near the Yosemite Fall, for the purpose of turning into lumber a lot of trees that had been thrown down by a windstorm some years before. This sawmill of Hutchings’ has rather a higher claim to notice than is possessed by most such structures: for nearly two years it was operated by no less a personage than John Muir. Muir was then on the threshold of his career, engaged, in the intervals between his work as sawyer and guide, in gathering the data on which were based his glacial studies of the high Sierra and in forming that passionate attachment for the "Mountains of Light," which proved to be so significant a factor in his life as well as in the history of the region.

It was also the scene of the first meeting, in August, 1870, of two men whose names and memories will forever linger in these mountains—Muir and the elder Le Conte. The latter has described the meeting and set down his first impressions of Muir:

"To-day to Yosemite Falls. . . . Stopped a moment at the foot of the falls, at a sawmill, to make inquiries. Here found a man in rough miller’s garb, whose intelligent face and earnest, clear blue eye, excited my interest. After some conversation discovered that it was Mr. Muir, a gentleman of whom I had heard much from Mrs. Prof. Carr and others. He had also received a letter from Mrs. Carr, concerning our party, and was looking for us. . . . I urged him to go with us to Mono. [Later in the day we] learned from Mr. Muir that he would certainly go to Mono with us. We were much delighted to hear this. Mr. Muir is a gentleman of rare intelligence. . . . He has lived several years in the Valley, and is thoroughly acquainted with the mountains in the vicinity. A man of so much intelligence tending a sawmill!—not for himself, but for Mr. Hutchings. This is California!"

It seems singularly appropriate that these two men should meet thus for the first time in the great temple of nature which both loved so well; and under such circumstances, Muir in the rough garb of a mill operator and Le Conte in the scarcely less rough garb of a mountain traveler. It was Le Conte’s first summer in the Sierra, and Muir conducted him and his party over the route which he himself had traced out for the first time only a year before.

CREATION OF STATE PARK

During the first decade after the Valley was brought to general notice the desirability of setting it aside as a park became manifest. The danger that it would soon fall into private hands led Senator Conness of California, in 1864, to secure the passage by Congress of an act granting to the State of California "the Cleft, or Gorge, in the Granite Peak of the Sierra Nevada Mountains . . . known as the Yosemite Valley," with the stipulation, however, that it should be held for public use, resort, and recreation and should be inalienable for all time.

By the same act the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, four square miles, was also granted to the State under the same conditions. The act further provided that the two grants should be managed by a board of commissioners consisting of the Governor and eight other persons appointed by him.

On September twenty-eighth Governor F. K. Low issued a proclamation naming Frederick Law Olmsted, Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Ashburner, I. W. Raymond, E. S. Holden, Alexander Deering, George W. Coulter, and Galen Clark as commissioners, and warning all persons to desist from trespassing or settling upon either of the

two grants. At the first session of the legislature thereafter a law was enacted, April 2, 1866, legally constituting the Board of Commissioners, making the necessary provisions for the control and administration of the trust created by the grant from the federal government, and making a small appropriation for the first two years.

ADMINISTRATION OF STATE COMMISSIONERS

The commissioners first named and those subsequently appointed were, as a whole, well selected, but circumstances conspired to defeat many of their best efforts. They had scarcely entered upon the discharge of their duties when they found themselves involved in a prolonged litigation. The settlers, Hutchings and Lamon, who had made their homes in the Valley, refused to surrender their holdings upon the invitation of the Commission. After some fruitless negotiation a test suit was brought against Hutchings, which in the district court was decided in his favor. On appeal to the Supreme Court of the State the judgment was reversed, and on being carried to the federal Supreme Court the position of the Commissioners was fully sustained. But in the meantime Lamon and Hutchings had brought their case to the legislature, and that body, under the influence of a sympathetic agitation, passed a bill granting to each of them a tract of 160 acres in the Valley, subject, however, to the approval of Congress. That approval was never given, so that finally, in 1875, after a second legal action against Hutchings, the Commissioners found themselves in full and undisputed control, for the State, of the property which they had been appointed to manage. On their recommendation the legislature in 1874 appropriated $60,000 to compensate Lamon, Hutchings, and two others for the loss of their claims in the Valley.

The Commissioners were unquestionably right in the position which they assumed, and we cannot dismiss this phase of the subject without remarking upon the service which they rendered to the State and the nation in thus pursuing the case to its final settlement in their favor. The extinguishment of private titles has been one of the most perplexing and difficult problems confronting the administration of the park, whether state or national. At the same time we cannot overlook the equities in the case of the settlers, nor forget the fact that Hutchings in this early period did more perhaps than any other one person to make known to the world the beauties and the wonders of Yosemite.

This controversy resulted in the creation of a rallying point for all forces hostile to the park administration. The granting of a road privilege on the north side of the Valley furnishes another example of the difficulties constantly arising. In 1869 the Commissioners granted to certain parties interested in the Big Oak Flat route the exclusive privilege of extending a toll road to the floor of the Valley on that side. These parties having failed to carry out their agreement, the Commissioners in 1872 granted a similar exclusive privilege to the Coulterville and Yosemite Turnpike Company, who went to work at once and completed their road into the Valley June 17, 1874. After this privilege had been granted, the Yosemite Turnpike Road Company, representing the Big Oak Flat route, applied for the privilege of building a free road from the edge of the park into the Valley. This, being denied by the Commission, the company appealed to the legislature, which gave it the right prayed for. This road also was completed in the summer of 1874, and in the following year the Wawona road was extended into the Valley.

The Commissioners were greatly handicapped by the litigation described and the hostility which it engendered; by the action of the legislature in overriding their decisions, in the cases above mentioned; by the fact that the public was generally indifferent except as it was aroused by the distressed appeals of adversely affected individuals; by the lack of funds with which to work; and to an important degree by the fact that there was no accepted park practice or policy to guide them. Opposition to the Commission culminated in the legislative session of 1880, when the Commissioners were incontinently ousted from office by the action of the legislators and a subsequent decision of the Supreme Court of the State. A new law was passed and a new board appointed.

The new body signalized its entry into office by appointing as Guardian J. M. Hutchings, in place of Galen Clark who had held the office for the preceding fourteen years. This board profited to some extent by the experience of its predecessor, especially since the controversy over private holdings had been settled, but it also succeeded in doing many things which called forth sharp criticism. It was necessary to adopt a policy for dealing with such questions as the granting of hotel, carriage, and saddle-train privileges, the use that should be made of the meadow lands, and the kind of attention that should be given to the wooded areas—whether to cut and prune or to leave the brush and young trees to grow untouched; and the policy adopted was sure to displease someone.

Still, the new Commission was in much better position to do effective work than the old one had been, and the next decade saw important results accomplished—the roads and trails within the park lines were freed from the vexatious tolls that had before encumbered them; new roads and bridges were constructed within both the Yosemite grant and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove; a pretentious hotel, the Stoneman House, was erected near the upper end of the Valley, for which the legislature in 1885 appropriated $40,000. The new hotel turned out to be an unprofitable investment, for, as it was not properly constructed, expensive repairs were necessary. The building was finally burned to the ground in the summer of 1896.

The remainder of the period during which Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state control witnessed slow but steady development along all lines; and it also witnessed a more significant thing—the growth of a wider and more intelligent interest in matters affecting the park, which had an inevitable and healthy reaction upon the administration.

MAPPING THE YOSEMITE REGION

It is only in recent years that the vast alpine region to the north and east of Yosemite Valley has become generally known to tourists, though for many years before that it was familiar to many mountain lovers. The first white men who frequented this Yosemite hinterland were miners and sheepherders and cattlemen. After them came the surveyors and then the soldiers of the republic to guard the mountain meadows and forests from the destructive forces at work. And lastly the tourists, at first in little groups at long intervals, but now in throngs, to see the glories of the mountains.

The first systematic reconnaissance of the Yosemite region was made by the California Geological Survey between 1863 and 1867. The first expedition, in 1863, covered in a general way the watershed between the Merced and the Tuolumne and the headwaters of those rivers. Their later expeditions were made directly as a result of the creation of the state park, first to survey its boundaries and secondly to gather data or the preparation of the maps and text of a book descriptive of the Yosemite region which was published by the California Geological Survey in 1868. It was in connection with these and other expeditions of the State Geological Survey that Clarence King had the experiences so delightfully described in his book "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada." To this survey we are indebted for the names of many of the peaks, and for the first accurate maps of the region. The same area was covered in 1878-79 by a party of the Wheeler Survey in charge of Lieutenant M. M. Macomb. The definitive mapping of the region has, of course, been done by the United States Geological Survey, whose fine topographic maps are familiar to all mountain travelers.

THE TRAIL OF THE MINER

The trail of the miner is found everywhere in the Sierra Nevada. We have already seen that the discovery of Yosemite was a result of the mining advance into the foothills. Subsequently there were two well defined periods of mining excitement which were of importance in the history of the region. The first of these began about 1857 when placer gold was discovered in what are broadly referred to as the Mono diggings. To accommodate the miners and pack trains passing to and fro across the range the Mono Trail was blazed out easterly along the ridge between the Merced and the Tuolumne, following in the main old Indian trails, and descending into the Mono plain through the steep defile of Bloody Canyon. For a few years this trail was much traveled and then fell into disuse as the placers were worked out. When Joseph Le Conte passed over it first in 1870 he found it nearly obliterated in many places.

The miners went elsewhere, but soon flocked back again in even greater numbers, when gold and silver ores were discovered in the summit ridge about 1878. In a short time claims were staked out all the way from Parker Pass to Virginia Creek, but the interest centered principally at Lundy and Tioga. In 1881 a group of Eastern capitalists incorporated the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company for the purpose of exploiting the central group of claims in the Tioga District. A post office, called Bennettville in honor of the president of the company, was established and operations were vigorously pushed. The writer has seen in a little paper published at Lundy a graphic description of the way in which the first machinery for the Tioga mine was snaked up the mountain side to Oneida Lake on skids, hoisted with a windlass to the summit of Tioga crest and thence dragged past Saddlebag Lake into Tioga in the dead of winter. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/history.html[2/12/2013 10:00:41 AM] History of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ralph S. Kuykendall

But this was too primitive a method to be used for bringing in all the heavy machinery and other supplies required. The company therefore determined to build a road up the western slope to Bennettville; and thus was inaugurated the building of the famous Tioga Road. The surveys were made in 1882 and construction work was begun in the fall of that year, Chinese labor being employed. The road was completed in the fall of 1883, having cost about $62,000. In December, 1883, and January, 1884, toll franchises were granted by the counties of Mariposa and Tuolumne and for a short time tolls were collected from travelers who used the road.

Financial disaster overtook the company after it had expended over $300,000 and the mine was closed in July, 1884. Subsequently, in January, 1888, he entire property, including the road, was sold by the Sheriff to W. C. N. Swift of New Bedford, Mass., who had been interested in the original company. In 1889 operations were resumed in the mine but were not long continued. The road, abandoned by its owners, year by year fell into disrepair.

It was during this period of mining excitement that John L. Murphy took up his claim on the shore of Lake Tenaya, built a cabin, and established a stopping place that was sometimes distinguished with the title of hotel. John B. Lembert took up a claim in the Tuolumne Meadows which included the Soda Springs. For several years a saddle train was run during the summer between Lundy and Yosemite, and these places were connected by telephone. There was also the inevitable crop of rumors regarding projected railroads to cross the Sierras through this region. Finally it is to be noticed that in the summer of 1881 silver mineral was discovered near Mt. Hoffman and the considerable excitement occasioned by it resulted in the organization of the Mt. Hoffman Mining District. Some months later John B. Lembert is said to have found a vein of silver bearing quartz in the Tuolumne Meadows. Sufficient quantities of ore have never been found to justify the working of these claims.

THE RÉGIME OF THE SHEEPHERDER

During all this time the Yosemite region was the haunt of the sheepherders and their all-devouring woolly charges. The mountain meadows are the finest of all sheep pastures, and year by year they were visited by countless thousands of these "hoofed locusts," as John Muir aptly termed them. As soon as the early summer heat dried up the grasses of the plains and foothills the herds were headed toward the higher mountains, and before the autumn chill started them on their backward journey to the plains they had penetrated into every little grassy glade, leaving a desert in their wake, eating up or trampling to death every young plant that lay in their path, not excepting the young fir, which were for them an especially prized tidbit.

John Muir in his first summer in the Sierra noted the damage and destruction that was wrought by the sheep. The State Engineer, Wm. Ham Hall, in a report to the State Commission in 1882, called attention to the disaster threatening the Valley from the indiscriminate grazing of sheep in the Merced watershed. It was not alone the fact that the sheep ate up every green thing within their reach, or that their myriad trampling feet loosened the soil on the hillsides; the shepherd, through design or carelessness, applied the match, and "his trail to the plain was marked by the smoke of the burning forest."

CREATION OF NATIONAL PARK

The sheep may fairly be said to have been responsible for the formation of the Yosemite National Park. The first determined effort to protect the region surrounding the Valley from the destruction wrought by them was in 1881, when the State Commissioners fathered a movement to include in the state park a district somewhat smaller than the present national park. A bill embodying this plan was introduced into Congress but through the vigorous opposition of powerful local interests the success of the movement was frustrated. The Commissioners continued for some years to urge the measure, but they were never able to muster sufficient influence to put it through.

In 1889, John Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson, one of the editors of the Century Magazine, camped together in Tuolumne Meadows. Muir pointed out to his friend the devastation that was being wrought by the sheep, and it was agreed, at Johnson’s suggestion, that the way to save the region was to have it set aside as a national park. A plan of action was agreed upon—Muir to write for the Century a series of articles designed to arouse public sentiment, and Johnson to secure for the movement as much support as possible from influential men in the East. The movement thus http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/history.html[2/12/2013 10:00:41 AM] History of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ralph S. Kuykendall

launched culminated successfully in the enactment of a law, approved October 1, 1890, to set aside this region as "reserved forest lands." The name Yosemite National Park was somewhat inconsistently applied to it by the Secretary of the Interior. The original boundaries were larger !an the present limits of the Park, including as they Id a considerable area on the west and southeast which has been eliminated by subsequent legislation.

THE WORK OF THE SOLDIERS

The control of the Park was vested in the Secretary of the Interior, and the plan of administration adopted was to place the local authority in the hands of an Acting Superintendent, who was a military officer in charge of one or more troops of cavalry. The first Superintendent was Captain A. E. Wood, an intelligent and energetic officer, for whom the post at Wawona was later named. The soldiers ordinarily came in in April or May and took their departure in October. During the winter two forest rangers patrolled the Park, so far as it could be patrolled.

The difficulties confronting the first Superintendent were rather formidable: the boundaries not having been surveyed were difficult or impossible to locate; the country to be patrolled was large and extremely rough; there was no well- planned trail system, and no detailed topographic map showing the location of such trails as did exist; it was necessary for the Superintendent to make himself acquainted with the region and to organize and direct a plan for protecting it, from the encroachments of the sheep and cattlemen, who, having had undisturbed use of the Park for a quarter of a century, were extremely reluctant now to abandon it.

Headquarters were established at Wawona and from there patrols were sent out to cover the entire Park systematically. The principal work of these patrols was in fighting fires and in preventing trespassing within the Park lines by sheep and cattle. No penalty had been provided by Congress for the infraction of rules. The army officers ingeniously adopted the plan of driving the sheep from the Park and escorting the herders across the mountains to the opposite boundary. This plan when vigorously followed soon resulted in reducing this evil to a minimum. Besides these more general duties the soldiers frequently were compelled to repair trails and bridges along the line of their march. One Superintendent reports the clearing out and repair by the troop of more than sixty miles of trails in one season. The protection of the game within the Park from the depredations of predatory hunters was an important duty of the patrols.

These troopers were faithful and efficient. In the discharge of their duties they not infrequently were called upon to push their way through snow-filled passes and to ford bowlder strewn and angry mountain streams at flood water, sometimes in peril of their lives. One carries away from a perusal of the reports of the various Superintendents an increased respect for the military arm of the national government.

To the subordinate officers of the command there were frequent opportunities for special service. During the early years Lieutenants N. F. McClure, H. C. Benson, M. F. Davis, and W. R. Smedberg made a careful study of the topography of the region and from their notes and the results of previous surveys Lieutenant McClure prepared an excellent map for the use of the troops, on which the topography and the trails were accurately delineated. Lieutenant Benson spent several seasons in the Park, first as a junior officer and later with rank of Captain and Major as Acting Superintendent, and has always been keenly interested in all matters affecting it. It was upon his suggestion that the system of permanent patrolling stations was instituted in 1903. This greatly facilitated the work of the troopers. After a few years a telephone line was built connecting these stations with headquarters in Yosemite Valley, and thus instant communication could be had with all parts of the Park.

PLANTING TROUT IN YOSEMITE WATERS

Lieutenant Benson was an enthusiast on the subject of fishing and at all times took a lively interest in the stocking of the waters of the Park. Not only did he direct the planting of trout fry sent into the Park by the California State Fish Commissioners, but he personally netted trout in a number of lakes and streams and placed them in unstocked waters.

This was a work of primary importance, since fish are not indigenous in any of the lakes or streams in the upper Yosemite region. John L. Murphy is said to have planted trout in Tenaya Lake in 1878, and about the same time the Yosemite State Commissioners took up the question of stocking the Yosemite streams. They proposed to have a http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/history.html[2/12/2013 10:00:41 AM] History of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ralph S. Kuykendall

hatchery established in the Valley. This plan, renewed from time to time, was not then carried out, but at their suggestion the State Fish Commissioners sent in young trout to be planted in the Merced River and its tributaries. After the establishment of the national park the planting of trout fry came to be one of the regular duties of the soldiers. In 1895, Washburn Brothers erected at Wawona a fish hatchery which was operated by the State Fish Commission, and from here millions of fry have been distributed in the lakes and streams throughout the Park. During 1919, the State Fish and Game Commission operated a temporary hatchery in Yosemite Valley under an agreement with the federal government. This work was not continued during 1920, but the last report of the National Park Service indicates that a permanent hatchery will soon be established in accordance with the agreement referred to.

REVISING THE BOUNDARIES

No sooner had the national park been created than efforts were begun to effect a change of boundaries. As first established, the Park included a large amount of land which was owned by private parties under patents and which was concentrated for the most

PLATE III Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls. The buildings are the La Casa Nevada, a famous hostelry of the early days which has long since disappeared Photo by George Fiske part in certain relatively small districts. This was largely in the form of timber and mining claims. The owners very naturally objected to having their lands thrown into a national park with all of the inconveniences which that involved. There was also other supposedly valuable land of similar character within the Park lines which was not yet taken up, and this was now, by the terms of the law, withdrawn from entry.

From the standpoint of the administration of the Park there were two reasons for a change: first because of the trouble occasioned by the presence of privately owned lands within the Park; and second because the original boundaries were laid out along straight lines instead of conforming to the natural features of the country, and thus increased greatly the problem of a proper patrol system. For these reasons some of the early Superintendents advised reducing the size of the Park by fixing natural boundaries, so far as possible, and eliminating the bulk of the mineral lands and privately owned

timber. Fortunately no attention seems to have been paid to their recommendations. Later Superintendents generally opposed cutting down the boundaries, but strongly urged the importance of extinguishing all private holdings within the Park by purchase or otherwise.

Within a few months after the Park came into existence an attempt was made in Congress to reduce its size. This first attack upon the integrity of the Park was defeated, largely through the efforts of the Sierra Club. As time went by it became clear that one of two things was necessary—either to buy up the private claims within the Park lines, or to revise the boundaries so as to exclude the bulk of these lands. The national government was evidently unwilling to make the necessary appropriation to buy the claims, and finally in 1904 a commission appointed by the Secretary of the Interior visited the Park for the purpose of ascertaining, among other things, "what portions of said Park are not necessary for park purposes, but can be returned to the public domain." This commission, composed of Major Hiram M. Chittenden of the Engineer Corps of the army, R. B. Marshall of the Geological Survey, and Frank Bond of the General Land Office, made a careful study of the situation and recommended the boundary changes that were incorporated in the Act of Congress approved February 7, 1905. This act eliminated about twelve townships on the east and west and added about three townships on the north, fixing the eastern boundary at the summit of the Sierra Nevada and the divide between the Merced and the San Joaquin rivers. In 1906 another small tract on the southwest was cut off, ostensibly to enable an electric line to secure a right-of-way. All of these eliminated lands were added to the adjacent forest reserves.

Further changes in the boundaries may be expected. In fact the National Park Service in its recent reports has suggested the advisability of a further lopping off of grazing land on the west and the addition of a large area on the southeast (eliminated in 1905) which includes such scenic features as the Mount Ritter Range, Thousand Island Lake, and the Devil’s Postpile.

RECESSION OF STATE PARK

The establishment of the national park resulted in bringing into existence a dual system in the Yosemite region, the State having control of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove, and the national government having control of the surrounding territory. This was an awkward and inconvenient arrangement, necessitating much duplication of administrative machinery and expense. Yosemite Valley was the natural location for the headquarters of the national park, but could not be used for that purpose. Headquarters were therefore maintained at Wawona and the troops were constantly compelled to cross the state park lines in carrying on their patrol work. Superintendents repeatedly called attention in their reports to the anomalous situation and the difficulties which it involved. The disadvantage of dual control was sharply brought out in 1903 by a fire which burned for more than a week in the Illilouette basin, resulting in a rather ill-tempered controversy between the state and national park authorities over the questions as to where the fire originated and whether the state Guardian used due care and vigilance in its extinguishment. This division of authority interfered with the improvement and development of the entire region. The national government, not having control of what were considered the main scenic features, did not feel called upon to make large appropriations, and it was never possible to induce the State Legislature to set aside money enough to properly care for either Yosemite Valley or the Mariposa Big Tree Grove.

As time went by many citizens of California came to feel that it would be better to hand back to the national government the trust received from it in 1864, and a movement was launched with that object in view. It was pointed out that conditions had greatly changed since 1864, at which time there were no national parks; since then the federal government had inaugurated a policy of creating national parks and had manifested a disposition to make adequate appropriations for their maintenance. A comparison of appropriations and results achieved in Yellowstone National Park and in Yosemite State Park proved a powerful argument. Many clubs and civic organizations were enlisted in support of the movement, chief among which in the zeal and effectiveness of its work was the Sierra Club.

Local state pride proved to be the greatest obstacle in the way of the recession, but this was finally overcome, and an act passed by the State Legislature, approved March 2, 1905, receding to the United States Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove. The adjournment of Congress prevented a formal acceptance of the recession until 1906 and hence the transfer could not be effected until that time. The Yosemite State Park finally came to an end August 1, 1906, after an existence of forty-two years. The Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, Major H. C. Benson, at

once removed his headquarters from Wawona to the Valley and the central military camp was established on the site of the present Yosemite Lodge. In 1920 jurisdiction in all matters civil and judicial was transferred from the state to the national government.

THE SIERRA CLUB

One of the most important of the forces operating to shape the history of the Yosemite region since the creation of the national park has been the work of the Sierra Club. This organization has been instant in season and out of season in promoting all forward-looking movements affecting California’s great alpine heritage. The life of the Sierra Club has been almost exactly contemporaneous with that of Yosemite National Park. The Club was organized in 1892, but the idea from which it was evolved had its inception in the mind of Professor J. H. Senger of the University of California and was expressed by him as early as 1886. The final impetus was given to the movement by the strongly felt need of some organization to push forward the work that was only begun by the park act of October 1, 1890.

The special purposes of the Sierra Club are thus expressed in the articles of incorporation: "To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and cooperation of the people and government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains." A detailed account of the doings of the Club would show how faithfully and eagerly its members have carried out these purposes. During the first twenty-two years its work was carried on under the inspiring leadership of John Muir.

The field of the Sierra Club’s work is much more extensive than the Yosemite National Park, but from the beginning it has taken a special interest in this region. Several of its annual outings have been held in the Park and surrounding territory. As early as 1898 a building in the Valley, granted by the State Commissioners, was equipped as local headquarters for the Club, to be used also as a public reading room and bureau of information. A few years later, after the death of Joseph Le Conte, the beautiful Le Conte Memorial Lodge was erected just below Glacier Point. In 1918 it was moved about a quarter mile westward to its present site. In 1913 the Club purchased the Soda Springs property in the Tuolumne Meadows and two years later built upon it the E. T. Parsons Memorial Lodge.

The work of the Sierra Club in opposing attempts to cut down the size of the Park and in urging the recession of the state park has been referred to above. In every time of crisis the Club has stood forth as champion of the forests and the mountains against vandalism and commercialism. The Sierra Club Bulletin, an annual publication, contains a wealth of information about the entire Sierra region—descriptive, illustrative, and scientific. The speech and writings of its members have gone far toward making known to the wide public the true character of the Yosemite region.

HETCH HETCHY: EARLY HISTORY

This interesting counterpart of Yosemite was discovered in 1850 by a mountaineer named Joseph Screech. Not long before that the Valley was a disputed ground between the east and west slope Indians, but the Piutes from across the range had gotten the upper hand and for years were accustomed to spend some time in Hetch Hetchy in the fall of the year gathering acorns. Screech blazed a trail into the Valley and the rich meadow land became a grazing ground for sheep and cattle. Subsequently the discoverer and two or three other parties took up preemption claims covering most of the Valley floor. The State Geological Survey visited Hetch Hetchy in 1867, and a description of it was published in the San Francisco Bulletin in October of that year. When John Muir first visited the Valley in 1871 he found a sheep owner named Smith in possession. This was doubtless the Smith who later obtained the ownership of a large part of the Valley and of several desirable tracts in the vicinity, and for whom Smith’s Peak and Smith’s Meadow were named. Muir records the fact that in the seventies Hetch Hetchy was frequently called Smith’s Valley.

The number of tourists who visited Hetch Hetchy in the early days was very small, due to its inaccessibility and the superior attractions of Yosemite Valley. John Muir and other enthusiasts did much to acquaint the public with its beauties, but it was only after San Francisco started her fight to secure Hetch Hetchy as a reservoir site that it became widely known. Even then it was better known by report than by actual visitation. The Sierra Club included it in several of its annual outings. In 1905 some Stanford University students conducted a hotel camp there, under the auspices of the Santa Fé railroad, and that served to bring in a number of tourists. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/history.html[2/12/2013 10:00:41 AM] History of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ralph S. Kuykendall

HETCH HETCHY: THE SAN FRANCISCO WATER SUPPLY

The San Francisco city charter which was adopted in 1900 placed on the supervisors and the city engineer the duty of conducting investigations to determine the best available source for an adequate water supply for that city, this being a matter of pressing importance. After a careful examination of some fourteen suggested sources the Tuolumne River was selected as in every way the best, and there was prepared the first draft of what came to be known as the Hetch Hetchy project, the central feature of the plan being the conversion of Hetch Hetchy Valley into a lake-reservoir and the use of Lake Eleanor as a secondary storage basin. The necessary filings were made to cover the desired water rights and an application was made to the Secretary of the Interior, under the provisions of the act of February 15, 1901, for a permit to use the proposed reservoir and for authorization to construct the necessary dams and other works.

As soon as the plans of San Francisco became known, a movement was put under way to prevent their consummation. This was the beginning of an extraordinary contest, lasting for a dozen years, which was at times waged with considerable bitterness. San Francisco’s first application was denied in 1903 by Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock. It was renewed in 1905 and again denied. In 1907, after James R. Garfield became Secretary of the Interior, the matter was presented to him, and a hearing was held in San Francisco in July of that year. Further arguments were presented in writing after the Secretary’s return to Washington. Finally, on May 11, 1908, Mr. Garfield granted to the city the rights asked for, but upon two conditions: one that the Lake Eleanor site should be developed to its full capacity before any work should be undertaken on the Hetch Hetchy site; the other that the rights of the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts should be fully protected.

Under the terms of this grant the city proceeded to buy up the private claims involved, at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, and to vote a bond issue of $45,000,000. Construction operations had been started when Secretary of the Interior R. A. Ballinger, in February, 1910, after an investigation of the question, ordered the city to show cause why Hetch Hetchy Valley should not be eliminated from the permit granted by Secretary Garfield. This looked at first like a blow to San Francisco’s plans, but it turned out to be quite the reverse, for the fight which was now inaugurated resulted finally in a complete triumph for the city and in the defeat of those who were trying to save Hetch Hetchy from inundation.

A board of army engineers, consisting of Col. John Biddle, Lieut.-Col. Harry Taylor, and Maj. Spencer Cosby, was appointed to advise the Secretary of the Interior on the question. After a preliminary hearing in May, 1910, a continuance of one year was granted in order that a thorough investigation might be conducted. The city hired one of the best engineers in the country and spent over a quarter of a million dollars in an examination of every phase of the question and in the preparation of the reports and plans on which its case finally rested. The final hearing was held November 25-30, 1912, before Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher. The report of the advisory board of army engineers, presented February 19, 1913, was on the whole distinctly favorable to the city. Nevertheless Secretary Fisher declined to act on the matter, since he was about to retire from office and since he also felt that a question of such importance should be passed upon by Congress. Franklin K. Lane, who succeeded Mr. Fisher as head of the Interior Department, in view of his former connection with the case as city attorney of San Francisco, likewise referred the matter to Congress, and the fight was accordingly transferred to that body.

In June, 1913, as an emergency measure, Congressman John E. Raker introduced a bill granting to San Francisco the necessary rights and authorizations for carrying out the Hetch Hetchy water project substantially in the form presented in the plans prepared for the city by John R. Freeman. After extended hearings before the House committee this bill was redrafted in order better to protect the national park and to safeguard the interests of the government. In this form, in spite of the strenuous opposition of many persons from all parts of the country, the bill passed the House by a practically unanimous vote, passed the Senate by about two to one, and was approved by President Wilson, December 19, 1913. Under this act San Francisco was granted the immediate use of both Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy Valley and the extensive engineering works called for by the development of the project were at once put under way. The city is required to build a scenic road along the north side of the lake that will be created by the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley, and certain other roads and trails the effect of which will be to make more accessible to tourists the country about Hetch Hetchy and the portions of the Park north of the Tuolumne River.

RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN THE PARK

After the recession of the state park in 1906 the administrative machinery already established was continued in effect for some years longer, although the Acting Superintendent found himself confronted with much more exacting duties than formerly. In 1914 a new system was inaugurated. Secretary Lane of the Department of the Interior, in his report for that year, says:

"The conditions in and around these reservations which led to the authorization of the use of the military force in these parks having radically changed, the conclusion was reached that their presence was no longer required in the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks, and the Secretary of War was so advised. During the past year, therefore, troops have no longer been employed in these reservations and have been superseded by civilian rangers, bringing the latter in closer touch with the actual work of the park management than was formerly practicable when troops were only in the reservations for a few months." The general plan of the patrol system begun under the military régime was continued by the civilian rangers.

Mark Daniels was the first Superintendent under the new arrangement. On March 10, 1914, he was "commissioned as landscape engineer in the Yosemite National Park for the purpose of preparing a comprehensive plan for the development and improvement of the floor of the Yosemite Valley covering the best locations for roads, trails, and bridges, so as to bring into view the full scenic beauty of the surroundings, the clearing and trimming of suitable areas of woods to provide attractive vistas, the proper location and arrangement of a village in the Yosemite Valley, etc." An important step taken in 1915 was a change in the method of handling concessions, placing all the hotels, camps, and lodges (with the exception of Camp Curry) in the hands of one company under a long term lease, thereby providing for the building of two new hotels, one on the floor of the Valley and one at Glacier Point. In June, 1914, Mark Daniels was appointed General Superintendent and Landscape Engineer for all the national parks under control of the Department of the Interior. This was as far as the executive branch of the government could go in the reorganization of national park administration. The final step awaited the action of Congress. For some years the Secretary of the Interior, seconded by the President, had been urging the establishment of a national park service. This was finally done by an act of Congress which was approved August 25, 1916. The new bureau was organized in the spring of 1917. As its first Director Mr. Lane appointed Stephen T. Mather, who had already, as assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, had general oversight of national park affairs. Much of the recent development in this field has been due to the clear vision, enthusiasm, and untiring energy of Mr. Mather. The establishment of the National Park Service marks the beginning of a new era in national park history.

THE NEW YOSEMITE

In the last decade a change has come over Yosemite—a change that can be fully appreciated only by those who have seen both the old Yosemite and the new. There has come into existence a new attitude on the part of the general public, and the administrative development just described is in part a cause and in part an effect of this new attitude. It is now seen that Yosemite is not simply the glorious valley of that name, nor the remarkable old Sequoias, but a vast alpine wonderland containing, besides these, many other features quite as much worth seeing. There are several factors which have an important bearing upon this new conception, and it is necessary to mention a few of them.

The Park has been made accessible to a degree that was formerly only dreamed of or hoped for. First, the building of the Yosemite Valley Railroad has made it possible for the tourist to ride in comfort to the very edge of the Park, giving a much more effective approach to the Valley through the wild gorge of the Merced River. The building of this railroad was the final outcome of many suggestions and proposals for a wagon road or an electric road or a steam road designed to do away with the worst discomforts attending a visit to Yosemite. It follows the route which was pronounced the best by two different commissions appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. The right of way up the Merced River canyon was granted September 5, 1905, and the road was opened to travel in the spring of 1907. Second, the admission of automobiles has popularized the Park in a way that nothing else could do. This policy was inaugurated near the close of the 1913 season. At the present time approximately two thirds of the visitors to the Park enter it in private automobiles. Third, the rehabilitation of the Tioga Road has opened the great upper Yosemite region to thousands who would never have gone there under the old hard conditions. This road, the importance of which was http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/history.html[2/12/2013 10:00:41 AM] History of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ralph S. Kuykendall

stressed by every Acting Superintendent of the Park, was purchased and presented to the government in 1915 through the generosity of Stephen T. Mather and a few others. The State of California purchased the portions of the road outside of the Park and built an extension down Leevining Creek to connect with the highways on the eastern side of the range, thus making this old road an important link in a great highway system. Fourth, the removal of the toll annoyance from the roads and the construction of new roads and trails within the Park have added immensely to the comfort of tourists and the ease of getting about to points of interest. The park road and trail system is not yet complete, but enough has been done to show beyond peradventure how richly it pays in the finer sense to open up the mountain playgrounds of the people.

Since the recession of the state park in 1906 and concurrent with the changes outlined above, travel to Yosemite National Park has increased thirteenfold and national appropriations have grown from a few thousand to $300,000 for the season of 1920. With these changes the old Yosemite has become but a memory. The long hard trip over mountain roads followed by a sojourn in the quiet and restful Valley has given place to comfortable automobile and train service and life in modern camps and hotels. In winter, in early spring, and in late fall the Valley still bears much of its old- time restful atmosphere, but during the height of the season (July) the population numbers ten thousand or more. The policy of the National Park Service in making the Park "liveable" and more and more accessible is unquestionably the right one. Even now the charm of the old Yosemite can still be found by those who are willing to pursue it, for in Tuolumne Meadows, at Tenaya Lake and at Merced Lake are delightful little mountain chalets; and in spite of further encroachments of civilization there will always be the wildness of nature for those who seek it.

REFERENCES1

BUnnEll, LAfAyEttE H., 1911. Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851 which Led to that Event. 4th ed. (Gerlicher, Los Angeles) 355 pp., 34 pl., 1 map.

HUtchings, JAmEs M., 1888. In the Heart of the Sierras. (Pacific Press, Oakland.) 496 pp., illus., maps.

King, ClArEncE, 1902. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. 6th ed. (Chas. Scribner’s Sons, New York.) 378 pp. (Yosemite on pp. 165-190.)

KUykEnDAll, RAlph S., 1919. “Early History of Yosemite Valley, California.” Dept. of Int. Park Service Bulletin. 12 pp.

MUir, John, 1911. My First Summer in the Sierra. (The Century Co., New York.) 354 pp., illus.

SiErrA ClUb, San Francisco, 1893-1920. The Sierra Club Bulletin, vols. i-xi., illus.

1 Only the most important works are listed in the references following articles in this volume. These include practically all of the non-technical literature now available on the various subjects.

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INDIANS OF YOSEMITE

By A. L. KROebeR

Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Anthropological Museum, University of California

The Indians of Yosemite belong to a group or family known as the Miwok who, before the white man came, owned the tract from the Cosumnes River on the north to the Fresno on the south, and from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the edge of the San Joaquin Valley. The name Miwok is not strictly a tribal appellation; it is simply the word in the language of these Indians which means "people." In default of any specific designation for them, this term Miwok has been applied in distinction from other groups of aborigines. Of such groups, there may be mentioned as neighbors: the Maidu to the north in the Sierra; the Yokuts to the south in the foothills and to the southwest in the San Joaquin Valley; and the Mono to the south in the high Sierra, and to the east in Owens Valley and about Mono Lake. Excepting the Mono (who are an offshoot from the Paiutes and other Shoshoneans of Nevada and the Great Basin country) the [Editor’s note: Susie McGowan with other groups of Indians adjacent to the Miwok are very similar to them in physical type daughter Sadie, Mono Lake Paiute. and customs, and even show a probable, although distant, relationship to them in From J. T. Boysen photo, c. 1901 — speech. In short, the Miwok are typical and representative California Indians, and in DEA] this capacity form part of the large body of tribes known as "Diggers." This is, however, a misleading name; partly because it carries a tinge of contempt, and still more because it lumps together a variety of nationalities that sometimes differed pretty thoroughly in their speech or were even unaware of one another’s existence. For this reason the more accurate terms Miwok, Maidu, and Yokuts are preferable.

ORIGIN

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The origin of these Sierra Nevada tribes is not definitely known. There can, however, be no serious doubt that they form part of the generic American Indian race and that their ultimate origin must be sought wherever the source of this division of mankind may have lain. While no one is yet in a position to speak dogmatically on this matter, all indications point to the Indians having come at some time in the far past from Asia, probably by the Bering Strait and Alaska route. It is clear that in his bodily type the Indian more nearly resembles the Mongolian of Eastern Asia than any other variety of the human species. The long, straight, stiff hair, one of the most valuable marks in race classification, is alone sufficient to establish a strong presumption in this direction. As to when this migration of the first inhabitants of America out of Asia took place, there is growing up a fairly unanimous concensus among anthropologists that this movement must have occurred at about the time that the Old Stone Age was giving place to the New in Europe; that is to say, in the period at which chipped stone tools were being replaced by polished ones, and the ax, bow and arrow, textiles, agricultural implements, and domestic animals were becoming part of the heritage of the species. These steps in advance are believed to have occurred about ten thousand years ago. We may therefore say roughly that somewhere about 8000 B.C.—with an allowance of a few thousand years either way as a margin for error —the American Indian became established on this continent and began his diffusion.

California was probably not very long in being reached; a mode of life adapted to local conditions was worked out, and with this the natives were apparently content, and their development progressed only slowly. They have left some traces of their occupancy in ancient village sites, shell mounds, and the like. Here the less perishable of their utensils, such as mortars, pestles, pipes, knives, arrow points, awls, beads, and other objects of stone, bone, and so forth, have been preserved. In one of the most favorable localities on the shores of San Francisco Bay careful computations have been made as to the age of these deposits, with the result that the lower levels of the shell mounds there have been estimated to date back at least 3000 years. The implements at these lower levels are ruder than those found near the tops of the mounds; but they are after all of the same type and even rather similar to those used by the modern Indians of the State, including the Miwok. We are therefore justified in assuming that native customs evolved very slowly in California, and that the ancestors of the Miwok and of the Yosemite Indians for a very long time past have lived very much in the manner and under the conditions in which they were discovered by the whites seventy years ago.

DECREASE OF NUMBERS

The Miwok probably numbered at least ten thousand, but the population decreased with terrifying rapidity after the advent of the white man. Some of the nearer groups of them were taken to the Franciscan Missions on the coast and there died off or became mixed with other tribes. The miner and rancher quickly overran the Miwok habitat after 1849. The Indian was crowded into the less desirable nooks; his native food supply was preëmpted; whiskey and new diseases against which he had no immunity were introduced and resulted in a startling mortality; and the general change in mode of life—new types of habitations, clothing, diet, labor, etc.—accentuated the effect of these diseases. The consequence was that in the sixty years between their first serious contact with the white man until the census of 1910, the Miwok lost more than ninety percent. of their numbers. This census, which may not be wholly complete but was by far the most accurate ever made as regards Indians, enumerates only about seven hundred of them, and of these a fair proportion are mixed bloods. The number is still shrinking, but fortunately with less rapidity than formerly. The Indian has begun to adapt himself to civilized life, and has acquired some resistance to our diseases. The Miwok therefore bid fair to maintain themselves as a diminishing remnant for some time longer, and quite likely even a small fraction of them may survive permanently.

The Miwok were not divided into tribes in the usual sense of the word. They recognized very little political authority. They were broken up into small local groups, little larger than village communities, each of which admitted the headship of some chief and allowed im a rather poorly defined amount of influence on their conduct. These numerous little bodies named each other, generally, after the localities which they inhabited. Thus the Yosemite Indians as a body were ordinarily known to the other Miwok as the Awanichi, after Awani, the largest or best known village site in the Valley, located not far from the foot of Yosemite Falls. In the same way a group south of Yosemite was called the Pohonichi, because in summer they ranged northward to the Valley in the region of Bridalveil Creek, the famous falls of which are known as Pohono.

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The Yosemite Indians were in the hunting stage; that is, they never farmed nor raised domestic animals. Actually, however, only a small part of their diet came from game. They probably took as many pounds of fish each year as of animal flesh, and a still larger portion of their food was wild vegetable products. Among these the acorn was preëminent, and even to-day the caches or bins for the storage of these nutritious nuts can occasionally be seen in the Valley. These are rude affairs, eight or ten feet in height, constructed of brush much like a long and deep bird’s nest, and set between four or five posts to keep the receptacle and its contents off the ground. They fulfill their function of food conservation with only moderate success, since one rarely approaches one of these caches without seeing a squirrel run out from a hole which it has wormed through the brush walls. Acorns, however, are plentiful in most parts of California and before the American introduced hogs they were superabundant, so that the Indians could afford to share part of their crop with these unbidden visitors and still have enough left for their own needs.

Acorns contain more or less tannin. The Indian women leached this out with hot water after the nuts had been shelled and pounded with a pestle in a stone mortar. The latter usually was nothing more than a hole in the surface of some convenient outcrop of granite. Frequently a number of these mortar holes were assembled in one spot; these were roofed over with branches, and in the shade of such an arbor the Indian women were wont to gather for hours at a time to wield the heavy pestle and meanwhile indulge in the gossip of which they were not less fond than their Caucasian sisters. After the acorns were pulverized, the meal was sifted and then cooked in baskets into a thin mush or gruel—the famous "acorn soup" which was the staff of life to most of the California Indians. As pottery and iron vessels were unknown, cooking had of necessity to be done in water-tight baskets. A basket cannot of course be set over a fire, so the Indian woman had perforce to bring the fire into her food, as it were. This she did by heating stones about the size of her fist, picking these up with a pair of sticks, and dropping them into the liquid, to which they communicated their heat until the mass boiled, The stones were then removed and the gruel was ready for consumption.

At least fifty to a hundred other varieties of food plants were utilized. Among the more important of these were buckeyes, which contain a narcotic poison that is removable by leaching like the tannin in the acorn; chia, a variety of sage the seeds of which can be

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PLATE IV Francisco, a Yosemite Indian, in dance costume. The crown is of magpie feathers, the headband of yellow-hammer feathers, and the white ropes about the body chiefly of eagle down. The kilt is a wild cat skin with bead trimmings Photo by J. T. Boysen [Editor’s note: Francisco Georgely was Northern Yokuts from Chowchilla. —DEA]

most palatably prepared; and brodiaeas, often called wild onions or lilies, whose bulbs were dug up by means of sharp sticks.

THE BOW: HUNTING AND WAR

The Miwok bow was from three to four feet long and had its back heavily covered with a layer of sinews to give added toughness and elasticity. It was a rather narrow weapon, and the sinew was thickened at the ends and then curled back on itself in a characteristic shape. Such at least was the bow used in warfare and for hunting large game. For rabbits, gophers, and birds, which can be approached closely, a ruder weapon without the sinew backing sufficed. For such purposes, too, the arrow was often a mere shaft, whereas the real hunting and war bow shot arrows which were foreshafted and tipped with delicate points of flint or obsidian. The latter material, a blackish, volcanic glass, the Miwok obtained by trade from the Mono Indians.

With all its inferiority to firearms, the bow is a powerful instrument within its effective range. A good weapon speeds an arrow with an initial velocity of 120 feet per second. It has definite killing power up to fifty yards, and at double that distance can easily inflict wounds that subsequently prove fatal. It tears the tissues more than a modern bullet, and frequently produces internal hemorrhages from which the victim bleeds to death, or which so weaken game that it can be followed up and overtaken. The longest attested flight for an arrow is more than a quarter of a mile, but this record http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/indians.html[2/12/2013 10:00:59 AM] Indians of Yosemite, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by A. L. Kroeber

was made with a composite Turkish bow and especial long range arrows. The Indians never attempted shooting over such distances. They depended rather on knowing the habits of deer and elk and creeping up on them. A favorite device was for the hunter to cover himself with a deer hide and set on his head a stuffed deer’s head. In this way he attracted the curiosity of his quarry without alarming it, and was often able to approach very close to it.

When the Miwok fought, which was not very often, it most frequently took on the form of a feud for revenge. They usually shot at each other at fairly long range; enough, at any rate, to make possible the dodging of arrows. Each line of warriors therefore capered and danced about to render it difficult for their opponents to take aim, and jerked forward and sidewise as they saw arrows coming. As might be expected, casualties were rather light. It was only when one party could ambush another, or pounce on a settlement asleep just before daybreak, that fatalities would run high.

HABITATIONS

The houses of the Yosemite and other Miwok Indians were rude affairs, built, according to location and abundance of materials, either of thatch, slabs of bark, or with a covering of earth. In Yosemite itself the cedar-bark house predominated. This was a conical lean-to with the slabs laid on several deep, and while not entirely wind-proof it afforded reasonable shelter. Most of the huts were small, probably not over ten or twelve feet in diameter. One or two of them may still be seen at the time of this writing, though they present rather a sorry appearance of gunnysacks, worn-out quilts, and pieces of sawn lumber mixed in with the bark slabs.

In the lower foothills, the native house was more frequently of the wigwam type, thatched with grass, rushes, or brush; and in parts of the San Joaquin Valley the earth lodge was typical. This was more or less excavated and covered with a heavy layer of earth laid on a roof of poles and brush supported by stout timbers. The Miwok used the earth lodge mainly for their dance- and sweat-houses. The former were large affairs up to forty or more feet in diameter. The latter were much smaller edifices in which the men daily sweated themselves for their health and physical comfort. The Yosemite Indians were about at the edge of the habit of building earth-covered dance houses. The more northerly Miwok and the tribes beyond used them regularly in every village of any consequence, whereas the Yokuts, to the south of Yosemite, did not erect earth lodges.

THE NAME YOSEMITE

The word "Yosemite" means Grizzly Bear in the Miwok language. Its more exact form is "üzümati" or"ühümati." The name became definitely attached to the Valley, and to the band of Indians that made it their headquarters, from the time of their first contact with Americans. There are several explanations. One story has it that an unarmed young Indian fought off a fierce grizzly bear with only a stick, and that this exploit led to the adoption of the name as a sort of heraldic crest by his group. Somehow this legend gives the impression of white man’s imagination; it does not have the true ring of Indian tradition. Another account is that Tenaya (who was the chief of the Yosemite band at the time of the discovery and whose name is perpetuated in that of the canyon leading into the Valley) and his people lived in a country infested with bears. In addition, the band was reputed to consist of unusually fierce warriors. Therefore the sobriquet "Grizzlies" was bestowed upon them by the neighboring tribes. This story also does not seem wholly in accord with known principles of Indian nomenclature; although Dr. C. Hart Merriam says that the inhabitants of Hokokwila, the native village where the Sentinel Hotel now stands, were called "Yohamite," that is, "Ühümati" or Grizzly Bear. The true explanation of the name of the Valley is probably to be found in a peculiar social institution which the Yosemite Indians shared with the other Miwok.

This entire nation is everywhere divided into two groups or "moieties" or halves, as we might call them, which intermarry. The first social law of these Indians is that a man must always take to wife a woman from the other moiety. The children follow the father, and whether boys or girls are restricted in their choice of wife or husband to the second moiety, that of their mother. In this way the lineage is carried on uninterruptedly generation after generation.

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animal and plant to one or the other division. Thus the bear and most land animals and birds belong to the land side. Fishes, water animals, and plants and a few exceptional ones from the land—especially the deer and coyote—are associated with water. In some parts of the Miwok country the people therefore speak of the "Blue Jay" and "Bullfrog" instead of the land and water divisions. In the Yosemite region it was customary to denominate the land side "Grizzly Bears" and the water side "Coyotes." Furthermore, within Yosemite Valley, all the villages on the north side of the Merced River were supposed to belong to the Grizzly Bear division, and those on the south the Coyote. It seems more than probable that this local name of one of these two sides or divisions came to be applied, through some misunderstanding on the part of the whites, to all the Indians of the valley, and then to the valley itself.

[Editor’s note: For the correct origin of the word Yosemite see “Origin of the Word Yosemite.”—DEA]

VILLAGES IN YOSEMITE

The points on the floor of Yosemite at which the Indians at one time or another lived or camped are numerous. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, the greatest living authority on these people, enumerates about forty such spots and supplies the information which he obtained about them and verified from the Indians. The principal sites are, in order down stream on the north side of the Merced and proceeding up stream again on the south side: Wiskala, at the foot of Royal Arches; Yowachki, near the mouth of Indian Canyon (this site is still occupied by a few families); Awani and Kumini, near Yosemite Falls, the former being the more important, in fact recognized as the largest and most permanent settlement in the Valley in aboriginal days; Hakaya, near the Three Brothers; Kisi and Chuchakala, opposite the last, on the south side of the river; Loya, at Sentinel Rock; Hokokwila, where the Sentinel Hotel now stands; Tuyuyuyu, near the Le Conte Memorial Lodge; and Omato, between Camp Curry and the Happy Isles.

It should be said, however, that these villages were preëminently summer encampments. Now and then a few families with an unusually favorable stock of supplies hoarded up, might remain in the valley from autumn to spring, but the majority of the inhabitants annually retreated to the canyon of the Merced River below El Portal in order to avoid the heavy snows of the 4000-foot altitude of Yosemite. Down below they waited, no doubt impatiently, for spring to come and permit them to resume occupation of the most favored of their hunting and food-gathering grounds. It may be added that the Indians, as their legends clearly indicate, were pretty fully aware of the extraordinary scenic features of the Valley, and derived much satisfaction from them; although with their native stolidity they no doubt expressed themselves less extravagantly than is the Caucasian habit.

The number of the band at the time of discovery is not accurately known, but may be estimated to have been in the vicinity of two hundred and fifty souls.

ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICANS: TENAYA

It was their raids on miners, prospectors, and scattered storekeepers, that in 1851 led to the formation of a little volunteer army known as Savage’s Mariposa Battalion. This company went up into the as yet unpenetrated mountains in pursuit of the Yosemite "Grizzlies" and to their overwhelming astonishment burst into the hitherto undiscovered valley. In the fighting that followed, the Indians were defeated, and part of them, including the Chief Tenaya, captured. The prisoners were taken to the San Joaquin Valley and put on a reservation. Here they kept the peace, but were in great distress of mind on account of their deprivation of the natural foods to which they were accustomed in their own haunts, as well as owing to their enforced contiguity to alien or hostile tribes. Tenaya pleaded to be let off. He was finally released, returned to Yosemite, and within four years was followed by all the surviving members of the band. The old chief did not long survive: he was killed by the Monos. He was not only a brave warrior but an unusual personality, who maintained his authority over his people by his native influence and by the respect which he commanded rather than by any legal position.

MARRIAGE

The Miwok social customs were numerous, and many of them strangely different from our own. The curious system of intermarrying divisions brought it about that a person always knew automatically to which moiety any given blood

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relative belonged. His father, his father’s father, his brothers and sisters, his children (if he were a man), his son’s children, and his uncles and aunts on the father’s side, were always of his own "side." His mother, her father, his wife, his father-in-law, his daughter-in law, and his daughter’s children, inevitably belonged to the opposite division. His mother’s mother, however, was always on his own side of the line-up. A woman differed from a man in that her children always belonged to the opposite division. Cousins were divided between the two sides according to whether the connection between them was through the male or the female line.

The dual totemic division was reflected in the personal names also. Any man, woman, or child, if his or her name referred to coyote or deer or beaver or otter or crane or salmon or salamander, or even indirectly alluded to these animals, was thereby designated as forming part of the water division. On the other hand, if his name had any reference to bear or wildcat or squirrel or raccoon or raven or a host of other animals he was a "landsman."

A curious custom was that while in general marriage with any blood relative, even of the seventh degree, was absolutely prohibited, an exception was made in favor of certain first cousins. Such cousins were in fact more or less expected to marry, if there was no satisfactory reason to the contrary. Which cousins were available for marriage, depended on the dual division principle. A man could never marry his father’s brother’s daughter, because the two brothers, and therefore their children, would belong to the same division. Cousins sprung from two sisters were also, ineligible, because, even though women did not transmit descent to their children, sisters were forced to mate with husbands of the opposite moiety; consequently their offspring would also be of the same descent and ineligible to one another. The daughter of one’s mother’s brother, however, was looked upon as one’s natural spouse. A simple calculation will show that such a cousin must always be of the opposite, division from oneself.

How this curious plan of relationships, marriages, and descent originated is unknown. The Miwoks themselves can give no explanation but take for

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PLATE V Kalapine, an old Yosemite medicine woman, making a coiled basket. The process of manufacture, which is one of sewing, can be seen. Her hair is cut short in mourning Photo by J. T. Boysen granted that the system has existed since the beginning of the world, and look upon us as very strange beings for not observing the same customs. It is probable that the psychological root of the observances was a desire to keep the blood mixed; although if such were the case, the original purpose was certainly defeated by the system of first-cousin marriages.

The newly wedded man was expected to show deference to his wife’s parents by avoiding them as much as possible, especially the mother-in-law; and his wife behaved similarly toward his mother and father. The young people did not look their elders in the face or speak to them. If communication was necessary, the husband would address himself to his wife, and she in turn would repeat the statement to her mother, who would make the necessary answer by the same route, even though all three might be sitting in the same lodge. For a young man to do otherwise, would be the grossest breach of decorum, and the old lady would no doubt complain to her friends that her daughter seemed to have married a man lacking in all propriety and affection. This is another custom which the Indians assume is self-evident, and when asked for a reason they can give none except that they would be mortally ashamed to behave otherwise.

BABIES

When a child is born, both father and mother have certain taboes imposed upon them. The man may not hunt nor do other than the necessary work, and both parent’s sit as quietly as possible about the house. After this follows a longer period during which they are free to resume normal occupations but must not eat certain kinds of food under penalty of injury to the health of the child.

The Miwok baby is put into a frame or "carrier," a sort of flat, hooded basket woven of slender sticks. In this it spends the greater part of the first twelve months of its life, and is easily carried about by the mother. The baby carrier has the further advantage of seeming to keep the infant still and contented. It is a notorious fact that Indian babies cry much less than white ones, and the native mothers declare that if they remove the children from their carriers the kicking about of legs and arms soon induces restlessness, discontent, and bawling. The woven hood of each of these tiny cradles is ornamented with a little pattern which differs according to sex. Zigzags or diagonal stripes show that the inmate is a boy, whereas a girl is indicated by a pattern of diamonds.

DEATH AND MOURNING

When a Miwok died, mourning and wailing were intense. His name must under no circumstances be spoken. To do so might invoke the ghost, and would in any event be considered as the deepest of all possible insults by his relatives. A widow cropped or burned her hair very short, smeared melted pitch over it, and also covered her face and breast with the same material. During the whole period of mourning she was not allowed to wash these parts of her body. After a few months of pitch and dirt, her appearance was a startling one: sufficiently forbidding, no doubt, to deter any prospective suitor. For the whole of the first year of her widowhood, also, she kept silence, or spoke only in low whispers to a female relative when the occasion was imperative.

Once a year, in each region of the Miwok country, usually in late summer or autumn, a great commemorative mourning ceremony for the dead was held, which lasted amid wailing and singing for several nights. Toward daybreak on the last morning immense accumulations of food and property were thrown into the fire by the mourners. Those of the deceased who had been of special rank, or particularly beloved by their survivors, were represented by rude effigies which were also consumed in the blaze. After this the mourners of the land side were ceremonially washed by the water people, and vice versa, to signify their cleansing from the period of grief and from the restrictions which they had been under. For the widow it was also a much needed literal cleansing.

MEDICINE-MEN

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When an Indian became sick, a shaman or medicine man was called in. This individual had acquired his power from spirits. He was believed to possess the power of clairvoyance. After dancing, singing, manipulating the patient, and other preliminaries, he would declare that the illness was due to the infraction of some religious taboo, or that some evil-minded medicine-man, a witch or wizard, had managed to lodge some foreign object or noxious little animal in the body of the sufferer.

He then proceeded to remove the poison by sucking the part affected, and finally pretended to remove a little mass of straw, a wisp of hair, a dead grasshopper or lizard, or something of that sort. The patient and his relatives of course felt immeasurably relieved, and, confidence having been regained, nature in most cases concluded the recovery.

If, however, the medicine-man was unfortunate and lost several patients, especially if these died in rapid succession, he paid dearly for his preëminence. The Indians were so convinced of the complete power of these shamans, that they gave them entire credit for every cure that happened. Consequently they were quite logical when they reasoned that the death of a patient must be due to the unwillingness or evil disposition of the practitioner. One or two fatalities might be pardoned as due to mere incompetence; but suspicion would be gathering, and after his third or fourth loss, the medicine-man’s life was worth little. The relatives of his deceased patients were simply waiting for an opportunity to ambush and murder him, and he must be a wary or powerful man indeed to escape permanently. Even to-day an occasional murder among the Sierra Nevada tribes can be traced to a lingering of this old custom.

MYTHS AND ORIGIN BELIEFS

The myths and legends of the Yosemite band rested on the same ideas as those current among the other Miwok. From these latter we gather that it was currently believed by the natives that this earth was peopled six successive times. The first world was dominated by a cannibal giant Uwulin who gradually devoured its inhabitants until little Fly discovered a tiny vulnerable spot in his heel—like that of Achilles—and despatched the malefactor. The people of the second world were not much better off, for they were stolen away by an immense bird, a sort of Roc, named Yelelkin, and the remainder were persecuted by ants until they were driven away. The third world was peopled by beings who were half human and half animal, and came to an end with their transformation into complete animals—a sort of retrograde evolution. The fourth race was vexed by its chief, Skunk, who kept for himself all meat, until his people succeeded in destroying him by strategy. In his death agonies Skunk upheaved the mountains. This race was also transformed into animals. As to the fifth world, tradition is obscure, but the sixth peopling was accomplished by Coyote. The earth was at this time covered with water, but Coyote had Frog dive and bring up a bit of soil from which he created land. He then caused vegetation to grow up and made human beings. He and his associates, who up to this time had been more or less human or even superhuman in attributes, then became changed into animals like those which we see to-day.

In the story of the origin of death among mankind, Coyote also figures. His plan was to have people covered up for four days and then arise reborn in the prime of manhood. For a while this arrangement worked to the satisfaction of everyone. Once, however, a person died just as Meadow-lark took to himself a wife. After a day or two, odors of decay began to arise from the blanket-covered pile and penetrated to the hut of the honeymoon couple. Meadow-lark resented having his bliss disturbed in this way, and proclaimed that a much, better plan would be to burn up the source of the stench and leave everyone in peace. His counsel prevailed and the first cremation took place, which the Miwok have adhered to ever since; but with it there passed away the habit of human lives being renewed over and over. Although they believe this tale, the Miwok seem to bear no resentment against Meadow-lark.

The greatest hero of Miwok legends is Wekwek, the Falcon, son of Condor or according to other versions of Yayil, and grandson of Coyote. Falcon fought and overcame a destructive giant, Kilak; escaped a fire that consumed the surface of the world; and underwent numberless other adventures. More than once he was killed and restored to life, and at other times he brought back among the living his father, his sister, or some friend. The Miwok never tire of telling about this character, who impersonates all that they conceive of daring and magic and skill in the days of long ago.

LEGENDS OF YOSEMITE

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About Yosemite Valley proper there are a number of Indian stories which have repeatedly been recorded with but little variation, so that they may be considered authentic. The favorite one tells of a woman named Tiseyak who lived far down the Merced River, in or near the plains. Having quarreled with her husband, she ran away eastward, creating the course of the present stream and causing oak trees and other food-bearing plants to spring up along her route. In Yosemite Valley her husband overtook her and beat her soundly. In the scuffle, the hooded bady-cradle which she was carrying was thrown across to the north wall of the canyon, where the bent hood can still be seen in the Royal Arches. A globular basket which she had brought with her, landed bottom upward and became Basket or North Dome. The husband, who is known in the story as Nangas, "her husband," turned into North Dome or Washington Tower, whereas Tiseyak herself became Half Dome, the dark streaks on the sheer cliff of this great peak being the tears which her pain and humiliation had caused to stream down her face. The several versions vary in details, but in substance the tale is told by all the Yosemite Miwok as here outlined. It must be remembered that oral tradition can never be absolutely consistent in the mouths of separate individuals.

El Capitan, it is said, was originally a small rock. Once, long ago, a she-bear went to sleep on top with her two cubs. When they awoke in the morning, the rock had grown into the present tremendous cliff. Neither they nor the people of the village below knew how to rescue the unfortunates; until at last the Inch or Measuring Worm succeeded in humping his way up the cliff. By this time, however, the poor bear and her cubs had starved to death, and he could do no more than bring down their bones for cremation by their mourning relatives.

Measuring Worm was now possessed by the spirit of adventure. He reclimbed El Capitan, stretched himself clear across to the opposite side of the Valley, and drew himself over. Then he recrossed. This sport, however, must have weakened the walls of the canyon, for it was not long before they began to cave and the inhabitants were obliged to flee down the river in order to save themselves. The Indians say that before this catastrophe the Valley was even deeper than it is at present.

Waterfalls are dreaded by the Miwok, and both Yosemite and Bridalveil Falls are believed to be inhabited by spirits, those in the former being known as Poloti, and in the latter as Pohono. They cause gusts of wind which are likely to whirl into the falls people who venture too close. Once the Poloti captured a girl. She had gone to Yosemite Creek from Awani or a neighboring camp to bring back a basket of water. When she dipped up, it was full of snakes. These the spirits had caused to enter the vessel so that she might abandon her accustomed spot and move farther upstream. Each time she dipped her basket, the unfortunate girl found more vermin in it, and so gradually she went higher and higher up until she reached the pool at the foot of the falls, when a sudden violent gust blew her in.

It was with such tales as this that the Yosemite Indians used to beguile the long winter evenings while sitting about the fire.

REFERENCES

BaRRett, S. A., 1908. "The Geography and Dialects of the Miwok Indians." Univ. of Calif. Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. vi., No. 2. 1919. "Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok." Univ. of Calif. Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xvi., No. 1.

ClaRk, Galen, 1904. Indians of Yosemite Valley and Vicinity., (Galen Clark, Yosemite) 110 pp., illus.

GiffORd, E. W., 1916. "Miwok Moieties." Univ. of Calif. Publ. in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 4 1917. "Miwok Myths," Univ. of Calif. Publ. in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 8.

KROebeR, A. L., 1916. "California Place Names of Indian Origin." Univ. of Calif. Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 2.

MeRRiam, C. HaRt, 1910. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. (A. H. Clark Co., Cleveland), pp., illus.

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1917. "Indian Village and Camp Sites in Yosemite Valley." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. x., No. 2.

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THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATION

TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By StEphEn T. MathER

Director, U. S. National Park Service

ThE first national parks were set aside by Congress with the view of conserving some of our most strikingly scenic natural assets. Thus, previous to 1902, the Hot Springs, Yellowstone, Sequoia, General Grant, Yosemite, Mount Rainier, and Crater Lake national parks were reserved from public entry. These national parks of early date were merely set aside for the future; indeed, no national park policy or central organization which would make them available as vacation centers for the American public was at that time deemed necessary. In the following years to the time of writing Congress set aside twelve other areas as national parks making a total of nineteen parks, seventeen of them within the boundaries of the United States, one in Alaska, and one in the Hawaiian Islands.

Previous to 1915 the parks were all administered with the aid of the War Department, and policies and the interpretation of rules and regulations varied greatly on the different reservations. Up to 1918 road work in Yellowstone and Crater Lake parks was handled by the engineers of the War Department, but since that time all administrative activities in the parks have been handled by the Interior Department, In 1916, Congress passed a bill creating the National Park Service as a bureau of this department. Since its establishment much has been said about the Service both in compliment and criticism and it is with pleasure that the writer hails this opportunity to explain how the ideals and policy of the Service govern the administration of Yosemite National Park.

In his message to the Director of National Parks, former Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane concisely and

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accurately summarized the policy of the Park Service into three broad principles: "First, that the national parks must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form for the use of future generations as well as those of our own time; second, that they are set apart for the use, observation, health, and pleasure of the people; and third, that the national interest must dictate all decisions affecting public or private enterprise in the parks." So much for our ideals. Let us now consider each of the three fundamental principles as they are applied by the Service in Yosemite National Park.

The first principle, "that the national parks must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form for the use of future generations as well as our own," is one that must be upheld by the Service. This standpoint has been attacked time and again by private individuals and corporations who wish to get a foothold in the people’s parks for their own gain—to pasture herds of sheep in our mountain flower gardens, or to turn aside our streams and destroy some of our most beautiful falls for the sake of electric power which might easily be developed elsewhere. There are even now, at the time of writing, applications which, if approved, would ruin the wonderful Waterwheel Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne and turn Nevada Falls into a mild sedate affair instead of the wonderful torrent that now pours over its granite rim in the spring months. Let the lower levels of streams like the Merced be developed before destroying the beauty of the high country. The Yosemite Power Plant built by the National Park Service well below the Valley is a practical example. If in years to come hydro-electric development demands the destruction of beauty spots of the High Sierra after other sources of power have been exhausted, it will be well to consider then, but that time is not yet.

The public is one of the best allies of the Service in many of its practical problems of "preserving the park absolutely unimpaired." Campers realize the justice of being allowed to use only dead wood for their fires. It is especially gratifying to note that fewer forest fires are caused each year by the carelessness of campers; indeed, many fires are discovered, reported, and fought by them. People are coming to realize that thousands of unafraid live deer and elk are much more to be preferred than a few invisible or dead ones, and hundreds of real sportsmen get more pleasure hunting with camera in national parks than they would with gun outside.

In this task of preserving the park one of the arch-enemies of the Service is fire. Rangers are always on the lookout for the first sign of smoke and others are always ready to go on duty as fire fighters, staying with the fight night and day until the Forest Fiend is conquered.

Often one sees in the Sierras dead or dying trees which have been attacked by insects. A specially qualified ranger is assigned to the work of fighting these pests in coöperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture—another phase of the preservation of our parks.

Some of the roads in the western part of the park, notably the Wawona Road, traverse private timber holdings. By negotiating with the owners of these timberlands the government has exchanged stumpage in various out-of-the-way sections of the park and thus preserved the scenic beauty of the roads.

It is with the second ideal, "that they (the parks) are set apart for the use, observation, health, and pleasure of the people," that so many of the activities of the Service are concerned. The first idea of national parks seems to have been that they were stupendous natural spectacles, to be seen (or we might say done) in a short time, as one might view an art exhibit or a pageant. Then came the great out-of-doors movement and, especially since the advent of the automobile, people turned to the national parks as places to live during their vacations and to "get next to Nature." Lastly comes the realization that our parks are not only show places and vacation lands but also vast school-rooms of Americanism where people are studying, enjoying, and learning to love more deeply this land in which they live.

In the administration of the parks the greatest good to the greatest number is always the most important factor determining the policy of the Service. During the assignment of army officers to administer Yosemite National Park all motor vehicles were prohibited from entering, but finally, in 1914, under instructions from Secretary Franklin K. Lane, automobiles were admitted under very strict regulations. Since 1915 motor restrictions have been gradually removed until there are now but a few rules and these for the safety of motorist and pedestrian alike. The advent of the automobile with the opportunity for its use freely in all the parks within the last five years has been the open sesame for many thousands; indeed, during the season of 1919 74% of the visitors of Yosemite National Park entered in their own machines.

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has been but little development in the parks to enable the motorists to have the greater use of these playgrounds which they demand and deserve. Definite projects have been laid out by the Service in all the larger parks calling for important road building, but up to the present time no substantial funds have been available to carry them out. Congress, the appropriating body, has been engrossed with its war problems, but I now feel that the turning point has arrived. As an indication of the interest of that body it might be mentioned that during the present season (1920) the House Appropriations Committee visited seven of the largest parks and expressed themselves as deeply impressed with the needs of the Service.

As regards Yosemite National Park much remains to be done in the way of road development. A substantial piece of work has been accomplished in the reconstruction of the road from Yosemite Valley to the El Portal Entrance, a total of seven and a half miles built at the cost of a quarter of a million dollars. This is the only heavy piece of road work which has been done in any of the parks during or since the war period. This will connect with the all-year-round highway which the State is building up the Merced Canyon and which will make the Valley more readily accessible to motorists in winter than it now is in summer. The certain great increase of travel into Yosemite Valley by this easy grade road makes it necessary to provide a convenient outlet into the back country. This outlet will be the road which has been surveyed from the Valley by Vernal and Nevada Falls into the Little Yosemite Valley, thence connecting with the Tioga Road at Lake Tenaya. The survey has been carefully run so as not to interfere with the beauty of the falls.

The other approach roads to the Valley—the Big Oak Flat and the Wawona—must be widened and their grades lowered, and the Tioga Road should have many of its bad pitches smoothed out. Perhaps a spur road should be built up the Lyell Fork, connecting with the Tioga Road at Tuolumne Meadows, thus opening up additional camping country in the scenic Mount Lyell region.

The beautiful Tuolumne Meadows, considered by John Muir and the Sierra Club the finest camping ground in the High Sierra, will come into much greater use when the new lodge for visitors is established there (1921). A store has been started which is proving very useful to the campers in this section.

While the motorist will find a great area of the park accessible to him under the plans indicated, there will be a large proportion of the park preserved for trail trips only. The rugged canyons north of the Tuolumne River will be for many years to come devoted to trail travel, and Superintendent Lewis has plans for developing the present trail system there which will make this magnificent section of the park more accessible.

Each year sees the park better developed for the use of the people. The Free Public Camps in Yosemite Valley have become very popular, a total of twenty-three thousand four hundred persons having been registered during the season of 1920. Better facilities must be provided in these camps; the sanitary system by which they will largely benefit is already under construction, and all the camps should be lighted by electricity. Time and again European visitors express astonishment that all this service can be free. To them it is as incomprehensible as is our sense of American freedom.

As rapidly as conditions permit, the system of lodges should be extended farther back into the High Sierra so that hikers may walk from place to place on the highland trails and be sure of food and shelter at the end of each day’s travel.

Yosemite National Park is already a fisherman’s paradise, especially in the High Sierra country. Each year many of the lakes and streams are stocked with trout fry, but even more should be done, and each body of water in the park should be made productive. A hatchery which would supply the needs of the park must be built in Yosemite Valley where it will be an object of interest and instruction to thousands of visitors.

To further exemplify the principle of use tne Service allows the. grazing of cattle on lands which are not used by tourists. Overstocking, a condition which in some sections of the High Sierra has made it next to impossible for a camper to obtain feed for his stock, is carefully guarded against.

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activities of the Service. The establishment of the Free Nature Guide Service during the season of 1920 proved a great success. The quickening interest in Nature-study work under Dr. H. C. Bryant and Dr. Loye Miller points the way for us to develop this work on a far greater scale in the Yosemite as well as other national parks in future years.

The Yosemite Museum is the outcome of the public demand for authentic exhibits of natural history, geology, ethnology, botany, and other sciences so well exemplified by the region. The museum was made possible almost entirely by gifts and loans of private individuals and will be developed as rapidly as possible by the Park Service.

The Le Conte Memorial Lectures which are given in Yosemite under the auspices of the Extension Division of the University of California have been very useful in bringing to the tourist a better knowledge of the park and of men like Le Conte and Muir who have told its story so well.

In recent years there has been a movement to take classes into national parks for instruction and it is now a common experience to meet university students, troops of Boy Scouts, and other groups studying Nature first-hand. Such use of the parks is strongly encouraged by the Service.

The function of the parks as factors in increasing our national health, vitality, and happiness is a most important one. To encourage clean living in God’s great out-of-doors should be one of the primary ideals of the Service. The European visitor whose ideal vacation so often consists in lounging about a hotel and viewing Nature from the veranda, marvels at the number of people he finds hiking, riding, swimming, or otherwise engaged in strenuous sports in the Yosemite. Let us encourage this American spirit to be up and doing. Of course there are those who require "artificial" amusements and there will always be entertainments, dancing, bowling, pool, etc., at the larger hotels, camps, and lodges. Let us not, however, "vulgarize" the parks as has been the accusation of some visitors.

I hope that winter sports in the park will become a great feature. If Glacier Point with its beautiful hotel were available in winter time, Sentinel Dome with its heavy snowfall could be made to rival St. Moritz. To reach this altitude in winter the suggestion has been made for the construction of a shaft by which the tourist would be carried directly from the Valley to Glacier Point. If this plan is carried out it must be done without marring the beauty of the canyon walls. Anything in the nature of an outside structure could not be considered.

The third ideal of the Service, "that the national interest must dictate all decisions affecting public or private enterprise in the parks," is one phase of the parks policy which is least understood by the public. When the Department of the Interior assumed complete administration of the parks each public utility was handled by a separate individual or company. Under these conditions results were not always satisfactory and prices were sometimes abnormally high. Finally a large corporation, the Yosemite National Park Company, made up of hundreds of stockholders, principally public-spirited citizens of Los Angeles and San Francisco, was organized and all concessions excepting the photographic studios, a bakery, the Yosemite Hospital, and Camp Curry were turned over to it. This organization has been doubly necessary during the past few seasons because of the greatly increased travel and the corresponding increase in investments necessary to allow for unlimited and immediate expansion. The government regulates prices and this very easily by dealing with one central office. Furthermore of all of the profits made by this large company, over and above six per cent. for physical investment, the United States Government receives, 22 1/2 per cent. While much criticism was at first expressed on the part of local concessionaires over the concentration of all public utilities, it is now generally realized that this is the only system of management which could have kept pace with the park development, and being a problem of national interest it was decided by the Service with a view to the greatest good to the greatest number.

In conclusion let me say that the development of the Park Service has been more than gratifying, especially as regards the esprit de corps which has not only made the organization efficient but is daily exemplifying the true meaning of service. The ideal of each individual member of the Service and of the Service itself is to give to the public not merely what they pay for, but everything within power.

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ADMINISTRATION OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By W. B. LEwis

Superintendent, Yosemite National Park

YOsEMitE NatiOnal PaRK, which covers 1125 square miles, an area nearly as extensive as the State of Rhode Island, is a national reservation. It is completely subject to federal administration and is governed by rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior under authority of the law. The enforcement of the laws and regulations is entrusted to a Superintendent who resides and maintains headquarters in Yosemite Valley and who is directly responsible to the Director of the National Park Service, the chief administrative officer of the entire National Parks system.

The duties of the Superintendent are multifarious. He must supervise the many governmental activities, some of which are the task of building and maintaining roads and trails; the building of telephone and telegraph lines and the operation of telephone and telegraph service within the park, and to the connection of these lines with the outside commercial lines; the building of power transmission lines and the operation of the government-owned and -built 2000 kilowatt hydro-electric power plant; the building, maintenance, and operation of the park shops and barns; the construction and maintenance of living quarters for the employees of the government; the operation of construction camps for the working men; the installation, maintenance, and operation of water and sewage systems; the care of public grounds; the policing and maintenance of the public camping grounds, etc.; and the administration of the park ranger force. The duties of this last branch of the service include the general policing of the park for the protection of fish and game, the prevention and extinguishing of forest fires, the regulation of traffic, and the general preservation of order, the checking of automobiles, and the maintenance of an Information Bureau for the dissemination of accurate, reliable, and impartial information on all matters of interest to park visitors.

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government franchise, arid adjust differences between such individuals and corporations themselves or between them and the public.

The Superintendent further has supervision over the cutting of timber on private lands within the park and on government lands where, through exchanges with private owners to preserve privately owned timber of scenic importance, such cutting is permitted. He must also see that the government’s interests are not impaired under the operation of power and water supply projects where they are authorized by law as, for instance, in the case with the City and County of San Francisco in the development of its power and water supply project in Hetch Hetchy Valley.

With this diversity of governmental activities the administrative organization is divided into various departments, each with its supervising officer and each with clearly specified activities and duties. These various administrative and operative units together with their general duties are enumerated below.

Department of General Administration. The Assistant Superintendent is in charge of this department and the activities are as follows: general office management; purchase of supplies and equipment; disbursing of pay rolls and accounts; timekeeping; accounting; collections of revenues from sales, franchise fees, and fees from all other sources; appointments; employees’ compensation; preparation of contracts and vouchers; sales; and the numerous details of local routine matters.

Department of Maintenance and Operation. The activities of this department, which is administered by a Park Supervisor who is assisted by an Assistant Supervisor, are the most varied of any of the park administrative units. They consist principally of the maintenance of the 138 miles of park roads and 600 miles of trails, of some 200 government buildings, and of approximately 5 miles of water lines; the maintenance and repair of all buildings, fences, and bridges; the care and distribution of stock and transportation facilities; upkeep and repair of tools and equipment; care of public grounds and camps; disposal of garbage and waste; and the production of wood, ice, hay, etc.

Department of Engineering. A Resident Engineer has direct charge of this unit and his duties consist mainly of the advisory supervision of all outside maintenance work; the making of surveys for roads, trails, pipe lines, etc.; the preparation of plans, designs, and specifications for construction; and the inspection contract work.

Ranger Service. It is with this phase of the park administration that the public comes most in contact. The Ranger Service consists of a force of from ten to thirty rangers (depending upon the season of the year) under a Chief Ranger.

The park is divided into a number of districts and, during the summer months, in each is stationed a mounted ranger who is responsible for the proper patrol of his district. It is his duty to inform, assist, and instruct the park visitor, to prevent and extinguish forest fires, to protect fish and game in accordance with the park rules and regulations, to inspect camping grounds, and to enforce the rules and regulations, making arrests when necessary.

Traffic rangers, mounted on horses and motorcycles, are stationed on the floor of Yosemite Valley. While their principal duty is to regulate traffic, they must also be informative to the public, patrol for fire, police camping grounds, and, in general, preserve law and order around the village, camps, and hotels.

A specially qualified ranger is also in charge of the Information Bureau which is maintained at the Park Headquarters. Here information concerning roads and trails and all other matters of public interest concerning the park is given out; campers are registered; park publications and maps are distributed and sold; and bulletins concerning roads, trails, and general park conditions are prepared from time to time for distribution to newspapers, automobile clubs, and other organizations interested.

Checking or automobile rangers are stationed at all of the road entrances to the park, and at the top

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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INSIGNIA 1.—Director of National Parks (Gold Star) Assistant Director of National Parks (Silver Star) 2.—Park Superintendent 3.—Assistant Park Superintendent 4.—Park Engineer 5.—Assistant Park Engineer 6.—Chief Park Ranger 7.—Assistant Chief Park Ranger 8.—Park Ranger 9.—Temporary Park Ranger 10.—Ranger’s Badge 11.—Collar Insignia

and bottom of the steep grades entering Yosemite Valley. They issue permits, collect automobile fees, distribute park information, and collect and seal firearms. Records are kept of every automobile or other vehicle passing the stations, together with the number of persons carried and the exact time of leaving the stations. Checking rangers are also called upon to do their share towards the effective operation of the park by observing for fires, reporting violations of regulations, etc.

Electrical Department. Under this department falls the maintenance and operation of the park telephone, telegraph, power, and lighting systems. A Chief Electrician is in direct charge.

The telephone and telegraph system of the park consists of approximately 210 miles of telephone lines, to which are attached from 100 to 175 telephones. These lines radiate from Yosemite Valley to various parts of the park, and fifteen miles of telegraph line links Yosemite with El Portal where connection is made with the lines of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.

A 150-line switchboard is operated continuously on a 24-hour basis throughout the year, and local and long distance service may be had from all hotels, camps, or ranger stations throughout the park. The main telegraph office is located at the Park Headquarters Building in Yosemite Village, but messages may be filed and received at all hotels and camps. A messenger service is also provided during the summer months but this is of necessity limited to Yosemite Valley.

The electrical system consists of a hydro-electric, power plant of 2000 kilowatt capacity, located on the Merced River a short distance below the western end of Yosemite Valley. This plant was completed in June, 1919, at a cost of $212,000.00 and serves seven miles of high power transmission line and approximately nine miles of distributing lines. The energy here developed is used for power, lighting, heating, and cooking purposes in the hotels and camps, and in the residences of park employees and other government buildings.

Department of Forests and Timber. Under the supervision of a Park Forester this unit of park administration is charged with the supervision of timber operations in the park and the immediate representation of the federal government on the Hetch Hetchy project in course of development by the City and County of San Francisco.

Special work having to do with the forests of the park is also assigned to this department.

Mechanical Department. This department is presided over by a Master Mechanic who has charge of the operation of the machine shop and the maintenance and upkeep of all motor-driven vehicles. To him is also assigned the task of advisory supervision of the upkeep and operation of all power-driven machinery and plants.

In addition to the more or less specific activities enumerated above, numerous problems of a special nature are from time to time taken up in connection with other bureaus or departments of the State and National governments. Control of the mosquito nuisance is carried on in coöperation with and under the advice of the United States Public Health Service of the Treasury Department; the study of forest insects and application of the findings of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture in the elimination of insect depredations on the park forests are effected by the park force in coöperation with that bureau; the planting of fish in the park waters is done in coöperation with the California State Fish and Game Commission; methods for the extermination of rodents in Yosemite Valley are applied under the advice of the Biological Department of the Department of Agriculture; and in coöperation with the Forest Service the problem of the preservation of timber along the roads leading to the park is being worked out.

Hence the administration of the park, in its position as a separate and independent nationally governed unit which compares with the District of Columbia so far as form and application of government is concerned, places, on the small scale, upon its administrative organization many of the same complex problems of administration and operation that confront the local government of that reservation—problems and difficulties that are, however, little realized by the casual visitor to the park whose soul and mind are occupied in absorbing scenery and with getting the fullest enjoyment out of his holiday.

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GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By AnDREW C. LaWSOn

Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of California

FROM a geological and physiographic point of view the Sierra Nevada is, as its Spanish name implies, a single range built on very simple structural lines. It belongs to the class of mountains of the Basin Range type, so called because it is best exemplified in the Great Basin, that great region of no drainage to the sea which lies between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch. In this region the earth’s crust has been broken into blocks, elongated in a general north-south direction. Some of these have been depressed and lie beneath the broad valleys of the desert, while others have been uplifted and constitute its linear mountain ranges. The uplift has, however, not been uniform in most cases, but has been effected by a rotation of the block On an axis parallel to the range. It results from this that the block as a whole has been tilted so as to Present a steep front, or scarp, on one side and a gentle slope on the other. The simplicity of the Profile thus produced has of course been greatly modified by the erosion of the block which has taken place irl the long period of time that has elapsed since its uplift.

The Sierra Nevada is one of these uplifted and tilted blocks, presenting a very steep, bold front to the east and a slope of only about 2° to the west. The edge of the tilted block is the crest of the range; its eastern front is the surface of the break whereby it was dislocated from the relatively depressed region of the desert; and its western slope represents the old, low surface of the region before it was elevated. Both the eastern front and the western slope have suffered greatly from erosion since the range came into being by this process of uplift and tilting. On the east the fault scarp has been battered to a slope much less steep than it was originally, and the crest of the range has thereby migrated westward. On the west the tilting of the surface determined a drainage by streams running transverse to the axis of the range; and these, by reason of their velocity, cut sharp trenches, which in the course of time have been deepened and widened into http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/geology.html[2/12/2013 10:01:51 AM] Geology of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Andrew C. Lawson

the great cañons of the Sierra Nevada. On the divides between the cañons, in cases where their slopes have not yet intersected, there are still remnants of the old surface much in the same condition as it was before the uplift. From these flat-topped divides, an observer may get such extended views in all directions that he forgets he is in the mountains, and, overlooking the deep cañons, gets the sensation of being on a vast sloping plain with occasional low hills rising above the general surface. It is this plain which has a slope of 2° from the edge of the Great Valley to the region of the summit peaks and crests. Its remarkable evenness on many of the divides, particularly in the northern part of the range, is due to the fact that the region before its uplift was extensively covered by deposits of meandering streams, and these in turn covered by layers of volcanic ash, agglomerate, and lava, thus smoothing out and obscuring the inequalities of an erosional surface of comparatively low relief. Considered in the light of these observations and viewed in its entirety, the Sierra Nevada is recognized not only as one of the Basin Ranges, but as the most perfect and most magnificent example of the type.

The uplift of the Sierra Nevada was not, however, a simple sudden event, nor even a continuous process of earth deformation. The uplift proceeded by stages of which two are strongly pronounced, particularly in the southern part of the range. Between these stages the process of tilting stopped for a long time, and in the interval the cañons, which had been deepened to the limit for the first stage, were widened into broad flat-floored valleys. As a consequence of the second stage of uplift, the streams flowing through these wide valleys were rejuvenated and resumed the work of cañon cutting, leaving large remnants of the old valley floors as benches or terraces above the brink of the cañon walls. The high valleys that border the cañon of the Kern are perhaps the best records of this Period of stability in the Sierra Nevada between two stages of uplift. The wide, level, rock floor of Tuolumne Meadows, by its contrast with the gorges of Tenaya Creek and Tuolumne River below the Meadows, suggests that it, also, may have been developed in its preglacial outlines, during this same period of stability.

The uplifting process of the second stage is not yet completed. In 1872, at the time of the heavy earthquake of that year, a movement occurred on the great fault which bounds the Sierra Nevada on the east. By this movement the elevation of the southern part of the range, in relation to Owens Valley, was increased by about twenty feet; and a fresh scarp was formed, causing a sharp step in the profile of the lower flank of the range.

Having now acquired an understanding of the general configuration of the Sierra Nevada as a single mountain of the Basin Range type, formed by the tilting of an elongated block of the earth’s crust, we may proceed to consider the cañons which have been cut into the rising mass, and particularly the cañon of the Merced with its famous Yosemite Valley. With one notable exception the great cañons of the Sierra Nevada are transverse to the range. The dominant drainage still follows the lines imposed upon it consequent upon the tilting of the crustal block. In this respect the drainage pattern differs in a marked degree from that of many other mountain ranges. The main valleys and stream courses of the Appalachian Range, for example, are parallel to the length of the elevated mass, with only short transverse outlets for the extended longitudinal system. Similarly the main drainage of the Coast Ranges is parallel to their elongation. The reason for this is that in these and similar mountain ranges the belts of rock conform in direction to the elongation of the range, and belts of soft rock generally alternate with belts of hard rock; so that, although the drainage may have been originally transverse, consequent upon the uplift, the tributaries of these consequent streams that happened to be on belts of soft rock eroded cañon’s very much faster than those which drained belts of hard rock, and faster than the consequent streams, which traversed both hard and soft belts. The result of this has been that, in the course of time, the great valleys of old mountains become located in the soft belts, and so become the dominant features of the drainage systems. Such longitudinal drainage is technically designated subsequent to distinguish it from the earlier transverse or consequent drainage.

The reason that no notable subsequent drainage has been developed in the Sierra Nevada is twofold: 1. The time that has elapsed since the uplift of the range has been so short that, even in the northern part of the range where the contrast of hard and soft belts is pronounced, the tributary streams have as yet made but little headway in establishing their domination. Geologists and geographers regard a well developed subsequent drainage as characteristic of a relatively old mountain range. So we may classify the Sierra Nevada, on the basis of the meagerness of subsequent streams, as a young mountain range. 2. In the southern part of the Sierra Nevada there are but few contrasts in the hardness of the rocks, the mass of the mountain being almost wholly granite, so that the condition favorable for the development of subsequent streams, on a well-marked longitudinal pattern, is lacking.

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The notable exception to this transverse disposition of the Sierran streams is the Kern River. This stream, however, had its position determined for it by a remarkable rift in the earth’s crust, parallel to the great fault which marks the eastern boundary of the range.

Long after the uplift of the Sierra Nevada to practically its present altitude, after the cañons had been eroded down to very nearly their present depth below the flat-topped divides, the climate changed for the worse. In the summit region the ablation of summer failed to remove the snows of winter. The snows of many years accumulated and became packed down of their own weight into ice, so that glaciers were formed. At first these were small and situated on the north side of the great peaks where ablation was feeble; but later they expanded into great névés from which tongues of ice extended down into the cañons. These tongues were veritable streams of ice many hundreds, and even thousands, of feet deep, which flowed slowly through the cañons for ages. They extended far below the line of perennial snows, and in each case reached a limit, at the time of maximum severity of climate, at a point in the cañon where the ablation of summer just balanced the forward flow of the ice. At this point the glacier dumped the load of rock débris which had been shed upon it from the cañon walls above. Thus a great lunate ridge of fragments, ranging in size from grains of sand to spauls the size of a house, was formed, spanning the cañon from wall to wall. This ridge is called a terminal moraine; and there are many such moraines in the great cañons. Besides the terminal moraine, there are others farther up the cañons, called moraines of retreat, which mark stages in the waning of the glaciers when the climate again became more genial. To these moraines were delivered not only the rock, fragments which had ridden on the back of the glacier to its end, but also similar fragments carried in the body of ice, which had either fallen into crevasses or had been plucked out of the floor of the cañon in places where the rock was so intersected by joint cracks as to be divided into blocks, and so easily dislodged by the ice stream. Many rock fragments were also carried

PLATE VI Two Yosemite domes. Mount Star King (left) and Half Dome (right) from the summit of Mount Watkins Photo by A. D. Lockwood along in the bottom of the ice, and these scratched, abraded, and polished the rock surfaces over which the ice flowed, and were themselves scratched, abraded, and polished by the same action. By carefully examining the material of some moraines one may find an abundance of bowlders showing such evidence of abrasion; while in other moraines they are very scarce or absent.

Besides the terminal moraines and moraines of various stages of retreat, the upper slopes of the cañons formerly occupied by glaciers are in many cases, particularly near their headwaters, modified by great ridges of glacial débris, known as lateral moraines. These accumulations were formed in the same way as the terminal moraines due to a sideways movement of the ice to balance the ablation along its margin.

The effect of the long continued flow of these ice streams upon the configuration and aspect of the cañons is very

notable, and may be observed in the upper reaches of all the great Sierran cañons. In their lower stretches, the cañons are all V-shaped in transverse profile, the slopes are uneven and generally encumbered with a mantle of rock débris and soil arising from the disintegration and decay of the rock tinder the weather. Where rock surfaces are exposed these present the appearance of fractures, or are bounded by joint planes, and the rock is usually somewhat decomposed for a short distance below the surface. As we pass up the cañons, within the limits of former glaciation, the whole aspect of the landscape changes. The cañons are no longer V-shaped in profile, but more nearly U-shaped. All of the rock débris and soil has been swept out of the cañon, and bare rock surfaces are seen on every hand. These surfaces are, moreover, not commonly fractures or joint planes, but are clearly surfaces due to abrasion since they show abundant evidence of scoring, striation, fluting, and polishing. Many surfaces are so highly polished that they reflect the sun’s rays like a mirror. Where the polish is lacking it is generally evident that this is due to exfoliation, the scaling off of the rock in thin slabs, and that the polish once extended over the areas thus denuded. The bare rock surfaces have acquired rounded or hummocky forms which, from a distance and in the aggregate, look like the backs of sheep in a flock. They are therefore known technically as roches moutonnées. The hummocks are characteristically elongated in the direction of the cañon and have a symmetrical transverse profile but an asymmetrical longitudinal profile, with a steep front facing down stream. This asymmetry is due to the fact that the upstream side of the hummock received the full force of the abrasive impact of the ice current, whereas the tendency on the downstream side was to pull out or pluck fragments from the rock mass and so leave a steep front. The abrasion thus so apparent on the roches moutonnées affected all surfaces over which the ice passed. It was not done by the ice itself, however, but by the rock fragments imbedded in it. The passage of the ice stream through the cañons not only swept away all loose rock and soil on the slopes, but by this process of abrasion removed all the decomposed material, so that the rocks so generally exposed in the glaciated Portions of the cañons are in a wholly sound and fresh condition. It is evident also that the abrasive process was competent to reduce even the fresh hard rock after the superficially decomposed material had been removed. The long continued abrasion and the plucking together have deepened the cañons, at the same time giving them their characteristic U-shaped profile. One of the finest examples of the effect of ice upon the configuration of a cañon, once merely a stream gorge, is afforded by Tenaya Cañon, a good general view of which may be had from Mirror Lake.

The power of glaciers to deepen the cañons in which they flow is perhaps best exemplified in their upper reaches where the general grade is steeper. Here the characteristic longitudinal profile of the cañons is a series of steps, the present streams cascading from one level to another. On each step is a rock-rimmed basin, or tam. In some cases there may be several such steps and tarns in the course of a mile, while in others the steps may be much broader and more widely spaced. No other agency is known whereby these tarn basins could have been formed except by the abrasive power of rock-laden ice. Seizing upon the inequalities of the original stream profile the ice has accentuated these into a series of giant steps, the treads of which suffered heavy local abrasion by the impact of the ice descending from above, while the risers were developed into cliffs by exceptionally active Plucking. One of the lowest of the tarns in the vicinity of Yosemite is Tenaya Lake which lies in a rock-rimmed basin 140 feet deep.

Another extremely interesting feature of most glaciated cañons, to be found at their very head, where the ice stream has its origin, is the cirque. This is a vast amphitheatre of bare rock enclosed by nearly vertical cliffs, generally hundreds of feet high, in the floor of which is a tam. In some of the larger cirques there are several tarns at slightly different levels. These cirques appear as great bites in the mass of the mountain and are clustered around the high peaks of the summit that divide the drainage. They have been formed by that peculiarly vigorous process of ice erosion which, on a smaller scale, has given us the steep faces of the roches moutonnées hummocks, and the risers on the steps of the glaciated cañons. The glaciers at their heads ate their way into the mountain mass, by nibbling at the base of the cliffs and so undermining them. The blocks of rock plucked out from the cliffs were incorporated into the ice and carried away by the glacier to be delivered chiefly on its sides, to make the great lateral moraines which are now found below the cirques. As the process proceeded, and the cirques were enlarged at the expense of the peaks and ridges, the divides between opposing cirques were in many cases reduced to thin partitions with sharp knife-like crests. As still further enlargement proceeded, these divides were rapidly lowered. We have thus presented to us in this encroachment of cirques, one on the other, a process whereby lofty mountain crests and summits are first gradually narrowed and then rapidly reduced. This glacial destruction of mountain crests may eventually so lower the elevation that the conditions favoring the accumulation of ice may be done away with. Alpine glaciers may therefore be said to be self- destructive. The glaciation of the high Sierra, however, occupied but a brief time from a geological point of view and before the destruction of the high peaks and summits had proceeded far the climate changed and the glaciers almost

wholly melted away, leaving only remnants in a few of the higher cirques.

Of these lingering glaciers within the limits of the National Park the most notable, as well as the most accessible, are those on the east side of Mt. Dana, on the north side of Mt. Lyell, and on the northeast side of Mt. McClure. These glaciers are very small compared with the great ice stream that once filled the whole of Tuolumne Meadows, and sent one tongue down the cañon. of the Tuolumne River far below Hetch Hetchy and another down Tenaya Cañon into Yosemite. They are, however, interesting features of the high Sierra and well worth a visit. Although they are very small, they have all the essential features and functions of their great ancestors except that they are in some cases broader than long. Here at the lower edge of the ice one may see a moraine in actual process of accumulation; and on searching among the bowlders one may find some that have been abraded and scratched. The ice is traversed by crevasses just as in the case of the great glaciers and riding on the ice may be seen the débris shed from the cliffs above. If we cross the glacier to its upper edge where it appears to adhere to the base of the cirque walls, we find that the appearance is deceptive, for the ice, instead of hugging closely the base of the cliffs, is separated from them by a space of several feet. The space extends down for a long distance between the wall of rock and the wall of ice as a great chasm. This detachment of the glacier from the cliffs is known as the bergschrund. At the bottom of the chasm goes on the plucking and sapping action which gives the cirque walls their verticality, as seen when the ice eventually vanishes.

Among the glaciated cañons of the Yosemite National Park those of the Merced and the Tuolumne are the most impressive and the most interesting. just as at present these two streams gather up and carry forward to the San Joaquin Valley practically all the drainage of the park, so, in glacial time, the great bodies of ice which covered the summit region within the limits of the park, excepting the highest peaks, converged on the same two cañons, and flowed down them to the limit where ablation balanced the forward movement. Some of the ice, however, flowed through the passes on the crest of the range toward the east and gave rise to glacier tongues on that side which were much shorter than those on the west; because then, just as now, the climate was much drier and the summers hotter than on the west side of the summit. Most of these short glaciers on the eastern flank of the range have left splendidly developed lateral moraines. Some of these, particularly those of Bloody Cañon, Leevining Cañon, and Parker Creek, in the vicinity of Mono Lake are easily accessible to visitors in the park. It is interesting to note that, at the maximum extension of these east flank glaciers, the level of Mono Lake was about 675 feet higher than at present. At this high level the glaciers reached the lake. But even under these conditions the greatly increased influx of water from the melting glaciers was balanced by evaporation, for at its highest stage Mono Lake had no outlet. Thus we have the apparent anomaly of glaciation combined with aridity. The explanation of course is that the glacial streams flowed from a humid region west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada into an and region to the east of the crest. The line between two strongly contrasted climatic provinces was, however, very sharp.

In the drainage system of Merced River Tenaya is perhaps the most typical illustration of a thoroughly glaciated stream gorge. It is at the same time the most easily accessible to visitors in the Yosemite Valley. Everybody who goes to Yosemite gets a glimpse of Tenaya Cañon from Mirror Lake. Yosemite is also a glaciated cañon. There is a large moraine spanning the Valley just below El Capitan and the ice must have extended that far at least. Yet the contrast between Tenaya Cañon and Yosemite Valley is very great. If Tenaya be the type of a glaciated cañon, Yosemite must be abnormal. In what does the departure from the type consist? Evidently in the width of the Valley floor, its level character, and the entire absence of bare rock surfaces. The floor of Yosemite is everywhere sandy and there is reason to believe that the deposits of sand are several hundred feet thick. If we imagine this sand removed and the talus at the base of the great cliffs nonexistent, we would see the Valley as it actually was immediately on the retreat of the glacier. The picture before the mind’s eye would then differ in no essential respect from the view we get of Tenaya Cañon. The Valley would then be true to type. It would be larger and deeper, but there are good reasons for this. The glacier entering Yosemite from Tenaya was not the Only one that filled the Valley with ice. An equally important one flowed in from the Upper Merced and Little Yosemite; and another moved down the Illilouette. These three great glaciers converged on Yosemite and the cross section of the confluent glacier in the Valley was probably not less than the sum of the cross sections of the three tributaries. This great increase in the volume of the ice, particularly as expressed in its depth, together with the steepness of approach of the tributaries to the Valley, would greatly increase the abrasive action of the glacier on its floor. Just below the confluence, that is in Yosemite, the cañon would be over-deepened and we would have a rock-rimmed basin formed, like that of Tenaya Lake but larger and deeper. Thus, in our mental

picture of the restoration of Yosemite as it was at the immediate retreat of the glacier, we must introduce a beautiful lake, in which were mirrored the majestic walls encircling it. At the lower end of this lake, just below El Capitan, had been left a moraine which helped to accentuate the depression caused by the scour of the ice. Into this lake poured the sandy and milky waters of the three glaciers, now separate during the long period of their retreat. These streams built out a delta into the lake which eventually filled it, giving us the present floor of the Valley, seven miles long and one mile wide. On this floor has accumulated the talus of rock spauls shed from the cliffs; and across the floor in a shallow sandy trench flows the Merced River, cascading over the moraine below El Capitan, giving us the Valley as we know it to-day.

Hetch Hetchy Valley is generally recognized as being analogous to Yosemite though on a small scale. The profound gorge of the Tuolumne, with it stepped profile of bare, glaciated rock emerges suddenly on a wide, flat-floored, sandy valley, just Tenaya Cañon opens on Yosemite. Both valleys have had the same history. Glacial abrasion and plucking over-deepened the cañon, so that, when the

PLATE VII The Lyell Canyon with Mount Lyell and its glacier several miles distant Photo by Wm. E. Colby ice retreated, a tarn occupied the basin. This tarn served as a trap for sediments brought down from the melting ice above, and the filling of the basin built out the level floor of Hetch Hetchy. The lake which will soon be created in Hetch Hetchy Valley by the dam at its outlet, now being built by the City of San Francisco, will be but a restoration on a larger scale of the lake which once existed there. The new lake will seem very natural in its mountain setting, a gem of great beauty and a delight to all who may have the good fortune to see it.

Little Yosemite Valley owes its flat, sandy floor and its breadth between walls to the same process. The valley is but a tread on the great stepped profile of the Merced; and on this tread there had been scoured out a rock-rimmed basin which, on the final retreat of the ice, contained a tarn about three miles long. Several meadows in Tenaya Cañon above Tenaya Lake are similarly filled tarns, as are also many meadows of the higher altitudes.

The contrast between the typical glaciated cañon of Tenaya Creek, and the aberrant Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy valleys is not, however, due wholly to the fact that they once held lake basins now filled with sand. The contours and the profiles of the walls of both Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy differ from those of Tenaya Cañon. The contours of Yosemite are in general zig-zag, expressive of salients and reëntrants which are full of surprises and suggest some mysteriously intentional process of sculpture. In the profiles the vertical element dominates and gives the Valley its atmosphere of solemnity and majesty, the same atmosphere which the great architects of the Middle Ages gave to their splendid Gothic cathedrals. These features are in striking contrast with the smoothly flowing, though undulatory, contours and profiles of Tenaya Cañon below Clouds Rest as seen from Mirror Lake. When we try by close

observation to ascertain the cause of this contrast we discover, as Matthes has so well told us, that in the sculptural modification of the Valley by glacial erosion there has been a large element of control inherent in the structure of the granite, which is the prevailing rock. The granite originally solidified from a molten condition under a cover of immense thickness. This cover was removed by erosion ages before the uplift which gave the Sierra Nevada its present configuration. The relief of load, as erosion proceeded, and the lowering of the temperature of the mass as the granite was brought nearer the surface and eventually into the zone of erosion, greatly changed the condition of compressive strain which the force of gravity imposes upon the rock. This redistribution of strain caused certain portions of the mass to be overstrained, and relief was obtained by the development of systems of cracks or fissures which we call joints. These joints are in some cases straight and parallel so as to divide the rock into thick slabs, as on the face of Sentinel Rock. In other cases there are two or three intersecting systems which divide the rock into prisms, or cuboidal, or rhomboidal blocks. In still other cases the joints are curved and roughly concentric as at the Royal Arches. Many portions of the granite are, however, almost free from joints, or, if they be present, they are so widely spaced that they only slightly affect the integrity of the rock, as at El Capitan.

Now, nearly all of the vagaries of erosion, a particularly of ice sculpture, in Yosemite Nation Park are referable to the erratic distribution of these systems of joints and to the disposition of the joint planes in each system. The ice, in passing over or past jointed granite, plucked out the blocks one by one and incorporated them within its body, carrying them forward with the glacial flow. In the course of time a vast quantity of rock was thus removed. In the unjointed portions of the granite in contact with the ice, on the other hand, erosion was limited to abrasion and comparatively little rock was removed by this process. In this way there were large differences in the rate of glacial erosion in near- by localities; and the same influence had also affected ordinary atmospheric and stream erosion in the ages that preceded the glacial period. The great salients like El Capitan are composed of granite in which the joint structure is but feebly developed and were, therefore, resistant to erosion by the dislodgment of blocks. The trough in which Bridalveil Creek flows above the falls is clearly conditioned by the intersection of inclined joints. The great steps over which Vernal Falls and Nevada Falls tumble are equally clearly determined by the disposition of the joint planes there. In the exfoliation of the curved slabs, so well exemplified in the Royal Arches, we have an excellent illustration of the control exercised by curved joints in the development of the great domes of the park, such as North Dome, Half Dome, and many others. The curious spires which are so common about Tuolumne Meadows, and which characterize the landscape in the wonderful view from the summit of Mt. Conness, owe their configuration to the same control of erosion by internal structure. It is well to note, however, that the curved joints which determined the configuration of the domes and spires presented a structure which was not so favorable to dislodgment of spauls, whether by atmospheric agencies or by glacial plucking as was the structure formed by intersecting straight joints The domes and spires represent portions of the granite which were, like the unjointed rock, relatively resistant to mechanical disintegration, so that, when the rest of the region was reduced in level, they remained as eminences. The higher domes and spires probably rose well above the surface of the great névé and the ice streams flowing from it, so that the exfoliation which gave them their present configuration is referable not to ice plucking, but to the heaving action of freezing water in the joint cracks, and to the slow, recurrent movements due to dilatation and contraction under varying temperature. Half Dome, the asymmetry of which, no less than its isolation and height, makes it so conspicuous a feature of Yosemite Valley, owes its peculiar configuration to the intersection of two systems of joints: a system of straight, vertical joints parallel to the flat west face, probably disposed in a narrow zone, and a system of curved joints concentric with the rounded east side.

Many of the lower domes have, however, been over ridden by the ice and so have had a glacial modelling, by abrasion, imposed upon surfaces originally wholly determined by curved joints. In this process a glacial modelling great thick slabs of granite which had become loosened from the parent mass were plucked out by the ice, leaving vertical walls from a few inches to twenty feet or more high facing down stream. The ice immediately flowed into the reëntrants thus formed and abraded the new surface exposed to its attack by the removal of the slab. In cases where this happened during the retreat of the ice front we find abundant manifestations of glacial scouring at sharply different levels on the bare rounded surfaces. Some extreme cases of this sort have suggested to Mr. Matthes that there may have been two glaciations of the region, and he has adduced other evidence in favor of this view. In this he is supported by the earlier interpretation of the moraines near Mono Lake by Russell; by the observations of Turner and Ransome in the Big Trees quadrangle; and by the later observations of Knopf on the eastern flank of the Southern Sierra Nevada. But the doctrine of two distinct glaciations of the Sierra Nevada is one which must be subjected to much more critical study before it can be accepted by geologists as an established fact. There is, of course, in this

doubt as to the reality of two distinct glacial periods no objection to the recognition of frequent retreats and advances of the glacier front in one and the same glacial period; for we are familiar with such oscillations in the existing glaciers of Alaska, Norway, and the Alps.

Yosemite Valley differs from Tenaya Cañon in still other important features which excite not only geological interest, but also the wonder and admiration of all who come to the Valley. These are the waterfalls, the grace and beauty of which, no less than their great height, have made them famous the world over. Streams which flow with gentle gradients in comparatively shallow channels on the uplands corresponding to the old surface before it was uplifted, reach the brink of the Valley and plunge headlong into the abyss, clearing all contact with the cliffs for hundreds of feet. These upland channels which thus appear at the brink of Yosemite Valley as small notches in its walls belong to the class of so-called "hanging valleys," which are rather characteristic of glaciated regions in general. They may have one of two different origins: 1. The relatively shallow upland channels may have been nonexistent prior to the glaciation of the region, the drainage having then taken some other path. In this case the present position of the streams was determined by the configuration of the surface vacated by the ice, and their channels, in so far as these have been cut by water erosion and not by glacial scouring, is wholly a post-glacial effect. If this be the explanation of Yosemite and Bridalveil creeks then there is nothing surprising in the fact that, in the short time since the ice vanished, they have eroded but shallow trenches in the glaciated upland, and so appear as hanging valleys on the brink of the Valley. 2. The upland creeks that now cascade into the Valley at Yosemite Falls and Bridalveil Falls may have been preglacial drainage lines which were temporarily occupied by the ice with the rest of the country, and which again became functional when their channels were vacate, by the ice. In this case these two tributaries of the Merced must have been engaged in the work of stream erosion as long as the main stream and there should have been, just prior to glaciation, no glaring discordance in the depth of their trenches. If this be so, then the main cañon of the Merced at Yosemite Valley must have been very shallow just prior to glaciation, and nearly the whole depth of the Valley would have to be ascribed to glacial erosion. But we cannot accept this latter explanation because the cañon of the Merced below the limit of glaciation affords us the measure. of preglacial. erosion and tells us that Yosemite has been only modified and over-deepened by ice work, but not, in its larger features, created by the glacier.

It would seem, therefore, that both Yosemite Creek and Bridalveil Creek are post-glacial drainage features; although the argument applies with greater force to the former than to the latter. The same interpretation can scarcely, however, be placed on Illilouette Falls, and much less can it be applied to Vernal and Nevada falls on the main flow of the Merced. These three magnificent cascades clearly are on lines of pre-glacial drainage, and their relation to Yosemite Valley is not the same as that of Yosemite and Bridalveil falls. The drop from Little Yosemite and that from the upland valley of the Illilouette to the floor of Yosemite are nearly the same, and the gorge into which the waters tumble in both cases is a glacially modified inheritance of a pre-glacial condition. Attention has been called to the fact that the uplift of the Sierra Nevada took place by two main elevatory movements, with a long period of rest between during which the high valleys of the Kern region were evolved to their present notable width. It may well be that on the drainage system of the Merced there were also similar high valleys carved out of the mountain mass, and that Little Yosemite and upper Illilouette are remnants of this old topography. Such valleys after the second uplift would, of course, be subject to vigorous dissection by reason of the accentuation of the stream grades. This dissection, however, probably proceeded as it does In plateaus underlain by flat lying strata; that is, by the recession of falls so well exemplified at Niagara and by the falls of the Yellowstone. At Niagara the rocks are hard limestones resting on soft shales, while in the Yellowstone the strata are sheets of volcanic rock. But in both cases the gorge has been formed by the slow upstream recession of the falls. Horizontal jointing in the granite, such as is so well displayed near the top of Lower Yosemite Falls, and one third of the way up the walls of Hetch Hetchy, would have the same effect as planes of stratification in promoting this process of gorge cutting, particularly if combined with transverse vertical jointage, which would determine the verticality of the head of the gorge. Both horizontal and vertical jointage are well displayed in the gorge between Nevada Falls and the floor of the Valley.

We may thus picture to ourselves a pre-glacier Yosemite Valley, not as deep, nor as wide, nor as sheer-walled as the present Valley, but nevertheless profound erosional gorge ending in spray filled culs-de-sac below both Little Yosemite and the high valley of the Illilouette, with great cascades in them not essentially different from those we see to-day with so much pleasure and interest. Nevada,Vernal, and Illilouette are, therefore, from this point of view, falls which handed over their work of extending the cañon of the Merced into the High Sierra to the Merced Glacier for a geologically brief time, and have since resumed operations at nearly the old stand. The amount of recession effected by

the glacier was probably not great, since the work must have been done chiefly, not wholly, by the process of plucking, and the paucity of the moraines below Yosemite indicates but a small product.

Pre-glacial Tenaya Cañon, in contrast to that of the Merced, was not extended upstream by a sapping process, but by stream corrasion through granite traversed by a zone of vertical joints parallel to its length, and deficient in horizontal and in transverse vertical joints. The gorge was narrow and steep, and although it doubtless had its cascades, these did not have the sheer drop displayed by the Nevada and Vernal Fails. The deepening of the cañon by stream corrasion was more uniformly distributed throughout the length of the cañon.

REFERENCES

GilbERt, GROvE KaRl. 1904. "Variations of Sierra Glaciers." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. v., No. 1., pp. 20-25. 1905. "Domes and Dome Structure of the High Sierra." Ibid., vol. v., pp. 211-220. 1905. "Systematic Asymmetry of Crest Lines in the High Sierra of California." Ibid., vol. v., pp. 279-286.

LaWSOn, AnDREW C. 1903. The Geomorphogeny of the Upper Kern Basin. Bull. Dept. Geology, Univ. Calif. Publ., vol. iii., No. 15, pp. 291-376.

MatthES, FRanÇOiS E. 1910-1913. "Little Studies in the Yosemite Valley." I. "The Extinct Eagle Peak Falls." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. vii., No. 4, pp. 222-224. II. "The Striped Rock Floor of the Little Yosemite Valley." Ibid., vol. viii., No. 1., pp. 3-9. III. "The Winds of the Yosemite Valley." Ibid., vol. viii., No. 2, pp. 89-95. IV. "El Capitan Moraine and Ancient Lake Yosemite." Ibid., vol. ix., No. 1., pp. 7-15. 1910. "The Cliff Sculpture of the Yosemite Valley." Abstract: Science, new ser. vol. xxxii., pp. 186. Abstract and discussion. Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol. xxi., No. 4, pp. 759-760. 1912. "Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Account of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys." U. S. Dept. of the Interior, pp. 47, fig. 23. 1914. "Studying the Yosemite Problem." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. ix., No. 3, pp. 136-147.

MuiR, JOhn. 1915-1918. "Studies in the Sierra." I. "Mountain Sculpture." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. ix., No. 4, pp. 225- 239. II. "Mountain Sculpture; Origin of Yosemite Valleys." Ibid., vol. x., No. i., pp. 62-77. III. "Ancient Glaciers and their Pathways." Ibid., vol. x., No. 2, pp. 184-201 (Reprinted from Overland Monthly, July, 1874). IV. "Glacial Denudation." Ibid., vol. x., No. 3, pp. 318.

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LIFE ZONES OF THE YOSEMITE REGION

By JOSEph GRInnEll, Director, AnD TRAcy IRWIn StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

(Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of the University of California1)

1For several years past the natural history of the Yosemite region has been the subject of special study by staff members of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. This and the following three chapters are based upon the results of that study. Attention has been concentrated upon the mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians occurring within the section across the Sierra Nevada extending from Snelling in the San Joaquin Valley to Mono Lake, east of the mountains. This cross-section is at right angles to the main axis of the Sierras and is approximately ninety miles long and seventeen miles wide. It embraces Yosemite Valley and its environs, the lower canyon of the Merced River, and the country traversed by the Tioga Road; but neither Hetch Hetchy Valley nor the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees is included.

ThE "Yosemite section," embracing in that term the territory included between the eastern side of the San Joaquin Valley and the basin in which Mono Lake lies, may be considered to afford a fair sample of the fauna and flora of the entire Sierra Nevada. The following brief accounts of the life zones and of some of the vertebrate animals belonging to them may thus prove useful beyond the immediate limits of the Yosemite Park itself.

A total of 226 kinds of birds is now authentically known from the Yosemite section; there are 97 kinds of mammals, ranging in size from bats to bears, 20 kind of snakes and lizards, and 11 kinds of frogs, toads, and salamanders. This makes, all told, a vertebrate fauna, outside of fishes, of 353 forms. This richness in number of kinds is due to the wide range of climatic conditions, with the depending vegetational features, covered in the Yosemite section. Only a small proportion of the total number of species occur together at any one level. The curious and interesting thing is that the changes in faunal constitution across the Sierras are not perfectly gradual but take place at intervals, abruptly. Several

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belts or "zones" of life result, in each of which conditions are relatively uniform. These belts have been described and named. and it is useful to know their names so as to be able to state the distribution of species in more exact terms than would otherwise be possible. These life zones are correlated roughly with altitude, and from bottom to top are called Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran, Transition, Canadian, Hudsonian, and Arctic-Alpine. As will be recognized at once, these zones are in the nature of temperature belts, the warmest at the base of the mountains, the coldest at the crest, on the highest peaks. It will be further seen that they correspond roughly to the transcontinental belts of climate, and that they bear names significant of their location—Sonora (in northern Mexico), Canada, Hudson Bay, etc. To outline very briefly the condition of affairs in the Yosemite section, let us begin at the west.

In following the Yosemite Valley railroad out of Merced, one traverses for the first hour the level floor of the San Joaquin Valley. From the train one sees along the Merced River bottom numerous Fremont cottonwoods and valley oaks, and planted orchards of fig, orange, and olive, all indicative of the Lower Sonoran Life Zone. A day put in at a representative point, such as Snelling, would show the presence there of Mockingbirds, Texas Nighthawks, Blue Grosbeaks, Dwarf Cowbirds, Fresno Pocket Gophers, Merced Kangaroo Rats, Golden Beavers, and other exclusively warm-belt types of animals as well as of plants.

At Merced Falls the railroad enters the first foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, and concurrently there appears with remarkable abruptness an entirely new set of trees and lesser plants, accompanied by as distinct a set of birds and mammals. The Upper Sonoran Zone has been entered and may always be recognized in distant view by the presence of digger pines, buckeyes, blue oaks, and interior live oaks, and by a host of bushy plants which constitutes the "California chaparral." This zone continues some fifty miles, all the way to El Portal, and up to an altitude of 4000 feet on south-facing slopes. Some of its distinctive species of animals are: California Jay, Northern Brown Towhee, Pallid Wren-tit, Plain Titmouse, California Thrasher, California Bush-tit, San Joaquin Wren, Hutton Vireo, Anna Hummingbird, Western Gnat-catcher, Bell Sparrow, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Dusky Poor-will, Nuttall Woodpecker, Mariposa Brush Rabbit, Gilbert White-footed Mouse, Parasitic White-footed Mouse, Mariposa Meadow Mouse, Digger Pine Pocket Gopher, Heermann Kangaroo Rat, San Diego Alligator Lizard, and California Striped Racer.

At El Portal, on shaded, north-facing slopes, the visitor for the first time encounters the Transition Zone, which is characterized by the yellow pine. Douglas spruce, golden oak, black oak, and incense cedar. This zone continues east throughout the Yosemite Valley, and rises on the walls of the Valley to about the 6000-foot level. A few Upper Sonoran birds and mammals reach up into the Transition, but for the most part an entirely new set predominates. But few of these are absolutely restricted to this zone; the greater number range farther upward, through the next one or two zones above. The more distinctively Transition vertebrates are: Band-tailed Pigeon, California Purple Finch, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Calaveras Warbler, Western Flycatcher, Black Swift Pigmy Owl, Northern Spotted Owl, Northwestern Long-legged Bat, Boyle White-footed Mouse, Yosemite Pocket Gopher, and Coral King Snake. Some well-known species which range down into Transition from the zones above are: Blue-fronted Jay, Western Robin, Sierra Junco, Sierra Creeper, Short-tailed Mountain Chickadee, American Dipper, Sierra Hermit Thrush, Mountain Weasel, Yosemite Meadow Mouse, and Sierra Nevada Flying Squirrel.

At about the 6000-foot contour on any of the trails leading up out of the Valley, a rather impressive change is to be noted; the golden oak becomes replaced by the dwarf huckleberry oak, the California laurel and maple and black oak disappear, the Jeffrey pine replaces the yellow pine, and red firs and aspens appear. These mark the Canadian Zone. Birds encountered here are: Yosemite Fox Sparrow, Williamson Sapsucker, Sierra Grouse, Townsend Solitaire, Western Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Casin Purple Finch, California Evening Grosbeak, Lincoln Sparrow, Hammond Flycatcher, and Western Goshawk. Among the mammals are: Navigator Shrew, Pacific Fisher, Allen jumping Mouse, Yellow-haired Porcupine, Sierra Mountain Beaver, Sierra Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Tahoe Chipmunk, Allen Chipmunk, Sierra Chickaree, Tenaya Blue-bellied Lizard, Mountain Lizard, and Sierra Alligator Lizard.

Life zones on cross-sectional profile of Yosemite National Park

The Hudsonian Zone is the belt of forest just below timberline. It contains the lodgepole pine, which occurs commonly in the Canadian Zone, and has also trees of its own, namely alpine hemlock, silver pine, and white-bark pine. Birds become scarcer in this zone though mammals remain plentiful; some of the species extend up from the zone below. The California Pine Grosbeak, Mountain Bluebird, White-crowned Sparrow, Alpine Chipmunk, Belding Ground Squirrel, Sierra Marmot, Mountain Lemming Mouse, Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat, Yosemite Cony, Sierra White-tailed Jack-rabbit, Pine Marten, Wolverine, and Sierra Least Weasel are rather closely restricted to it.

The Arctic-Alpine is the highest of all the zones and Covers the treeless area from about the 10,500-foot contour to the summits of the loftiest peaks. Only one species of bird is confined to it, the Sierra Nevada Rosy Finch. Some of the Hudsonian mammals enter it locally; for example, Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat, Yosemite Cony, and Alpine Chipmunk.

It must be kept in mind that many of the vertebrate animals of the Yosemite section are not so closely restricted as the ones named in the preceding paragraphs. Certain species range regularly through two zones, for example, the Blue- fronted Jay; a few through three zones, as with the Sierra Junco, and in exceptional cases as many as five out of the six zones name are covered, as is done by the Red-shafted Flicker, Sparrow Hawk, and Western Chipping Sparrow. The last named was found by us summering in the orange groves at Snelling and also among the timberline trees in Mono Pass. It was, perhaps, more numerous on the floor of Yosemite Valley than anywhere else.

Other zonal contacts than those just given may be mentioned for the use of persons coming into the Yosemite National Park along the roadways or who may go on foot, on horseback, or by vehicle to other portions of the park. On the Big Oak Flat Road, the Transition Zone is reached in the vicinity of Groveland; Canadian is entered at Tuolumne Grove Big Trees and is left again near Tamarack Flat. On the Coulterville road, Transition is reached at the top of the grade three miles east of Coulterville, and this zone is traversed practically all the way thence into Yosemite. The Tioga Road begins in Transition, reaches Canadian just below Aspen Valley, touches Hudsonian on Snow Flat and enters it again at Lake Tenaya and continues in that zone until reaching Warren Fork of Leevining Creek. Tuolumne Meadows, Lyell Canyon, and Tioga Pass are all in the Hudsonian Zone. The Wawona Road lies just at the upper margin of the Transition Zone for most of its course between Fort Monroe and Mariposa Grove of Big Trees.

The restriction of animals by "zones" applies particularly to the breeding season. Migratory species of both birds and mammals range more or less widely at other times of the year according to food requirements. Close adaptation of a species to a kind of food supply which disappears at the close of the summer season makes necessary search elsewhere for it in the winter time.

The study of the distribution of the animal life on the slopes of the Sierras is a fascinating one, especially when the student attempts to ascertain what the limiting factors may be; for it is certainly not in every instance temperature alone, up or down, which forms the barrier to the species. The intricate interrelations which we seek to understand are to be worked out only by patient and thoughtful study of the animals in their many and diverse environments.

REFERENCES http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/life_zones.html[2/12/2013 10:02:09 AM] Life Zones of the Yosemite Region, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer

GRInnEll, J., 1915. "A Distributional List of the Birds of California." Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 11, 217 pp., pls. I- III. (Published by Cooper Ornithological Club, Berkeley, Calif.)

MERRIAm, C. H., 1898. "Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States." U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 10, 79 pp., 1 plate.

For further information on life zones and also on the birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, consult, in addition to the titles given, articles in the following series:

University of California Publications in Zoölogy, 1908-1920. Volumes v., vii., x., xii., xvii., xxi. Many references to the vertebrates of the Yosemite region.

United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, 1889-1920. Bulletins, Circulars, and other series contain articles relating to vertebrates found in the Yosemite region.

The Condor, 1889-1920. A magazine of western ornithology. Published by the Cooper Ornithological Club at Berkeley, Calif. Contains much information relating to bird species, which occur in the Yosemite region.

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SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By JOSEph GRInnEll, Director, AnD TRAcy IRWIn StORER, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

(Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of the University of California)

ThE West is often commented upon as a region scant in bird life, yet the "Yosemite section" alone, comprising an area of about fifteen hundred square miles, a little greater than that of the State of Rhode Island, has been found to harbor no less than 226 different varieties of birds. Of these, 199 are "full species." Nor are restricted localities within this area lacking in their quotas; Yosemite Valley, far off the general routes of bird migration, can already be credited with a hundred different kinds. Daily censuses checked by us hour by hour prove birds abundant there in early summer as to both species and individuals. A four-hour tally in Yosemite Valley on May 31, 1915, revealed 32 species and 220 individuals; a five hour walk in the western foothills near Pleasant Valley a week previously showed 48 species and 490 individuals.

Of all the birds in the Yosemite National Park the Western Robin least needs introduction. Soon after leaving El Portal on the stage, or upon entering the yellow pine belt along the Wawona, Big Oak Flat or Coulterville Road, the visitor will catch sight of the familiar Robin as it forages in some open glade or sings from a perch in some roadside tree. It occurs throughout the mountain forest belt, in the Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian zones, chiefly about grassy meadows and clearings. The mud-cemented nests are built for the most part in early May, and the spotted young appear by June. In fall And winter the Robins gather in flocks and wander widely as they seek out the then ripening berry crops. They desert the higher mountains at this season going to the foothills and lower valleys; after the first snow fall of the season, only a few remain in Yosemite Valley.

An associate of the Robin is the Sierra Junco or Snow-bird which does its foraging likewise around openings in the

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forest or along the banks of open flowing streams. The Junco has a black "cowl" covering head, neck and breast, a white-appearing bill, a dark back and wings, and white belly. As it hops about, the tail is opened momentarily and when the bird flies this member is spread widely, showing a conspicuous white margin which forms with the other features a ready recognition mark for the bird. The male Juncos sing from perches in the trees. Nests are built upon the ground where the birds seem not less successful in bringing off their young than the Robins which place their nests in trees. The juncos stay in pairs during the summer, but they band together at the coming of fall and go to the foothills in flocks of twenty-five or more.

The Robin about ten inches long, and the Junco six inches from bill to end of tail, may be taken as standards of size comparison for other birds of the region. Both of these species are common in Yosemite Valley,

PLATE VIII Male Western Warbling Vireo on the nest, singing while performing the duty of incubation. This is one of the common summer visitant birds of the Park Photo by Henry J. Rust and both range in fair numbers through the higher country nearly or quite to timberline.

A small Finch found numerously in summer in Yosemite Valley is the Western Chipping Sparrow. Smaller than a Junco, with a bright chestnut cap, a whitish line over the eye and streaked back but plain under surface, it is sure to come early to attention, and in May and June its nests will be found in the pine saplings and deer-bushes on the Valley floor. The "chippies," like the Juncos, form into flocks before they depart westward and southward for the winter.

The small birds of bright and contrasted coloration known as wood warblers are important members of the Sierran avifauna. The Audubon Warbler, of varied body plumage but always exhibiting a yellow rump and white spots on the outer tail feathers, is the most widely distributed species of the group. It occurs in the coniferous trees of the Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian zones during the summer, and winters in large numbers in the foothills west of the park boundary. This species both nests and forages twenty to fifty feet above ground in evergreen trees. A somewhat rarer species not occurring much above the Transition Zone is the Hermit Warbler, which has a dark body and rump, yellow head and black chin and throat. It forages amid the same sort of surroundings as the Audubon Warbler. When once learned, their songs, alone, distinguish them. The Black-throated Gray Warbler is a species practically restricted to the golden oaks which grow in profusion on the talus heaps and ledges along the north and south walls of Yosemite Valley. It is a bird of deliberate mien and drawling song and its coloration shows no obvious

yellow. The other warblers of the park are yellow-bodied in the main. In the willows and cottonwoods lining the Merced River from Snelling up into Yosemite Valley is the California Yellow Warbler. The black oaks of the Valley floor harbor the grayish-headed Calaveras Warbler, which seeks a site upon the ground for nesting, while in the moist thickets in the Yosemite is to be found the dark- "cowled" Macgillivray or Tolmie Warbler. In the Canadian Zone above the rim of the Yosemite gorge is the Golden Pileolated Warbler, a brilliantly yellow bird with a shining black crown patch. It stays in the creek dogwood and willows which grow in the wet meadows and along rushing streams. All of these warblers are absent from the mountains during the winter months; their food being almost exclusively of insects is available here in adequate quantity for their sustenance only during the summer season. Each of our Warblers has a set song delivered persistently in the spring months. But despite their cognomen of "Warbler" they do not compare as musicians with many of the other forest songsters in either quality, extent, or variety of song.

It is to be expected that "birds of prey" abound in a region so well stocked with the smaller birds and animals as is the Yosemite section. A dozen kinds of hawks and nine different species of owls have, indeed, been found here. Space limits us to detailed mention now of only a f ew of these. The Golden Eagle is supreme in size and in majesty of bearing among all the Sierran land birds. It is most common in the western foothills but is fairly well represented up into the highest passes of the Sierra Nevada. The Golden Eagle measures thirty to thirty-five inches in length, with a wing spread of six to seven feet. The least glint of sunlight on the bird’s head and neck reflects a golden brown tint, and this feature accounts for its name. The Red-tailed Hawk is found throughout the mountain country, and in summer the misnamed Sparrow Hawk visits the higher meadows and ridges even above timberline to search for grasshoppers.

The clear cool mountain air lulls so many Yosemite visitors to an early sleep that only the exceptional person will note the flitting forms or measured hoots of any of the owls in the region. The smallest of these birds, the California Pigmy Owl, is perhaps the most likely one to be heard, because it begins calling at early dusk and often continues in voice long after daybreak. It is only about seven inches long, has a rounded head without ear tufts, yellow eyes, and a dark brown back. It inhabits sparse woods and is the commonest owl in Yosemite Valley. Its call is quite distinctive, a trilled tooting which lasts several seconds, a pause, then a single note, another pause and then a second note, too-too- too-too-too-too-too-too-too; whoot; whoot. Sometimes a deep reverberant whoo, whoo, who-hoo comes from the taller trees, indicating the presence of the big Horned Owl; and on occasion one may hear, in Yosemite Valley, the dog-like yelping and barking of the rarer Spotted Owl.

The Yosemite visitor who has read John Muir’s splendid and appreciative description of the Water Ouzel or Dipper in his book The Mountains of California will be keen for a personal acquaintance with this singular inhabitant of the Sierran creeks and rivers. A morning along any of the streams in the park is likely to reveal a chunkily built bird of slaty gray coloration which is jouncing about this way and that on some rock in midstream or flying from one such perch to another. Suddenly, the bird disappears beneath the stream, and one wonders with apprehension at its fate in that rushing torrent; but speculation is dispelled when the Dipper reappears in a few seconds up or down stream and resumes its "dipping" on another rock. This one-time land bird, relative of the wrens and thrushes, has taken to living about, in and under the water. Its nest is placed along the stream, usually in a niche of the rock where touched by light spray, so that the mossy exterior of the structure is kept wet and growing while the birds are rearing their brood. The Dipper’s song is among the most striking of all mountain bird voices, and while given through much of the year, it appeals best when other songsters are gone or quiet, during the snowy winter.

The swift flowing waters of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers offer attraction to but few water birds, but wherever the banks are low and covered with sand or gravel there may be expected the Spotted Sandpiper. Lagrange, Yosemite Valley, and Tuolumne Meadows are but three of its several known haunts within the Yosemite section. In summer the pairs are busy with their nesting duties, and their clear calls ring out at all times of the day as the birds trot along the strand or fly in semicircular course from place to place along the shores in search of food. These are typical "shore- birds" and their nest consists of little more than a depression in the gravel large enough to shelter the four good-sized eggs.

The mountain forests furnish the homes of many different kinds of Woodpeckers. The Yosemite section has thus far revealed no less than twelve species, some in the foothills, some in the high mountains, others encompassing both these habitats. At middle altitudes, in Yosemite Valley and the Canadian Zone above, is the White-headed

Woodpecker which is solidly black except for a pure white head and small patch of white on each wing. It might be thought that a bird of such coloration would be conspicuous, but the very reverse is true; these colors blend exceedingly well with the background whether this be formed by the bleached or blackened stumps, or the high lights and shadows on the living trees. The Whitehead nests usually within twelve feet of the ground, by preference in a shattered stump or in an upstanding branch of a prostrate trunk. During the late spring and early summer months its domestic program is thus capable of easy study.

"Cock-of-the-Woods" is an appropriate name given to the Pileated Woodpecker, the giant among all the local Woodpeckers. It measures over seventeen inches in length as compared with the twelve inches of the well-known Red- shafted Flicker. A bird of black body, it shows white in large patches on both outer and inner surfaces of the wings and a stripe of white on its neck, while the head bears a flaming red crest. This Woodpecker occurs at times in Yosemite Valley, but his kind is more abundant in places of greater altitude where there are numerous dead stubs of red or white fir to be prospected for grubs or, in spring, to be excavated for nesting places. When at work the noise produced by the Pileated’s big chisel-like beak sounds like the strokes of a distant woodchopper or the blows struck by a telephone repair man. When on the wing the Pileated Woodpecker pursues a nearly level course, flashing the white wing patches regularly, and often uttering a sustained and far-carrying kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk.

The California Woodpecker, so common in the California valleys and foothills, reaches the oak-dotted floor of Yosemite Valley in fair numbers, and its work may be seen in many places there. This is "el carpintero" of the Spanish explorers, the bird which stores for itself a supply of acorns, wedging each into a newly dug pit in the bark of some convenient oak or pine tree. Certain big trees in Yosemite Valley are studded with acorns for many feet from the ground. With golden oaks on the talus slopes and black oaks on the Valley floor the birds should never be at a loss for their favorite nuts. Yet another type of food is needed, for in summer they are regularly to be seen flying out from exposed perches to capture passing insects.

Over the open gorge of the Yosemite and from most of the "inspiration" points about the rim, may be seen every day of the summer season, the "policemen of the upper air," the Swifts and Swallows. The dark-bodied form, of crossbow outline, which cuts the air at lightning speed is the White-throated Swift, and its more leisurely associate, which displays a pure white under surface, is the Violet-green Swallow. The Swift is of about twice the bulk of the Swallow, its proportionately narrower wings are concave instead of straight-margined behind, and it is much more swift and daring than the Violet-green; when flying it often utters a torrential series of notes. louder and more hurried in delivery than any calls given by swallows.

The Band-tailed Pigeon, western counterpart. of the now extinct Passenger Pigeon, is found in fair numbers in the Yosemite region practically throughout the year. Yosemite Valley harbors one or more flocks of these birds, and while acorns constitute their main source of food, toyon and coffee-berries, and scattered grain in the poultry yards of indulgent residents of the Valley afford the birds forage when the first named staple is scarce or wanting. The bluish gray back, pinkish breast, and dusky-banded tail are color features to be looked for. The big birds are often unnoticed amid the oak foliage until they flush with a loud clapping of wings and make off in swift course to some other retreat.

At the lower limit in scale of size among Sierran and indeed all Californian birds is the Calliope Hummingbird, the little green and violet-feathered jewel, which flits lightly about the flowers of the mountain meadows. This midget, weighing about one-tenth of an ounce (3 grams), is but a summer visitant here and winters in Mexico. The thickets of Sierran currant break into blossom in the Canadian Zone during May or early June. The Calliopes at the same time appear in numbers, the males foraging and battling with one another on the upper slopes while the females stay down toward the canyon bottoms preparing to rear their broods. The "gorget" of iridescent hues on the throat of the male consists of long lance-shaped feathers which in display are held out apart from the snowy white color of the neck. This is the only Hummingbird which, so far as we know definitely, nests in the park; the Anna and Black-chinned occur in the western foothill country as far up as El Portal, and the Rufous Hummingbird passes south along the Sierras in July and August.

From early morning until late dusk, throughout the mountain forest belt, is to be heard the droning zuweez of the Western Wood Pewee. This is the commonest and most widely distributed member of the flycatcher family although

other species of the group occur in numbers in appropriate places in the Yosemite section. The Pewee is a bird of open forest, usually perching fifteen to forty feet above the ground in a place where it has a clear view of its surroundings. The bird sits quietly, but its head turns this way and that as it watches for passing insects. These are captured by short quick sorties, the Pewee returning to the same or a nearby perch after each pursuit. The Pewee is plain dark brown above and on the sides of the body, with yellowish white on the middle of the lower surface. The larger Olive-sided Flycatcher which chooses the lofty tree-tops as lookouts has whitish flank patches and a loud three-syllabled call; and the small weak-voiced flycatchers have light eve rings and light bars on the wings.

About the same time that the newly arrived visitor sees his first Robin, another, even bolder member of the mountain avifauna will likely force itself upon the attention. This is the Blue-fronted Jay, local representative of the crested or Steller Jays of western North American generally. It is a common resident of the Transition and Canadian zones of the park. The bird spends most of its time in the trees; a favorite perch is near the top of a tall conifer from where it can see all that goes on in the forest. When ascending to such a station the bird will keep close to the trunk, hopping up and around from one branch to another as if following a spiral staircase. In nesting time the two members of a pair keep close together. While ordinarily noisy, a "zone of quiet" is maintained about their own nest. At this season they are wont to raid the nests of smaller birds carrying off the eggs or young to serve for their own food; the small parents

PLATE IX The Water Ouzel Photo by Gertrude Metcalfe Sholes know this, for whenever a piratical jay approaches they at once set up a remonstrant calling that attracts sympathizers from far and near.

The "high Sierra" has its component of bird life, smaller to be sure in both species and numbers than the lower, more thickly wooded areas, but containing a number of distinctive types worth a long hike to get acquainted with. The

Clark Nutcracker, a member of the Crow Family, and the local "camp robber," is a denizen of the Hudsonian Zone, sometimes ranging down to the upper limits of the Transition, and again and more often up above timberline. It wears a pied plumage, gray on the body with black flight feathers, while each wing shows a white spot, and the tail a broad white margin when the bird takes to flight. The daily round of foraging after pine seeds either in the trees or on the ground beneath soon results in the plumage acquiring a brownish overtone due to pitch, and after the birds have gone through with the duties of the nesting season (March to May) some individuals present a bedraggled appearance indeed.

Early summer visitors to the Canadian Zone are likely to hear a song of exquisite beauty coming from the top of some lofty fir or pine. Interspersed between the warbling strains are numerous metallic clinking notes resembling a ground squirrel’s whistle. All of these are from the repertoire of the Townsend Solitaire, in several respects an unique member of the Thrush Family. The Solitaire is a grayish bird of slender form and long tail. When it takes to flight one sees a light margin to the outer tail feathers and a broad yellowish bar upon each open wing. One would search the trees in vain for this bird’s nest; the tree-tops are used only for singing and foraging. At nesting time a sheltered spot on the ground is selected, such as the base of some uprooted tree or a niche in a roadside bank, and here a nest of loose construction, with many pine needles and twig-ends straggling below it, is placed. In the fall the Solitaires range over the country widely, going here and there after berries of juniper, toyon, and mistletoe, which furnish their sustenance in the colder months of the year.

Two Thrushes occur in the region during summer, the larger and more plainly garbed Russet-backed, rather sparingly and chiefly in the Transition Zone, and the Sierra Hermit Thrush, vesper songster in the wooded glades, which is found in Yosemite Valley but more commonly in the zones above. The latter, told at once by its rather bright "rufous" rump and tail, has a peculiar habit of twitching or refolding its wings at short intervals and slowly depressing the tail at the same instant. It keeps close to the stands of small dense conifers in canyon bottoms whence its song of set theme but much varying key comes at short intervals, especially in the morning and evening hours of twilight.

The Sierras possess three distinct Grosbeaks, two of which are resident at high altitudes practically throughout the year. In the Hudsonian Zone is the rather rare California Pine Grosbeak, a gray bird of slender appearing body and long tail. The females and young are "washed" with yellow on the head and breast while the adult males are brilliant red over nearly the entire body. In the Canadian and Transition zones one is likely to see the more chunkily built and vari-colored California Evening Grosbeak. This bird has a huge greenish yellow bill. The body plumage of the male is yellow, the tail and wings black with a large patch of white along the inner margin of each wing. The female is gray with scattered white markings on the dark flight feathers. Neither of these Grosbeaks is an elaborate singer; their best efforts are little-more than a repetition of the high-pitched call notes.

The Black-headed Grosbeak, one of the largest and most strikingly colored of the finch and sparrow tribe, has gained a special reputation in Yosemite Valley by reason of i ts habit of appropriating butter and other viands from tables set beneath the trees. The plumage of the male is varied with black, brown, and white, while the female is much streaked, especially about the head. In May and June these Grosbeaks are in full voice in Yosemite Valley. Novices confuse the song of this Grosbeak with that of the Robin, but the former is fuller and quicker, with many little trills and warbles not heard in the Robin’s rather monotonous carol. The Black-headed Grosbeak builds a simple nest, little more than a cupped platform of fine interlacing twigs, and. often so thin that an observer standing on the ground can look through the bottom and see at least the outline of whatever it contains.

The brush belt of the Canadian Zone with its manzanita, snow bush, chinquapin, and huckleberry oak is the home of a big, ground-dwelling type of Finch, the Fox Sparrow. Winter or summer, birds of this sort are there, though the race represented, and of course the individuals, change with the season. In summer there is the grayish toned race called Yosemite Fox Sparrow while winter sees this variety replaced by brown backed birds from the Alaska coast. All are alike in being ground foragers, who kick and dig with their stout feet in the leafy waste, sending up little jets of débris with an accompanying noise out of all proportion to the size of the bird, and such as sometimes frightens timid walkers along the trails who suspect some lurking wild beast. Passing these thickets in summer one is apt to hear the clear ringing lay of the bird, and if one camps near a ridge top touched early by the morning sun, he will likely be awakened by the songs of the Fox Sparrows who have moved upslope to catch these first warming rays after a chilly night.

Often while traversing trails through open forest, there comes from the tree tops a quaint, nasal weh, weh, weh— syllables which sound like the blasts of an elfin horn. Search as he may, the traveler will at best locate a small form moving about the trunk and limbs near the tiptop of the tree. If luck and patience favor, the bird may come low enough so that its grayish back, black head with light stripe over eye, reddish under surface, and very short squared tail show it to be a Red-breasted Nuthatch. The bird forages exclusively on the bark, hunting out insects which have secluded themselves in crevices. In moving about, the Nuthatch goes either up or down, with seemingly equal facility. The Slender-billed Nuthatch, western relative of the White-breasted of the East, occurs at lower altitudes, and occasionally, in the yellow pine belt, a troop of the Pygmy Nuthatches may be encountered.

Each part of the tree receives attention from some particular type of bird. Kinglets and Warblers search the foliage, Vireos the smaller twigs, Woodpeckers seek grubs buried within the wood, while Nuthatches and Creepers scrutinize the bark of trunk and limbs. The Sierra Creeper, the local variety of an almost world-ranging species, is found on the forest trees of the Transition and higher zones. The Creeper wears a streaked brown pattern of color on the back and the under surface is white; its tail feathers are long-pointed and stiffened so as to give the bird support as it clings to the side of a tree. Unlike the Nuthatch, the Creeper moves only upward on the trunk; it ascends from the base, often spiralling around the trunk, and when it arrives at the top of one tree it flies off to the base of another. Its call is fine and wiry and the song is but little more than several of these faint high-pitched notes in quick succession.

Chickadees are associated in the mind with forests, and in the Yosemite region is to be found the Mountain Chickadee, inhabitant of the woods, throughout the Transition and Canadian zones. Memories of the plainly pronounced chick-a-dee-dee and of the clear whistled song remain long in the minds of travelers who visit the California Sierras. In fall and winter the birds go about in companies but in spring these companies break up into pairs, and by early May the nesting duties are begun. First comes selection of a nest site, usually an old hole of the White- headed Woodpecker. This chosen, it may be remodelled or cleaned out somewhat, when it is lined with feathers and hair, and then five to eight eggs are laid. When the brood is hatched and grown they fairly fill the cavity, and anyone who has taken out a family of Chickadees to make their portraits will attest to the impossibility of being quite able to fit them back into the nest hole again. The Mountain Chickadee remains in the Sierras through the winter, and its familiar call is one of the few bird notes to be heard when the Yosemite Valley is blanketed with snow.

Along the streams at middle altitudes in the Transition and Canadian zones one is sure to hear, during the early summer months, the pleasing song of the Western Warbling Vireo. Many birds sing only at morning and evening, a few chiefly during midday, and some of those who keep up their songs and calls throughout the day soon weary the human hearer; but all this does not apply to the Western Warbling Vireo. Even during afternoons of drowsy heat we have heard these birds in almost continuous song. Singing does not hinder the birds in the performance of their regular duties, for we have seen one carrying material and building its nest while it sang, and it is commonly known among bird students that this Vireo sings regularly while sitting upon its eggs.

The open grassy areas of the Hudsonian Zone, such as those which constitute Tuolumne Meadows, afford an abundant supply of insect food for a brief period during the summer months, and several birds migrate to these high mountain locations to take advantage of this ephemeral food supply. The Mountain Bluebird is one of these summer visitants to the high Sierras. Paler in tone of blue than either its relative of the California foothills or the Eastern Bluebird, this species in its coloration reflects the intense lights and pallid tones of the high mountains. When the first mountaineers of the season reach the alpine meadows, pairs of Mountain Bluebirds are preparing to nest, seeking old woodpecker holes or similar cavities of dead trees. By July the young are hatched and then the parent birds busy themselves hunting insects in the fast growing grasses of the meadows. A favorite method with this bird is to hover in one place with rapidly beating wings ten to twenty feet above the ground and intently scan the turf below for prey. When an insect is spied the bird drops rapidly to the surface, captures the object and then makes off with it to a perch or to the nest.

From well up in the forest trees there comes during the spring and early summer a clear song of considerable volume which seems to say, 0, Oh-Oh, Cheerily, Cheerily, Cheerily. One would be tempted to look for a bird of considerable size, but the songster is actually one of the smallest in the mountains, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. There are two species of the diminutive Kinglets with bright crown markings, in our mountains. The Ruby-crown has a red crown

patch present only in the male. This is normally concealed by the other feathers of the head but can be flashed forth with startling effect when the bird is excited. The Golden-crowned Kinglet on the other hand wears a yellowish crown patch bounded by black. It is present in both sexes and in both is held permanently in view. In addition to its pleasing song, the Ruby-crown gives a loud sputtering note or "ratchet-call" which it utters when excited over any unusual event such as the appearance on the scene of a Bluejay or Owl.

Surely the visitor who really looks for birds in the Yosemite region will not be disappointed. For the experience of those who have already made fair trial has proven the richness of the possibilities here. And these possibilities are far from exhausted; new discoveries are sure to reward careful search for many seasons to come.

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EmERSOn, W. O., 1893. "Random Bird-Notes from Merced Big Trees and Yosemite Valley." Zoe, vol. iv., July, 1893, pp. 176-182.

GRInnEll, J., "Early Summer Birds in Yosemite Valley." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. viii., June, 1911, pp. 118-124.

GRInnEll, J., 1915. "A Distributional List of the Birds of California." Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 11, 217 pp., pls. I-III. (Published by Cooper Ornithological Club, Berkeley, Calif.)

GRInnEll, J., BRyAnt, H. C., and StORER, T. I., 1918. The Game Birds of California. (University of California Press, Berkeley) x+641 pp., 16 col. pls., 94 figs. in text.

KEElER, C. A., 1908. "Bird Life of Yosemite Park." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. v., January, 1908, pp. 245-254.

MAIllIARD, J., 1918. "Early Autumn Birds in Yosemite Valley." Condor, vol. xx., January, 1918, pp. 11-19.

MuIR, J., 1894. The Mountains of California. (New York , The Century Co.) xv+381 pp., 53 illus. 1898. "Among the Birds of the Yosemite." Atlantic Monthly, vol. lxxxii., December, 1898, pp. 751-760. 1901. Our National Parks. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.) 10+370 pp., frontispiece, map, 10 plates.

RAy, M. S., 1898. "A Summer Trip to Yosemite." Osprey, vol. iii., December, 1898, p. 55.

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SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By JOSEph GrInnEll, Director, anD Tracy IrWIn StOrEr, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

(Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of the University of California)

ThE Yosemite region possesses an abundant population of mammals both as to species and individuals. A total of ninety-seven different kinds is definitely credited to the region. Subtracting three species known to be extinct, and eight varietal forms, we have record of eighty-six "full species" now to be found between Snelling and Mono Lake. The determination of the population as to individuals is more difficult with mammals than with birds, and has been attempted in only a few places. In so far as data have been assembled it is estimated that mammals exist throughout the country at large in the ratio to birds of ten to one.

The average visitor, nevertheless, sees much less of mammals than of birds. Squirrels and Chipmunks are out during the daylight hours, and occasionally a Bear or Coyote or a group of Deer is observed, but the presence of most other mammals must be ascertained by noting their "sign," tracks, and workings. Footprints of Badgers, Wolverines, and Mountain Lions may be seen in trails and roadways, or on snow; gnawed tree trunks give evidence of Porcupines; and earth mounds of different sorts indicate the presence of Moles and Gophers; but the host of small species of Mice and Shrews leave less evidence of their presence than any of the above, and only assiduous trapping (which can be done in the park only under special permit for scientific purposes) will reveal the abundance and variety of mammalian life which is active during the hours of darkness.

Among all this multitude of mammals there is not one species which need be feared by visitors on the ground of personal violence. Bears in search of food will sometimes raid camps at night, especially when the occupants are away,

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and Mice and Chipmunks will gnaw into stores of provisions, but these temporary inconveniences, if they are experienced at all, are certainly far more than offset by the pleasure to be gained in observing the ways in which these diverse types of animals carry out their several existences.

The California Gray Squirrel will be one of the first mammals to attract the attention of the visitor to Yosemite, for it is fairly well represented in the Transition Zone forests which are traversed by the several roadways leading into the mountains from the west, and it is common among the trees on the floor of Yosemite Valley. The Gray Squirrel is typical of the tree dwelling members of the squirrel family. Its lithe body, strong legs, and long, heavily bushed tail all enable it to jump readily from branch to branch, while the sharp curved claws enable it to cling securely to the bark of trunk or branches. The Gray Squirrel is active practically throughout the year, so that visitors at whatever season will see the species; however, more individuals are out in good

PLATE X Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, the only species of hoofed big game now to be found in Yosemite National Park. Photo from habitat group, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco weather than during times of heavy snow. These animals find their usual forage in the acorns of several kinds of oaks and in the cones of the pines, particularly those of the yellow pine. From the time that the first cones reach full size, in early summer, until the last seeds are matured in late fall or early winter, the Gray Squirrel pays devoted attention to the cone crop as long as this holds out. The squirrels ascend the trees and cut the cones loose from the branches. No effort is made to hold onto them at this time, and the heavy green cones come hurtling down and strike the ground with a force that is, to say the least, disconcerting to persons who may be walking near or under the trees. After cutting off one or more cones, a squirrel will descend to the ground and proceed to open up a cone. Sitting up on its haunches and steadying the cone in its forefeet, the animal gnaws off the scales which protect the seeds, beginning at the base of the cone. Like other rodents or "gnawing" animals, the Gray Squirrel is provided with two opposed pairs of stout chisel-like teeth in the forepart of its jaws, and these serve to cut quickly through the tough bases of the scales. In a surprisingly short time the cone is reduced to a core and a heap of scales while the squirrel has consumed the stock of seeds or nuts or stored them in part within its cheeks. The ground beneath "fruiting" pines is often strewn thickly with piles of these "table scraps" from numerous feasts.

At other times of the year the Gray Squirrel lives on a variety of vegetable materials, especially upon acorns, many of which are buried in the ground in the fall. In the spring it sometimes turns its attention to the eggs and nestlings of birds which nest in trees. The birds recognize the squirrel as a possible enemy and are quick to set up a disturbance whenever a Gray Squirrel appears in the near vicinity of their nesting precincts.

The Gray Squirrel population in Yosemite Valley seems somewhat larger than in like territory elsewhere. This may be due to the additional food available about houses and camps as well as to the abundance of oaks and yellow pines there. An estimate made in Yosemite Valley during October, 1914, placed the numbers of the Gray Squirrel at one per

acre. The Valley, below the 4250-foot contour, and from "The Gateway" below Cascades eastward, contains about seven and a half square miles. This would give a total Gray Squirrel population, in the fall, of 4800, which is believed to be considerably in excess of the numbers to be found in any equal area in the open woods of the Transition Zone elsewhere.

In the forests of the Canadian and Hudsonian zones lives the Sierra Chickaree, a "red" squirrel similar in general habits to the Gray Squirrel but of smaller size and different coloration. The Chickaree is dark brown tinged with reddish on the upper surface, has a black line along each side of the body, and the lower surface of the body is white or buffy white. Its body is about eight inches long and the moderately bushy tail five or six inches. The mode of life of the Chickaree is similar to that of the Gray Squirrel. It is a dweller in the trees and comes to the ground only when necessary to retrieve a fallen cone or to cross an opening not bridged by overhead branches. Where trees are close together as in many parts of the lodgepole pine forest the Chickaree literally lives in the trees.

The food of this species is similar to that of the Gray Squirrel but not so varied; there are no large oaks and but few nut producing plants within the Chickaree’s domain. It must perforce live more extensively on the seeds of cone-bearing trees. The Chickarees which dwell in the Canadian Zone where firs are abundant may be seen in the fall assiduously gathering the thin-scaled cones of the red and white firs. These are "cachéd" by being buried along the sides of some large log near the squirrels’ home tree. When the snow comes the cones gain further protection, in cold storage as it were, whence they are drawn upon and used by the Chickaree, as need be throughout the winter. In the spring observant travelers will find the logs strewn with the scales and cone-cores discarded by the squirrels during their meals. The voice of the Chickaree is decidedly different from that of the Gray Squirrel and is also much more varied. One common call is a prolonged trill of high pitch; and there is a striking single note which is given from time to time with an insistent delivery.

There are seven species of small striped Chipmunks in the Yosemite section, and five of these occur within the Park boundaries. All agree in general pattern of markings, having the head and back marked with alternate stripes of dark and light color and with more or less bright brown along the sides, but there are decided differences in tone of coloration. There are also considerable differences in size, habits, and local distribution of the several species.

Chipmunks in general are nimble creatures, to be seen scurrying about in their eager search for food, at frequent intervals playing with one another or fleeing from supposed or real enemies. There is a distinctive sort of quick intermittent or "jerky" movement on the part of a chipmunk, in which the animal will move a few steps and then be absolutely still for several seconds, save perhaps for a sideward switching of the bushy tail. In these short intervals of quiet the streaked pattern fairly melts into the animal’s surroundings so that the eye may lose the creature for the moment altogether. Sudden changes of position are often each accompanied by a single exclamatory note. If a Chipmunk becomes thoroughly frightened it makes off pell-mell and in direct course toward its retreat, scarcely looking behind, and uttering a torrent of excited chippings as it goes.

The usual note with all of the species is a high pitched psst which is often repeated to form a sputtering series. The larger species have also a hollow low-toned pook which may be likened to the bark of a dog, as it is given with rather long rests between successive notes.

Each species of Chipmunk has a definite general range and a particular "niche" within this range; no two species are found in exactly the same surroundings. On the west slope of the mountains in portions of the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones containing mixed chaparral and trees there is the Mariposa Chipmunk (Eutamias merriami mariposae) a large dark grayish species. It is found in small numbers in thickets along the north and south walls of Yosemite Valley. The most widely distributed and commonest species of the Yosemite region is the Tahoe Chipmunk (Eutamias speciosus frater) which occurs throughout the Canadian and Hudsonian Zones. It may be known at once by its small size (total length about eight inches), bright highly contrasted pattern of coloration, extremely lively manner, and especially by

PLATE XI Mountain Lion or Cougar Photo from habitat group, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco its habit of seeking safety high in the trees, rather than in logs, thickets, or rock heaps. Tahoe Chipmunks have been seen fifty feet or more above the ground, while none of the other species in the high mountains goes much if any over five feet from the ground.

The Canadian Zone possesses also a rather large species of predominantly grayish coloration, the Allen Chipmunk (Eutamias senex). This one lives about boulders, fallen logs, and brush patches. In the upper part of the Transition Zone and the lower portion of the Canadian there is a species of about the -same size and practically the same habits as the preceding, but with much taller ears and a conspicuous white spot at the hinder base of each ear. This is the Long-eared Chipmunk (Eutamias quadrimaculatus), almost as brightly colored as the Tahoe Chipmunk. The smallest and palest-colored species within the park is the Alpine Chipmunk (Eutamias alpinus) which dwells among rocks and fallen trees in the Hudsonian Zone. It is the timberline chipmunk, the last to be seen during an ascent of Mount Lyell or any of the other loftier summits.

All of the chipmunks living above the snow-line (about 3300 feet) in the Yosemite section hibernate for longer or shorter periods of time in winter, although their larger relatives, the Gray Squirrel and Chickaree, are active throughout this season, retiring only on very stormy days.

There is one member of the squirrel tribe which is observed by very few Yosemite visitors. This is the strictly nocturnal Sierra Nevada Flying Squirrel, the only local mammal except the bats which is able to travel through the air. The word "flying" is here used inaccurately, as this squirrel is only able to volplane from a high perch to a lower one. Its body is flattened, and between the fore and hind leg on each side there stretches a furred double layer of skin which adds to the animal’s spread and makes feasible its oblique passage through the air. Its dense silky hair seems to be an adaptation in this direction and also contributes to the quietness of its "flight." The Flying Squirrel lives in the Transition and Canadian Zones, being fairly common in the black oaks in Yosemite Valley and in the red firs above the Valley rim.

All of the members of the squirrel kind mentioned in the preceding paragraphs are species which live and find shelter chiefly or entirely in trees or logs; but there are also important members of the group which dwell upon and beneath the ground. These are the Ground Squirrels and the Marmot. The California Ground Squirrel, of brown tone of coloration with whitish shoulders, is in habits the western counterpart of the Prairie Dog and is found, in the Yosemite region, from the San Joaquin Valley up to an altitude of 8200 feet in the mountains. In the Canadian and Hudsonian zones is the Sierra Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, locally called "copperhead." This species has the head and shoulders golden yellow while the body is marked along each side with two jet black stripes enclosing one of pure http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/mammals.html[2/12/2013 10:02:48 AM] Some Mammals of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer

white. The "niche" of this species is in the open forest about bases of large trees and rocks. The Hudsonian Zone supports another burrowing species, the Belding Ground Squirrel or "picket-pin," a rather plainly garbed animal of yellowish brown coloration and with a reddish wash along the back. It lives altogether in the meadows where it finds abundant forage during the summer months and where it may often be seen sitting up in characteristically erect posture on the lookout for danger.

The Golden-mantled and Belding Ground Squirrels hibernate regularly and so do those representatives of the California Ground Squirrel which live in the Transition and Canadian zones where snow lies on the ground during the winter months. All of these rodents feed to repletion during the summer and by fall their bodies are heavily stocked with fat which then serves to warm and nourish them during the long winter sleep.

The Sierra Marmot (Marmota flaviventer sierra), often called "Woodchuck," is the largest local representative of the squirrel family in the Yosemite region. In bodily configuration the Marmot is stouter than the other members of the family, with proportionately shorter legs and tail. It is not infrequently mistaken for the badger, a totally different animal which, however, often lives in the same sort of country. Adult Marmots measure 15 to 18 inches (head and body), with the tail 5 to 8 inches long, while the weight ranges from 4 to 6 3/4 pounds with different individuals. Here in the Sierras the Marmot is a high mountain animal, dwelling chiefly in the Hudsonian Zone. The winter months (from about October until May) are spent in hibernation. Each Marmot has a burrow in the ground, usually beneath some huge granite bowlder at the edge of a meadow or at the base of a tree at the margin of the forest. On all pleasant days the Marmots are out during the warmer hours, either foraging in the grass of the meadows or resting near their burrows. During the summer months the Marmots must eat not only to supply their daily needs but also to take on fat to carry them through the long winter. It is not an uncommon experience during this season to come upon one of the animals out some distance from its burrow and busily engaged in cropping the new grasses. If frightened while so engaged the Marmot will make off with a lumbering gallop toward its burrow. When not feeding, the animals spend much time sunning themselves on the tops of bowlders or at the mouths of their burrows. In any situation, when alarmed, the Marmot utters a shrill bark or whistle. Sometimes it stands up on its hind legs to get a better view of the object which it is keeping under surveillance.

The Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) is the large mammal most likely to be seen by the Yosemite visitor. In early days, when white pen first thronged the Sierran foothills in search of gold, no less than four species of homed or antlered big game animals inhabited the Yosemite region. The San Joaquin Valley marshes supported the Tule or Dwarf Elk; the plains both east and west of the Sierras were the ranges of the American Antelope; the high Sierran crest was the habitat of the Sierra Mountain Sheep, while on the intervening slopes of the mountains there lived the Mule Deer. The first three have vanished from the Yosemite section, probably never to return, but the Deer are still present in goodly numbers. Deer are present in the park throughout the year, though their local distribution changes with the season. In the summer time they are more common in the higher zones and many are to be seen at Chinquapin, above Yosemite Falls and in the vicinity of Merced Lake, and a few wander above timberline along the Sierran crest. With the

PLATE XII American Black Bear amid the yellow pines in Yosemite Valley Photo by J. T .Boysen coming of winter they are forced to lower levels and concentrate in that season in the upper foothills along the western boundary of the park. At all times of year they find their forage chiefly among the bushy plants, most especially the various species of deer brush or mountain lilac (Ceanothus). Our Deer do not habitually graze in meadows.

The Mule Deer gains its name from the large size of its ears, which are about eight inches long and four inches across. The tail lends further character to the suggested comparison, for this member is slender and nearly devoid of hairs . toward the base beneath. In the summer months the Deer wear a thin reddish colored coat, which is acquired in June and carried until October; then the thick gray pelage of winter is assumed.

The fawns of the Mule Deer are born about the first of July, but the does keep their charges hidden until a month or so later, after which time the young in the spotted reddish coats are seen rather commonly. The usual number at a birth is two, though single fawns are often seen and rarely there are three young. The young run with the mother until the following spring or until they are "yearlings." Then she deserts them to prepare for the new litter. The Deer in the park have responded favorably to protection from hunting, and large bands are seen there during the winter months. Some pass through Yosemite Valley but the larger migratory movements are along the ridges above.

Discussion of Deer leads logically to mention of their principal enemy, excepting man, the Mountain Lion or Cougar. Save for the Wild Cat or "Lynx Cat" (two names for one and the same species) there is no other member of the cat tribe here; there are no Canada Lynxes in the Sierra Nevada. The Mountain Lion when fully adult measures about 6 1/2 feet from tip to tip, of which about thirty inches is the tail. The body coloration is usually reddish brown, sometimes gray. The only difference between males and females is in size, the former being the larger. Mountain

Lions are so wary that but few are seen under ordinary circumstances. Many persons have lived in the mountains for years without seeing one of the animals. Only when trailed and treed by dogs are they to be seen readily. However, evidences of their presence and activity are relatively common. Their tracks are seen in summer along dusty trails or crossing roads, and rather commonly after the snows of winter come. The footprints are catlike, and measure from three to four inches in each surface dimension. The depredations of the Mountain Lion among the Deer are most evident during the winter. In that season the deer are concentrated in the foothills at the margin of the heavy snow, and then the Cougars have a relatively easy time to obtain prey.

Another "predatory" mammal, common in the high Sierras and likely to be seen by visitors to the park, is the Mountain Coyote (Canis latrans lestes). Standing about 20 inches high at the shoulder with a body length of 30 to 33 inches, with ears about 4 inches tall, and weighing as much as 25 pounds, some particularly long-haired and gray colored individual Coyotes are designated as "gray wolves" by local trappers. All efforts, however, to obtain actual specimens of the real wolf have been unavailing. The Mountain Coyte is less restricted in diet than the Cougar. It feeds upon a variety of small game such as ground squirrels and gophers, and even at times captures insects; manzanita berries are also eaten in season. Coyotes sometimes feed upon deer, but their "venison" comes mostly from carcasses left by the Mountain Lion. The barking of the Coyote is often heard in the mountains and the combination of yelps, squeals, and howls in the voice of an individual often gives the impression that there are several rather than a single animal.

Bears there are in the Yosemite, even close about the floor of the Valley. Indeed, the word Yosemite, of Indian origin, means big bear or grizzly bear. If ever there were grizzlies in Yosemite Valley, as there were certainly at other points in the region such as Wawona, none are left to-day. The famous grizzly with its huge size, long front claws, and "silver-tipped" fur is extinct here now, but its smaller tree-climbing relative, the Black Bear, is still thriving in goodly numbers. These smaller bears exhibit two color phases, some individuals being black, others cinnamon; and litters of cubs have been seen in which one individual of the two was black and the other cinnamon colored. The name "brown bear" properly applies to a species not found here. The Black Bear is found throughout the Transition and Canadian zones of the park and is likely to be seen, from June until October, by visitors to the Yosemite Valley and adjacent points. The various garbage dumps which have been established in the Valley attract the bears regularly in the night time. Several bears have had their headquarters in the rock slides near El Capitan from where they can fare forth and hunt for food in the table and kitchen débris. Under native conditions they eat berries and seeds, beetles, ants, and other insects, and small mammals; the wide variety of their likes in the matter of food places much material within easy reach. In October or early November the Bears seek some secluded cavern or hollow tree and curl up there for a sleep which lasts until early the following spring. Persons camping out in the mountains are sometimes disturbed by having their provisions raided- by bears, but there are no instances known to us in which anyone has been injured by a bear when the start of the trouble did not lie with the person concerned.

There are numerous species of smaller carnivores in the Sierras of the Yosemite region. Many of these will be recognized at once as among the important "fur-bearing" species. About the rock slides of the Hudsonian Zone is the brownish colored Sierra Pine Marten (Martes caurina sierrae); in the forests of the Canadian and Hudsonian zones is found the Pacific Fisher (Martes pennand pacifica), a much larger animal of generally similar build with a long bushy tail and much black in its pelage. In the highest parts of the mountains there is the Sierra Nevada Wolverine (Gulo luscus luteus), a heavy-bodied animal of yellow and brown coloration, now rare. About the buildings in Yosemite Valley and around rock slides in the higher mountains the Mountain Weasel (Mustela arizonensis) occurs in considerable numbers. The Weasel has a slender body, scarcely two inches through but nine or ten inches in length. The body color is yellowish brown in summer, but this changes to white in the winter season. The end of the long and slender tail remains black at all seasons so that in winter pelage our Weasel is an "ermine" in general appearance.

PLATE XIII Three notable animals of Yosemite National Park The California Grey Squirrel (upper), Tahoe Chipmunk (middle), and Pacific Rattlesnake (lower) Photos of squirrel and snake by J. T. Boysen, Yosemite; Chipmunk by J. Dixon, California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy

The predacious mammals considered thus far are all of considerable size, but there are "hunters" of smaller bulk though no less daring or active in their pursuit of prey.

The rocky shores of the streams and crevices beneath logs and brush constitute the forage ground of several small species of animals called Shrews. These are related to the moles, and may be known as a group by their long slender noses, long tails, and their short smooth fur. These small predators, most of which are less than two inches in length of body, are voracious feeders, to judge from their habits in captivity; their presence in a region suffices to explain why bodies of small birds or mammals disappear so quickly When trapping in localities where Shrews abound it is not an- uncommon experience to have specimens caught during the early hours of the night, half devoured by morning.

Bats are present in most of the region, whence at least eight species are now known. Certain species are restricted to the warmer valleys and foothills, others occur over the floor of the Yosemite gorge, and one species, the High Sierra Bat, has been taken at 10,350 feet altitude near Vogelsang Lake, almost the highest altitudinal record for any species of bat in this country.

Many of the larger accomplishments in nature such as the felling of large trees by storms, the scouring of valleys by

freshets, or the results of earthquakes, are spectacular in the extreme; but other highly important operations are carried on in such an unobtrusive manner that they excite no popular interest or comment. The actions of Gophers and Moles and other burrowing animals as agents of erosion and soil manufacture are examples in this latter category. In cultivated districts the Pocket Gophers are looked upon as unmitigated nuisances, but their rôle in the mountains is totally different. The numerous earth mounds and tunnels made by Gophers play an important part in pulverizing and aerating the granitic soil and permitting water to permeate below the surface. The fine surface material is washed down by the melting snows and the summer rains to add to the fertile plains of the great valleys. During the summer the Gophers push the loosened soil from below ground out on the surface; but in winter this material is packed into tunnels in the snow and these "earth cores" are to be seen everywhere in the higher mountains in early summer.

Moles likewise live most of their time beneath the surface of the ground, but their structure, and habits, and their mode of life, are quite different from those of Gophers. The Moles never appear above the surface and their earth mounds are erupted from beneath, being split with many cracks and having a rough and irregular outline. The Gopher comes to the surface with each lot of earth he has loosened and pushes it out so that eventually his mound has a crescentic rim with a low spot at one side indicating the site of the exit after closure. Moles often run along just an inch or two beneath the surface of the ground and the resulting "ridges" are plainly evident in places where the animals have been hunting actively for insects. The Mole is chiefly if not wholly dependent upon insects, worms, and other low forms of animal life, while the Gopher feeds entirely upon roots and other parts of plants.

As stated in the opening paragraph there is a surprisingly large population of small mammals, the presence of which can hardly be surmised by the casual observer. Intensive trapping shows that rock crevices, old logs, brush heaps, and the like are tenanted by large numbers of White-footed Mice of several species, all agile long-tailed rodents; the grassy meadows everywhere are the homes of chunkily built Meadow Mice with short legs and soft furry coats; and the higher meadows support many of the long-tailed long-legged Jumping Mice. In the rock slides of the higher mountains there lives the much larger Bushy-tailed Wood Rat. This animal, like its smooth-tailed house-building relative in the foothills, is commonly called "pack rat" or "trade rat" because of its habit of carrying away articles of camp equipment and often leaving in their places chips of wood, or other similar tokens. The Bushy-tail lives in the rock slides of the Hudsonian Zone, along with the Yosemite Cony and the Sierra Pine Marten. The Wood Rats exhibit some tendency toward house-building as is shown by the accumulations of twigs and sticks in some of the rock crevices, but the animals rarely do as much in this direction as the Streator Wood Rats in the Upper Sonoran and low Transition zones.

In the lodgepole pines of the Canadian Zone the work of the Yellow-haired Porcupine is to be seen in many places; more rarely the animal itself is discovered. The Porcupine scarcely needs description. It is a rodent, or gnawing mammal, of large size, weighing when adult fifteen pounds or more. The whole upper surface of the body is provided with long quills which grow out beyond the warmth-giving under-fur. These quills have very sharp points, provided with slight barbs which adhere readily to any rough or soft substance into which they are thrust, while the quills are readily released from their attachment to the skin. The Porcupine cannot "shoot" its quills as is supposed by some persons, but for defense it curls its body up so as to be surrounded by its spiny covering and its tail is lashed from side to side. Any person or carnivore incautious enough to come in contact with the quills speedily receives a number of these in its flesh. The Porcupine has one particular item of forage which it seeks at all times of year, namely the inner growing layers of the bark of the pine. A recently-fallen tree is likely to have all of its branches stripped of bark and graven with the paired markings left by the incisor teeth of the animal. But downed trees are not a necessity, for the Porcupine climbs well and often its forage is obtained well up in some large tree. The lodgepole pine with its thin outer bark seems to afford the animal the most suitable kind of forage, and where common it is eaten to the exclusion of other coniferous trees.

This brief account of the more noteworthy mammals of the Yosemite section may well close with mention of that interesting resident of the large heaps of slide rock in the Hudsonian Zone, the Yosemite Cony (Ochotona schisticeps muiri), variously called "pika," "little chief hare" and "rock rabbit." The latter two names have reference to the relationship of the Cony with the rabbits, a kinship evinced more by internal structure than external features. The Cony measures less than seven inches in length and has no obvious tail, both pairs of legs are short, and the ears are rounded. The covering of hair everywhere is dense. Its habits are unique; it runs on all fours with a hobbling gait, and does not sit up on its haunches like a rabbit. Instead of migrating to a milder climate, or else hibernating, during the winter

season, the Cony keeps active even though its rock slide home is covered by many feet of snow. In summer it is busy with food-getting, and cuts, dries, and piles up in airy, yet protected places, large heaps of "hay." This includes stems and leaves from most of the common plants in the vicinity. The animals rarely forage beyond the margins of the rock slides, seeming to feel that within these heaps of tumbled granite they are afforded their only reliable protection. When not engaged in foraging the Cony is accustomed to perch on some one of its observation posts in the rock slide and there keep watch of the neighborhood. The nasal "bleating" notes are given at this time. Thus the Cony, unlike the rabbits, makes regular use of its voice.

REFERENCES

GrInnEll, J., 1913. "A Distributional List of the Mammals of California." Proceedings California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, vol. iii., pp. 265-390, pls. 15, 16.

NElSOn, E. W., 1918. Wild Animals of North America. (Washington, D. C., National Geographic Society: reprint with additions from National Geographic Magazine, vol. xxx., No. 5, Nov. 1916, and vol. xxxiii., No. 5, May 1918). Numerous illus.

StEphEnS, F., 1906. California Mammals. (San Diego, Calif., West Coast Publishing Co.), 351 pp., illustrated.

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REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By JOSEph GrInnEll, Director, AnD TrAcy IrWIn StOrEr, Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California

(Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of the University of California)

NEXt lower in the evolutionary scale below the birds and mammals stand the reptiles, including the turtles, lizards, and snakes, and next below them the group known as amphibians or batrachians comprising the salamanders, toads and frogs. The Yosemite region contains twenty-one species in the first named group and eleven in the second. Among all these "cold-blooded" vertebrates there is but one poisonous species, the Pacific Rattlesnake; none of the others need be feared at all. All the snakes, even the Rattler, will slip away quietly unless cornered and provoked into fighting. As normal parts of the protected animal life in Yosemite National Park no person should kill any of these reptiles or amphibians, save the Rattlesnake.

As a rule, the numbers of both species and individuals decrease with altitude. Above the Transition Zone there are but few reptiles, though amphibians are well represented as to individuals. One species in the latter group, the Pacific Tree-toad (Hyla regilla), may be heard in spring at almost all altitudes. Although scarcely an inch in length, it is notably hardy and ranges up even to timberline. In the high mountain meadows will be found a toad peculiar to the region, the Yosemite Toad (Bufo canorus), and its mellow notes are pleasing additions to the chorus of bird songs just after the snow leaves. Yellow-legged Frogs throng all the stream sides and lake margins up to timberline. The salamanders are less in evidence, and careful search is required to locate them. One species, the Lyell Salamander, is known only from the Yosemite Park, the two known specimens having been taken in the head of Lyell Canyon at an altitude of 10,800 feet.

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The Pacific Mud Turtle is the only representative of its tribe found in the region; it has not yet been discovered higher than the 3000-foot level in the western foothills. Of the nine kinds of lizards the most common and most widely distributed group comprises the "Swifts" (Sceloporus) which live about trees and on rocks and logs. These are dark bodied, with more or less blue on the under surface. The Alligator Lizards (Gerrhonotus) which have long slender bodies, small legs and large diamond-shaped heads are found in grass and under brush piles and chaparral. These are reputed to be poisonous, but their only defense when handled is to give their captor a sharp pinch in their relatively heavy jaws. They have no poison glands. In the leafy débris beneath the golden oaks along the walls of Yosemite Valley there is the large Red-headed Skink (Plestiodon skiltonianum) which has a pinkish-red head and olive-green body. It has exceedingly smooth scales so that it can slip through one’s fingers as if oiled.

The snakes of the region comprise eleven species. In the Yosemite Valley is found the Rubber Snake (Charina bottae), a smooth scaled "double-ended" relative of the pythons and boas of the tropics but not known to exceed thirty inches in length. There are numerous Garter Snakes (Thamnophis) in the region. These are often called Water Snakes, in recognition of their preference for moist meadows and the margins of pools. They may usually be identified at once by the three light yellow stripes along the body, one on each side and the third along the middle of the back.

The most beautiful of the local snakes is the Coral King Snake, a small, smooth scaled, perfectly harmless species which lives along the golden-oak . talus slopes and is frequently met with on the lower trails. Its banded coloration is of black, red, and yellow, all of bright tone. Gopher Snakes have been found in the western foothill country but have not yet been recorded within the park itself.

The Pacific Rattlesnake is likely to be found anywhere in the Yosemite National Park below about 8500 feet altitude, but in Yosemite Valley, and along the well-traveled trails so many of the snakes have been killed that the species is becoming rare in most of these places. The Rattler has many distinctive features, and in consequence will be recognized at once, even by persons who know it only by reputation. The head is bluntly triangular, the neck constricted; the stout body is covered with ridged or keeled scales, and the short tail has at the end a short segmented rattle which the animal can vibrate to produce the well-known warning sound. The Rattlesnake is essentially a ground dweller and seeks refuge at night and during the winter in a crevice in the rocks or a hole in the ground. Occasionally a number collect together in a favourable location, forming one of the rattlesnake "dens" really more common in folklore than fact. The rattlers subsist largely upon small rodents—ground squirrels, chipmunks, meadow mice, and pocket gophers.

From time to time the Rattlesnake, like other snakes, sheds the outer layer of the skin, and each time this occurs a new segment is added to the rattle at the end of the tail; for the substance of the rattle grows in continuation with this outer "epidermis." These molts do not occur at any regular time, and some individuals probably molt much oftener than others so that the number of rattles cannot be taken as an index of the age of the snake, only of the number of molts it has undergone. The "button" at the end of the rattle and several of the terminal segments are sometimes lost through accident and so a very large snake may have only a few rattles. The largest number known to us to have been found in one series was twenty-two; eight to ten is near the average. At the time of molt the skin covering the eye is cast off and just previous to this operation the eye may be slightly clouded over. This has given rise to a belief that Rattlesnakes become "blind" (especially in late summer when many individuals molt), and it is currently believed that the snakes are then more likely to strike without rattling than at other times of the year.

When excited the Rattlesnake vibrates the tip of the tail rapidly, causing the horny rattle to give forth a cicada-like, buzz that is unmistakable. If danger threatens, the snake places its body in a series of S-shaped curves, the tip of the tail being held vertically. To "strike," the reptile straightens out suddenly, lunging at its prey or enemy, dropping the lower jaw and erecting the hollow teeth or "fangs" in the roof of the mouth so that they point almost straight forward. At best the Rattler cannot strike more than two-thirds its total length. Stories of snakes "jumping" at their enemies are without foundation. If the snake hits the object of its attack the two hollow fangs are buried in the flesh, the lower jaw is brought up and poison is forced into the wounds. Leather tramping boots or puttees usually afford full protection against the Rattlesnake, as the animals are not known to strike much if any over twelve inches above ground.

If a person chances to be struck by a Rattler certain things should be done, promptly but with as little flurry as possible.

(1) If bitten on the leg or arm, apply a tourniquet above the wound, that is, toward the heart from the bite. This is done in order to stop the flow of blood toward the heart. A bandana handkerchief twisted tight by means of a stick makes a good tourniquet.

(2) Cut the wound open with a pocket-knife, or cauterize with a red hot iron. If possible, inject a solution of potassium permanganate into the surface immediately surrounding the bite. If the solution cannot be made, apply crystals of permanganate directly at the place of the bite.

(3) After about one hour loosen the tourniquet slightly for a fraction of a minute, then tighten down again; after this, loosening and tightening should be done every fifteen minutes or so.

(4) The patient should be placed in a comfortable position. A mild stimulant, such as coffee, may be given. Do not give whiskey. A doctor should be summoned as soon as possible.

[Editor’s note: the above information for snakebite first aid is obsolete and should not be followed. In particular, do not use a tourniquet, do not cut the wound open, do not apply heat, and do not apply ice.—DEA]

REFERENCES

DIcKErSOn, M. C., 1906. The Frog Book. (New York, Doubleday Page & Co.) xvii+253 pp., 16 col. pls., 96 half tones, 36 figs. in text.

DItmArS, R. L., 1907. The Reptile Book. (New York, Doubleday Page & Co.) xxxii+472 pp., 136 pls.

GrInnEll, J., AnD CAmp, C. L., 1917. A Distributional list of the Amphibians and Reptiles of California. University of California Publications in Zoölogy, vol. 17, pp. 127-208, 14 figs. in text.

VAn DEnburgh, J., 1897. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin. California Academy of Sciences, Occasional Papers, No. 5, 236 pp., many text figs.

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THE FISHES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By BartOn WarrEn EVErMann

Director, Museum, California Academy of Sciences

ThE fish fauna of Yosemite National Park is not a rich one. Of native species there are two Suckers, three Minnows, and one Trout; and of these only the Trout is at all common. If we include the fishes not native to the region but which have been introduced into its lakes and streams, the number will be increased by nine additional species of Trout. The ten kinds of Trout in the park about in order of their relative abundance are:

Rainbow Trout; Salmo irideus Gibbons Eastern Brook Trout; Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill) Shasta Trout; Salmo shasta (Jordan) Loch Leven Trout; Salmo trutta levenensis (Walker) Cutthroat Trout; Salmo clarkii Richardson Steelhead Trout; Salmo gairdneri Richardson Brown Trout; Salmo fario Linnaeus Tahoe Trout; Salmo henshawi Gill & Jordan Dolly Varden Trout; Salvelinus parkei (Suckley) Golden Trout; Salmo roosevelti Evermann

This list includes most of the trout known from California waters.

The limited space available will permit only a very brief treatment of each species. It is hoped, however, at anyone interested can, with these short descriptions, identify with reasonable certainty the fishes he may find within the limits of Yosemite National Park.

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In the first place, let it be said that all real trout of whatever kind, belong to the Salmonidae or Salmon Family. This family includes not only the true Trout but also the Salmons and the Charrs. Some of the species, usually the larger ones, are marine and anadromous, living most of their lives in the sea and Corning into freshwater streams only for spawning purposes. Others live habitually and continuously in the colder streams and lakes.

Of all the families of fishes there is none more interesting than the Salmonidae, from whatever point of view they may be considered. To the biologist, the family is of surpassing interest because of the remarkable life histories and habits of the many species; to the angler, no fish has appealed more strongly than the Salmon and Trout because of their game qualities and their beauty; to the epicure, there is none more delicious; to the lover of the beautiful as exhibited in animate forms, there is perhaps nothing that appeals more strongly than the silvery sheen, roseate or golden hugs, and the beautiful form of the Salmon, the Brook Trout, or the Golden Trout; to the fish culturist, the Salmonidae are of the greatest interest and importance, more species of this family being propagated artificially than of all other species combined; and to the commercial fisherman, this family of fishes is the most important in all the world.

The true Trout all belong to the genus Salmo and are found only in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and North America; in Europe they extend as far south as the Pyrenees; and in America to Lower California

PLATE XIV Some Trout of Yosemite National Park Top to bottom—Rainbow Trout, Steelhead Trout, Eastern Brook Trout, Golden (or Roosevelt) Trout Pictures from California Fish and Game Commission and Durango, and eastward as far as the Black Hills and Colorado.

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It has been a more or less common practice to speak of the Trout of California as falling naturally into three series, popularly known as the Steelhead, Rainbow, and Cutthroat groups. This grouping is no longer accepted without reservations by ichthyologists. It has been shown that the Steelheads of California streams are simply Rainbows that have gone out to sea, and, after growing to considerable size and becoming silvery in color, have returned to fresh water, and that the Rainbows are simply the individuals that never went to sea. For present purposes, however, it seems best to treat them separately.

CUTTHROAT TROUT

Salmo clarkii Richardson

Other names.—Red-throated Trout; Clark Trout; Black-spotted Trout; Clark Cutthroat Trout. Description.—The Cutthroat Trout can be readily known from all other trout by the red blotches on the membranes of the lower jaw. This mark is usually diagnostic of all the various species of so-called Cutthroat Trout, of which there are in western America not fewer than a dozen recognizable forms. These different forms may be distinguished from each other by proportional measurements, size of scales, and coloration. The Clark Trout is characterized by its fine scales and the presence of small teeth on the hyoid bone.

Distribution.—This species occurs in streams and lakes from the Columbia River south to northwestern California. It probably did not occur originally anywhere in the southern High Sierra, but it has been introduced into many streams and lakes. In Yosemite National Park it is most abundant in the Tuolumne River from Hetch Hetchy to its source, in the South Fork of the Merced, and in Gaylor and Peeler lakes.

TAHOE TROUT

Salmo henshawi Gill & Jordan

Other names.—Henshaw Trout; Black-spotted Trout; Truckee Trout; Silver Trout; Redfish; Tommy; Black Trout; Salmo tahoensis; Salmo purpuratus henshawi; Salmo mykiss henshawi; Salmo clarkii henshawi.

Description.—Color, dark olive-green above, body everywhere with rather widely scattered black spots, red darker on membranes of lower jaw; body stout, the greatest depth about one-fourth the total length; scales small.

Distribution.—This is the common trout of Lake Tahoe and its connecting waters; also of Donner, Webber, and Independence lakes and the upper part of Truckee River. It is not common in the park, but was introduced into the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy Valley, Soda Springs, and in the Lyell Canyon in 1896. Habits.—During a portion of the year the Tahoe Trout lives in deep water, and can be caught, if at all, only on long lines. Early in the spring and in the summer, they are to be found in relatively shallow water. It may be that food supply accounts for, this migration, as spawning minnows seem to be the attractive food when the trout is in shallow water. The greatest number of this species are taken by trolling with a spoon. (Snyder.)

The Tahoe Trout appears to feed largely on minnows, but black ants and other insects are taken in quantity.

STEELHEAD

Salmo gairdneri Richardson

Other names.—Steelhead Trout; Steelhead Salmon; Salmon Trout; Hardhead.

Marks for field identification.—Large size; small head; large scales; bright silvery color; absence of red on lower jaw.

Distribution.—The Steelhead enters coastwise streams from Ventura northward, ascending to their headwaters for

spawning purposes and then returning to the sea. Since 1917 the species has been introduced into Yosemite National Park in the Merced River and in Babcock, Emeric, Grant, Tenaya, and Ten lakes.

Habits.—The Steelhead is more or less anadromous in its habits, being migratory like the salmon and spending much of its time in salt water, and ascending freshwater streams at spawning time.

As a game-fish, the steelhead is a favorite with anglers. Its game qualities, together with its large size, make this one of the fishes most sought after by the followers of good old Isaak Walton. When in fresh water it will not only take the trolling spoon, but will rise readily to the fly. A The Steelhead is an excellent food-fish, and its large size and abundance make it of considerable commercial value. It is an important fish in the fish cultural operations of California and of other Pacific Coast states and of the Federal government. It has been introduced into Lake Superior and is now an abundant and much prized game-fish in that lake and its tributary streams.

The fact that most ichthyologists and many anglers regard Steelheads simply as sea-run individuals of Rainbow Trout has not escaped the writer’s attention, and he himself is inclined to accept the view. Nevertheless it is known that in some places, they are entirely distinct and easily distinguishable. At any rate, it is deemed best for present purposes to treat the Steelhead as a distinct species.

RAINBOW TROUT

Salmo irideus Gibbons

Other names.—Mountain Trout; Speckled Trout; Brook Trout; California Trout; Sea-run form; Steelhead; Steelhead Trout; Steelhead Salmon; Salmon Trout; Salmo rivularis, in part; Salmo gairdneri, in part.

Description.—Body usually profusely covered with small roundish or star-shaped black spots, most numerous on back and upper part of side; middle of side with a rich rosy band; ground-color of back dark olive-green; fins all more or less spotted the dorsal, anal, and ventrals not usually tipped with white.

Distribution.—This is, as far as is known, the only native Trout in the Merced and Tuolumne rivers and their tributaries. It is very abundant in the park, having been introduced or transplanted into most streams and lakes in the Yosemite region. Locally the species is confused with its close relative, the Shasta Trout, which has been widely planted in the waters of the park under the name of Rainbow Trout.

Habits.—As a game fish the Rainbow Trout is one of the best. It runs upstream in early spring to spawn, leaping over waterfalls and entering the small streams forming the headwaters. Here the eggs are deposited in the sand and the young hatched out.

By far the largest output of the state hatcheries is composed of Rainbow Trout, and there is a good reason, for this is considered the best game-fish of all, and it is most highly prized by anglers. The Rainbow often leaves the water in its eagerness to take a fly. So readily does it take a fly, in fact, that there is seldom need to resort to bait or other lures.

The Rainbow varies in coloring according to age, sex, and location. Those individuals which are able to reach the sea spend part of each year there, return to the freshwater stream a larger and more silvery-colored fish commonly called Steelhead. Spawning fish travel far up the coastal streams and spawn high up in the small tributaries. Their habits in this regard are more like those of the salmon than those of the trout. Unlike the salmon, however, the Steelhead does not, as a rule, die after spawning.

In beauty of color, gracefulness of form and movement, sprightliness when in the water, reckless dash with which it springs from the water to meet the descending fly ere it strikes the surface, and the mad and repeated leaps from the water when hooked, the Rainbow Trout must ever hold a very high rank.

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clump of willows made the first cast, the trout bounded from the water and met the fly in the air a foot or more above the surface; missing it, he dropped upon the water only to turn about and strike viciously a second time at the fly just as it touched the surface; though he again missed the fly, the hook caught him in the jaw from the outside, and then began a fight which would delight the heart of any angler. His first effort was to reach the bottom of the pool, then, doubling upon the line, he made three jumps from the water in quick succession, clearing the surface in each instance from one to four feet, and every time doing his utmost to free himself from the hook by shaking his head vigorously as a dog shakes a rat. Then he would rush wildly about in the large pool, now attempting to go down the riffle below the pool, now trying the opposite direction, and often striving to hide under one or the other of the banks. It was easy to handle the fish when the dash was made up or down stream or for the opposite side, but when he turned about and made a rush for the protection of the overhanging bank upon which the angler stood, it was not easy to keep the line taut. Movements such as these were frequently repeated and two more leaps were made. But finally he was worn out after as honest a fight as trout ever made.

The Rainbow takes the fly so readily that there is no reason for resorting to grasshoppers, salmon eggs, or other bait. It is a fish whose gameness will satisfy the most exacting of expert anglers and whose readiness

PLATE XV Some Trout of Yosemite National Park Top to bottom—Lake Tahoe Trout, Brown Trout, Cutthroat (or Black spotted) Trout, Loch Leven Trout Pictures from California Fish and Game Commission to take any proper lure will please the most impatient of amateurs.

Spawning takes place in winter and early spring, varying with the temperature and locality. The bulk of the eggs are usually taken in February, March, and April, although spawning continues through May in the mountain districts.

The Rainbow feeds on worms, insect larvae, and salmon eggs. In streams in which the Salmon and Rainbow exist together, the Rainbow is more destructive to the salmon eggs than is any other species except the Dolly Varden.

SHASTA TROUT

Salmo shasta (Jordan)

Other names.—McCloud River Trout; McCloud River Rainbow; Shasta Rainbow; Rainbow Trout (of fish culturists); Salmo gairdneri shasta; Salmo irideus shasta.

Marks for field identification.—Differs from other Rainbow Trout, with the exception of that of the Klamath River, in its larger size, smaller mouth, and larger eyes; scales intermediate in size between Cutthroat and sea-run Rainbow, caudal fin more deeply incised than in typical Cutthroat.

Distribution.—McCloud River and streams of the Sierra Nevada from Mount Shasta southward at least to Calaveras County. This species has been widely introduced into the streams and lakes of Yosemite National Park where it is not officially distinguished from the true Rainbow.

Habits.—This Rainbow lives in water with a comparatively high temperature if it is plentiful and running with a strong current; but in sluggish water even when the temperature is considerably lower, no other species will do as well. This species appears to inhabit the rapids more largely than the slow-moving water. The spawning season in California extends from early February to May. Males are good breeders at two years of age, but the females rarely produce eggs until the third season. The Shasta Trout may lack a little of the wild gameness of the typical Rainbow, but that is made good by its larger size. It is largely an insect feeder and, therefore, a favorite of the fly fisherman.

This is the Rainbow which has been most widely used in fish cultural operations and has been more widely distributed than any other species.

THE GOLDEN TROUT OF THE SOUTHERN HIGH SIERRA

The Golden Trout of California are, so far as known, found only in the headwaters of the Kern River, all in the vicinity of Mount Whitney. Through the activities of the California Fish and Game Commission and other agencies, their original distribution has been somewhat extended by transplanting.

Four species of trout are now recognized as native to the upper Kern River Basin, namely: The Kern River Trout or Gilbert Trout (Salmo gilberti), the Soda Creek or White’s Golden Trout (Salmo whitei), the South Fork of the Kern Golden Trout (Salmo agua-bonita), and the Roosevelt Trout or Golden Trout of Volcano Creek (Salmo roosevelti). All except the Gilbert Trout are of the Golden Trout type.

All four of these species belong to the Rainbow series, the species of which as a whole may be distinguished, with greater or less difficulty, from those of the Steelhead series or sea-run Rainbows on the one hand by the usually brighter colors, and on the other hand from the Cutthroat series, by the absence of a red or scarlet dash on the throat, and the entire absence of hyoid teeth.

GOLDEN TROUT

Salmo roosevelti Evermann

Other names.—Roosevelt Trout; Golden Trout of Volcano Creek; Golden Trout of Golden Trout Creek; Volcano Creek Golden Trout; Mount Whitney Golden Trout.

Marks for field identification.—Color, delicate golden olive on the head, back, and upper part of the sides; clear golden yellow along and below the lateral line, overlaid by a delicate rosy lateral band; under parts rich cadmium http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/fishes.html[2/12/2013 10:03:22 AM] The Fishes of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Barton Warren Evermann

yellow; body without black spots except on the caudal peduncle; scales extremely small.

Distribution.—The Golden or Roosevelt Trout is native only to Volcano Creek in the Mount Whitney region. It is a creek fish and appears to keep within the peculiar environment of this small stream. The species has been transplanted to and thrives in several near-by streams. In 1919 it was introduced into one of the unstocked lakes of Yosemite National Park.

Habits.—As a game-fish the Golden Trout is one of the best. It will rise to any kind of lure, including the artificial fly, at any time of day. In the morning and again in the evening, it will take the fly with a rush and make a good fight, jumping when permitted to do so; during the middle of the day it rises more deliberately and may sometimes be tempted only with grasshoppers. It is a fish that does not give up soon but continues the fight. Its unusual breadth of fins and strength of caudal peduncle, together with the turbulent water in which it dwells, enable it to make a fight equaling that offered by many larger trout.

The scales are smaller than in any other known species of trout. They are so small, indeed, as to have caused so good an observer as Stewart Edward White to declare that this trout had no scales at all.

Although now abundant in Volcano Creek, the Golden Trout cannot long remain so unless afforded some protection. The great beauty of the Roosevelt Trout lies in the richness of its colors and in the trimness of its form— characteristics which fully entitle the species to be known above all others as the Golden Trout.

BROWN TROUT

Salmo fario Linnaeus

Other names.—European Brown Trout; German Brown Trout; von Behr Trout.

Marks for field identification.—This Trout can be distinguished from all other species by the decidedly brown color of the back and sides, the black spots on the back, and red spots on the sides; the belly is silvery or brownish.

Distribution.—The Brown Trout was introduced into the United States in 1895, and since then a number of streams in California have been stocked. In Yosemite National Park it may be taken in the Merced River, in the south Fork of the Merced River, and in Merced and Edna lakes.

Habits.—The Brown Trout lives in clear, cold, rapid streams and at the mouths of streams tributary to lakes. It grows to be of large size, but matures at about eight inches in length. In its movements it is swift, and it leaps over obstructions like the salmon. It usually feeds in the morning and evening, is more active during evening and night, and often lies quietly in deep pools or in the shadow of overhanging bushes and trees for hours at a time during the day. Its food is formed of insects and their larvae, worms, mollusks, and small fishes, and, like the Rainbow Trout, it is fond of the eggs of fishes. Spawning begins in October and continues until January. Eggs are deposited in crevices, between stones, under projecting roots of trees, and sometimes in nests excavated by the spawning fishes. The parents cover the eggs to some extent with gravel.

LOCH LEVEN TROUT

Salmo trutta levenensis (Walker)

Other names.—Scotch Trout; Salmo levenensis.

Marks for field identification.—The true Loch Leven Trout is a slimmer fish than the Brown Trout, and the adipose fin is smaller. Furthermore, it is fully spotted and lacks the brown color of the Brown Trout. The sides are silvery, with a varying number of X-shaped black spots or rounded brown or black spots.

Distribution.—This trout, a native of the lakes of Scotland, was introduced into California in 1894, and has since been placed in many streams and lakes of the State. Seventeen lakes of Yosemite National Park—among them the noted Benson, May, Merced, Washburn, and Ten lakes—have been stocked with this species. Fry have also been planted in the Merced and Tuolumne rivers.

Habits.—The spawning season may begin in October and continues until January. This trout is largely non-migratory in its native habitat. It takes the artificial fly readily. The food of this species includes freshwater mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and small fish. Hybridization between this species and the Brown Trout is common.

EASTERN BROOK TROUT

Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill)

Other names.—Brook Trout; Speckled Trout; Fontinalis; Salmo fontinalis; American Charr.

Marks for field identification.—This beautiful and best-known trout is easily distinguished from all other trout of our waters by the red spots on the sides but not on the back, and the mottled or marbled color of the upper parts.

Distribution.—This trout is native only to the eastern part of North America westward to Minnesota and Iowa. It has been introduced very widely all over the world. It has been placed in many California streams and lakes and is one of the most abundant species in most streams and lakes of Yosemite National Park.

Habits.—Eastern Brook, Trout abound chiefly in cold, slow-running meadow brooks; but they thrive in all pure cold waters whether of stream, lake, or pond. The fish is wary and great skill is required to catch it. The outstanding peculiarity of its habits is evidenced by the fact that a person acquainted with its haunts can go out and catch a string of Eastern Brook in a comparatively short time, while others, with better tackle and equal skill, will fish a whole day for them in vain. The largest Brook Trout are found in the deep, wide pools in the warmer rivulets near their source. Eastern Brook Trout do not keep well nor ship well, probably on account of the fat. They spawn high up in tributary streams and so early (October to January) that eggs for hatchery purposes are almost impossible to obtain.

DOLLY VARDEN TROUT

Salvelinus parkei (Suckley)

Other names.—Malma; Salmon Trout (Alaska and Montana); Bull Trout (Idaho); Western Charr; Oregon Charr; Salvelinus malma (in part).

Marks for field identification.—This fish may be readily distinguished from all other species of Salmonidae native to western America by the presence of small red or orange spots on the body. From the Eastern Brook Trout (introduced into many California waters) which also has red spots on the body, the Dolly Varden Trout may be known by the absence of blackish marblings or reticulations on the back, and by the presence of red spots on the back.

Distribution.—The Dolly Varden Trout is of wide distribution. It is found from western Montana and Idaho to Oregon and Washington, and northward through British Columbia and Alaska to the Arctic. In California it is native only to the McCloud River, but has been introduced into other streams. In Yosemite National Park the species is found only in one of the Chain o’ Lakes at the source of the South Fork of the Merced River and very rarely in the Merced River in Yosemite Valley.

Habits.—The Dolly Varden is the poorest of all trouts. It does not rank high as a game-fish, and, as a food-fish, it is inferior to any other species. In Alaska it is very destructive to the eggs and fry of the salmon. It attains a weight of two to twelve pounds.

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This completes the list of Trout, both native and introduced, that are found in Yosemite National Park. There remain but two suckers and three minnows that might be found within the park limits. The Sacramento or Western Sucker (Calostomus occidentalis) is common in the lower reaches of all streams of the State, but the Hardhead Sucker (Pantosteus araeopus) is a very rare species. Of the three species of Minnows, the first is the Kaweah Chub, Lake Fish, or Hardhead (Mylopharodon conocephalus), one of the largest of Minnows. It reaches a length of two or three feet and a weight of several pounds. The next Minnow is the Sacramento Pike or Squawfish (Ptychocheilus grandis). This fish, which reaches a length of two or three feet, is abundant in the lower portions of all the larger tributaries of the San Joaquin. Still another minnow is the Chub (Siphateles formosus), a small species, usually not exceeding four or five inches in length. So far as the writer knows none of these minnows or suckers has been recorded from any locality within the limits of Yosemite National Park.

REFERENCES

EVErMann, BartOn WarrEn, 1906. The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras. Bull. Bureau Fisheries, Vol. 25, pp. 1-51, 3 colored plates, 45 half tones, and one map.

EVErMann, BartOn WarrEn, and Bryant, HarOld C., 1919. California Trout. California Fish and Game, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 105-135, 4 colored plates and 13 half tones, July, 1919.

JOrdan, DaVid Starr, and EVErMann, BartOn WarrEn, 1896. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fish-like Vertebrates of North and Middle America. Rept. U.S. Fish Com. for 1895, Vol. 21, pp. 207-584. 1896-1900. The Fishes of North and Middle America. Bulletin 47, U. S. National Museum, 4 vols., pp. ccxv+3313, pls. 392. 1902. American Food and Game Fishes. (Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y.) pp. 1+572, with numerous colored plates, half tones, and text figures.

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INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By EDWin C. VAn DyKe

Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of California

TO the uninitiated the word "insect" conjurs all kinds of creepy crawly "bugs"— yet to those who are at all interested in Nature, the study of entomology is a most fascinating one. The insect fauna of Yosemite National Park is especially rich and offers an excellent field to collectors. [Editor’s note: collecting is not allowed within Yosemite National Park.—DEA] Indeed, so numerous are the species that many will be noticed by even the most casual observer. The Nature-lover will be most at tracted by the multi-colored butterflies, the day flying moths, the bronze and gold timber beetles, and such other insects as are beautiful in form and have interesting habits. To the naturalist all of the insect life will be attractive and he will be kept busy, for the region possesses a most wonderful assemblage of forms. Even the most prosaic individual must needs take notice, for the thirsty mosquito or deer fly will sooner or later tax him for a meal and the sociable ant will always be ready to welcome him.

The butterflies and moths, which belong to the order Lepidoptera, are generally the first to claim attention. Some of the former will be seen in the park no matter where one wanders. In the meadows there will be the ever present sulphur butterfly (Colias eurytheme Boisd.) and numerous busy skippers, as well as an occasional large orange-red fritellary or silver spot, so named from the numerous silvery patches on the under side of the wings. The largest of our mountain fritellaries is leto (Argynnis leto Behr. Plate xvi, 9), a noble insect with a wing expanse of about three inches, but the commonest is Behr’s fritellary (Argynnis monticola Behr.), a somewhat smaller species. About damp patches along the roadside or at the sandy margins of streams great congregations of butterflies may often be seen, all eagerly quenching their thirst. The dominant species here will generally be the California tortoise shell (Vanessa californica Behr.) which is of a rich red color above and dark, almost black, beneath. This insect is always abundant in the mountains. Some years its larvae have been so numerous that they have become serious pests, defoliating the deer http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/insects.html[2/12/2013 10:03:40 AM] Insects of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Edwin C. Van Dyke

brush and other species of wild lilac over extensive areas. Other butterflies often found drinking are numerous species of blues and a sprinkling of white admirals (Basilarchia lorquini Boisd.). The latter is a moderate-sized, black butterfly with red tips to the wings. A somewhat larger butterfly which simulates it in color pattern is Adelpha bredowii var. californica But. (Plate xvi, 4). Of the several swallowtails the commonest is the dark yellow tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus Boisd.). Less common is its creamy colored cousin, Papilio eurymedon Boisd., and the prize of all is the two-tailed swallowtail. (Papilio daunus Boisd. Plate xvi, 1) which is a rare visitor.

As one leaves the Valley and enters the high country other butterflies will be noticed. One of these, Parnassius clodius Menetr. (Plate xvi, 11), is truly a butterfly of the high mountains. It is of fair size, white, with several short black bars on the forewings and a few pink spots on the hind, and with much of the wing membrane uncovered by scales. One most often sees it flying about the higher mountain meadows or beneath such scattered trees as occur in the alpine forests. One may at times notice flying about the yellow pines numbers of the pine white (Neophasia menapia Feld. Plate xvi, 8). Its distinguishing characteristic is the pinkish outlining to the veins on the underside of the wings. The caterpillars of this species often greatly injure the pines through defoliation. At the tops of the various domes and at other exposed lookout places two more whites (Pieris sisymbri Boisd. and Pieris occidentalis Reak.) may generally be seen on sunny days. These prominent places are, in fact, favorite congregating spots for many types of insects besides the butterflies. Lazily sailing across the valleys we are almost sure to see our well-known friend from the lowlands, the monarch or milkweed butterfly (Anosia plexippus Linn.). This large red butterfly wanders far and wide during the summer months in search of the food plant for its young, the various species of milkweed, but in late autumn it migrates to the coast to one or the other of its numerous assembling grounds where it spends the winter. The highly prized black alpine swallowtail (Papilio indra Reakirt. Plate xvi, 6) may also greet one’s vision as it soars away from its rocky heights.

Mountaineers will probably be familiar with our three most common high-mountain species. The brilliant little copper (Chrysophanus cupreus Edw. Plate xvi, 3) may often be seen basking in sunny spots in Tuolumne Meadows. Behr’s sulphur (Colais behri Edw. Plate xvi, 5), a rather small greenish yellow butterfly, which haunts the most alpine meadows and grassy slopes, is a southern remnant or relict of an arctic race left stranded and isolated in our southern Sierra. That hardy gray satyr of the heights, (Aeneis ivallda Mead. (Plate xvi, 7), can only be found about the crags and high rocky slopes where it flies freely from place to place when the weather is pleasant but instantly settles when it is otherwise, and because of the harmony of its colors with the surroundings disappears from view. Even this habit does not always protect it, for many a specimen has been caught up by a mountain storm and left to perish high up on the snowfields and glaciers.

Of the moths there are even more species to be found than there are of the butterflies, but the most are of somber appearance or so small that they will rarely attract the notice of any but the expert. of the more conspicuous several are day-flying like the showy orange and black "sheep moth" (Pseudohazis eglanterina Boisd. Plate xvi, 10). This flies throughout the chaparral areas of the Sierra and as a result may often be seen about the lower ridges and lesser peaks. Its larvae when fully grown are several inches long and black, armed with prickly yellow spines. They feed on the willow and several of the chaparral shrubs. Another day-flying moth is the wild forget-me-not moth (Gnophaela latipennis Boisd. Plate xvi, 2), a beautiful black species maculated with yellow. Whenever one can locate a patch of its food plant at higher levels it can generally be found. The most conspicuous of the night-flying moths is the large California silk moth (Samia rubra Behr.), a moth with a wing expanse of several inches and with a brick

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PLATE XVI Some Butterflies and Moths of Yosemite National Park red color. This species in its earlier stage feeds on various shrubs, chiefly the pigeon berry or cascara, and as an adult may often be attracted to light. The most important moth in the park, however, from the standpoint of destructiveness is a very diminutive one. It is the lodgepole pine or "tamarack" needle miner (Recurvaria milleri Busck.), so called from the fact that its larvae tunnel the terminals. of the needles of this common pine of the higher altitudes. This kills the needles, thus weakening the trees so that they fall an easy prey to the attacks of the destructive bark beetles. The great areas of dead "tamaracks" or lodgepole pines which one sees in the mid-Sierran region bear mute testimony to the destructiveness of this insect.

After the moths and butterflies, the beetles or Coleoptera provide us with the greatest number of showy representatives. Among the conspicuous species of this order in the park are a number of the long-horned wood boring beetles of the family Cerambycidae. One of these, the elderberry beetle (Desmocerus auripennis Chev. Plate xvii, 4), is often to be seen resting on the leaves of its food plant. It is a large bluish-black beetle with wing cases entirely red if a male or blue bordered with red if a female. Another is the maculated timberman (Monohammus maculosus Lec. Plate xvii, 7), a large black and white clouded beetle which may often be found resting on the sticks of corded pine wood or stretched out along the protected portion of an old log. When isolated from its environment this is a very conspicuous insect, but when at rest on the side of an old log, it so thoroughly blends with its surroundings that it is hard to detect. A most interesting and peculiar long-horned beetle is Ulochaetes leoninus Lec. (Plate xvii, 8), a good-sized and somewhat hairy black and yellow barred beetle which has its wing causes so very much abbreviated that the greater portion of the wings are exposed to view even when folded. This species haunts the dead yellow and Jeffrey pines. On milkweed plants another very conspicuous member of the family may be seen. It is the so-called milkweed beetle

(Tetraopes femoratus var. basalis Lec.) which is of a bright red color spotted with black. Many of the beetles of this family are pollen feeders, and such flowers as the wild lilac and wild hellebore are especially attractive to them. Here many of the wasplike members of the great genus Leptura (Plate xvii, 18) may be found. Even at night one may collect some of these beetles for many are nocturnal and often fly to lights. Two of the largest are Ergates spiculatus Lec. (Plate xvii, 17) and Prionus Californicus Mots. (Plate xvii, 15), the former over two inches in length and the latter an inch and a half and both of a reddish-brown color.

Another group of timber beetles are the so-called jewel beetles, the family Buprestidae. Within the park a good collector might find twenty species. The best known is the golden-lined Buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta Linn. Plate xvii, 6), a beautiful greenish or bronze-green beetle margined with gold. This species, which is about one inch in length, breeds in both pines and firs. Another species is Buprestis fasciata Fab., the male of which is green blotched with yellow and the female entirely green. These generally rest on green willow or poplar leaves, but during their young lives live in the Douglas fir. Two of the smaller members of this family sometimes do considerable damage through the work of their larvae. The first of these (Melanophila drummondi Kirdy) is a flat bronze beetle generally spotted with yellow which normally breeds in the dead Douglas and true firs. The other (Melanophila gentilis Lec.) is a rich blue-green or greenish-blue species which is restricted to the pines. Most of the members of. this family confine themselves to their food trees, but a few frequent flowers.

A third group of timber beetles are the so-called bark borers or engraver beetles of the family Scolytidae. The members of this family are generally small and of somber color, but they are at times very abundant and often tremendously destructive. The females bore tunnels beneath the bark where they deposit their eggs. The young, upon hatching, also bore tunnels, but generally in the opposite direction. As a result of the work of adult and larvae the tree is soon girdled. Though these beetles normally attack only the dead and dying trees, they at times turn their attention to the living ones. As a result there is an enormous loss of some of our very best timber every year. In the park itself one may notice many trees which are gradually dying as indicated by the yellowing of their tops, or trees with brown needles which are already dead. If one strips off the bark of any of these trees he will find the insects at work or if they have emerged he will find the results of their labors, the peculiar adult and larval tunnels which generally engrave both bark and sapwood.

Among the host of other beetles which are to be found on the herbage, on the ground, or in the water, but a few can here be mentioned. One of these is the true milkweed beetle (Chrysochus cobaltinus Lec. Plate xvii, 20), a chunky beetle of brilliant metallic blue color. It feeds upon the roots of the milkweed during the larval stage and on the foliage as an adult. In spite of its conspicuousness it is rarely molested by birds, no doubt because like the lady beetles it is very distasteful to them. Another interesting night-flying beetle is the large white striped June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata Say. Plate xvii, 19), which is perhaps the largest of its family in the mountains. It often comes tumbling about one’s house or camp fire. A smaller and somewhat distant relative of the latter is the little "tumble bug" (Canthon simplex var. militaris Horn). This bluish-black beetle with red shoulders is a close relative of the sacred scarabeus of Egypt and has similar habits. If one watches the less frequented roads and trails he may be rewarded by finding some of these beetles at work hauling and pulling their precious pellets to a safe retreat. In the flower of the azalia another species of scarabid may be found. This is a very pretty pollen- and petal-feeding species (Hoplia dispar Lee.) which may appear in a dress of various colors-orange, brown, or green.

Among the ground beetles most species are of somber appearance, but there are a few exceptions. Two of these are the brilliant green tiger beetles (Cicindela perveridis Schaupp. Plate xvii, 1, and Cicindela depressula Casey). These are generally to be found only at the higher altitudes and generally on the grassy slopes just below the snow fields. Here their larvae sink their shafts into the earth and lie in wait for their prey while the active and long-legged adults seek theirs in the open chase.

In the water there are also many beetles both great and small. Some, like the water scavengers (Hydrophilidae), prefer warm and stagnant waters; others, like the whirligigs (Gyrinidae), most enjoy skating over the surface of the water; and still others, like the predaceous diving beetles (Dytiscidae), will live and thrive in even the coldest streams and lakes. The most interesting aquatic beetle in the mountains is Ampizoa insolens Lee. (Plate xvii, 3). It is a flattened beetle a little less than a half inch in length and in color an opaque black. It may be found crawling over the rocks and in the cold mountain streams. Although it lives in the water it looks more like a land dweller and is, in fact, equally

related to both land and water beetles. It may be well to state that not one beetle in our country is poisonous, and that all may be handled with perfect safety. A very interesting beetle collection may easily be made by carrying a small vial of alcohol. Specimens should be removed and mounted on pins at the end of each day’s collecting.

There are in the park a goodly number of species of wasps, bees, ants, and other insects of the great order Hymenoptera. Most of these are small, but a few such as the horn tails or wood wasps are of fair size. The females of these insects are provided each with along, stout drill which enables them to bore straight into solid wood where they deposit their eggs. One of these, a large black species with orange wings (Urocerus Californicus Nort. Plate xvii, 2), has an appearance not unlike some of the large so-called tarantula hawks of the Southwest. It is harmless, however, for it cannot sting. The larvae often do considerable damage to timber and would do even more were it not for the fact that they are heavily parasitized by a large wasp of the family Ichneumonidae. One of these is a black and yellow insect (Megarissa nortoni Cress. Plate xvii, 5) which has a threadlike ovipositor longer than its body—so long, in fact, that it cannot be used in the usual way but must be curled over the back and brought down in front of the head before it can be used. With this wonderful instrument a hole is soon sunk in the timber where the wood wasp larvae are boring, and an egg is laid in their neighborhood.

Among the larger bees the carpenter bees of the genus Xylocopa are perhaps as notable as any. These black or bluish- black bees are fully as large as bumble bees and every bit as energetic. They have a habit of selecting well-seasoned wood such as an old cedar fence post or a portion of a building, and of excavating out a long chamber for their young much in the same way that a woodpecker does. If one approaches their home they circle about in a threatening manner but rarely do they attack one.

Other wood workers of this order which might be ment ioned are the large timber ants of the genus Camponotus. These are either black or red and black, and are the largest ants we have. Their nests are made in old logs and stumps and even in the hearts of growing trees when they have the opportunity to enter through an old scar. At times they do some damage but on the whole they are beneficial, for the workers destroy great numbers of destructive forest beetles; furthermore their wood work is, as a rule, only in old logs which are useless and should be removed. The winged adults of these ants often congregate in great numbers, like the lady beetles, about the summits of the lesser peaks.

Of the two-winged flies or Diptera there are also a great number, some of recognizable size and of peculiar interest. About the meadows and in the neighborhood of watercourses mosquitoes are often quite abundant. At higher altitudes, however, there is nothing to fear from these insects other than the annoyance of a few bites, for there are no malaria carriers or Anopheles much above five thousand feet. A small vial of oil of citronella will generally provide the means of repelling the meadow species. Horse flies and deer flies (Tabanidae) are also annoying at times, but the selection of proper camp sites away from marshy places, their normal breeding grounds, will generally give ample protection. Among the flies that will catch one’s eye during his rambles are the sun and hover flies (Syrphidae. Plate xvii, 12 and 14), many members of which, in their early stages, prey upon plant lice and which, in the adult stage, often mimic bees and wasps with which they often associate. One will also see many bee flies (Bombylidae. Plate xvii, 9 and 11), some hovering about the flowers like humming birds and others skimming over the ground to alight here and there in sunny spots. Often the robber flies (Asilidae. Plate xvii, 16) may be noticed. These hawks of the fly world are parasitic in their larval state and predaceous in the adult stage. The more gayly colored species haunt the forests where they may be seen sunning themselves on old logs, but the more somber colored, the grays and browns, frequent sandy areas.

Among the other orders of insects the grasshoppers will, of course, claim a certain degree of attention. Of these we have a few meadow species which, like the devastating grasshopper (Melanoplus devastator Scudd.), may at times destroy much of the upland feed but are generally not numerous enough to greatly exceed their demand as fish bait. Many species, however, are quite interesting to those who will take time to observe them. Some of these have beautiful under-wings of yellow, orange, red, blue, or black and some clap their wings together in flight and hover hawk-like as they rise, giving out such a strident sound that they can be heard for some distance. One of the latter, a blue-winged species (Cireottix thallassinus Saus.), is more common farther north, but a second, a black-winged species (Cireottix maculatus Scudd.), is fairly abundant at high altitudes in the middle Sierra. Many of the grasshoppers also show marked degrees of color protection, an example being the white and black species which chooses only granite slopes for a resting place.

Nests of termites or white ants may often be found in the woods beneath the bark of old fallen trees. We have but few species of these insects outside of the tropics, but one of our species is exceedingly large. This is a brown species (Termopsis nevadensis Hagen. Plate xvii, 13) which is found widely distributed throughout California but which is especially abundant in the mountains. The insects are very industrious creatures and will in a short time completely honeycomb a large log. Upon opening one of these nests one finds not only a host of their light colored workers and big-headed soldiers but also many winged adults. Many hours might be spent interestingly and profitably investigating the habits of these remarkable social insects. Even the bears are fond of the termites and the Indians likewise dig out their nests and use the eggs and larvae for food.

In the water one may find the interesting caddice fly larvae,

PLATE XVII Some Beetles, Wasps, and Flies of Yosemite National Park each enclosed in its own peculiar case, and also the flat bodied larvae of the rock flies crouching close against the rocks. The adults of both insects will be found in the immediate neighborhood, the moth-like caddice flies dancing over the waters and the rock flies resting along the banks. A somewhat distant relative of the above flies is the night- flying brown lace-winged fly (Polystoechotes punctulatus Fab. Plate xvii, 10). It is the largest of its race and peculiar in that its larvae have never been discovered.

In this short article it is possible to mention briefly only a few representative species of the different types of insects found in Yosemite National Park. The following list of references will aid those who wish to investigate more thoroughly the fascinating science of Entomology.

COmstOcK, J. H. and A. B., 1895. A Manual for the Study of Insects. (Comstock Publishing Co., Ithaca, N. Y.) pp. 701, cuts 799. How to Know the Butterflies. (Comstock Publishing Co., Ithaca, N. Y.) pp. 311, 45 col. pls.

EssiG, E. O., 1915. Injurious and Beneficial Insects of California. (Calif. State Com. of Hort.) pp. 541, illus. 503.

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TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By AnsEl F. Hall

U. S. National Park Service, Formerly Instructor in Forestry, A. E. F. University, Beaune, France

ThE forests of the West, although the grandest in the world, are not at all complex, for where one might find two hundred and fifty varieties of trees in some of the eastern hardwood forests, he would find but thirty-five species within the 1125 square miles of Yosemite National Park. Of these few species the conifers (cone-bearing trees) are by far the most important. They may easily be identified by the aid of the Key to the Trees in the appendix of this volume.

In the Sierra Nevada Mountains the abrupt rise from almost sea level to twelve or thirteen thousand feet causes within a few miles as great a diversity of climates as one would encounter in traveling from Mexico to Alaska. Each tree species has its own climatic requirements. We therefore find the trees Occurring in definite belts, one above the other. Those hardy pioneers which can withstand the long and intense cold of arctic winters have been driven to timberline, while the most drought-resistant species have claimed the dry foothill regions. So definite is this balance in Nature that, by observing the trees, one can estimate quite definitely the altitude at which he stands.

Entering the park from the west, one first passes through the treeless or oak-dotted San Joaquin Valley and lower foothills. In the upper foothills and lower mountains (1000 to 3000 feet altitude) is the Foothill Forest (Upper Sonoran Zone). Only a few species can withstand the severe drought of the long arid summers and these grow in open park-like stands. The one characteristic conifer of the region is the silvery gray, many-branched digger pine (Pinus sabiniana). The small knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) occurs but infrequently. Of the hardwoods, the oaks are predominant. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/trees.html[2/12/2013 10:03:58 AM] Trees of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ansel F. Hall

Among these are the valley oak (Quercus lobata), the California black oak (Q. californica), the interior live oak (Q. wislizeni), and the canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis). Along the streams. may be found several species of willow (Salix sp.), black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), mountain laurel (Umbellularia californica), and California nutmeg (Tumion californicum). The brush or chaparral which covers many of the hillsides is often interspersed with scattered specimens of mountain mahogany (Cercocarpis parvifolius).

At about three thousand feet elevation one enters the Main Timber Belt (Transition Zone) of the Sierra Nevada. This forest, which extends from three thousand to seven thousand feet altitude, is one of the finest in the world both as regards size and value of timber and perfection of its charming landscapes. At the lower elevations the first trees to greet one are the brilliantly green western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa), the fragrant incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), and

PLATE XVIII A Yosemite forest of Pine, Fir, Incense Cedar, and Sequoia Photo by A. C. Pillsbury the rugged Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia). At an altitude of about five thousand feet we find the giant sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and the beautiful white fir (Abies concolor) forming an important part of the forest family. Here and there are groves of the monarch of all trees, the giant sequoia (Sequoia gigantea). At higher elevations the Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) replaces its close relative the western yellow pine. In the lower part of the Main Timber Belt and generally on the fertile bottomlands are a few hardwoods. Most beautiful of all these is the flowering dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). Others are the broadleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), its close relative, the dwarf maple (Acer glabrum), the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), the quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), California black oak (Quercus californica), canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis), California laurel (Umbellularia californica), alder (Alnus rhombifolia), and various species of willow (Salix sp.).

Above the Main Timber Belt between the altitudes of seven thousand and nine thousand feet is the Sub-alpine Forest (Canadian Zone), a region characterized by dense forests of small or medium-size trees. The typical trees of the region are the red fir (Abies magnifica), white fir (Abies concolor), lodgepole pine or "tamarack" (Pinus contorta), and Jeffrey pine Pinus jeffreyi). On open rocky sites the western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) is conspicuous, and near the upper limit of the belt the western white pine (Pinus monticola) occurs scattered throughout the forest. The only hardwood of the region is the quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) which forms beautiful groves in some of the high mountain garden-spots.

In the Alpine or Timberline Forest (Hudsonian Zone), which extends from approximately nine thousand feet elevation to timberline, only the hardiest species can exist. The two principal trees are the graceful mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) and the storm-resistant white bark pine (Pinus albicaulis). At the lower edge of the belt these merge with red fir (Abies magnifica), western white pine (Pinus monticola) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta).

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Yosemite Valley might be called the meeting place of the trees. Although at an altitude of but four thousand feet, several species which are normally found at twice that elevation thrive in the shade of the great south wall. The opposite side of the Valley is so warm that we find many patches of vegetation typical of the foothill region. For the tree-lover and botanist the Valley is therefore an ideal vacation land, both because of the great variety of plant life within its walls and the accessibility to the high country beyond.

So much for the trees as they live together in communities—but let us now seek to know then, as individuals. Botanists have grouped all plants according to their relationship into divisions, classes, orders, families, genera, and finally species. Since some trees have as many as twenty different names, each of which is used exclusively in a different locality, it is important to state also the botanical (or universal) name. This is a combination of the names of the genus and species to which the plant belongs.

Everyone is familiar with the two broad classes of trees—the broadleaf trees or hardwoods, and the evergreen trees or conifers. The former group, although abundantly represented in Yosemite Valley,

PLATE XIX Red Fir—White Fir forest on the Pohono Trail which passes through miles of most exquisite wild flower gardens Photo by Ansel F. Hall probably forms less than one per cent. of the forests of the park. The conifers will therefore be described more in detail.

Cone-bearing trees are classified by dendrologists into three families: the Pine Family (Pinaceae), the Redwood Family (Taxodiaceae,), and the Cypress Family (Cupressaceae). Their leaves are retained from two to ten years, which causes them to be called evergreens.

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The Pine Family is by far the most important in the park—for that matter, in all the world. It contains all the pines, firs, hemlocks, and the Douglas fir and also the spruces, larches, and true cedars. The latter do not occur in the Sierra. All these trees have needle-like leaves and bear but two seeds beneath each scale of their cones.

The pines (Genus Pinus) are represented in the park by eight species, some of which may be found at any altitude. The characteristic distinguishing this from all other genera is the occurrence of the needles in bundles of five, four, three, or two (and in one species singly), the base of each bundle being surrounded by a paper-like sheath. The five-needle Pines are called the white pines and those with three needles the yellow pines.

Of the three five-needle pines of the Park, the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) is by far the most important. It is not only the largest pine in the world but also One of the most majestically beautiful. It may easily be recognized (a) by its carmine-brown flaky bark which is generally divided into long plates by longitudinal fissures, (b) by its five-needle bundles about three inches in length, and (c) by the immense cones (twelve to twenty-four inches long) which hang pendent from the tips of the long straight horizontal branches, or which may be found on the forest floor beneath. A white sugar which exudes from the heartwood when the tree is wounded gives it its common name. On the floor of the Valley are but few specimens, but a short distance up the slopes the species enters into the forest composition and grows abundantly up to about seven thousand feet elevation.

The western white pine (Pinus monticola) which forms an important part of the forests of Idaho and Montana, occurs in California—the southern part of its range—only on the higher mountain slopes, ranging in the park from 6500 to 10,000 feet elevation. The young trees with their bluish-green foliage and silvery gray bark are exceedingly symmetrical. Trees over two feet in diameter take on a more rugged appearance and their bark, which then continuously flakes off, checks into very distinctive five-sided grayish-purple plates. The tree is one of the largest in the sub-alpine forests and may be distinguished (a) by its five-needle bundles which range from two to four inches in length, (b) by its long feathery cones (length five to eight inches) which are borne in clusters at the ends of the long straight branches, and (c) by the very characteristic five-sided small plates in the bark of the older trees.

Hardiest of all Yosemite trees is the five-needled white bark pine (Pinus albicaulis). A few large specimens 2 1/2 feet in diameter and up to 30 feet in height are sometimes encountered between 9000 and 10,000 feet elevation, but the species is most evident at timberline where it forms a scattered forest of dwarf or prostrate trees. These trees, always in keeping with their bleak surroundings, are the delight of the mountaineer. In early spring the raspberry-red of the fragrant flowers, the chocolate brown or purple of the immature cones, the yellowish-green of the short leaf-tufts, and the silvery white bark of the branches and trunk contrast most harmoniously. Specimens may be identified (a) by having five short leaves per bundle (length 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches) which are tufted at the ends of the flexible branchlets, (b) by the small hard cones (about the size of a hen’s egg), and (c) by the smooth white bark.

Least important of the park’s three yellow pines is the digger pine (Pinus sabiniana) of the low dry foot-hill country. Its wide-branching habit and sparse silvery gray foliage set it apart from all other species. Most important of its distinguishing characteristics are (a) the gray-green clusters of long flexible leaves (length 8 1/2 to 12 inches) which occur three in a bundle, (b) the low-branching habit, and (c) the large heavily armed cones which generally remain on the trees.

The western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) and the Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) are so closely related that even botanists differ as to their separation. Both trees reach a large size (maximum diameter 8 to 10 feet) and are tall and symmetrical. They are exceedingly abundant within the park and form the greater part of the forests of Yosemite Valley. The rich green foliage is made up of three-needle bundles which range from 5 to 11 inches in length. The flaky bark of all older trees is distinctively divided into large Yellow plates by deep fissures. The two species grow abundantly from 3000 to 7500 feet elevation, the Western yellow pine preferring the lower altitudes and the Jeffrey pine the heights. The chief contrasts between the two species are (a) in the cones, which are 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 inches in length in the western yellow Pine and 5 1/2 to 11 1/2 inches in the Jeffrey pine, (b) in the bark which is yellowish- brown in the former and reddish-brown in the latter, and (c) in the foliage which is a deep yellow-green in the former and a dark blue-green in the latter.

The only two-needle pine of the park, the lodgepole pine or "tamarack" (Pinus contorta), forms extensive forests at

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elevations of 7000 to 9500 feet—indeed, it is so abundant as to be the one plebian tree of the High Sierra. In general the tree is not more than 2 feet in diameter and 50 feet in height, but much larger specimens may be found. The species may be distinguished (a) by its two-needle bundles which range in length from 1 to 2 1/2 inches and are generally curved, (b) by its small cones (length 3/4 to 2 1/2 inches), and (c) by its thin, flaky, purplish bark.

The only known specimen of the one leaf pinyon of nut pine (Pinus monophylla) in the park grows in Pate Valley in the gorge of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. It probably sprang from a seed carried over the mountains by the Indians from the Mono Lake region where the nuts of this small tree form an important part of the food of the natives.

Of the four American hemlocks but one species occurs in the Sierra Nevada. The mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) ventures southward from Alaska along the mountain sides, ascending higher and higher until, in Yosemite National Park, it is found only in alpine forests above 9000 feet elevation. It is universally proclaimed the most graceful tree of the mountains. The beautiful drooping tip and branches set it aside from all other conifers, and its customary

PLATE XX Western Juniper Trees at Benson Lake Photo by A. C. Pillsbury bleak surroundings only enhance its graceful charm. The tree may easily be distinguished (a) by its drooping habit, (b) by the short, petioled leaves 1/2 to 1/4 inches in length which clothe the branchlets all around, but sometimes have the appearance of being grouped in star-shaped clusters, and (c) by the small pendulous papery cones (length 1/2 to 3 inches) which adorn the ends of the branches.

The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia) is the most important timber tree in the world. In Oregon and Washington it forms great forests, but here near the southern limit of its range we find it sparsely mixed with other species of the middle altitudes. There are some splendid old specimens in the cool shade of Yosemite’s great south wall and on the talus slopes up to 6500 feet elevation. The tree is most easily recognized (a) by its medium sized pendulous cones which are two to four inches in length and have trident-shaped bracts sticking from between the scales, (b) by its drooping lower branchlets which are clothed all around with petioled leaves from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches in length, and (c) by the thick, deeply furrowed ashy brown bark.

The true firs (genus Abies) differ from all their American relatives of the Pine Family by bearing erect cones. These generally occur at the very tips of the trees, and since the scales and seeds are shed one by one and blown away by the winds, they are almost never found beneath the trees. Of our nine American firs two species inhabit the Sierra Nevada. The white fir (Abies concolor) is common at middle altitudes, ranging from 3500 to 8000 feet, while the red fir (Abies magnifica) claims the higher slopes. Both Species are beautifully symmetrical with erect, narrow, dense, spire-like crowns and delicate regularly whorled branches. All firs are lovers of shade and therefore grow in dense stands http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/trees.html[2/12/2013 10:03:58 AM] Trees of Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ansel F. Hall

crowding out the less tolerant species. The white fir may be identified (a) by the leaves, which are 1 to 2 inches long, without leaf stalks, and flattened or two-ranked on the lower branchlets, (b) by the bark which in the younger trees is white and bears balsam blisters and in the older trees is deeply furrowed, corky, and ashy gray in color, (c) by the cones which are 3 to 5 inches in length and borne erect near the tops of the trees, and (d) by the habitat, the tree generally occurring at middle altitudes as an associate of yellow and sugar pines. The red fir (Abies magnifica) may be identified (a) by its short needles 3/4 to 1 inch in length which generally curl upward on the branchlets, (b) by the bark which in the young trees is silvery gray but in middle aged and older trees is a deep carmine-red and divided into small plates, (c) by the large cones 6 to 8 inches in length, which are borne near the tips of the trees and generally have bracts sticking from between the scales, and (d) by the altitude, the tree generally occurring between 7500 and 9500 feet elevation.

The Redwood Family (Taxodiaceae) is represented in the United States by only three species and in Yosemite National Park by a single species, the giant sequoia (Sequoia gigantea). This tree, widely famed as the oldest and largest living thing, occurs in but twenty-six groves which are all found in the middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada from the vicinity of Lake Tahoe on the north to the region about Kings River Canyon on the south. There are three groves in the park, the nearest to Yosemite being 17.2 wiles distant. The following chapter is entirely devoted to the habits and history of this most wonderful tree. In its natural habitat the tree is seldom confused with any of its associates. Among its distinguishing characteristics are (a) the massive clear trunks with their cinnamon- or chocolate- brown fibrous bark, (b) the closely overlapped leaves which are awl-like on the lower part of the tree and scale-like near the top, and (e) the brilliant brown cones which vary in length from 1 1/2 to 3 inches.

The members of the Cypress Family (Cupressaceae), in which are the many so-called American cedars, all have scale- like leaves and stringy fibrous bark. Two Yosemite trees belong to this family. The incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) is one of the most abundant trees in the Valley and on the talus slopes above. The vivid green of its perfectly formed crown contrasted with its fluted brown trunk make it a constant object of admiration. Chief among the distinguishing characteristics are (a) the flat sprays which are made up of scalelike leaves, the bases of which are closely adherent to the branchlets, (b) the small cones which range from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches in length and are made up of five (apparently three) scales, and (c) the golden- or cinnamon-brown fibrous bark.

The western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) is an inhabitant of the upper slopes and is generally found above the Valley rim on exposed rocky sites where its gnarled form picturesquely decorates the bare granite pavements. Scattered specimens may be found struggling upward in most unhospitable places almost to timberline. The characteristics which easily identify the species are (a) its gnarled form, (b) its thin, stringy, light cinnamon-brown bark, (c) its tiny scale-like leaves which are arranged in whorls of three around the branchlets and are closely pressed to the twigs, and (d) its fruit which is a small blue berry with a sweetish, pungent, aromatic taste. The berries are really modified cones.

A most interesting little evergreen is the California nutmeg (Tumion californicum), a close relative to the conifers. A few specimens may be found in the canyon of the Merced below Cascade Falls. The sharp-pointed needle-like leaves which range in length from 1 to 2 inches are flattened in two ranks along the branchlets and omit a very characteristic pungent odor when bruised. The fleshy fruits average about 1 1/2 inches in length and have a hard-shelled kernel which, when dried, looks much like the nutmeg of commerce.

The broad-leaved trees of the park are of comparatively little importance—far less so than would appear from a casual inspection of the oak-dotted floor of Yosemite Valley. These deciduous trees grow at the lower elevations and prefer the rich bottomlands and moist stream margins. The oaks are predominant. In the hot foothills is the valley white oak (Quercus lobata) which, in the region about El Portal is replaced by the Caldomia black oak (Quercus californica), gigantic specimens of which may be seen throughout the canyon of the Merced and in Yosemite Valley. The latter may be distinguished by its large leaves, the deep lobes of which are sharply pointed, and by the dark bark which is deeply checked into small plates. The talus slopes above the Valley floor are the favorite habitat of the canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) which may be distinguished by its whitish bark and by its small entire and toothed leaves on the same twigs, the old leaves being lead color beneath,

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PLATE XXI Mountain Hemlocks on the rim of Matterhorn Canyon Photo by Walter L. Huber arid the young leaves yellow powdery beneath. Above 5000 feet one commonly finds the dwarf huckleberry oak (Quercus vaccinifolia), a shrub 4 to 8 feet high which much resembles the canyon live oak.

Another common tree of the talus slopes is the California laurel or "bay" (Umbellularia californica). The evergreen, smooth, shiny leaves have a most agreeable camphoric-pungent odor when crushed, and are dried and used for spice. The yellow flowers of early spring develop into olive-like fruits which mature in autumn.

Along the streams, especially within the Valley, are a number of moisture-loving species. Of these the tree which excites the most admiration is the flowering dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). In early spring the showy white flowers (really modified flower-bud scales) appear even before the leaves and often completely cover the crown. In autumn the clusters of bright red fruit and brilliant red, orange, and yellow foliage make it the most beautifully colored of all Yosemite trees. The broadleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) is abundant in moist shady spots, especially in the shadow of the great south wall of the Valley and in the deep canyon of the Merced at its head. The dwarf maple (Acer glabrum) has been reported from Yosemite but is very rare. The alder (Alnus rhombifolia) is never found far from water. It may easily be identified by its rather coarsely veined, toothed leaves and by the peculiar little cones which are retained on the trees after the seeds are shed. Twelve species of willow occur within the park but all except the yellow and black willows (Salix lasiandra and S. nigra) are shrubs. The black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) is the largest of our poplars. It is a common tree of the moist bottomlands of middle elevations and may be distinguished by its yellowish white bark and by its thick leathery leaves which are deep shiny green above and silvery white beneath.

The little quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is one of the most lovable of all mountain trees. When unexpectedly found in meadows and garden spots of the High Sierra it is always an object of delight. The small delta-shaped leaves which are yellow-green above and silvery beneath are so fastened to their twigs that they tremble with the least breeze. This characteristic, together with the smooth, white bark make it impossible to confuse the tree with any other species.

The mountain mahogany (Cercocarpis parvifolius) is a small tree of the foothill region. Being generally found in the chaparral areas it enters the park only in the lower reaches of the great canyons. Specimens may be taken in the region about El Portal.

By using the Key to the Conifers presented in the Appendix of this volume one may easily identify any evergreen in the park.

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Hill, C. L., 1916. Forests of Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grand National Parks. U. S. Dept. of the Interior, 39 pp., 22 illus.

JEpson, W. L., 1909. Trees of California. (Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, San Francisco) 228 pp., 117 figs., illus., pls. 1910. Silva of California. (University Press, Berkeley) 480 pp., 85 pls., illus.

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THE GIANT SEQUOIA

By WIllIs LInn JEpsOn

Professor of Botany, University of California

ThE Big Tree or Sequoia gigantea is one of the most charmingly attractive features of Yosemite National Park. This most wonderful and most lovable of all tree species occurs in scattered communities or "groves" on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains between the elevations of 4600 and 8000 feet.

Of the twenty-six groves, the northernmost, near Lake Tahoe, contains but six trees. Further southward the species becomes more and more abundant until, in the region near the Kings and Kern Rivers, great forests are formed. The largest and most famous of these is the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.

Within Yosemite National Park are three groves. The Tuolumne Grove, about 1 1/2 miles west of Crane Flat on the Big Oak Flat Road, contains 40 trees Which occur at about 5800 feet elevation. The Merced Grove, about 3 miles east of Hazel Green, contains 33 trees and is traversed by the Coulterville Road to Yosemite at an altitude of 5500 feet. The Mariposa Grove 4 miles southeast of Wawona on the mountain heights above the South Fork of the Merced River contains 490 mature trees.

This latter grove is in a number of respects the most remarkable of all clusters of the Big Trees which occur in the society called the "grove." It really consists of two almost distinct groups of trees, the upper grove of 364 trees at an altitude of 7000 feet, and the lower grove of 126 trees at an elevation of 5400 feet. The road first enters the lower

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grove, passing between the Four Sentinel trees, with the fifth, the Sergeant of the Guard, standing a little apart. Soon a cluster of large Sequoias comes into view. Among these, prostrate, lies the Father of the Forest along whose trunk a six-horse stage has been driven and at one time a whole troop of cavalry lined up in formation.

The road winds upward and tunnels directly beneath the base of the Wawona Tree through a passage sufficiently large for the largest of old-time stage coaches and modern auto-busses. Beyond this point is the Alabama Tree which is considered the most perfect and symmetrical tree in the grove. After passing many individuals which ennoble the forest by their commanding size, the roads of the grove finally center at the Big Tree Cabin which is set amid a cluster of truly magnificent specimens of this wonderful race of forest giants. All of these trees have been individualized with favorite names, such as Ohio, Massachusetts, General Lafayette, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Galen Clark, and many more. The Old Guard consists of four very fine trees in a row. The four trees of the Diamond Group are so disposed that they form the corners of a diamond. About ninety-eight trees of the upper grove and thirteen of those in the lower grove have received names.

The dimensions in feet of a number of the more remarkable trees of the Mariposa Grove as given by

PLATE XXII Big Tree Cabin in the Mariposa Grove. The cabin was built around 1860 by Galen Clark Photo by A. C. Pillsbury the Department of the Interior "Circular of General Information regarding Yosemite National Park" for 1919 are shown in the following table:

Tree Height Diam. at 10 ft. Diam. at Base Mark Twain 331 13.0 16.9 Capt. A. E. Wood 310 12.7 16.5 Columbia 294 16.5 25.6 South Carolina 264 17.3 23.5 Washington 235 20.7 29.3 Forest Queen 219 12.1 17.0 Grizzly Giant 204 20.5 29.6

The height of the Big Tree commonly averages from 125 to 225 feet, but trees in excess of these figures are well known. The best authenticated of recent figures of the extreme heights of known trees are those for the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park which is 279.9 feet high and for the Dalton Tree in the Muir Grove which is 292 feet high. These appear to be extreme figures for trees in the forests of the southern Sierra Nevada. The Columbia

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Tree in the Mariposa Grove is 294 feet high and the Mark Twain Tree is said to be 331 feet high, a figure in excess of any measurements hitherto given which have been made by presumably accurate methods.

Height is a matter which can be determined with fair degree of accuracy and when determined is not variable. Diameter, on the other hand, is not so definitely determinable. Diameters at the ground do not, in many cases, give significant or proportionate values to the trunks for the reason that the Big Trees Often swell excessively at the base. The writer has found by actual measurement that the diameter at the base in certain cases is twice that at ten feet above the ground. The only figures valid for purposes of comparison must therefore be taken sufficiently above the ground to minimize the error due to this factor. As so many people have a natural interest in the largest known diameters there are here given the diameters of the four most famous trees:

It must here be emphasized, however, that characteristically the taper is very slight. Indeed, all observers unite in agreeing that the outstanding feature of the Big Tree, more remarkable and impressive than any other, is the columnar character of its trunk. The great height of the clear column and the manner in which it maintains its diameter upward from the ground to the crown are most extraordinary.

In the matter of longevity the Big Tree is undoubtedly edly the oldest living thing on the planet. Its age varies from 900 to 2100 years and in not a few cases it probably attains to an age of 3000 years. The age of one tree logged in the Converse Basin has been determined with closely approximate accuracy as 3148 years. This is the oldest tree of which we have any definite record.

Standing in rhapsodical admiration before a Sequoia gigantea one can easily imagine it to be 5000 or 10,000 years of age. The figure eight thousand years has been placed on the Grizzly Giant at the instance of a distinguished authority on fishes. As a matter of fact no one knows the age of the Grizzly Giant as there is no satisfactory way of determining its age except by cutting it down. A small core could be taken from its trunk by a special tool, but this means might not prove satisfactory, and such mutilation is not likely to be permitted. There is no way of determining the age of a particular individual merely by means of the diameter. From various age studies I have found, on the average, about 20 years to the inch. The Father of the Forest in the Calaveras Grove has a diameter of 27 feet inside the bark at about 8 feet above the ground. Its calculated age would therefore be 6480 years. When cut down its age was determined to be about 1300 years. In the Converse basin the writer determined the age of a tree 11 feet 7 1/2 inches in diameter to be 2019 years. The ring count was accurate within a possible error of only 10 or 15 years in either direction. Another tree 24 feet in diameter, twice the diameter of the first, was only 1346 years old—a little over half the age of the first. Trees of various species often take on an appearance of great age when comparatively young, due to storm, wind, disease, or under-nutrition. Senility or its appearance is not always a matter of years, and attempts to assign a longevity of four thousand years or more to the Big Tree rest on no substantial basis.

The age of individual Big Trees, however imposing their life, should not be confused with the age of the Sequoia race. The Big Tree is descended from pine-like ancestors, and the Pine Family itself and its allies are very much older racially than the Redwood Family to which the Big Tree belongs. The morphology of the flowers and cones of a pine, not to speak of the presence of resin, indicate a family very much older than the Redwood Family. Measured in terms of history of life upon this earth, the species of Sequoia are recent; they are relatively modem compared with the pines, firs, and spruces, and their allies—indeed, they are the merest parvenues.

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In another sense they have a highly dignified ancestry and represent a race of trees which were once more numerous upon the surface of the earth than at present. During the Miocene age of the Tertiary period many species of Sequoia were distributed over the northern hemisphere and perhaps also occurred in the southern hemisphere. At any rate the remains of Sequoia species have been observed in the rocks of Austria, France, England, western Asia, Spitzbergen, at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, British Columbia, Yellowstone Park, Oregon, and many other stations. They undoubtedly formed very extensive forests during the Miocene period. It is supposed that during one of the glacial ages all the species became extinct excepting the two which are now living in California, viz., the Big Tree of the Sierras (Sequoia gigantea) and the Redwood of the Californian Coast Ranges (Sequoia sempervirens).

Of these two species the Big Tree grows to a much more colossal size. It begins as a young tree with the pyramidal outline of an arbor-vitae, its trunk clothed with branches to the ground and its crown tapering to a cone-like apex. After it attains to the age of two or three hundred years it becomes a tree 75 to 125 feet high, and begins to prune its trunk of branches from the ground upwards. As it goes into the adult period, the crown continues to move upward and a clear shaft results which is 100 to 150 feet or more up to the first limb and clothed with a deeply furrowed fibrous red bark which is very non-inflammable.

The Sierran forest is typically a fire forest; that is to say, all the tree species have shown reaction in structure or life history to long continued fires which have undoubtedly run over California woodlands for many thousands of years and perhaps for a longer period. The trunks of the pines, firs, and cedars have become encased in exceedingly thickened bark which is undoubtedly a very effective protection to the vital cambium layer which lays between the bark and the wood and provides for the tree’s increase in thickness. The bark of these trees, on the other hand, contains more or less resin which increases the fire hazard.

In the case of the Big Tree, however, there is practically no resin in the whole trunk. Resin is found not at all in the tree except in microscopic quantities in the first annual layer of wood, in the leaves, and in the staminate catkins. The bark is quite free from resin except for its possible occurrence in case of mutilation, and by its peculiar fibrous nature forms an almost asbestos-like covering to the trunk. This bark is a beautiful red-brown or cinnamon color six to twelve inches thick. It often attains a greater thickness, and bark two feet through is actually known. Fires burn through this heavy layer of bark very slowly, and it is only after repeated conflagrations that the Forest Fiend obtains entrance to the woody layers. Even then progress is slow because the wood is non-resinous and burns slowly. Nearly all mature trees or trees past maturity show signs of fire ravage, although in many cases the attack has been negligible.

As the tree grows on past maturity it eventually begins to die in the top. This may be the result of the gradual exhaustion of its food supply or it may be due to years of deficient seasonal rainfall. It is possible that the tops of Sequoias may be killed by lightning, but we know of no direct evidence to this effect. We certainly have no record of a Sequoia tree ever having been killed by lightning, although pines, firs, and other trees of the Sierran forests are frequently killed or completely shattered. Probably all old trees of Sequoia gigantea have been struck by lightning; certainly very many of them within the period of the white man’s observation.

One of the most remarkable of forest experiences is to see at night a fire burning 150 or 200 feet in the air in the very tip-top of a great Sequoia tree. Such fires are set by lightning. On account of their inaccessibility and their tendency to throw off live sparks, they are a great source of worry to the forest ranger who can do nothing but camp in the neighborhood until the fire burns itself out or is extinguished by a propitious rainfall.

The cone of the Big Tree is two to three inches long and bears two hundred to three hundred seeds, about twenty-five per cent. of which are viable. It is quite common to hear tourists marvel at the ridiculously small size of the cone borne by so gigantic a tree, but the complacent tourist may well be thankful that the size of the cone does not correspond to the size of the tree beneath which he stands with admiring gaze.

In some of the rhapsodies which have been spoken

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PLATE XXIII Typical forest in the Mariposa Grove. Left to right, Sugar Pine, Red Fir, Incense Cedar, Sequoia, young Sugar Pine, group of Firs, and Sequoia. The ground is covered with Sugar Pine Cones Photo by A. C. Pillsbury or written about the Sequoia gigantea, it is the habit to speak of this tree as passing out, as a relic, as making its last stand upon the western flanks of the Sierra Nevada, and as being a decadent survival. In a sense it is a survival but it is a most lusty and vigorous survival. No other tree grows to so great a size; no other tree has such longevity; and no other coniferous tree has such resistance to disease except its cousin the Redwood of the Coast. In open spaces in the forest, seedlings appear in great numbers, especially in the southern part of the range of the species. Here they often form weedy thickets through which it is impossible to force one’s way. In the southern Sierra Nevada the Big Tree forms extensive forests, and is often the dominant tree in its areas of best development. The species is so abundant that it has been lumbered on an extensive scale and many millions of board feet of lumber from the Big Tree have been put on the market and sold as Redwood.

The appearance of the wood does not differ very much from that of the well-known Coast Redwood. It is much the same color, texture, and weight. The difference in strength can well be illustrated by observation that in Tulare County vineyards, grapevine stakes made from Big Tree wood are two inches square, while in Napa Valley vineyards, similar stakes made from Redwood are about one inch square. Redwood resists a far greater lateral strain than the Big Tree wood. The latter has a tendency to fracture transversely When split, whereas the Redwood splits cleanly throughout. One sometimes sees in the beds of Sierran rivers huge but short logs which are broken off squarely at the ends. These great leviathans have been weathered by successive floods and are often smoothed by rolling from side to side of the canyon wall. They are fractured segments of the trunks of the great giants of the Sierra. In the Big Tree, the Sugar Pine, the Yellow Pine. the Red and White Firs, and the Incense Cedar we have in this Yosemite region the finest and most remarkable group of conifers in the world. They serve to give the park an interest and charm which highly gratifies our aesthetic sense and stirs deeply our imagination regarding this earth upon which we live. The Big Tree and the Yellow Pine would be fit tenants for Paradise, and this region is Paradise enow.

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REFERENCES

ChasE, J. S., 1911. Yosemite Trails.. (Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston) pp. 1-354, 16 illus., 1 map.

DUdlEy, W. R., and others. 1900. A Short Account of the Trees of California. U. S. Dept. of Agric., Div. Forestry Bull. 28, 30 pp., 17 pls.

HUtchIngs, J. M., 1888. In the Heart of the Sierras. (Pacific Press, Oakland) 496 pp., about 200 woodcuts, photo-plate and maps. The Big Trees on pp. 216-232 & 241-247. Ill.

JEpsOn, W. L., 1909. Trees of California. (Potter Bros., S. F.), 288 pp., 117 figs., illus., pls., The Big Trees on pp. 101- 106. 1910. Silva of California. (Univ. Press, Berkeley) 480 pp., 85 pls., illus., The Big Tree on pp. 58, 139-147.

KEllOgg, A., 1882. Forest Trees of California. Second Report of the State Mineralogist of California, App. 1, pp. 1- 148. The Big Tree on pp. 21-24.

MUIr, JOhn, 1894. The Mountains of California. (The Century Co., N. Y.) 382 pp., illus., The Big Tree on pp. 179-200.

ShInn, Chas. H., 1889. "The Big Tree." Garden and Forest, 2: 614-615.

SUdwOrth, G. B., 1908. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope. Dept. Agric. Div. Forestry, Bull., pp. 441, maps. illus., The Big Tree on pp. 139- 145.

WIllIamsOn, R. S., 1857. The Mammoth Trees of California. Pacific Railroad Report, 5: 257-259.

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Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Willis Linn Jepson

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FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1

By WIllIs LInn JEpsOn

Professor of Botany, University of California

1Based upon the botany series of the LeConte Memorial Lectures delivered by Dr. Jepson in Yosemite, June, 1918. Pages 253, 258, 259, and 260 were, under Dr. Jepson’s direction, either written or expanded by me. This paper was also used by me for reference in preparing my article in the Sierra Club Bulletin for January, 1921, but credit for the portions on the Snow Plant and one or two other species was inadvertently omitted.

ElIZAbEth VAn E. FERgUsOn, Research Assistant.

YOsEmItE NAtIOnAl PARK offers a remarkably rich field for the botanist. The same factors which determine the great diversity of animal life influence to a much greater degree the species and forms of plant life. Some plants have become highly specialized to endure the many months of drought in the semi-arid foothills, while others have developed a hardiness which enables them to exist in the bleak reaches above timberline. Even in the middle regions where optimum conditions attain, the exhuberant abundance of wild blossoms changes in character with each change of site; each species seems to have its own niche, whether it be in swamp, on fertile hillside, or on desiccated granite barrens. Indeed, so great is the range of natural conditions to be encountered in the park between the foothills and the mountain glaciers that there are no less than twelve hundred species and varieties of flowering plants and ferns native to this area. While most of these are typical of the entire Sierra Nevada, many are exceedingly rare, and a few species are only known from small areas within the park.

By whichever route the traveler enters Yosemite, he will pass through the shrub formation known by the Spanish name chaparral. So densely does this society, clothe its area in the Upper Sonoran or Foothill Zone that it is often impossible to force one’s way through it. The various shrubs which go to form this close cover are of much the same

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stature and aspect, and form a remarkably uniform population on exceedingly dry and well-drained slopes. The excessive drought, the high summer temperature, and the rocky or gravelly nature of the soil are the chief factors which have caused these various chaparral shrubs to develop many characteristics in common; of these the most striking are their dwarf habit, reduced leaf surface, small flowers, hard close-grained wood, and rigid thorny branchlets. It is only superficially, however, that these shrubs are alike. They are derived not from one family, nor two, nor three, but represent the pioneer spirit in many different stocks which have successfully met the conditions imposed by Nature in the chaparral area.

One of the most important and abundant of these shrubs is Buck Brush (Ceanothus cuneatus), a gray bush five to eight feet high with tough thorny branchlets, opposite leaves, and hard close-grained wood. It is everywhere abundant, and its short blunt spurs make it a terror of the cattlemen riding the range. The small white flowers are in themselves insignificant but a profuse production of small honey-scented clusters

PLATE XXIV Washington Lily (Lilium Washingtonianum) A fine species which fills the Yellow Pine forest with a delightful fragrance Photo by A. C. Pillsbury causes the shrubs for a time to take on a delicate hue. An allied species is the Jack Brush (Ceanothus divaricatus), with longer flower clusters and alternate leaves, which occurs in the canyon of the Merced nearer the Valley. All species of Ceanothus are commonly though incorrectly known as "California Lilac."

In approaching the Valley from El Portal, if early enough in the year, one will be rewarded with the sight of that unusual glory, the Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Before the foliage even hints at showing its tender green leaves the tree is shrouded in a cloud of red blossoms. It belongs to the Pea Family and in summer its branches are heavily hung with purplish pods. Along the streams at the same altitudes is the Wine Bush or Sweet Shrub (Calycanthus occidentalis), a bush with large opposite leaves, aromatic flowers, and red-brown sepals and petals which are borne on a cuplike base. Farther up the canyon of the Merced one of the most pleasing sights in early summer is the

Philadelphus (P. lewisii var. californicus) which is similar to the Syringa of Eastern gardens. It forms fragrant thickets along the stream banks and because of its somewhat orange-like flowers is often called Mock Orange. It is perhaps rivaled by its associate, the Bladdernut (Staphylea Bolanderi) which grows in the canyons of the foothills, especially above El Portal near Pulpit Rock. The Bladdernut has its leaflets in threes and covers itself with white drooping flower clusters which later develop into curious bladder-like three-horned seed pods. It was first collected in 1874 by Dr. Henry N. Bolander, one of the early botanical explorers of the Yosemite region.

Everywhere the shrubs lend interest and charm to the Mountain sides and the open forest floors or valley levels. Foremost among these stands the Deer Brush (Ceanothus integerrimus) with its tall slender stems, scattered foliage, thin leaves, and abundant masses of delicate white blossoms. The foliage of this bush is eaten by the deer and it is also an important browse for cattle. Chemical analysis indicates that its leaves have a higher nutritive value than those of any other native shrub. It is when the Deer Brush is in bloom, however, that it most attracts the eye of the traveler. The thickets with their dainty plumelike flower-clusters borne aloft on slender branchlets form a billowy mass of white over considerable forest areas. A less common species is a close relative, the Sweet Birch (Ceanothus parvifolius), which is found in the Mariposa Grove, about Chinquapin, in the vicinity of Grouse Creek, and at similar altitudes. It inhabits open spots in the forest where its stems spread out and form the root crown in a somewhat wheel-like fashion. Its diminutive shiny leaves and small clusters of flowers in delicate shades of blue make it an attractive asset of the forest floor.

As the traveler enters the Valley his views of the Merced River will often be enhanced by the abundant bloom of the Western Azalea (Rhododendron occidentale) as it contests for a place among the willow thickets. In June or July its sweet fragrance charms one to follow the stream and see its beauties. often the great flower-clusters nod to the stream and almost dip their delicate orange and white petals into the swiftly running water.

But it is the Valley floor with its riotous wealth, of color which in favorable seasons shows best the variety of the native vegetation. In late spring or early summer the meadows are carpeted with great masses of bright flowering annuals and taller brilliant perennials. The delicate Canchalangua (Erythraea venusta) with its showy clusters of bright pink flowers; the taller Collomia (Gilia grandiflora) with its dense heads of dainty funnelform flowers, cream to almost salmon in colour; many patches of golden Mimulus or Monkey Flower; countless blue flowers, such as the light blue Pentstemon (P. confertus) with its flowers in whorls on tall stems; tall blue "Forget-me-nots" (Lappula velutina); tiny dark blue Collinsia (C. parviflora) and the larger almost white Collinsia, tinctoria; the red Indian Paint Brush (Castilleia miniata); the brilliant scarlet Pentstemon (P. bridgesii) with lance-shaped leaves and funnelform corolla about one inch long; and quantities of golden Buttercups (Ranunculus occidentalis var. eisenii), all go to form the brilliant mosaic of large sheets and pools of color on the Valley levels.

At altitudes of 3600 to 5000 feet, after the shallow springtime pools have evaporated, these areas become midsummer beauty spots with a thick growth of Downingia montana. This is a little Lobelia with delicate jewel-like blossoms, the upper lip very small with two minute lavender lobes, the lower lip of three broad-spreading lobes, white at the throat, and with a bright blue border. A mass of these dainty blue flowers is the loveliest sight imaginable and may be seen in Hetch Hetchy Valley and on the Hog Ranch Road to Crocker’s Station.

One of the plants found in Yosemite Valley and at similar altitudes which receives especial attention from the traveler is the Bleeding Heart (Dicentra, formosa) Its leaves are finely cut and its flowers are pendulous in clusters from the summit of the stem. The flower itself is flattened, of a rose-purple color, and about three fourths of an inch long.

Another striking plant of moist or swampy places is the Scarlet Monkey Flower (Mimulus cardinalis). The rich green foliage, soft with hairs, makes a beautiful setting for the large brilliant flowers. These gorgeous plants may be seen in several places in the Valley, usually by streams or near the bases of the waterfalls.

One of the remarkable sights of the upper reaches of the Valley in midsummer are the fields of tall yellow Evening Primroses (Oenothera biennis). They have very handsome large golden flowers which open at twilight and close again in the middle of the following day. In favorable seasons the dry open fields about Yosemite are often yellow with these stately plants. Many of the finest groups, however, are now a thing of the past, due to the mowing of the meadows for wild hay.

In the edges of brushy thickets one finds the Wild Ginger (Asarum Hartwegi) with its broad mottled leaves and its curious purple flowers close against the ground. It is one of the most singular plant inhabitants of the Valley floor and is always worth searching for in May and June.

In dry spots near the Yosemite Black Oaks, the Sierra Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) develops its bunches of highly specialized pink or reddish-purple flowers above its white hoary leaves and is a most interesting plant on account of its habit of catching and imprisoning flies.

Along the roads one may see in May or June the White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus). This is one of the handsomest of all Mariposas and is remarkable for its range of color. Along the Wawona Road one form has deep wine-red petals which are darker toward the middle and are crossed below by a broad yellow band; still other plants, the more usual form, are nearly white with a dark brown eye surrounded by yellowish shadings.

The Lily Family is well represented by many other interesting species. The Tiger or Leopard Lily (Lilium pardalinum) occurs in such places as Bridalveil Meadows where as many as twenty-eight flowers have been counted on a single plant. The Little Tiger Lily (Lilium parvum) has flowers about half as large and grows in moist meadows at higher elevations.

On the walls of the Valley are several rarities, one of them being the Cliff Buttercup (Ranunculus hystriculus). Its sepals are white and petal-like and the petals, which are small and inconspicuous, are developed as spoon-shaped nectaries. The whole flower looks more like an anemone than a buttercup and has a great historical interest as it is in reality one of the most ancient of flowering plants. It grows on cliffs and ledges where it is reached by the spray from Yosemite Falls, Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls, and other cataracts about the Valley. It is as delicately beautiful as it is rare.

Leaving the Valley and passing into the main pine belt (Transition Zone) one finds many interesting plants. Here the Deer Brush and Manzanitas cover great areas. A very abundant plant is the Mountain Misery (Chambaetia foliolosa). There is no mistaking it. The strawberry-like flowers (which it comes by honestly since it is a member of the Rose Family) and the fernlike foliage mark it distinctively. The woody stems grow six inches to two feet high and colonize, almost to the exclusion of other herbs, miles and miles of the open slopes and flats beneath the Pines in the Yellow Pine belt. It is sometimes called Bear Clover or Tar Brush, but the true folk name, Mountain Misery, is a better term, for it comes right from the soil and is born of the daily work and experience of the mountain rancher. He cannot trail his animals through it, for they leave little or no track in this growth; the foliage has a tarry secretion which gums up his clothing; and the herbage is offensive to his cattle and so it is useless as a fodder plant. To the mountain rancher, then, this herb is the last word in expression of the day’s discontent and inadequacy. To many a mountain-lover, however, its spicy odor suggests the many drowsy sunny days spent beneath the pines.

Beneath the Yellow Pines on the road from Yosemite to Wawona the Tuolumne and Merced Big Tree Groves the ground is often covered with the green carpet of the Mahala Mats, a species of Ceanothus. It has small clusters of blue flowers, leaves spiny at the tips, and distinct horns on the seed pods. The mats are closely grown and, while irregular in shape, often become five to fifteen feet broad.

Of all rarities in the park no other plant excites so much popular interest, perhaps, as the Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea). It is a very Mephistopheles amongst plants, and its dazzling red color has exercised a strange and almost weird fascination upon the popular mind. The whole plant—flowers, bracts, and stems alike—is of a bloody red hue. It springs up from the leafy mold of the forest floor, and (as the police judge would say) is without obvious means of support, since it has no chlorophyll, no green leaves, to manufacture its own food as most other plants must

PLATE XXV Red Heather Evening Primrose Indian Paint Brush (Bryanthus Breweri) (Oenothera biennis) (Castilleia miniata)

Photos by A. C. Pillsbury do. While called a parasite it is not such and does not draw its sustenance from the living tissues of another plant. It is a saprophyte—that is, it lives on dead and decaying vegetable matter. Its stems rise from an underground, very much involved, interlaced, and compact mass of coralline roots which gather up its food materials. One, two, three, or four stems rise from this root mass, or sometimes a cluster of a dozen. The writer has even found as many as sixteen. The Snow Plant ha’s not anything to do with snow any more than many other Sierra plants which come up after the snow or snow banks have disappeared. Probably the Snow Plant has never been seen rising from winter snow. After the stems start up through the layer of pine needles or forest mold and after the stem is once above the ground, a light snowfall may come and the blood-red stems may thus appear to have risen through this virgin snowfall. In this way, most likely, the name Snow Plant originated. A near relative is the Pine Drops (Pterospora andromedea), a red-brown plant with a slender stem one to two feet high which is commonly found beneath the Yellow Pines.

One of the great rarities of this region is a species of Lewisia (Lewisia yosemitiana) which grows in the granite sand on top of the domes about Yosemite and nowhere else in the world. The white flowers rise from underground roots and open out on the sand like stars set in the very crowns of the domes. These plants are very delicate as well as very rare and should never be disturbed, since they will fall to pieces in one’s hand if dug up from the place where they grow, as if in resentment at man’s interference with them. They, however, are well worth seeking for field study by lovers of rare plant life.

In dry open swales of the great Yellow Pine Forest one comes upon the tall stalks (four to six feet high) of a great white lily bearing sometimes ten or fifteen flowers, which now is called the Washington Lily (Lilium Washingtonianum) although that pioneer botanist, Dr. Kellogg, distinctly named it the Lady Washington Lily, after Martha Washington, the first lady of the land, as he said.

On sandy pine barrens great areas may be crimsoned with little Mimulus (M. torreyi and M. bolanderi). Here also Pussy’s Paws (Calyptridium umbellatum) often add to the pink or red carpet of the forest floor. The stems radiate from a central rosette of leaves which lie flat on the ground and bear at the ends an involved soft mass of flowers, forming a cluster which whitens with age and suggests the common name by which the plant is known. In sunny spots the tall scarlet Gilia (G. aggregata) form brilliant patches which greatly attract the humming-birds in their search for hidden sweets. Its corollas are tubular and about an inch and a half long, the exserted stamens inserted in the notches between the lanceolate lobes. Still other areas are blue with other Gilias such as G. leptalea, the flowers of Which are about one half inch long.

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(Calochortus Nuttallii), its almost white, flowers bearing an inky spot about the gland at the base of the petals. At slightly higher altitudes may be found the tiny Sierra Pussy’s Ears (Calochortus nudus) with its small white hairy petals.

Sandy areas will often be clouded by the delicate little white flowered Eriogonum (E. spergulinum). It is a dainty little annual with small white flowers borne on hairlike stalks which give it a very airy and fragile appearance. It has somewhat the appearance of the Baby’s Breath of our gardens and is in places so abundant that it forms a great Milky Way through the forest which is as beautiful by moonlight as by day. Another delicate white flowering herb with a diffusely branching flower cluster is the Silver Tails (Potentilla santolinoides). This may be easily recognized by its peculiar caterpillar-like leaves which form a silvery rosette at the base.

Rocky or gravelly slopes are often resplendent with lovely hanging gardens of Pride of the Mountains (Pentstemon menziesii). This brave plant grows in the most unhospitable places but developes into a tall and bushy plant with ovate finely toothed leaves and beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers which are reddish in color. Wherever this Pentstemon appears it is indeed the Pride of the Mountains, blooming profusely as it does in the midst of rocky barrens.

The high mountain meadows above Yosemite are frequently wonderful wild gardens. In one of those meadows it was once the author’s good fortune to see fully twenty thousand plants of the Jeffrey Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon Jeffreyi) in full bloom. This is a Plant which resembles the Cyclamen of our gardens. Among the Shooting Stars one often finds the feathery White flowers of Polygonum (P. bistortoides); the slender stems are very erect and bear at the summit a close Mass of small white flowers which at a distance look like neat white flags. A meadow full of Shooting Stars and this white Polygonum has the appearance of a fresh and orderly mountain garden. The stream which usually meanders through these rich meadows is often lined with clumps of the Labrador Tea (Ledum glandulosum). This is an evergreen shrub with shiny oval leaves which, due to the resin which they contain, are peculiarly fragrant when crushed. The white flowers are grouped at the ends of the branches in flat-topped clusters. By the stream bed one may often find lovely robust plants of the large Pink Monkey Flower (Mimulus Lewisii) which replaces the scarlet species of the Yosemite and lower valleys. The flowers are showy light pink, and plainly two-lipped but the two lips are similar. In these swamps grow the quaint Elephant Heads (Pedicularis attollens) with its slender rose-pink spikes. The name Elephant Heads arises from the peculiar corolla with its hooded upper lip prolonged into a curved beak or proboscis. Associated with the foregoing one finds the blue Pentstemon (P. confertus) which is not so tall nor so many flowered as that at lower altitudes. Often a marshy stretch may be covered with the pale creamy cups of the Marsh Matigold (Caltha biflora).

The different meadows often vary greatly in their plant composition. On the one hand one may see meadows filled with flowers which grow higher than the waist and so thickly that it is impossible to step without-treading down many plants. There are Rein Orchis (Habenaria unalaschensis) with long tresses of small white flowers; many species of Lupins, the largest and most attractive of which bears great masses of showy blue spikes (Lupinus longipes); the great yellow Cone flower (Rudbeckia californica) standing shoulder high and ending in a single conical head; the purple Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) which raises its long wands to the breeze; and the curious

PLATE XXVI The Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguines) This remarkable plant, which is entirely fire-red, is one of the most curious species in the Park Photo by A. C. Pillsbury Corn Lily (Veratrum californicum) which adds its characteristic large-leafed clumps and stout cornlike stems to the meadow population, recalling in its appearance the Eastern False Hellebore. Instead of these rank growing meadows one may see a close carpet of green painted here and there with brilliant patches of crimson, gold, and pale lavender. The crimson on closer observation proves to be the bright crimson Paint Brush (Castilleja Culbertsonii), the gold a Potentilla (P. gordoni), and the lavender the Mountain Daisy (Erigeron compositus).

A common shrub at altitudes of five thousand to eight thousand feet is the Green Manzanita (Arctostaphylus patula). The stems of this manzanita are three to six feet high and much branched so as to make a spreading shrub. The leaves are very green and fresh looking and the bell-shaped flowers deep pink and in compact terminal clusters. More or less associated with it at the higher altitudes one finds the Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata), its crimson cherries most attractive to the eye in August but shocking to the taste. It forms dense thickets on moist slopes and is often quite abundant.

Throughout the Yosemite region one is impressed with the number of species of Eriogonum. One of these which is not uncommon between five thousand arid seven thousand feet is the Sulphur Flower (Eriogonum umbellatum), noticeable for the spots of yellow which it lays upon many a stony slope or rocky crag. 0n Lambert’s Dome one will find another kind, Lobb’s Eriogonum (E. Lobbii) whose white flowers are Much larger and, since the stem reclines upon the granite rock upon which the plant grows, it seems as if they weighed down the stalk which bears them. At the high altitudes, generally from 7500 to 9000 feet, there appears the Snow Brush (Ceanothus cordulatus). This is a low flat-topped shrub which forms circular mounds five to ten or fifteen feet broad and commonly one to three feet high with olive or grayish branches and rigid or often spinelike twigs. Its low compact growth is the result of the heavy burden of snow that it must carry for several months of the year. In the summer it also carries a white burden, but this time it is light and fragrant instead of heavy and cold. Whether it is the abundance of white bloom in the summer or

the snow of the winter which causes this species to be called Snow Brush is disputed, but its distinct habit and abundant occurrence at higher altitudes always focuses the attention of the mountaineer.

The swampy, alpine meadows of the Hudsonian Zone (at about 9000 to 10,000 feet) often possess an interesting inhabitant of the Heath Family. The little Kalmia (K. Polifolia var. microphylla) with its curious pink bloom carrying the anthers in pockets of the corolla, is always a quest with the climbers who know rare plants. If one watch these meadows carefully he will see the tiny pink or white bells of the Dwarf Bilberry (Vaccinium caesspitosum) close against the ground. On gentle slopes moist with seepage water from the snow banks above, one finds the Snow Fairies (Lewisia Pygmaea), tiny plants with a few white star flowers. Two other diminutive shrubs of the Heath Family also grow at these high altitudes. The Red Heather (Bryanthus Breweri) has stems densely clothed with linear leaves and ending in a cluster of red flowers with conspicuous darker red stamens; it has the greater altitudinal range of the two heathers and is often quite abundant. The White Heather Bell (Cassiope Mertensiana) is usually found with the Red Heather at the higher altitudes; it grows in heavy masses along the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne and picturesquely decorates the margins of most high mountain lakes.

As the traveler climbs the high ridges and peaks and passes upward beyond the limit of trees he is conscious that he is approaching the limits of life for both plants and animals. In consequence, his interest is intensified in those plants which occupy the frontiers of the earth’s vegetation and typify the Boreal Zone. Due to the high actinic quality of the light, most of these plants possess intensely pure or delicate colors and tell the climber that he has reached a world different from that at lower altitudes. In their reproductive season these flowers appear very fragile and seem in strange contrast to their harsh and wild surroundings. If closely examined, however, it will be found that the permanent portion of the plant body is extremely condensed at or below the surface of the ground and is well fitted for the long arctic winter and the daily changes in temperature from freezing to summer mildness which occur even in July and August at 9500 to 13,000 feet.

Those alpine plants which are extremely condensed and developed laterally are technically characterized as "Cushion plants." In this form of plant body the stems branch and rebranch, forming with the leaves a closely interlaced cushion- like vegetative body resting on the ground. From this surface the flower stalks arise. The Alpine Eriogonum (E. incanum) illustrates this high montane vegetative habit as does also the little golden Draba (D. Lemmoni), its leaves forming close rosettes at the base and its bright yellow flowers with the petals in fours. One of the most handsome of these plants is the Alpine Phlox (P. Douglasii), its cushion covered with white flowers, long to be remembered as a thing of beauty. Two alpine Erigerons, dwarfs with daisy-like flowers, inhabit the highest peaks. E. compositus has leaves toothed or lobed at the apex, while those of E. ursinus are entire.

The second type of alpine plant is frequently much dwarfed but does not develop the body laterally into a distinct smooth cushion. Like the cushion plants they often have, however, most delicate or showy flowers. One of the most glorious of these high mountain species is the Yellow Columbine (Aquilegia pubescens), a lovely graceful plant to which the wild grandeur of its rocky surroundings is an almost dramatic foil. It grows on high ridges at about eight thousand to ten thousand feet and has large and handsome flowers which run through a considerable gamut of colors from yellow, white, or cream to pink or lavender. It is a very aristocrat among the Columbines, quite different from the modest red-flowered sort which grows in the Valley. This latter is the same as the common Columbine (Aquilegia truncata) of the Coast Ranges.

Between eleven thousand and thirteen thousand feet one finds the Alpine Buttercup (Ranunculus oxynotus) which, in a modified form, extends northward through Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia to Alaska and as far as the Bering Sea where it is found almost at sea-level. It is a characteristic Buttercup with deep golden yellow corolla, the only one of its genus in the alpine Sierra. Another true

PLATE XXVII Shooting Star Bleeding Heart Elephant Heads (Dodecatheon Jeffreyi) (Dicentra formosa) (Pedicularis attollens)

Photos by A. C. Pillsbury alpine inhabitant is the Sierra Hulsea (H. algida), a sturdy but small sunflower-like plant three to six inches high with more or less white woolly leaves and stems. The bright blue trumpets of Pentstemon menziesii var. davidsonii are truly remarkable for the pure tone of the intensely blue corollas. A Stone-crop, the Alpine Sedum (S. roseum) inhabits the alpine rocks and forms matlike clusters of fleshy leaves and pinkish flowers.

Much sought by mountaineers is the Sierra Primrose (Primula suffrutescens), a handsome but small red-flowered plant with very shiny, toothed leaves which grows on the rockiest and highest peaks. Equaling it in interest are the sky- blue Polemoniums (P. eximium) which are sometimes called Sky Pilots, their petioles crowded with tiny leaf segments and the stems ending in dense clusters of lovely blue flowers which defy the barrenness of their surroundings. Little Alpine Willow trees an inch high (Salix tenera) further testify to the arctic character of the highest Sierran peaks. On these same peaks grows the Alpine Sorrel (Oxyria digyna), an interesting little plant of rock crevices with pinkish insignificant flowers and roundish cordate leaves.

The Steer’s Head (Dicentra uniflora) is another reward to the alpine climber to such high places as Mount Dana, Macomb Ridge, and Tower Peak. Its delicate blossoms borne on slender naked stems two or three inches high, come up at the edge of snow banks and sometimes in crevasses of snow near the margins of bowlders. The flowers are of very singular construction, the lateral sepals spread out in such a way as to answer to the horns of a steer; the two inner Petals are so constructed as to form the snout, and the inner sepals or forelocks point to the eyes, which are furnished by the shoulders of the petals. These flowers hang on their stems in such a manner as to suggest drowsy cattle, their heads cocked a bit as if half disturbed by an intruder and mildly surprised. Its singular appearance and its rarity give this plant a unique interest, to which may be added the observation that perhaps no other species of our alpine flora is so typically a relic of preglacial times.

The flora of the Sierra Nevada comprises one of most marked and distinct units of vegetation of the earth’s surface. The Yosemite area is thoroughly typical of it, and not elsewhere on the Sierra chain can a transection of it be studied to better advantage than here. All the flowering formations are remarkable, and each in its best seasons has its own peculiar interests. This fact is singularly true because primitive conditions prevail over most of the area, and even in the foothills undisturbed plant societies may still be found by the explorer; while within the park limits the native plant life still reflects the old-time glory of the natural gardens of the Sierras.

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HAll, H. M., and HAll, C. C., 1912. A Yosemite Flora. (Paul Elder & Co., S. F.) pp. i-vii + 1-282, 11 pls., 171 figs.

HUtchIngs, J. M., 1888. In the Heart of the Sierras. (Pacific Press, Oakland) pp. 496, pls., illus. "The Shrubbery and Flowers of Yosemite" on pp. 361-362, "The Snow Plant" on pp. 465-466.

JEpsOn, W. L., 1911. Flora of Middle Western California. (Associated Students Store, Berkeley.) Edition 2, pp. 1-515. 1909-1914. Flora of California. (Associated Students Store, Berkeley.) pp. 1-528, figs. 1-105. 1912. "The Steer’s Head Flower." Sierra Club Bulletin, 8: 266-269, fig.

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CAMPING AND MOUNTAINEERING IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By RAymOnD H. BAIlEy

Manager of the Camping Tours Department, Yosemite National Park Co.

FEW of us indeed are so well adapted to modern conditions of living that Nature’s call to play Gypsy a while finds no response. There comes a longing to revert to the natural ways of living our early ancestors enjoyed, and to throw off for a time some of the shackles with which civilization has bound us.

Pure, cold, sparkling water, not from a pipe, but from a mountain spring; the murmur and fragrance of the breeze among the pines and fir trees; and the song of birds and the call of the wild creatures of the forest, grip the imagination and are woven in with a desire for recreation and relaxation. Thus a wish is born for a taste of simple living out in the open, away from the haunts of man and free from cares and responsibility.

This wish is quite universal. It finds expression in "Weary Willie" with his tomato can boiling over a cheery fire beside the railroad track, living off the land as he goes. But it also exists in high places. While the rest of the Belgian royal party stopped at the hotel but a few miles distant, Prince Leopold chose to camp out beside Bridalveil Creek, spending the night in a sleeping-bag beneath the pines, gathering firewood, and eating flap-jacks in such numbers as only a growing boy can encompass. Even the apartment dweller, bored with the daily drudgery of the compact and convenient kitchenette, finds delight in her culinary duties as she cooks such delectable dainties as fish, bacon, and browned

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pancakes over an open fire; and one unaccustomed to the simplest duties at home discovers pleasure in service and the self-reliance which comes with each new task learned while camping.

It is doubtful if there can be found another spot on earth with so many conditions favorable to camping out in the open as are found in the Yosemite National Park and other near-by regions in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This is where John Muir spent so much of his time, and of which he wrote so beautifully, and after all his world-wide travel he declared that he still loved it the best.

The weather is ideal for camping in the summer and fall—pleasantly warm during the day without being hot, the nights ranging from cool to cold according to the altitude. Day after day is clear, without a cloud in the sky, and the heavens are marvelously bright at night. The freedom from rain is one of the most delightful features, there being no storms for weeks at a time. When they do occur they are usually brief afternoon thunder showers, recurring perhaps for two or three days. Except for a large piece of waterproof canvas for an emergency, little or no provision need be made by the camper against rain; the use of tents for shelter in this region are the exception rather than the rule.

Annoying flies, insects, and other pests are practically unknown with the exception of mosquitoes, which are troublesome in some places only for a short time after the snow has melted from the ground, leaving temporary pools of water in hollows. But even mosquitoes are usually lacking or can be avoided in choosing a camp site.

The air is invigorating, and water, abundant everywhere, is crystal clear and icy cold. The many mountain streams and lakes throughout the park, teeming with trout, make a fisherman’s paradise.

Virgin forests of pine, fir, cedar, and scores of other species, dotted with flower carpeted meadows, extend to the slopes of the rugged snow-capped peaks which beckon to those below to come upward and enjoy the magnificence of the views they command.

Only a very small portion of the park is accessible to the tourist stopping at the hotels and lodges in the Yosemite Valley and its immediate vicinity. But the whole park is open to the camper, inviting him to leave the beaten paths and to explore regions seldom visited, to view beauty and grandeur in solitude, to fish where no other fisherman has just preceded him, and to enjoy the pleasures of camping in lovely spots at will, without schedule, and without a thought of the outside world which seems so far removed.

The Camping Season

The season well suited to camping on the floor of the Yosemite Valley, which is at an elevation of about four thousand feet, usually extends from May to October, inclusive. April and November are often delightful, but provision should be made for occasional storms and cold weather. In other portions of the park the camping period is shorter, depending upon the amount of snow on the ground, which, in turn, is dependent largely upon the altitude—July, August, and September being the best months.

During the first of the season there is the greater volume of water which is advantageous for its scenic value but sometimes undesirable for the best traveling and fishing in the higher sections. Wild flowers are in their prime somewhere during all the season, at increasing elevations as the months progress. In fall the coloring is beautiful, the air is crisp and invigorating, and the number of visitors is small. July is the month of greatest travel.

Where to Camp

The Yosemite National Park is one large camping ground. Wherever there is wood and water, and feed if there is stock, there is a potential camp. Trails lead to all parts of the park, and it is a poor trail indeed which does not pass at least one good camping spot every hour or two. Auto roads are fewer but afford many camp sites, especially the Tioga Road, which passes Lake Tenaya, through Tuolumne Meadows, and over Tioga Pass, connecting with the roads to Lake Tahoe on the north and to Los Angeles by way of Owen’s Lake to the south.

The choice of a camping place or camping itinerary is largely a matter of the objectives sought and the time at one’s

disposal. If mountain climbing and high alpine scenery is desired, the crest of the High Sierra forming the easterly boundary of the park will afford the best in this line. There is hardly a section where excellent trout fishing is not to be had, but the best near-by points are to the east and northeast of Yosemite Valley, and it is still better farther north where it is less frequented.

As a fixed camp or auto camp, Tuolumne Meadows is unusually well located, there being innumerable lakes, streams, waterfalls, peaks, and varied points of interest within a day’s walking distance. Rodgers Lake is probably the gem of the park, and is noted for its splendid fishing as are also Benson Lake and Matterhorn Creek, near by.

The Northerly portion of the park is least frequented because farthest from the Valley, but it is rugged and interesting, and well worth while for the one who has three or four weeks to spend.

How to Go

There are about as many gradations in the manner of camping as there are campers. At one extreme are those who would go light like John Muir, for days with but some tea and a few crusts of bread, or like another mountaineer whose only excess clothing was a single sock, that each of his hard-worked feet might have a change of raiment on alternate days. Then there is the "Tin Lizzie," with parents in the front seat and bulging with progeny in the rear, the back and sides packed and draped with every conceivable household article, Lares et Penates and all, until the identity of the conveyance is completely concealed except for the rattle. The student with a month’s growth toward his first beard, traveling with a donkey, Stevenson fashion, and the luxurious limousine parked beside the Tuolumne River are equally in keeping as types of camping to be found.

The stationary or fixed camp appeals to those whose desire is to be settled in some beautiful spot, to rest, or use the camp as a base for excursions to near-by points of interest. As the transportation of equipment and supplies is simplest on this kind of an outing, the amount of comfort and luxury which may be indulged in is a matter of personal taste. In the Yosemite Valley, beside the Merced River, are a number of camping places, some for autoists, and others for those without machines, prepared by the Government with piped water and sanitation provisions, and assigned to campers at the office of the Park Superintendent. The Tuolumne Meadows are also particularly well suited to camping in a fixed spot for those who wish to loaf or fish or to make side trips to the many near-by points of interest.

But in order to see much of the park it is necessary to move camp from place to place. The most independent and least expensive means of travel is afoot, carrying the total camping equipment and provisions on the back. This is enjoyable for good walkers with strong backs, but should not be attempted by any not wishing strenuous, hard work. Those carrying their own loads should observe the Rule of I. 0. U.—Inches, Ounces, and Utility—discarding all but the real necessities, for a pack which feels light in the morning grows very heavy before the day’s tramp is done, and robs such a trip of much of its pleasure

Many enjoy walking on the trails who do not wish to be burdened with carrying their outfits. Burros and pack mules may be used for this purpose. Only animals accustomed to mountain trails and broken to packing should be taken, as other animals are likely to prove useless, if not dangerous, on the trails. If there are but one or two pack animals it is usually advisable to tether them out with long ropes so as to keep them from wandering away from camp. The best stand of grass should be selected, as free from trees and snags as possible, and the animals shifted to new locations at frequent intervals, as it takes considerable green feed to keep a working animal in condition. If there are several animals, it is customary to hobble a mare, or one or more of the more adventuresome animals, and place bells on others to help locate the band. Grain need not be taken for the animals if care be exercised in selecting camps where the food is good, but a little grain fed the first morning or two is often helpful in keeping the stock near camp.

About every second or third year the park is visited for its annual outing by the Sierra Club, a conservation and mountaineering organization which has taken a leading part in the preservation of the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in the development of National Parks. Approximately for the whole month of July, about two hundred of its members and friends walk from camp to camp, some ten to fifteen miles a day, the commissary and transportation of the entire outfit being provided by the organization. This is a delightful way of

camping in the park, inexpensively and relieved of all cooking and packing.

Riding horseback, with pack animals to transport the outfit over the trails, is still another way of camping out, and a most delightful way of getting about the park with the greatest amount of comfort. Care should be exercised to take only saddle animals and pack animals which are accustomed to mountain trails, and double cinch saddles are advisable. If it is desired to lighten the work of such a trip, this can be done by engaging a guide, packer, or cook, or the whole trip may be arranged, outfitted, and conducted by the Camping Tours Department of the Yosemite National Park Co., which also conducts certain definitely scheduled camping trips which anyone may join.

Automobile camping is becoming very popular, and when the new highway is completed into Yosemite Valley will undoubtedly increase very greatly. But as yet it should be understood that although the roads are very good of their kind, still they are mountain roads, steep and rough in places. They are safe for careful driving and for machines which are in good running order. Brakes should be in first class condition, and two spare tires are advisable. The motor trip from Yosemite to Lake Tahoe by way of the Tioga Road and the Leevining Creek Grade is particularly fine, and there are good camping places along the route.

What to Take

The question of what to take and what not to take on a camping trip is a most important one. To be without real necessities can prove very annoying but to be burdened with a lot of unnecessary things very often mars the comfort and pleasure of a trip. It is well to take just as little as is consistent with comfort, but that little just right, keeping in mind that it is the general tendency to take entirely too much in a desire to play safe. If the means of transportation be knapsacking, the load of necessity must be cut to a minimum, whereas it can be materially increased if carried by pack-train or automobile.

There are a number of good books on the subject of camping which deal in minute detail with such subjects as clothing, personal effects, camping equipment, packing-outfits, cooking utensils, provisions, cooking, selection of camp sites, etc., which will prove quite helpful to a camper. No attempt will be made here to cover these subjects in detail, but a few suggestions as to some items, particularly as related to conditions in this park, may be of service. Since there are so many types of camping, and as no two experienced campers will agree on many details regarding camping, each prospective camper will have to judge of the applicability of the following suggestions to the particular conditions of the trip contemplated.

Clothing should be durable, of medium warmth, and comfortably large. The following list is suggested as suitable for a month’s outing:

2 suits medium weight underwear 2 woolen and 1 cotton shirt (or waists) 6 prs. socks or stockings (medium to heavy) 1 outing suit or old business suit 1 extra pair trousers, riding breeches, or skirt of khaki, corduroy, or whipcord 1 sweater 1 pair stout walking shoes with puttees or leggings (or light boots, if preferred) 1 pr. comfortable light shoes for camp 1 pr. gloves or gauntlets 1 soft felt or cloth hat with fairly wide brim 2 bandannas and 3 khaki handkerchiefs 1 pr. flannelette pajamas

For riding or hiking, riding breeches are most commonly worn by women, or riding habits if much time is to be spent in the saddle. Short skirts, however, but a few inches below the knee, and worn with shorter knickerbockers of the same color, are suitable for general wear if preferred.

Special care should be taken to have comfortable, good-fitting shoes, and it is well if possible to break them in before starting on a trip. Shoes with broad toes and low, flat heels, of the Munson type of last, with soles heavy enough for cone-headed Hungarian nails, are good for trail work and mountain climbing But avoid crowding the soles with nails, as too many result in a poorer grip than none at all; and there should be no nails in the shoes for riding. If shoes a half size larger than usual are worn with two pairs of socks, one medium cotton and one heavy woolen pair, friction is reduced, and there is less danger of blisters. When the feet become toughened, if two pairs of socks prove uncomfortably warm, one may be discarded by using cork inner soles.

Heavy, high boots are to be avoided if much walking or climbing is to be done, but stout-soled, light-topped, ten- or twelve-inch boots, just high enough to hold the trouser legs, are particularly good. Appearance is sacrificed, but greater freedom of movement is obtained than with high boots or with riding breeches, shoes, and puttees.

Basket-ball or similar shoes with heavy rubber soles are good for smooth rock surfaces, comfortable for camp use, and are used almost exclusively by some hikers for all-around service.

As ordinary shoe laces wear out quickly on walking trips, it is well to take an extra pair, or better still, some buckskin laces. If ice work is to be encountered, a set of baseball cleats screwed to the soles of walking shoes is good, but unless this kind of climbing is particularly sought on some of the glaciers, there is no need of them in this park.

Although generally there is very little use for a rain-coat, a very light weight one is occasionally handy in the event of a storm, and a bathing-suit is also convenient on occasion.

Personal effects are likely to become burdensome unless care is taken to eliminate all but the truly useful ones. A very few toilet articles will suffice. Watch, knife, and compass are very useful, and one should never be out in the mountains without a map and matches. With the one there is very little likelihood of becoming lost, and with the other comparative comfort may be enjoyed even if caught out over night. Many a person has experienced inconvenience, anxiety and discomfort, if not danger, because of trusting to someone else to carry these very necessary articles.

An excellent Topographic Map of Yosemite National Park is published by the U. S. Geological Survey, and may be obtained by remitting 25 cents by money order or cash to the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. The map is 28 1/2 by 27 inches; the scale approximately 2 miles to the inch; and the roads, trails, and names are printed in black, the streams and lakes in blue, and the relief in brown, indicated by contour lines representing 100-foot intervals. This same map, folded and bound between paper covers, may be obtained by remitting cents. It will not stand a great deal of usage without tearing along the creases, but the flat map selling for 25 cents may be mounted in durable form convenient for carrying in the pocket by cutting it into sections along the lines indicating each io minutes in latitude and longitude, and pasting these sections 1/4 inch apart on muslin of a little closer weave than cheesecloth.

The U. S. Geological Survey also publishes a Map of Yosemite Valley, 35 x 15 1/2 inches, scale 2000 feet to the inch, with 50-foot contour intervals, which will be mailed upon remittance of 10 cents in coin. This is a splendid large-scale map of Yosemite Valley and its immediate vicinity, but does not cover the rest of the park.

These maps may also be purchased in Yosemite (by personal application, but not by mail) at the office of the Superintendent of the park or at the general merchandise store.

Tinted glasses are often useful for relieving the eyes from the glare of the sun on the rocks, and quite indispensable on glaciers or large snow fields. A pedometer, adjusted to the length of one’s step, is good for approximating the distance traveled in walking. A small electric flashlight or the smallest size acetelene camp light or some type of folding candle lantern comes in very handy at times. If mosquitoes should be encountered, a bar of mosquito netting or a small vial of oil of citronella (repellent) might not come amiss. Stout twine is often in demand.

Adhesive tape rivals the safety-pin as "handy man" about camp. By applying it to the portion of the foot where soreness first begins to manifest itself, a blister usually can be avoided, and it is good for holding gauze or wrappings in place. Tape may be used to secure the cover on an opened can, seal the holes in a can of milk, patch a cracked watch crystal, effect hasty repairs to clothing, and accomplish many original acts which readily suggest themselves. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/camping.html[2/12/2013 10:04:52 AM] Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Raymond H. Bailey

Take no fire-arms, as hunting is prohibited in this park, but be prepared with finishing tackle, for trout are plentiful. California Royal Coachman, and Gray and Brown Hackle flies with peacock body, are universally good, and many others do well according to the local conditions. Numbers eight and ten are the sizes generally used. The necessary State Fishing License may be secured in Yosemite. The daily catch of trout is limited to twenty fish, providing, however, that in no event may more be caught than are to be used. It is hardly necessary to suggest a camera and and ample supply of films for a trip into a region of such beauty and magnificence.

Sleeping equipment is a most important consideration, since about a third of one’s time is spent in bed. The type of bedding is largely a matter of choice, but as experienced campers differ materially as to the best, more than one will be mentioned. All bedding material is best if dark in color, so as not to show the dirt. Three wool blankets of about five pounds each are ample for cold nights in the higher altitudes, and two are sufficient for usual needs. A 10-ounce canvas about seven feet square when folded will serve as a ground cloth and also an extra covering. If the blankets are folded lengthwise and sewed along the bottom and side, or fastened with large safety pins or small blanket pins, this sleeping-bag will give greater warmth and comfort. The canvas may also be made into a bag.

The following quotation from an Outing Announcement of the Sierra Club describes a lighter weight sleeping outfit recommended for use in this region: "This should consist of a sleeping-bag made by doubling two wool comforts, so as to give the bag the greatest length, and sewing securely across the bottom and two thirds of the way up the side. This bag should be lined and covered with gingham or sateen, which should project a foot or two beyond the top as a loose flap. The wool comforters may be sewed up into separate bags as indicated, and one lined and the other covered. One bag can then be slipped inside the other for ordinary, use and removed easily for knapsack trips where economy of weight is desirable. A tall person will require extra length comforters. Blankets are too heavy and cotton comforts are not desirable. A waterproof sheet or covering at least six by six feet should be taken. Canvas and the ordinary rubber blanket are entirely too heavy for this purpose. The most serviceable and satisfactory material is waterproof silk (balloon silk). It is strong, durable, perfectly waterproof, and very light. A piece five yards in length, cut in half and sewed together along one side, will make a large sheet that will protect the sleeping bag from the ground and form a covering as well."

One thick lamb’s wool batting comforter is lighter and has about the same warmth as two ordinary wool comforters, and an eiderdown quilt is still lighter for the same amount of warmth but not so serviceable. If a sleeping-bag is used it should be so made that it is capable of being aired easily. Should the bedding prove inadequate for the coldest nights, a hot-water bottle, heated rock, a pair of soft woolen bed socks will probably solve the difficulty by keeping the feet warm. A small down cushion makes a very light but comfortable pillow. Air cushions are less comfortable but more convenient.

Suitable packing equipment adds to the comfort and convenience of a camping trip. A hiker’s whole outfit may be rolled up inside sleeping-blankets and carried over one shoulder, but it is preferable to use a pack-sack or pack- harness for greater convenience and comfort, and in order to secure a better distribution of the load; this permits of the use of a light-weight sleeping-bag which is much warmer for its weight than blankets. Even for carrying lunch and other light articles on the trail, a small knapsack or rucksack with straps over both shoulders is much more comfortable and permits greater freedom in walking than a bag carried on but one shoulder.

In packing animals, the use of coal-oil boxes (the cases in which two five-gallon cans are shipped) slipped into kyacks or strapped in canvas slings, greatly facilitates the packing of provisions or equipment without danger of injury from pressure of the pack ropes. Dunnage bags of stout canvas three feet long and eighteen inches in diameter (when packed) are very convenient for packing sleeping equipment and personal effects.

A pocket roll is most useful in packing and carrying one’s effects. Again quoting from the Sierra Club’s Outing Announcement, a description for a pocket roll follows: "It should be made of denim or drilling, as follows: A piece three feet square is first taken as a back, and three box-plaited pockets, each of a foot deep, and one above the other and extending the entire width, are securely sewed to the back and bound with tape. The upper pocket can be divided into three divisions to hold small articles. All these pockets can be closed with flaps or tied with tapes. Into this roll all one’s belongings except bedding can be packed, and it can be arranged with eyelet and cord, and hung to a tree when in camp." http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/camping.html[2/12/2013 10:04:52 AM] Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Raymond H. Bailey

As cooking utensils are bulky and hard to pack at best, care should be taken to have them of convenient shape and size, and nesting one inside the other as far as possible. Some of the kettles at least, should be of granite or enamel ware, so as to render them safe against acid while cooking or holding certain fruits. or vegetables. Tight-clamped covers for these kettles will make it possible to carry such foods from one camp to another. Nesting ten- or twelve-inch galvanized buckets are handy for cold water, hot water, and dishpan. Be sure there is an extra can opener.

Fireless cooker, Dutch oven or folding reflecting oven, shovel, and axe, are all good if consistent with the means of transportation, but none are necessities. Some type of folding stove, grate, or fire irons is very convenient, and a great time-saver when shifting camp often. Two iron bars 1/4 inch by 1 inch by 3 feet long, having riveted to each end folding legs of the same material 15 inches long, pointed at the ends, make a very good set of fire irons when driven into the ground about 5 inches apart at one end to hold the smaller cooking utensils, and about 8 inches at the other end for the larger ones.

Provisions should not as a rule include many canned goods containing a large percentage of water unless the transportation is a minor consideration. Dried fruits and vegetables go much farther for their weight and bulk. It is well to plan for variety in the diet, as this can be done with a little thought without increasing the weight or expense. Small cloth bags are good for packing broken package- or bulk-goods, for paper sacks will soon go to pieces.

On a camping trip one craves sweets and fats much more than normally. One quarter pound per day per person is about the average amount of sugar used. Jams and jellies and an abundance of dried fruits go well. Bacon is the regular stand-by, and ham comes next. An average use of bacon and ham (principally bacon) is about one fourth to one third pound per day per person if used freely. If the grease is saved for frying fish and hot cakes, making gravies, etc., little lard or other fats need be taken for shortening and cooking. Hot cereals for breakfast and tea as a beverage are generally liked, even by those who seldom care for them at home. Beef extract, bouillon cubes, and powdered soup are convenient as soup stocks.

Butter as now packed in convenient one-pound tins cannot be distinguished from the fresh, and there is now some very successful powdered milk in grades from skimmed milk to cream. While not quite so instantaneously available for use as canned milk, it is much lighter and less bulky, and is generally preferred to canned milk because of a more natural flavor.

About five pounds per day per person is considered a normal allowance of provisions if they include those which are watery and bulky, while just about half that amount is sufficient if the foods are all concentrated such as would be suitable for a knapsack trip.

What can be Supplied in Yosemite

A tourist or "dude," as more frequently designated by the guides and packers, may come to Yosemite with never a thought of camping out and, if the notion suddenly appeals to him, either purchase or rent everything essential for a comfortable camping trip. The Yosemite National Park Co., operating under concession from the Government, conducts several departments which will be of service to a camper, and all rates and prices will be found reasonable, being controlled and authorized by the Government.

The General Merchandise Store carries a good line of outing clothes and shoes suitable for camping, cooking utensils, supplies, and a large stock of provisions. It has on sale the folded map of Yosemite National Park previously mentioned, fishing tackle, And the necessary State Fishing License. A limited stock of provisions may be obtained from some of the lodger, in the park outside of the Valley.

The Housekeeping Department can supply a part of any number of persons with a full camping outfit including tent, bedding, furniture, cooking utensils, etc., for a fixed camp in Yosemite Valley, set up ready for housekeeping.

The Camping Tours Department serves those who wish to move from place to place while camping out. Guides, packers, cooks, saddle-animals, pack-animals, and packing and camping equipment can be furnished those wishing to

manage their own camping trips. All-Expense Camping Tours at a fixed daily rate per person are planned, arranged, and conducted for parties desiring exclusive service for saddle trips independent of schedules, but wishing to be relieved of all personal responsibility of management and to be able to start on the trail carefree and without loss of time. All riding and packing stock, attendants, sleeping and cooking equipment, and provisions, are included in the charge—in fact everything necessary for a complete and comfortable camping trip except one’s clothing and personal belongings. A number of definitely scheduled All-Expense Camping Tours of from two days to two or three weeks are organized and conducted during the summer for any individuals who may wish to join such parties. A booklet telling of the trips and various activities of the Camping Tours Department may be secured from the Yosemite National Park Company. Photographic supplies may be obtained at the numerous studios in the Valley. Yosemite is well able to equip an unprepared camper with all the necessities for a trip, but should there still remain some articles he may desire, they can be secured quickly and conveniently by parcels post.

There are a number of places in the park where one may secure information regarding camping. The National Park Service has an Information Bureau at the office of the Park Superintendent. The rangers in charge are well informed, maps of the park and Valley are on display and for sale, and the official booklet of General Information Regarding Yosemite National Park issued by the Department of the Interior is there for distribution. The Park Service also maintains a free Nature Guide Service with headquarters in the Government Administration Building in Yosemite. The transportation offices in the various hotels, lodges, and camps, are also prepared to impart information.

The Sierra Club maintains the LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley, and the Parsons Memorial Lodge in the Tuolumne Meadows, where maps and books pertaining to the park are available, and information may be obtained from those in charge. Rangers stationed at various points throughout the park can also be of assistance to campers, and their ’phones are available in case of need.

On the Trail

Before starting on the trail be sure that all fires have been carefully extinguished, and that the camp site has been left clean and inviting for the next camper. The value of an early start to get the most pleasure out of a day’s travel can hardly be overstated; if a long day’s journey is to be made it is quite essential. But even for a short trip, traveling is at its best in the cool of the morning, stopping along the trail may then be indulged in without a sense of hurry, and an early camp can be made in time to fish, swim, loaf, or explore around camp during a part of the afternoon.

Whether walking or riding it is well to start out at an easy pace, increasing it gradually until muscles are limbered and breathing comes easily. Many have a tendency to tire themselves or their animals out during the first hour of travel by exhausting too much of their energy at the start. Endurance at a moderate gait throughout the day is what counts, rather than a speed which cannot be maintained. As a rule it will be found that it does not pay to take steep shortcuts on an up-grade; while saving a trifle in time at the moment as against the longer but easier grade, the additional effort and resulting exhaustion usually more than offset the temporary gain. Excessive drinking of the icy cold water of the mountain streams and lakes is to be avoided when one is hot, as it often brings on illness. Drinking small amounts at frequent intervals can be done with safety.

Most of the trails in the immediate vicinity of the Valley are very well made, and junction points are usually marked by sign boards. Farther into the mountains of the park, where there is less travel, not so much attention has been paid to easy grades or marking of junctions, but with the aid of the topographic map little difficulty is experienced in following any of them.

Except in occasional obscure places, trails in common use are clearly evident by the slight depression worn in the ground. But sometimes in rocky places, meadows, or forests where the ground is thickly strewn with litter, or when the ground is covered with snow, the path underfoot is not distinguishable. To provide against such contingencies, trails are generally indicated by a continuous series of easily recognized marks within sight of each other.

In the forest, the marks are blazes on trees close to the trail, a blaze being a cut through the bark exposing a surface of the lighter colored sapwood. Blazes are cut in various shapes, many trails being marked by those having the form of the letter "T." In rocky places trails are usually indicated by several rocks piled one on top of the other, commonly

known as "ducs," "monuments," or "cairns." In meadows, stakes or ducs are sometimes set along the trail if the trail is not marked where it leaves the meadow.

By referring occasionally to the Topographic Map of Yosemite National Park, which no camper should be without, the proper trails at junction points are easily ascertained; and if doubt exists at any time regarding a trail, it may be dispelled by checking its course with that of the trail indicated on the map. In this connection it may be well to make a few suggestions as to how to read this map, for those not accustomed to the use of a topographic map.

Names, roads, trails, boundary lines, etc., are shown in black, and lakes, rivers, creeks, etc., in blue, as on ordinary maps; but the brown figures and lines indicate elevations. Each brown line shows the contour of the land at its particular elevation above sea level, and the space between lines represents an interval of one hundred feet in elevation. At intervals of each five hundred feet above sea level is a heavy brown line with figures every now and then showing its altitude. The elevation of any point may thus be determined by following the contour line passing through it, back to the nearest figures in the heavy brown line next below it in elevation, and then adding one hundred feet for each space separating these lines. The exact elevations of principal peaks, lakes, and other points of interest are also indicated by brown figures.

The spacing, position, and form of these brown lines tell at a glance the story of the topography of the country. If they are spaced far apart, the land between them slopes gently, while if they are close, together a steep slope is indicated. The form the lines take and their relation to each other indicate the form and nature of the landscape. The size and shape of a mountain, ridge, spur, etc., are indicated, and the position shown as related to other features of the landscape and to the points of the compass. It will be noticed that a contour line in crossing a canyon forms an angle which invariably points upstream, thus indicating at a glance the direction in which the stream flows. A little study will reveal many such short-cuts for reading the features of the map rapidly, so that with a little use, the map will picture the country in relief at a glance.

Trails may then be left if one wishes to cut across country, as it is known in advance what will be encountered in the way of canyons, ridges, passes, etc. But it must be remembered that the map does not show the surface characteristics of the country. A steep mountain side which may be easy traveling if it affords good footing in a forest, may present difficulties ties if it proves to be a mass of broken rock, or may be impassable if it is a smooth granite slope. For this reason it is usually inadvisable to attempt to take horses off the trail into unknown territory, but afoot one can usually find some way around most obstructions.

But before leaving a trail be sure that you have the points of the compass well in mind in relation to the direction in which you are to travel, so that if you should have any difficulty in retracing your steps, the map and compass may be brought to the rescue. In order to square the map accurately with the compass it must be borne in mind that the magnetic north is about sixteen degrees east of the true north in this park, so that while the north and south line of the compass should be parallel with the north and south line of the map, the magnetic needle should be pointing sixteen degrees east of north. With the map spread out horizontally and the top thus pointing accurately to the north, it is usually easy to find one’s location at any time providing a view of some known object can be obtained. By sighting across the position of an object on the map to the object itself, a line is found passing through one’s location, and the intersection of two such lines will definitely establish one’s position on the map.

In Camp

If a comfortable trip is sought, try to make camp early enough to permit of some leisure without having to rush to prepare camp and get dinner before dark. In selecting a camp site a number of considerations enter in. Convenience to a sufficient supply of good Wood and water perhaps come first. As no standing timber, living branches, or shrubbery are allowed to be cut in the Park, dead wood must be depended upon entirely for fuel. For cooking purposes, limbs from one to two inches in diameter usually give best results, with smaller branches for kindling of quick, small fires. If such wood is not found on the ground it is often obtained by breaking the lower dead branches from living trees. This wood is dry even when that laying on the ground may be damp, and being usually brittle, it breaks readily into lengths by striking it against a rock, so that an axe is seldom necessary. An abundance of good feed should be near by for the animals.

Seek level, dry spots for sleeping quarters. The edge of a meadow, although apparently dry in the daytime, is likely to prove damp and cold at night, while a few steps distance into the forest or an elevation a few feet higher will generally secure a dry spot which will be many degrees warmer. Where pine needles are available, a pile of them spread out and used as a mattress will add greatly to the warmth and comfort of the bed. Should mosquitoes be encountered near a meadow, lake, or other spot where there is standing water, they can often be avoided by pitching camp a short distance away on higher ground or on a running stream. It is seldom necessary to seek shelter from wind unless camping in a draw or near a high mountain pass, but it is well to determine the prevailing direction of even a slight breeze so that the fire may be built where the smoke will blow away from camp rather than toward it. The location of the camp with relation to the fishing, view, mountain climbing, convenience for side trips, or such other objectives as may be sought, will readily suggest itself. A tent is not often needed as shelter against storms, but is desired by some for convenience as a dressing room and place for storage. However, it is advisable to have a waterproof fly or canvas of some sort for use in case of rain, and each individual should have a waterproof covering of some-kind for his bedding.

Too much emphasis cannot be laid on the necessity of selecting safe places for cooking fires or camp fires. The danger of causing a disastrous forest fire is constantly present unless every possible precaution for prevention is taken. Usually a sandy or gravelly spot is conveniently at hand, and if not, it often can be made by scraping away the surface covering of pine needles or leaves from an area several feet in diameter. But if the forest floor is thick and does not expose a surface free from roots or leaf-mold, it is unsafe, as a fire will often smolder in such material for hours or even days under the surface before coming to a blaze. A fire just large enough for one’s wants requires the least fuel, is least likely to spread, and is the easiest to extinguish upon departure. If no camp stove or fire-irons are brought, flat rocks with straight edges often can be found, and quite a satisfactory fireplace may be built with parallel sides about six or eight inches apart and three or four feet long. A little piece of candle is often helpful in lighting a fire if small kindling is scarce or the wood is damp.

In frying trout more can be cooked in the pan if the heads are removed, and severing the backbone in several places will prevent a newly caught trout from curling up while cooking. As the heat necessary to boil water is approximately two degrees less for each one thousand feet above sea-level, boiled foods require considerably longer cooking at the higher altitudes. Many canned foods being unsafe when allowed to stand in their tins after opening, it is a good rule to empty all tins of their contents as soon as opened.

It is advisable to make up one’s bed before dark, and to gather enough wood for dinner and breakfast, putting a little kindling in some covered place if dampness during the night seems likely. Covering the food-stuffs will protect them from possible moisture and various small night-prowling animals as well as those which arise with the break of day. Occasionally leather goods such as shoes, straps, and saddles are damaged by small animals at night, unless they are hung up or otherwise put out of reach.

Before leaving camp a little house-cleaning is in order. Make sure that all tin cans, paper, and refuse have been buried or burned, that the water supply has been left clean and free from waste of any kind, that the fires have been extinguished thoroughly, and that no articles have been left behind.

Mountaineering

As a rule, mountain climbing in the park is incidental to a camping trip rather than its main objective, for the reason that there are so many splendid peaks which are easily and safely climbed from comfortable base camps. In many of the good camping places well below timberline, visited in the course of an outing, the camper will find himself at such an elevation, and so close to the base of some peak, that it is a simple matter to make the ascent and return to the camp in a single day’s trip. Although many peaks rise to an altitude of about thirteen thousand feet above sea-level, no one mountain of the park stands out in isolation, towering preëminently above its fellows and thus inviting the special attention of the mountaineer. By this it is not to be inferred that the peaks do not stand out from one another sufficiently to command splendid views, for many of them offer magnificent panoramas of forests, lakes, and snow- clad peaks as far as the eye can reach, and are more than worthy of the slight effort usually required to reach them. But instead of rising alone and from a low altitude they are usually found in groups or in a chain, and commence to rise as individual peaks from a high base altitude.

Sierra Characteristics

The Sierra Nevada Range is a huge block of the earth’s crust tipped so that it rises very abruptly along its eastern edge, but sloping gently toward the west. The apex of this block forms the crest of the High Sierra which serves as the eastern boundary line of the park. The predominating rock is granite, varied now and then by some other formation such as the metamorphic rock of Mt. Dana and Mt. Gibbs. It is generally characteristic of the peaks that-their east and north faces are precipitous, while they slope more gently toward the south and west. Glacial action is strongly in evidence in polished surfaces, carved domes, scoured canyons, and moraines. A few small residual glaciers still remain on the protected northern slopes of some of the higher peaks, where they have cut precipitously walled cirques or amphitheaters well into the mountain sides almost to the very summits.

True alpine conditions of climbing are not often encountered in the High Sierra unless deliberately sought, and alpen- stocks and ropes are very seldom required. Forests extend well up the slopes of many of the peaks, the timberline generally being about ten thousand or eleven thousand feet. Usually but few large snow fields are found after the middle of July, even at the highest altitudes, but there are often patches in sheltered places or where the drifts have been heavy. Practically all of the principal peaks. of the park can be climbed, many of them calling for no special requirements except an early start, endurance, and care to avoid dislodging loose rocks. Some present an element of danger toward the top if the summits are shattered into large blocks difficult to get over or around, and require a steady nerve, and a little skillful and careful rock work.

Near-by Yosemite Peaks

Climbing to the points and peaks about the rim of the Valley may hardly be considered mountaineering, since many of them may be reached by well-built trails all or most of the way, but as some of them command excellent views of the Valley or its surroundings they are worthy of mention in this connection. Glacier Point is probably the finest viewpoint of this kind, affording a good bird’s-eye view of the eastern end of the floor of the Valley and a splendid panorama of the High Sierra peaks. It is connected with Yosemite Valley by a steep footpath, two horse trails, and an automobile road. Sentinel Dome, about a mile and a half to the southwest, permits of a wider outlook on the high mountain country, while Taft Point, Crocker Point, Stanford Point, and other points along the beautiful Pohono Trail present intimate views of Yosemite Valley from various angles along its southern rim.

From the north and west the Valley may be viewed to advantage from North Dome, Yosemite Point, Eagle Peak, and El Capitan, the most sweeping panorama being that obtained from Eagle Peak. The most varied view to be had from such a low elevation is that from Sierra Point, a climb of about a thousand feet on a footpath starting from the Vernal Falls Trail opposite the Happy Isles. The Vernal, Nevada, Illilouette, and Upper and Lower Yosemite falls may all be seen from. this one spot.

Clouds Rest (9924 feet) and Half Dome (8937 feet) command excellent views of Yosemite Valley from the east, and magnificent panoramas of the High Sierra. There is a horse trail almost to the very summit of Clouds Rest and to within about 1000 feet in elevation of the top of Half Dome. The last four or five hundred feet of this latter climb is quite unique, requiring the use of the arms as well as the legs, there being two parallel steel cable handrails where the surface of the rock is so steep that it is impossible to climb afoot unaided.

High Sierra Peaks

There are dozens of mountains in the Yosemite National Park twelve thousand or thirteen thousand feet in height, and a hundred or two above ten thousand feet, from which wonderful views of the surrounding country are to be had. Only a few of the better known or more accessible ones will be mentioned.

The highest of them, which is also one of the very finest viewpoints and perhaps the most interesting peak to climb, is Mt. Lyell (13,090 feet). It is usually climbed from a base camp nine thousand feet in elevation, where the Lyell Fork of. the Tuolumne River emerges into the long meadow of Lyell Canyon. Making an early start, equipped with tinted glasses to protect the eyes against the snow’s glare, and with the face blackened or covered with grease paint to

prevent snow-burn, the climb of five and a half miles to the summit is usually made in four or five hours. Following up the west bank of the stream for a little more, than two miles, the McClure Fork is crossed at the head of a Cascade at the 10,600-foot level. Generally after the middle of July it is quite free from snow up to this point. Then the rock spurs separating the McClure Fork and Lyell Fork, with stretches of a large snow field in between, are followed for a little over two miles more, veering a little to the southeast to the foot of the Lyell Glacier. This small residual glacier, nestling in an amphitheater which it has cut into the northern face of the peak, is about three quarters of a mile long and twice that in width, and is usually almost entirely covered with deeply pitted snow, making rather laborious climbing. At the head of the glacier, where the moving ice has separated from that clinging to the head wall, is a bergschrund, usually open to a considerable depth for the greater part of the width of the glacier. But it is generally filled with snow directly below Lyell’s summit, so that it may be crossed where a long, narrow snow tongue extends well up in between the rugged cliffs. Leaving the snow tongue where it becomes too steep for travel, and climbing up the right hand cliff, the summit is reached after fifteen to thirty minutes of steep rock climbing where care must be taken not to dislodge loose rocks. At times when there is very little snow covering the glacier, the bergschrund is so wide open that it cannot be crossed at the base of the snow tongue. The ascent can then be made up the rock wall from the extreme easterly end of the glacier. A splendid panorama of snow-clad peaks, innumerable lakes, the sources of several rivers, and broad expanses of forest may be seen in every direction—a glorious spectacle never to be forgotten, and a lesson in the geography of the surrounding country which cannot be equalled in any other way.

The customary base camp for climbing Mt. Dana (13,050 feet) is about four miles below the summit, at the 9700-foot level on the little branch of the Dana Fork of the Tuolumne River which originates in the canyon between Mt. Dana and Mt. Gibbs. These two colorful peaks of metamorphic rock stand out in contrast with the neighboring gray granite peaks. This canyon is followed up to within a few hundred yards of the saddle between these two mountains, at an elevation of 11,500 feet. Although it is rather rough traveling in some places, horses may be ridden to this point. There is then something over a mile of simple, but rather arduous, climbing to the northwest, over heaps of roughly piled and often loosely balanced rocks. To the usually fine scenery witnessed from a mountain top there is here added a view of the interesting Mono Craters and the beautiful blues of Mono Lake to the east, and a display of the extensive Tuolumne Meadows to the west.

Another mountain in the main crest of the range from which a wide outlook may be obtained is Mt. Conness (12,556 feet), a rugged and imposing peak, but very easily climbed. A horse trail leads nearly to the top from a lovely base camp at Young Lake about four miles to the southwest.

Mt. Hoffmann (10,921 feet) generally climbed from the south, is comparatively isolated and affords a view very well worth while. Cathedral Peak, Unicorn Peak, Echo Peak, and Columbia Finger, a group of peaks to the south of Tuolumne Meadows all approaching eleven thousand feet in elevation, are interesting ascents for experienced climbers. In each case the climb is simple to within a short distance of the top, where the fractured rocks of the summit require a steady nerve and some very careful rock work to avoid a misstep which would be fraught with danger.

Colby Mountain (9700 feet), near the Ten Lakes Basin, commands a view of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, a magnificent gorge which affords a very interesting but strenuous four or five day knapsack trip from Tuolumne Meadows to Hetch Hetchy Valley.

To the south of Merced Lake is Mt. Clark (11,506 feet), presenting a very clear-cut and regular profile. against the skyline. It stands out at the end of a long spur, commanding a good view of the south-easterly portion of the park, but it is not very often climbed because rather difficult and far from a convenient base camp. The ascent may be made from the northeast with the final climb along the southeast knife edge.

The highest peak in the Yosemite region, Mt. Ritter (13,156 feet), is just outside of the park boundary, about five miles in a direct line southeast of Mt. Lyell. The climb is made up a steep rock chimney on the west side, or across the head of the glacier from the southeast if approached from the Shadow Lake side. It is considered one of the more difficult mountain climbs, but has its reward in a wonderful view of the watersheds of the North Fork and Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River.

There are scores of other high mountains, well worthy of the effort of the climber because of the splendid view they

afford, and there is hardly a camping place in the park but has at least a little peak near by to tempt the one who has the spirit of the ditty: "The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see."

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LE COntE, J. N., 1907. The High Sierra of California. Amer. Alpine Club. Publ., vol. i., No. 1, 16 pp., illus.

MuIr, JOhn. 1914. The Yosemite. (The Century Co., New York.) 270 pp., illus.

"NEssmuk." 1884. Woodcraft. (Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York.) 149 pp., illus.

SIErrA Club, San Francisco. 1893-1920. The Sierra Club Bulletin; vols. i.-xi., pls., illus.

TAylOr, JAy L. B. 1917. Handbook for Rangers and Woodsmen. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.) 420 pp., illus.

U. S. DEpArtmEnt Of AgrIculturE, FOrEst SErvIcE. 1915, The Handbook for Campers in the National Forests in California. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.) 48 pp., illus.

U. S. DEpArtmEnt Of thE IntErIOr, NAtIOnAl PArk SErvIcE. 1917. The National Parks Portfolio. By Robert Sterling Yard, Chief Educational Division, National Park Service. (Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.) 260 pp., illus. ( Yosemite section is a separate pamphlet of 24 pages.) 1920. Rules and Regulations, Yosemite National Park (Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C.) 80 pp., illus., maps. (Annually revised booklet.)

WIllIAms, JOhn H., 1914. Yosemite and Its High Sierra. (John H. Williams, Tacoma and San Francisco.) 145 pp., illus.

YOsEmItE NAtIOnAl PArk CO., 1920. Camping Tours, Yosemite National Park. (Yosemite National Park Co., Yosemite, Cal.) Leaflet dealing with Yosemite Camping conditions and the activities of the Camping Tours Department.

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MOTORING IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By WAllAcE B. CURtIS

Associate Manager, Curry Camping Company

YOSEmItE NAtIOnAl PARK was first opened to Motor travel late in the 1914 season. At that time the park as under the local government of the War Department, and for the first few months conditions were far from satisfactory. The next year, park control passed to the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service was established, and since then there has been a steady improvement of conditions, until now the motorist enjoys all the freedom that is practicable to allow.

There are three well-established roads into the valley, known as the Wawona Road, the Big Oak Flat Road, and the Coulterville Road; and, in addition, the famous Tioga Road cuts directly across the park from Mono Lake westward over the summit of the Sierras. Still another road is in course of construction, and upon its completion it will undoubtedly be the most popular of them all. Starting from Merced it will follow the State Highway to Mariposa, then across the mountains to the Merced River Canyon, and thence to El Portal. From there into Yosemite Valley a splendid highway is already constructed. On entire road there will be no elevation greater than three thousand feet until one enters the park, so all year round travel will be an easy possibility.

Rules and road maps can be obtained from either the National Park Service Headquarters in Yosemite or at any of the hotels, camps, or lodges, and inasmuch as there are minor changes in these from time to time they will not be taken up here.

Driving over mountain roads is not so dangerous, as many people would have one believe, provided that one or two simple rules are always followed. The first, of these is, “Always keep your car under full control.” Many drivers have the habit of coasting with their gears out of mesh; the risk of such a practice is apparent, so whenever a car is on a

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down-grade, the gears should be thrown into second or low and compression used as a brake.

The second rule is, “Don’t be afraid to shift gears.” You may hear a driver boast that he made such and such a grade on “high,” but that is merely an admission of poor judgment, for such practice puts an undue strain upon the motor and transmission. Before you start up a grade, decide what gear you are going to use, get up good engine speed, and shift into gear. Shifting gears on any grade is dangerous practice and especially so in mountain driving.

The driver of the car has one thing to keep in mind and that is, that he must keep his eyes on the road and let the rest of the passengers look at the scenery. His car should be equipped with a good loud horn and it should be used frequently.

The principal requisite for good mountain driving is good common sense, and if this is coupled with the following suggestions, no one need have any hesitancy about attempting the trip.

Carburetor Adjustment. While it is true that with higher altitudes the air mixture changes because of the increasing thinness of the air, still it is advisable for the average motorist to leave his carburetor untouched throughout the trip to the Valley. Carburetor adjustment to meet constantly changing air conditions is a matter of expert judgment, and the layman is expected to know nothing about such adjustments. The only place where a carburetor adjustment might prove really necessary is at the summit of the Tioga Road, while motoring to or from the low country. In case of trouble on this road, which seems to be caused by an improper carburetor adjustment, simply give a little more air to the mixture.

Use of Brakes. Come down hill as much as possible on compression, in order to save brakes. Never let your car gather more momentum than can be overcome with the known strength of the brakes. Alternate the use of the brakes, first using the foot brake and then the hand brake, so that one set will not become overheated and wear out.

Use of Gears. Always decide when approaching a hill what gear will carry the car over the grade and then shift into that gear before starting up the hill. In mountain country it is often dangerous to shift gears On a steep hill, and it is always an unnecessary strain on the car.

Always keep the gears in mesh—it insures control of the car. It is now a State and National Park law to keep gears always in mesh on Sierra roads. Never run on high over a steep grade just to test out the power of the motor—it is the worst and most useless strain on the machine on mountain roads.

Tires. Always keep tires up to guaranteed pressure on a Yosemite trip. Poor brake use, such as sliding the wheels, or slowing up very suddenly just before a rut, will wear out tires prematurely.

The State and National Park law requires that at least one spare tire be carried on the roads of Yosemite National Park.

Radiators. Never try to make a record for snall consumption of water on a trip over any of the roads into Yosemite. Such a practice unnecessarily heats up the engine, and thus increases the consumption of gas and oil. Keep the radiator full of water at all times. The water of mountain creeks is usable, but it should be strained through a cloth before using.

Supplies to Carry. Carry an extra supply of oil: it is more essential than gasoline.

Carry a supply of extra bolts and nuts for specific make of car.

Carry a spare fan belt.

Carry a can of grease and use it freely.

Seeing the Country. Take down the top when you get into the mountains if you want to see some of the most beautiful scenery along the route.

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Up-hill traffic has the right-of-way,—according to State and National Park law.

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

By ARthUR C. PIllSbURy, YOSEmItE CalIFORnIa

NO souvenir of a vacation can compare with one’s pictures. They are more than mere records of the scenery; each has its own associations, and each brings back memories outside the photo itself. We should strive, however, to produce photographs which have an intrinsic worth as pictures— likenesses which express our own impressions to others. In Yosemite Valley attractive views disclose themselves to every side and even the amateur will have no trouble in securing beautiful pictures if he but give a little thought to composition and correct exposures.

Few people realize what an important part light and shade play in the composition of photographs. Under the high noonday sun most pictures are "flat" and lifeless, and it is during the morning and afternoon hours that the photographer gets his best exposures. The Yosemite features change rapidly in this respect from hour to hour during the day, and the following suggestions are offered with the hope that they will help to solve some of the visitor’s problems.

From within the Valley itself the surrounding mountains and cliffs appear high and near— consequently you would better point the camera up to take their tops. Do not be afraid of distoring them as you would a tall building if you did the same thing, for in Nature there are no parallel lines so marked as to offend in a picture

As to lighting, one should remember that no matter how beautiful a subject is at a given time, it is most beautiful at some certain hours during the day. Yosemite Falls is a good example. At nine o’clock the sun is casting shadows across its cliffs, and the Falls are very beautiful, but the foreground is more or less in the shadow. By ten the sun is on the foreground and full on the cliffs, but the light is a little "flat" and stays so until about one or half past. After this time the Falls are casting their shadows, and every rocket as it shoots out casts its shadow, so they seem to stand out clear cut from the wall. This latter effect increases until two or half past, when the lower half of the Lower Fall is in the shadow. These light and shade effects, in the writer’s opinion, make the best picture. After two thirty the change is http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/photography.html[2/12/2013 10:05:27 AM] Photography in Yosemite National Park, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Arthur C. Pillsbury

very rapid and by three o’clock the Falls are almost entirely shaded.

Bridalveil Falls are in the shadow all the morning hours, so close views are not good until one o’clock when the upper half of the Falls is touched by sunshine and veiled by wonderfully luminous mist. This, their best time and condition for posing, continues until two thirty.

El Capitan from "River View" has several lighting effects that are pleasing. From seven to eight in the morning the shadow cast by the granite wall makes a bold picture which is particularly good in enlargements. During the late morning hours the sun beats down on its smooth face without shadows until one o’clock, when the profile begins to stand out, and ridges, quite unnoticed half an hour before, begin to assume shape and substance; these, the best effects, are of short duration.

At Happy Isles, the Meeting of the Waters, the best time for photographs is from ten to twelve o’clock. Going on up the trail one will find a triangle of sunshine on the lovely Vernal Falls at ten, which continues to light their wonderful outpouring of jewels and color until about eleven; later they are apt to be but a broad white streak in one’s picture.

Nevada Falls seems a thing of life between eleven and twelve thirty when its great rockets cast shadows upon the face of the Fall, but when fully lit by the sun it does not picture as well.

Mirror Lake is at its best until, at about eight o’clock, its surface is struck by the sun, and it loses its reflective power. After this time it is disappointing unless the sky holds floating clouds which produce the most beautiful effect of all.

The foregoing remarks are but a few of the many which might be included if space permitted. The writer will be pleased to make further such suggestions to those who will see him personally in Yosemite.

A word about the time of one’s exposures. Compared with the smoke-laden atmosphere of cities, the light in Yosemite is much faster and clearer, giving strong negatives and good prints and enlargements. The normal exposure within the Valley should be 1/25 second at U. S. stop 8. Mirror Lake before sunrise requires about 1/5 second exposure at U. S. aperature 8, and pictures taken beneath the Big Trees should be given about 1/2 second with the same opening.

At higher altitudes the atmosphere becomes thinner, with the effect that the sky appears more intensely blue but at the same time becomes darker, the sun’s rays become brighter and hotter, and the shadows become deeper and colder. As we ascend we get less diffused illumination from the atmosphere itself, and less protection from the direct rays of the sun. We will therefore get more contract in our negatives which are exposed at the higher elevations, and on account of the more intense light the camera should be stopped down to 16 for 1/25 second exposure.

Distant views require only half as much exposure as near-by subjects. Instead of reducing the exposure the better plan is to diminish the opening so as to admit less light.

If the above suggestions are borne in mind the amateur will find no difficulty in obtaining really good pictures during hs Yosemite vacation.

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APPENDIX

THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OF YOSEMITE VALLEY

By ANSEl F. Hall

ONE often reads praises and generalities about Yosemite climate and weather but, so far as the writer knows, no concise statement as to exactly what might be expected at any given time of year has ever been published. The accompanying table has been compiled from the U. S. Weather Bureau daily records for the past eleven years and the data summarized for each month. By examining this table one may determine with fair accuracy the conditions which will be encountered at the time of his visit. The following remarks, however, should be borne in mind.

Temperature. The Mean Maximum is the average of the hottest temperatures for each day during the month (generally about 2 p.M.). The Mean Minimum is the average of the coldest temperatures for each night during the month (generally about 3 a.M.). The Mean Temperature is the average temperature for the entire month. The Maximum Temperature is the hottest recorded temperature during the month and the Minimum the coldest recorded during the same period. The Greatest Daily Range is the greatest temperature change for any twenty-four-hour period during the month. The Mean Maximum and the Mean Temperature show very little variation between the different years, but the Mean Minimum varies considerably, especially in the late spring and summer months. The Greatest Daily Ranges for the different months fluctuate greatly in different years, sometimes as much as fifteen degrees, so this factor in the table is not as reliable for forecasting temperatures as are the other averages.

Precipitation. Rainfall is a factor which varies extremely in different years in both amount and frequency. The frequency is indicated in the horizontal column headed "Number of Days with .01 inch or more Precipitation"; it must be remembered in this connection that from May to October on days upon which rain does fall it is generally as short thunder showers.

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Snowfall. Snowfall is the one climatic factor which shows the most variation from year to year. A light snowfall sometimes occurs in October and may be rather definitely expected in November, the first snow in five of the past eleven years having occurred during the latter month; during these two months the snow generally melts quickly. In December, however, one may reasonably expect permanent snow, for the records show that in all but three of the past eleven years Yosemite Valley has had a "white Christmas." The melting of the permanent snow is more definite and may be expected quite regularly between March 15th and 30th.

Clear Days. The number of clear, partly cloudy, and cloudy days per month is surprisingly the same from year to year and these figures in the table will closely approximate actual conditions for any month.

WEATHER REPORT SUMMARY, YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA—AVERAGE FOR ELEVEN YEARS (1909 TO 1919 INCLUSIVE)

MONTHLY SUMMARY Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Average Temperature Mean Maximum Degrees F. 44.2 52.0 60.8 69.8 74.3 85.5 91.5 93.2 84.6 71.1 58.2 45.8 69.2 Mean Minimum " 21.2 23.8 27.4 32.7 36.7 42.9 48.5 47.2 41.2 28.7 25.4 21.0 33.1 Mean " 32.7 37.4 44.2 51.2 55.5 64.2 69.6 70. 1 63.6 53.2 41.8 33.4 51.4 Maximum " 56.7 64.2 77.2 83.0 90.3 95.0 99.6 100.5 94.9 87.8 73.3 59.2 81.0 Minimum " 6.8 11.3 18.6 22.6 26.7 33.2 37.4 36.9 32.1 23.4 16.9 8.4 22.9 Greatest Daily Range " 36.0 42.3 48.3 51.3 51.4 52.2 53.7 56.0 55.6 56.4 46.5 39.0 49.1 Precipitation Totals Total Inches 8.96 6.00 4.53 1.56 2.39 .40 .23 .28 1.06 1.54 2.94 3.90 33.88 Greatest in 24 hours " 1.94 1.43 1.18 .70 1.18 .16 .12 .17 .58 .72 1.11 1.57 Snow Total snowfall Inches 33.1 58.5 18.7 3.6 Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 3.5 16.9 134.3 On ground 15th " 11.6 9.3 7.6 Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 1.9 On ground 30th " 10.4 13.2 Trace Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 7.4 Number of Days per Month With .01 in. or more precip. 10.8 9.5 8.4 5.5 4.9 2.0 1.1 1.4 2.4 3.6 5.4 5.9 61. Clear 11.3 11.4 13.8 13.2 18.6 24.8 26.6 25.2 21.8 19.9 16.3 14.2 217. Partly cloudy 8.1 7.3 8.7 8.9 6.6 2.8 3.0 2.9 4.3 5.4 6.7 6.7 71. Cloudy 11.6 9.6 8.4 8.8 5.2 2.5 1.4 2.8 4.0 5.7 7.0 10.7 77.

TABLE OF LAKES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITH FISHING NOTES

LaKE. SpEciES of Trout. FiShiNg. Adair Lake Golden Trout, 1919 ? Arndt Lake None No fish Babcock Lake Rainbow (Date unknown), Good Steelhead, 1919 Bearup Lake Loch Leven (Date unknown) Fair Benson Lake Species unknown, 1897 Good Loch Leven, 1905 Rainbow, 1905 Bernice Lake Eastern Brook, 1917 Good Loch Leven, 1913 Branigan Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Good

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Breeze Lake Loch Leven, 1905 Poor Eastern Brook, 1917 Rainbow, 1917 Buena Vista Lake Eastern Brook, 1892, 1908, 1918, 1919 Excellent Rainbow, 1892 Cathedral Lake Eastern Brook, 1897, 1915 Poor Chain o’ Lakes (near Dolly Varden, (Date unknown) Good Fernandez Pass) (3) Chiquito Lake1 None No fish Crescent Lake Eastern Brook, 1891, 1909, 1911 Poor Doe Lake No fish No fish Dog Lake Eastern Brook, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919 Good Rainbow, 1920 Loch Leven, 1920 Dorothy Lake Rainbow, 1911, 1913 Fair Echo Lake Eastern Brook, 1913 Fair Edith Lake None No fish Edna Lake Brown Trout, 1905 ? Eleanor Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Excellent Eastern Brook, 1908 Elizabeth Lake Eastern Brook, 1907 Good Ellery Lake1 ? Good Emeric Lake Steelhead, 1919 Good Emigrant Lake1 Loch Leven (Date unknown) Good Evelyn Lake Loch Leven, 1913 Poor Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Eastern Brook, 1913 Fletcher Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Poor Loch Leven, 1913 Flora Lake None No fish Gabriel Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) No fish Gaylor Lakes (5) Rainbow, 1906 Good Cutthroat (Date unknown) Givens Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) No fish Grant Lakes (2) Easter Brook, 1918 Good Steelhead, 1918 Grouse Lake Rainbow, 1917 Good Harden Lake None No fish Harriet Lake None No fish Helen Lake (Near None No fish Mt. Starr King) Helen Lake (Near Kuna None No fish Crest Hidden Lake None No fish Huckleberry Lake1 Loch Leven (Date unknown) Good Ireland Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Excellent Irwin Lake Rainbow, 1912 Fair Johnson Lake Rainbow, 1897 Excellent Eastern Brook, 1891, 1911, 1917, 1919 Kibbie Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Good Laurel Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Good http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/appendix.html[2/12/2013 10:05:45 AM] Appendix, Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) by Ansel F. Hall

Rainbow (Date unknown) Lillian Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Lost Lake None No fish Lukens Lake None No fish Mary Lake Rainbow, 1911 Fair Mattie Lake None No fish May Lake Eastern Brook, 1908, 1917 Good Loch Leven, 1908 Rainbow, 1908, 1913 McCabe Lakes (5) Loch Leven, 1920 ? McGee Lake Rainbow, 1913 Poor Eastern Brook, 1916, 1917 Merced Lake Brown Trout, 1905 Good Loch Leven, 1905, 1918 Species unknown, 1908 Mildred Lake Species and date unknown Good Miller Lake Species unknown, 1911 ? Minnow Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Good Murdock Lake None No fish Neall Lake Species and date unknown Good Onion Lake None No fish Ostrander Lake Rainbow, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1911 Good Eastern Brook, 1893, 1899 Cutthroat (Date unknown) Peeler Lake1 Cutthroat Excellent Rock Island Lake None No fish Rodgers Lake Rainbow, 1907 Excellent Loch Leven, 1907 Royal Arch Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Excellent Rutherford Lake1 Rainbow (Date unknown) Excellent Eastern Brook, 1905 Saddlebag Lake1 Species and date unknown Good Shamrock Lake None No fish Sister Lake None No fish Smedberg Lake No record Poor Snow Lake None No fish Soldier Lake None No fish Spiller Lake Species unknown, 1875 Poor Summit Lake1 Species and date unknown Poor Surprise Lake None No fish Swamp Lake (Near McGill None No fish Meadow) Swamp Lake (Near None No fish Gravelly Ford Table Lake None No fish Tallulah Lake None No fish Tenaya Lake Eastern Brook, 1909, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Fair Rainbow, 1911, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Loch Leven, 1911, 1920 Cutthroat, 1918, 1919 Steelhead, 1919

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Ten Lakes (10) Eastern Brook, 1908, 1913, 1915, 1918 Good Loch Leven, 1908 Steelhead, 1918 Tilden Lake Species unknown, 1905, 1911 Good Rainbow, 1912 Tioga Lake1 Species and date unknown Good Twin Lakes Species and date unknown ? Vernon Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Good Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Virginia Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Virginia Lakes1 Species and date unknown Good Vogelsang Lake Loch Leven, 1913 None Eastern Brook, 1918 Washburn Lake Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Loch Leven, 1905 Species unknown, 1908 Wilmer Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Young Lake Eastern Brook, 1914 Good Rainbow, 1914 Unnamed chain of Lakes Loch Leven, 1911 ? near Lake Eleanor (4) Unnamed lake 1 mi. west of Loch Leven, 1913 ? Parsons Peak Unnamed lake at the Cutthroat, 1919 ? source of Emeric Creek Golden, 1920 Unnamed lakes just Rainbow. 1912 ? west of Schofield Peak Unnamed lake near Eastern Brook, 1918 No fishing Vogelsang Pass Unnamed lakes (2) near Eastern Brook, 1917 Good Bernice Lake

1 = Outside park boundaries.

Besides the lakes listed above (112 in the Park and 10 just outside) the U. S. G. S. "Topographic Map of Yosemite National Park" shows 317 other unnamed lakes—mostly small—within the Park. The total number of lakes within the Park is 429.

TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITH FISHING NOTES

StrEaM. SpEciES of Trout. FiShiNg. Alder Creek Eastern Brook, 1891 Fish plentiful Loch Leven, 1897 but small Rainbow (Date unknown) Alkali Creek None No fishing Avalanche Creek None No fishing Babcock Creek Rainbow, 1896 Fair Eastern Brook, 1905 Big Creek Species unknown, 1905 ? Big Meadow Creek None No fishing Bishop Creek Rainbow, 1896 Poor Bluejay Creek None No fishing

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Breeze Creek Rainbow, 1896 Good Bridalveil Creek Rainbow, 1892, 1899, 1905 Good Eastern Brook, 1893, 1899 Buck Creek None No fishing Budd Creek None No fishing Buena Vista Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Camp Creek None No fishing Cascade Creek Eastern Brook, 1897 Fish all small Cathedral Creek Eastern Brook, 1917 Plentiful but Rainbow, 1920 small Cherry Creek1 Species and date unknown Good Chilnualna Creek Eastern Brook, 1892, 1899 Fish plentiful Rainbow, 1892, 1899 but small Conness Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Crane Creek Rainbow, 1915, 1916, 1917 Fish all small Dana Fork Tuolumne R Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Delaney Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Poor Dingley Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Poor Eagle Peak Creek None No fish Echo Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 --- Eleanor Creek Species and date unknown Good Falls Creek Rainbow, 1913 Good Fletcher Creek E. Brook (Date unknown) Good Florence Creek ? ? Foerster Creek None No fish Frog Creek Rainbow, 1905 Good Givens Creek None No fish Gray Creek None No fish Grouse Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Illilouette Creek, near mouth Cutthroat, 1918 Good Illilouette Creek, above Eastern Brook, 1893 Good Valley rim Rainbow, 1893, 1905 Illilouette Creek, Clark Fork Rainbow, 1905 Good Indian Creek, near Chinquapin Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Indian Creek, Indian Canyon None No fish Ireland Creek None No fish Jack Main Creek Rainbow, 11905 Good Kerrick Creek Species unknown, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1906 Kibbie Creek None No fishing Leevining Creek1 Species and date unknown Good Lilly Creek None No fishing Little Crane Creek Species and date unknown Fair Little Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1891, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1891, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917 Lyell Fork, Merced R. Eastern Brook, 1908 Good Rainbow, 1908 Lyell Fork, Tuolumne River Eastern Brook, 1879, 1919 Good Rainbow, 1896, 1915 Cutthroat, 1896

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Tahoe Trout, 1896 Matterhorn Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Merced River, Eastern Brook, 1918, 1919 Good at El Portal at Yosemite Valley Rainbow, 1909, 1912, 1917 Fair Brown Trout, 1905, 11920 Loch Leven, 1912 Dolly Varden (Date unknown) Steelhead, 1917 Cutthroat, 1918, 1919 Eastern Brook, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 at Little Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1891, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1891, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917 Merced River, McClure Fork Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Merced River, Lyell Fork Rainbow, 1908 Good Eastern Brook, 1908 Merced River, South Fork Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Brown Trout (Date unknown) Eastern Brook, 1899 at Gravelly Ford Cutthroat, 1895 Good near Buck Camp Eastern Brook, 1899 Good Rainbow, 1899 Miller Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 Good Moss Creek Rainbow, 1915 Fish plentiful Eastern Brook (Date unknown) but small Murphy Creek Species and date unknown Fair North Crane Creek Species and date unknown Fish all small Ottoway Creek None No fish Pigeon Creek None No fish Piute Creek Rainbow, 1896 Good Eastern Brook, 1903, 1905 Porcupine Creek Species unknown, 1897 Fish all small Rafferty Creek None No fishing Rancheria Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Red Creek None No fish Register Creek None No fish Return Creek Eastern Brook, 1896, 1913 Poor Ribbon Creek None No fish Rodgers Canyon Cr. Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Rush Creek (Merced) Rainbow, 1892, 1897 Poor Unknown, 1905 Sentinel Creek None No fishing Slide Canyon Cr. None No fishing Smith Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 Fish all small Snow Creek Species and date unknown Fish all small Spiller Creek None No fishing Stubblefield Canyon Cr. None No fishing Sunrise Creek Species and date unknown Poor Tamarack Creek Eastern Brook, 1896, 1920 Fish all small Rainbow or Cutthroat, 1919 Tenaya Creek in Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1907 Fair Valley Rainbow, 1909

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Thompson Canyon Cr. None No fish Tilden Canyon Cr. Species and date unknown Good Tiltill Creek Species unknown, 1897 Fair Eastern Brook, 1905 Tripple Creek Eastern Brook. 1907 Good Tuolumne River Tahoe Trout, 1896 Good at Hetch Hetchy Cutthroat, 1896 Rainbow, 1896, 1906 Eastern Brook, 1906 at Conness Creek Cutthroat, 1896 Good at Soda Springs Tahoe, 1895 Good Loch Leven, 1920 Rainbow. 1896, 1915, 1920 Tuolumne River, Lyell Tahoe, 1896 Good Fork Rainbow, 1896, 1915 Eastern Brook, 1897, 1899, 1919 Cutthroat, 1896 Tuolumne River, Dana Rainbow (Date not known) Good Fork Tuolumne River, Middle Loch Leven, 1897 Good Fork Eastern Brook, 1906, 1917, 1918, 1919 Tuolumne River, South Species unknown, 1905 Good Fork Rainbow, 1899 Eastern Brook, 1906, 1917, 1918, 919 Virginia Canyon Cr. Loch Leven, 1920 ? Rainbow, 1920 Wilson Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 ? Yosemite Creek Eastern Brook, 1893, 1897, 1917 Fair Rainbow, 1893, 1905 Cutthroat, 1897

1 = Outside park boundaries.

THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES

In using the following key the trees are eliminated by groups until the species is finally determined. For example: We may first examine the leaves to determine whether they are in bundles or arranged singly on the branchlets; this will eliminate the large group "I" or "II." If the tree falls in group "I" we then determine whether there are 5, 3, 2, or 1 needles in a sheath; this will put the tree in class "A," "B," "C," or "D." If the species falls in class "A" it may be further traced by comparing the characteristics listed under subdivisions "1," "2," and "3"; these will determine the species.

KEY TO THE CONE-BEARING TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

(All have needle-like, awl-like, or scale-like leaves)

I.—Leaves in bundles with a sheath around the base (Pines)

A—Needles in bundles of 5 (White Pines)

1—Cone large (12 to 24 in.). Bark red-brown, in large plates, and flaky. Alt. 4000 to 7000.

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SUGAR PINE . . . Pinus lambertiana

2—Cone medium (6 to 10 in.). Bark dark gray and in small 5-sided plates. Alt. 7500 to 9500.

WESTERN WHITE PINE . . . Pinus monticola

3—Cone small (about the size of a hen’s egg) and hard. Bark white and smooth. Alt. 9000 to 11,000.

WHITE BARK PINE . . . Pinus albicaulis

B—Needles in bundles of 3 (Yellow pines)

1—Foliage silver-gray. Small or medium-size tree, generally branching into several main trunks. Cones large (5 to 8 in.), heavy, and armed with stout hooks. Alt. only below 3000.

DIGGER PINE . . . Pinus sabiniana

2—Foliage green. Tree large and generally with but one main trunk. Bark in large plates and flaky. Alt. 2000 to 8000.

(a)—Cones 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 in. long. Foliage green. Bark yellow-brown.

WESTERN YELLOW PINE . . . Pinus ponderosa

(b)—Cones 5 1/2 to 11 in. long. Foliage blue-green. Bark reddish brown. Generally at higher altitudes than western yellow pine.

JEFFREY PINE . . . Pinus jeffreyi

C—Needles in bundles of 2. Cones small (3/4 to 2 1/2 in.). Small tree (average 70 ft. tall and 2 ft. in dia.). Bark purple-gray and in flakes (not plates).

LODGEPOLE PINE OR "TAMARACK" . . . Pinus contorta

D—Needles one in a sheath. Cones small (2 to 3 in.) but seeds large. Tree small. Occurs entirely on eastern slope of Sierra Nevada except one tree in Pate Valley.

PINYON OR NUT PINE . . . Pinus monophylla

II.—Leaves not in bundles.

A—Leaves linear (i.e., needle-like.) Bark never fibrous or stringy.

1—Fruit a cone.

(a)—Cones erect and occur only near tops of trees. Leaves without petioles (leaf stalks). (Firs)

I—Bark of old trees gray and deeply furrowed. Needles on lower branches spread flat (2-ranked). Alt. 4000 to 8000.

WHITE FIR . . . Abies concolor

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II—Bark of old trees red and roughened by vertical and transverse fissures. Needles all around branchlets and curved up. Alt. above 7000.

RED FIR . . . Abies magnifica

(b)—Cones pendent. Leaves with petioles.

I—Cone medium sized (2 to 4 in.) and with trident-shaped bracts sticking from between the scales. Tip of tree erect. Alt. 3000 to 6000.

DOUGLAS FIR . . . Pseudotsuga taxifolia

II—Cone small (i in.) and without exserted bracts. Tip of tree drooping. Alt. only above 8500.

MOUNTAIN HEMLOCK . . . Tsuga mertensiana

2—Fruit a drupe (like a plum) with a kernel much like a nutmeg when dried. Needles sharp- pointed and two-ranked. Small tree occurring in the canyon of the Merced only below Cascade Falls.

CALIFORNIA NUTMEG . . . Tumion californicum

B—Leaves scale-like or awl-like. Bark of all older trees fibrous and stringy.

1—Fruit a blue berry (really a modified cone). Leaves scale-like and closely pressed around twigs. Spray round. Inhabits open rocky sites above 7000 ft. alt.

WESTERN JUNIPER . . . Juniperus occidentalis

2—Fruit a true cone.

(a)—Cones medium size (1 1/2 to 3 in.) and with many scales. Needles of lower branches awl-like. Mature trees very large. Occurs only in scattered groves, the nearest of which is 17 1/2 miles from Yosemite.

GIANT SEQUOIA . . . Sequoia gigantea

(b)—Cones small (i inch or less) and with only 5 (apparently 3) scales. Needles scale-like and decurrent (i.e., with a portion of their bases fastened along the branchlets). Trees up to 5 feet in diameter. Spray flattened. Occurs abundantly in Yosemite Valley and up to 8000 ft. alt.

INCENSE CEDAR . . . Libocedrus decurrens

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http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park/handbook_of_yosemite_national_park.brf[2/12/2013 10:06:18 AM] Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Ansel F. Hall Copyright, 1921 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Table of Contents Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall...... 1 Overview...... 1 Contents...... 1 About the Editor...... 3 Bibliographical Information...... 4

Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall...... 5 r HANDBOOK OFr r YOSEMITE NATIONALr r PARKr...... 6 r A COMPENDIUM OF ARTICLES ON THEr r YOSEMITE REGION BY THE LEADINGr r SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITIESr...... 6

Introductory Note...... 8 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Ansel F. Hall...... 8 INTRODUCTORY NOTE...... 8

Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall...... 10 CONTENTS...... 10

Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall...... 13 ILLUSTRATIONS...... 13

History of the Yosemite Region...... 15 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Ralph S. Kuykendall...... 15 HISTORY OF THE YOSEMITE REGION...... 15 THE MARIPOSA INDIAN WAR...... 16 DISCOVERY OF YOSEMITE VALLEY...... 17 SECOND EXPEDITION TO YOSEMITE...... 18 EXPEDITION OF 1852...... 21 DEATH OF TENAYA...... 21 EARLY DEVELOPMENT...... 22 AN HISTORIC SAWMILL...... 23 CREATION OF STATE PARK...... 24 ADMINISTRATION OF STATE COMMISSIONERS...... 25 MAPPING THE YOSEMITE REGION...... 26 THE TRAIL OF THE MINER...... 27 THE RÉGIME OF THE SHEEPHERDER...... 28 CREATION OF NATIONAL PARK...... 29 THE WORK OF THE SOLDIERS...... 29 PLANTING TROUT IN YOSEMITE WATERS...... 30 REVISING THE BOUNDARIES...... 31 RECESSION OF STATE PARK...... 32 THE SIERRA CLUB...... 33 HETCH HETCHY: EARLY HISTORY...... 34 HETCH HETCHY: THE SAN FRANCISCO WATER SUPPLY...... 35 RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN THE PARK...... 36 THE NEW YOSEMITE...... 37 REFERENCES1...... 38

i Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Table of Contents Indians of Yosemite...... 40 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by A. L. Kroeber...... 40 INDIANS OF YOSEMITE...... 40 ORIGIN...... 41 DECREASE OF NUMBERS...... 42 FOOD: THE ACORN...... 42 r THE BOW: HUNTING AND WARr...... 44 r HABITATIONSr...... 45 r THE NAME YOSEMITEr...... 46 r VILLAGES IN YOSEMITEr...... 47 r ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICANS: TENAYAr...... 47 r MARRIAGEr...... 48 r BABIESr...... 50 r DEATH AND MOURNINGr...... 50 r MEDICINE-MENr...... 51 r MYTHS AND ORIGIN BELIEFSr...... 51 r LEGENDS OF YOSEMITEr...... 52 REFERENCES...... 53

Ideals and Policy of the National Park Service...... 55 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Stephen T. Mather...... 55 r THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONALr r PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATIONr r TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKr...... 55

"Administration of Yosemite National Park"...... 62 r Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by W. B. Lewis...... 62 ADMINISTRATION OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 62

Geology of Yosemite National Park...... 68 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Andrew C. Lawson...... 68 GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 68 REFERENCES...... 78

Life Zones of the Yosemite Region...... 80 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer...... 80 LIFE ZONES OF THE YOSEMITE REGION...... 80 REFERENCES...... 83

Some Birds of Yosemite National Park...... 86 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer...... 86 SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 86 REFERENCES...... 95

Some Mammals of Yosemite National Park...... 98 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer...... 98 SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 98 REFERENCES...... 109

ii Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Table of Contents Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park...... 111 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer...... 111 REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 111 REFERENCES...... 114

The Fishes of Yosemite National Park...... 116 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Barton Warren Evermann...... 116 THE FISHES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 116 CUTTHROAT TROUT...... 119 TAHOE TROUT...... 119 STEELHEAD...... 120 RAINBOW TROUT...... 121 SHASTA TROUT...... 123 r THE GOLDEN TROUT OF THE SOUTHERNr r HIGH SIERRAr...... 124 GOLDEN TROUT...... 125 BROWN TROUT...... 126 LOCH LEVEN TROUT...... 126 EASTERN BROOK TROUT...... 127 DOLLY VARDEN TROUT...... 128 REFERENCES...... 129

Insects of Yosemite National Park...... 131 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Edwin C. Van Dyke...... 131 INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 131 REFERENCES...... 138

Trees of Yosemite National Park...... 140 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Ansel F. Hall...... 140 TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 140 REFERENCES...... 149

The Giant Sequoia...... 151 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Willis Linn Jepson...... 151 THE GIANT SEQUOIA...... 151 REFERENCES...... 158

Flowers of Yosemite National Park...... 160 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Willis Linn Jepson...... 160 FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1...... 160 REFERENCES...... 171

Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park...... 173 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Raymond H. Bailey...... 173 CAMPING AND MOUNTAINEERING INr r YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 173 r The Camping Seasonr...... 175 r Where to Campr...... 175 r How to Gor...... 176 r What to Taker...... 178

iii Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Table of Contents Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park r What can be Supplied in Yosemiter...... 183 r On the Trailr...... 184 r In Campr...... 186 r Mountaineeringr...... 187 r Sierra Characteristicsr...... 188 r Near-by Yosemite Peaksr...... 188 r High Sierra Peaksr...... 189 r REFERENCESr...... 191

Motoring in Yosemite National Park...... 194 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Wallace B. Curtis...... 194 MOTORING IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 194

Photography in Yosemite National Park...... 198 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Arthur C. Pillsbury...... 198 PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 198

Appendix...... 202 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)r by Ansel F. Hall...... 202 APPENDIX...... 202 THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OF YOSEMITEr r VALLEY...... 202 r WEATHER REPORT SUMMARY, YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA—AVERAGE FOR ELEVEN YEARS (1909r TO 1919 INCLUSIVE)r...... 203 r TABLE OF LAKES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr...... 204 r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr...... 207 THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES...... 211 KEY TO THE CONE-BEARING TREES OFr r YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK...... 211

Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall...... 218 Overview...... 218 Contents...... 218 About the Editor...... 220 Bibliographical Information...... 221

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r Next: Introductory Noter r r r Overview r r r Ansel F. Hall edited Handbook of Yosemite National Parkr after arriving at Yosemite in 1920.r The young National Park Service was just established in 1916,r and Ansel Hall, on his own initiative, established the Yosemite Museumr and began continuous, innovativer interpretative programs in Yosemite National Park.r Various sections of the Handbook were written by specialistsr in various fields, such as Willis Linn Jepson’s chapters on plantsr or A. L. Kroeber’s section on Yosemite Indians.r While some chapters drag on with too much detailr on park telephone lines and NPS badge designs,r others, such as Kroeber’s “Indians of Yosemite,”r provide concise, authoritative information in a readable, interesting style.r r r r Keep in mind that since this book was published in 1921,r many new discoveries have been made in Yosemite Park history and science.r That said, most of the ideas and facts given in the Handbookr are still relevant to Yosemite National Park today.r r r

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Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall 1 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r • Table of Contents

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r • History of the Yosemite Regionr by Ralph S. Kuykendall

r • Indians of Yosemiter by A. L. Kroeber

r • Ideals and Policy of the National Park Servicer by Stephen T. Mather

r • Administration of Yosemite National Parkr by W. B. Lewis

r • Geology of Yosemite National Parkr by Andrew C. Lawson

r • Life Zones of the Yosemite Regionr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Some Birds of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Some Mammals of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • The Fishes of Yosemite National Parkr by Barton Warren Evermann

r • Insects of Yosemite National Parkr by Edwin C. Van Dyke

r • Trees of Yosemite National Parkr by Ansel F. Hall

r • The Giant Sequoiar by Willis Linn Jepson

r • Flowers of Yosemite National Parkr by Willis Linn Jepson

r • Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Parkr by Raymond H. Bailey

Contents 2 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r • Motoring in Yosemite National Parkr by Wallace B. Curtis

r • Photography in Yosemite National Parkr by Arthur C. Pillsbury

r • Appendixr [Weather,r Lakes,r Streams, &r Tree Identification]r

r • Map of Yosemite National Park rr r r r r About the Editor r r

r r r r r Ansel F. Hallr r (Merrie Winkler Collection)r r r r r Ansel F. Hall was born May 6, 1894 in Oakland, California.r He graduated in 1917 from University of California in forestry.r He served first in Sequoia National Park as a ranger,r then served during World War I in France.r After the war, he was a park naturalist in Yosemite National Parkr during 1920 to 1923, when he wrote the Handbook.r He established innovative interpretative program in Yosemite,r started the Yosemite Museum Association, made geological models,r native crafts, and mounted natural history specimens.r Mr. Hall rose in the ranks as chief naturalistr of the Park Service and similar positions.r Ansel Hall wrote two other books on Yosemite.r Guide to Yosemite (1920)r describes trails in the park (98 pages and map).r r Yosemite Valley: An Intimate Guide (1920)r is a pocket book that describes the valley for touristsr (90 pages, maps, and illustrations).r Mr. Hall married June Alexander in 1924, and they had 6 children,r including triplets.r He left the park service in 1938 to operate concessionsr in Mesa Verde National Park.r Later he worked as a consultant in park design and interpretationr and wrote books on the topic.r Ansel Hall died suddenly in 1962.r Ar r biographical sketch of Ansel Hallr by John Bingaman isr inr r Guardians of the Yosemite (1961), p. 111.rr r

About the Editor 3 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Bibliographical Information r r Hall, Ansel Franklin (1894-1962)r Handbook of Yosemite National Park:r a compendium of articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authoritiesr (New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921).r 347 pp. ill. folded map. 20 cm.r Brown cloth covering with ivory and black lettering and cover art.r Dust jacket with green lettering and art.r LCCN 21014069.r Library of Congress Call No. F 868.Y6 H18r r r r Digitized by Dan Anderson, August 2004, from a copy in the UCSD Library.r These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose,r provided this notice is left intact.r r —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.usr r r r r r r r r

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r r r PLATE Ir r Yosemite Valley from Old Inspiration Point. The view which greeted the men of the Mariposar r Battalion on March 21, 1851 when they entered this valley of Awahneer r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r r

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r COMPILED AND EDITED BYr r ANSEL F. HALLr r r U. S. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,r r FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN FORESTRY, A E F UNIVERSITY,r r BEAUNE, FRANCE.r r r r

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r Next: Table of Contentsr •r Contentsr •r Previous: Title Pager r r r r r INTRODUCTORY NOTE r r r Yosemite National Parkr needs no introductionr to the American public. Much has been written inr appreciation of "The Valley Incomparable" and ofr the eleven hundred square miles of scenic Highr Sierra which have been set aside as a playground forr the people.r r r r Men like Le Conte and Muir were as "a voicer crying in the wilderness" telling the outside worldr of the wonders of the region; others have writtenr of its trails and its scenery; there still remains ther task, however, of satisfying the thousands who nowr ask for definite information concerning the history,r ethnology, botany, geology, camp- and trail-craft,r natural history, and related subjects so well exemplifiedr by the Park. Obviously no one may can ber a master of all these branches of knowledge, so ther Editor presents this collection of articles, each byr an eminent authority.r r r r Acknowledgment and sincere thanks are due tor the scientists whose coöperation has made thisr volume possible. These contributors are so wellr known in their respective fields of science that theyr need no introduction. The Editor is indebted tor many others who have supplied photographs and tor Messrs. Herbert Maier and Duncan Dunning whoser drawings appear as chapter headings.r r r r r This little volume is offered with the hope that itr will point the way to the better understanding andr the fuller enjoyment of the Yosemite region.r r r

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page Introductory Noter v r r History of the Yosemite Regionr 3 r By Ralph S. Kuykendall,r N.S.G.W., Fellow in Pacific Coast History,r University of Californiar r r Indians of Yosemiter 51 r By A. L. Kroeber,r Professor of Anthropology and Curator of ther Anthropological Museum, University of Californiar r r Ideals and Policy of the National Park Servicer 77 r By Stephen T. Mather,r Director, U. S. National Park Servicer r r Administration of Yosemite National Parkr 89 r By W. B. Lewis,r Superintendent, Yosemite National Parkr r r Geology of Yosemite National Parkr 99 r By Andrew C. Lawson,r Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Californiar r r Life Zones of the Yosemite Regionr 125 r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director, andr Tracy Irwin Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r Some Birds of Yosemite National Parkr 135

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r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director, andr Tracy Irwin Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r Some Mammals of Yosemite National Parkr 155 r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director, andr Tracy Irwin Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Parkr 177 r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director, andr Tracy Irwin Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r The Fishes of Yosemite National Parkr 185 r By Barton Warren Evermann,r Director, Museum, California Academy of Sciencesr r r Insects of Yosemite National Parkr 205 r By Edwin C. Van Dyke,r Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of Californiar r r Trees of Yosemite National Parkr 221 r By Ansel F. Hall,r U. S. National Park Servicer r r The Giant Sequoiar 237 r By Willis Linn Jepson,r Professor of Botany, University of Californiar r r Flowers of Yosemite National Parkr 249 r By Willis Linn Jepson,r Professor of Botany, University of Californiar r r Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Parkr 271 r By Raymond H. Bailey,r Manager of the Camping Tours Department,r Yosemite National Park Co.r r r Motoring in Yosemite National Parkr 307 r By Wallace B. Curtis,r Associate Manager, Curry Camping Companyr r r r Photography in Yosemite National Parkr 313 r By Arthur C. Pillsbury,r Yosemite, Californiar r r 319

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facingr plate page I— Yosemite Valley from Old Inspiration Point Frontispiece II— Tenaya Lake, Where the Last Remnant of the Yosemite Tribe was Captured 16 III— Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls 32 IV— Francisco, a Yosemite Indian, in Dance Costume 56 V— Miwok Woman Pounding Acorns in Bedrock Mortar Holer 64 r Kalapine, an Old Yosemite Medicine Woman, Making a Coiled Basket VI— Two Yosemite Domes. Mount Star King and Half Dome 104 VII— Lyell Canyon with Mount Lyell and its Glacier Several Miles Distant 112 VIII— Male Western Warbling Vireo on the Nest 136 IX— The Water Ouzel 144 X— Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 156 XI— Mountain Lion or Cougar 160 XII— American Black Bear 164 XIII— The California Gray Squirrel, Tahoe Chipmunk, and Pacific Rattlesnake 168 XIV— Some Trout of Yosemite National Park 186 XV— Some Trout of Yosemite National Park 192 XVI— Some Butterflies and Moths of Yosemite National Park 208 XVII— Some Beetles, Wasps, and Flies of Yosemite National Park 216 XVIII— Yosemite Forest of Pine, Fir, Incense Cedar, and Sequoia 222 XIX— Red Fir-White Fir Forest on the Pohono Trail 224 XX— Western Juniper Trees at Benson Lake 228 XXI— Mountain Hemlocks on Rim of Matterhorn Canyon 232 XXII— Big Tree Cabin in the Mariposa Grove 238 XXIII— Typical Forest in the Mariposa Grove 244 XXIV— Washington Lily 250 XXV— Red Heather, Evening Primrose, and Indian Paint Brush 256

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History of the Yosemite Region 15 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r Itr r is probable that the first white men to look uponr Yosemite Valley were members of the Joseph R.r Walker expedition of 1833, which descended ther western slope of the Sierra Nevada along the ridger between the Merced and the Tuolumne rivers. Butr the best contemporary evidence makes it clear thatr this party did not go down into the Valley. Therer are vague reports of hunters having entered ther Valley as early as 1844, but the effective discovery ofr the Yosemite was made in 1851 by members of ther Mariposa Battalion while in pursuit of hostile Indians.r r r

THE MARIPOSA INDIAN WAR r r r r When white men flocked into the foothills of ther Sierra in search of gold it was not long before difficultiesr arose with the Indians. On this frontier wasr repeated the old story of the red man’s fight to keepr possession of his ancestral home. The struggle wasr short, since the California Indians were not capabler of maintaining a long contest. In this connection wer are concerned with only that part of the struggler which is known as the Mariposa Indian War.r r r r r r In the beginning of 1850, James D. Savage had ar trading post and mining camp on the Merced Riverr some twenty miles below Yosemite Valley, whichr was at that time unknown to the whites. During ther spring of that year Indians came down the river andr made an attack on this post. They were driven off,r but Savage thought it best to abandon the place andr remove his store to Mariposa Creek. He also establishedr a branch post on the Fresno River and at bothr places built up a prosperous trade. Savage had severalr Indian wives and obtained quite a remarkabler influence over the tribes with which he was connected.r But there were malcontents among them and ther tribes in the mountains were suspicious and easilyr incited to acts of hostility.r r r r On December 17, 1850, Savage’s Indians desertedr the Mariposa camp and on the same or the followingr day his post on the Fresno was attacked and two ofr the three men there present were killed. Adamr Johnston, the Indian agent, visited the place twor days later and describes it as "a horrid scene of savager cruelty. The Indians had destroyed everything theyr could not use, or carry with them. The store wasr stripped of blankets, clothing, flour, and everythingr of value; the safe was broken open and rifled of itsr contents; the cattle, horses, and mules had been runr into the mountains; the murdered men had beenr stripped of their clothing and lay before us filled withr arrows; one of them had yet 20 perfect arrows stickingr in him." Several similar outrages occurred soonr after and signalized the beginning of a general Indianr war.r r r r Under these circumstances the white settlers tookr prompt action to protect themselves. Under the leadr r r r of Sheriff James Burney and James D. Savage, a volunteerr company was formed, January 6, 1851, withr Burney in command. This force had several indecisiver skirmishes with the Indians. Meanwhile ther governor was appealed to and he at once authorizedr Sheriff Burney to call out two hundred militiamen andr organize a battalion for service as the emergencyr might demand. Under this authorization the Mariposar Battalion was formed February 10th, at Savage’sr partially ruined store on Mariposa Creek. Savage wasr elected major, and three companies were organizedr under command of Captains John J. Kuykendall,r John Bowling, and

HISTORY OF THE YOSEMITE REGION 16 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall William Dill. Headquarters werer established on Mariposa Creek and here the battalionr was drilled in preparation for the campaign, and occasionalr scouting forays were made into the enemy’sr country.r r r r About this time the United States Indian Commissioners,r McKee, Barbour, and Wozencraft arrived inr California with instructions to make treaties with ther Indian tribes. It was agreed that the commissionersr would go at once to the disaffected region and endeavorr to treat with the hostile tribes, and that ther volunteer battalion which had been raised should ber subject to their directions. If negotiations failed,r force would be used to bring the Indians to terms.r The commissioners arrived at the Mariposa campr about the first of March, and immediately sent outr runners inviting the various tribes to come in andr have a talk. A meeting was arranged for the ninth ofr arch, and on the nineteenth a treaty was made withr six tribes, which were at once removed to a reservationr between the Merced and the Tuolumne rivers. Ther commissioners then went on to talk with the tribesr r r r south of the Merced River, and left part of the volunteerr battalion to deal with the Indians who hadr refused to enter into the treaty.r r r r Among these were the Yosemites, and reportsr brought in by friendly Indians indicated that they hadr no intention of coming in to make peace. It wasr therefore deemed necessary to send a military forcer after them.r r r r On the evening of March nineteenth, the very dayr on which the treaty was signed, Major Savage setr out with the companies of Captains Bowling and Dill.r "The march was over rugged mountains and throughr deep defiles covered with snows and was one of considerabler exposure and hardship. . . . Part of ther march was exceedingly difficult and dangerous. Itr lay along a deep canyon and a part of it had to ber made through the water and a part over precipitousr cliffs covered with snow and ice."r r r r On the morning of the twenty-second, a Nuchu rancheria,r on the South Fork of the Merced River wasr surprised and captured without a fight. At thisr point a camp was established and messengers werer sent ahead to the Yosemites with a request that theyr come into camp. Next day the old Chief Tenaya camer in alone, and after an interview with Savage promisedr that if allowed to return to his people he would bringr them in. Part of the tribe came in and Tenaya wasr sent with them to the camp on the South Fork.r r r

DISCOVERY OF YOSEMITE VALLEY r r r r In order to round up the remainder, Savage tookr one of the young braves as a guide and continued hisr march toward the north. Within a short time ther r r r r company came to old Inspiration Point and the fullr view of the Valley was presented to their gaze. Itr must be confessed, however, that the scenic wonderr of this valley made a very slight impression on theser rough men of action, and without much ado theyr hastened down the trail and camped for the night onr the south side of the Merced River, a little belowr El Capitan. The day of the discovery was Marchr 25, 1851.r

THE MARIPOSA INDIAN WAR 17 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r As the tired campaigners sat about the camp firer that night the events of the day were passed in reviewr and the question arose of giving a name to the valleyr which they had found. Dr. L. H. Bunnell, uponr whom the scenes and events of this campaign made ar deeper impression than upon any of the others, suggestedr the appropriateness of naming it after ther aborigines who dwelt there. The suggestion wasr greed to after some good-natured banter, and sincer the white men called these Indians Yosemites ther name Yosemite was given to the Valleyr r r r The next day was spent in a search of the Valley,r but no Indians were found save an ancient squaw whor was too old and decrepit to make her escape. Indianr huts, evidently deserted but a few hours before, andr large caches of acorns and other provisions werer found and destroyed. The Valley was thoroughlyr explored by the volunteers, one party going up Tenayar Creek beyond Mirror Lake and another ascending ther Merced to a point above Nevada Fall. The searchr proving fruitless and the supplies running low it wasr decided to abandon the chase and return to the campr on the South Fork. From there the Indians who hadr been gathered together were started toward the commissionersr on the Fresno, but before theyr r r r arrived at their destination the negligence of the guardr permitted them to escape and they returned to theirr mountain fastnesses.r r r

SECOND EXPEDITION TO YOSEMITE r r r r Early in May, Captain Bowling and his men werer sent out a second time in pursuit of the Yosemites.r His orders from Major Savage were to "surprise themr and whip them well," and in case that proved impossibler then to use any means in his power to inducer them to come down and treat. The following accountr of this expedition is quoted from Captain Bowling’sr report in the form of two letters, one of which isr beyond any question the first letter ever written inr the Yosemite Valley. Writing from the "Yo-Semetyr Village, May 15, 1851," he says1:r r [1r The following authentic account was recently found by the authorr in the San Francisco Alta California for June 12 and 14, 1851,r and differs in some details from the narratives presented in Bunnell’sr Discovery of the Yosemiter and Hutchings’r In the Heart of ther Sierras. Editor’s note.]r r r r r "On reaching this valley, which we did on ther 9th instant, I selected for our encampment the mostr secluded place that I could find, lest our arrival mightr be discovered by the Indians. Spies were immediatelyr dispatched in different directions, some of whichr crossed the river to examine for signs on the oppositer side. Trails were soon found, leading up and downr the river, which had been made since the last rain.r On the morning of the 10th we took up the line ofr march for the upper end of the valley, and havingr traveled about 5 miles we discovered five Indiansr running up the river on the north side. All of myr r r r companions, except a sufficient number to take carer of the pack animals, put spurs to their animals, swamr the river and caught them before they. could get intor the mountains. One of them proved to be the sonr the old Yosemite chief. I informed them that ifr they would come down from the mountains and gor with me to the United States Indian commissioners,r they would not be hurt; but if they would not, Ir would remain in their neighborhood as long as therer was a fresh track to be found; informing him at ther same time that all the Indians except his father’sr people and the Chouchillas had treated. . . . Her then informed me that . . . if I would let him looser with

DISCOVERY OF YOSEMITE VALLEY 18 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall another Indian, he would bring in his father andr all his people by twelve o’clock the next day.r r r r "I then gave them plenty to eat and started himr and his companion out. We watched the othersr close, intending to hold them as hostages until ther dispatch-bearers returned. They appeared well satisfiedr and we were not suspicious of them, in consequencer of which one of them escaped. We commencedr searching for him, which alarmed the other two stillr in custody, and they attempted to make their escape.r The boys took after them and, finding they could notr catch them, fired and killed them both. This circumstance,r connected with the fact of the two whom wer had sent out not returning, satisfied me that theyr had no intention of coming in. My command thenr set out to search for the rancheria. The party whichr went up the left toward Canyarthia [?] found ther rancheria at the head of a little valley, and from ther signs it appeared that the Indians had left but a fewr minutes. The boys pursued them up the mountainr on the north side of the river, and when they hadr r r r got near the top, helping each other from rock tor rock on account of the abruptness of the mountains,r the first intimation they had of the Indians beingr near was a shower of huge rocks which came tumblingr down the mountain, threatening instant destruction.r Several of the men were knocked down, and some ofr them rolled and fell some distance before. they couldr recover, wounding and bruising them generally. Oner man’s gun was knocked out of his hand and fell 70r feet before it stopped, whilst another man’s hat wasr knocked off his head without hurting him. The menr immediately took shelter behind large rocks, fromr which they could get an occasional shot, which soonr forced the Indians to retreat, and by pressing themr close they caught the old Yosemite Chief, whom wer yet hold as a prisoner. In this skirmish they killedr one Indian and wounded several others.r r r r "You are aware that I know this old fellow wellr enough to look out well for him, lest by some stratagemr he makes his escape. I shall aim to use him to ther best advantage in pursuing his people. I send downr a few of my command with the pack animals forr provisions; and I am satisfied if you will send me 10r or 12 of old Ponwatchi’s best men I could catch ther women and children and thereby force the men tor come in. The Indians I have with me have actedr in good faith and agree with me in this opinion."r The account is continued in the second letter whichr was written May 29th at the camp on the Fresnor River:r r r r ". . . Notwithstanding the number of our partyr being reduced to 22 men, by the absence of the detachmentr necessary to escort with safety the packr train, we continued the chase with such rapidity,r r r r that we forced a large portion of the Indians to taker refuge in the plains with the friendly Indians, whiler the remainder sought to conceal themselves amongr the rugged cliffs in the snowy region of the Sierrar Nevada.r r r r "Thus far I have made it a point to give as littler alarm as possible. After capturing some of them Ir set a portion at liberty, in order that they mightr assure the others that if they come in they would notr be harmed. Notwithstanding the treachery of ther old chief, who contrived to lie and deceive us all ther time, his grey hairs saved the boys from inflicting onr him that justice which would have been administeredr under other circumstances. Having become satisfiedr that we could not persuade him to come in, I determinedr on hunting them, and if possible running themr down, lest by leaving them in the mountains theyr would form a new settlement and a place of refuger for other ill-disposed Indians who might do mischiefr and retreat to the mountains, and finally entice offr those who are quiet and settled in the reserve. Onr the 20th [of May] the train of pack animals and provisionsr arrived, accompanied by a few more men thanr the party which went out after provisions, and Ponwatchi,r the chief of the Nuchtucs, [Nuchu] tribe withr 12 of his warriors.r

SECOND EXPEDITION TO YOSEMITE 19 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r "On the morning of the 21st we discovered the trailr of a small party of Indians traveling in the directionr of the Monos’ country. We followed this trail untilr 2 o’clock next day, 22d, when one of the scoutingr parties reported a rancheria near at hand. Almost atr the same instant a spy was discovered watching ourr movements. We made chase after him immediatelyr and succeeded in catching him before he arrived atr r r r the rancheria, and we also succeeded in surroundingr the ranch and capturing the whole of them. Thisr chase in reality was not that source of amusementr which it should seem to be when anticipated. Eachr man in the chase was stripped to his drawers, in whichr situation all hands ran at full speed at least four miles,r some portion of the time over and through snow tenr feet deep, and in this four-mile heat all Ponwatchir gained on my boys was only distance enough to enabler them to surround the rancheria while my menr ran up in front. Two Indians strung their bowsr and seized their arrows, when they were told ifr they did not surrender they would be instantlyr killed.r r r r "They took the proper view of this precaution andr immediately surrendered. The inquiry was made ofr those unfortunate people if they were then satisfiedr to go with us; their reply was they were more thanr willing, as they could go to no other place. From allr we could see and learn from those people we werer then on the main range of the Sierra Nevada. Ther snow was in many places more than 10 feet deep,r and generally where it was deep the crust was sufficientlyr strong to bear a man’s weight, which facilitatedr our traveling very much. Here there was a larger lake completely frozen over, which had evidently notr yet felt the influence of the spring season.1r r [1r This was Tenaya Lake, named after the old chief. ]r r The trailr which we were bound to travel lay along the side ofr a steep mountain so slippery that it was difficult tor get along barefoot without slipping and falling hundredsr of yards. This place appearing to be theirr last resort or place where they considered themselvesr perfectly secure from the intrusion of the white man.r r r r In fact those people appear to look upon this placer as their last home, composed of nature’s own materials,r unaided by the skill of man.r r r r "The conduct of Ponwatchi and his warriors duringr this expedition entitled him and them to much credit.r They performed important service voluntarily andr cheerfully, making themselves generally useful, particularlyr in catching the scattered Indians after surprisingr a rancheria. of the Yosemites, few, if any,r are now left in the mountains. . . .r r r r "It seems that their determined obstinacy is entirelyr attributable to the influence of their chief, whom wer have a prisoner, among others of his tribe, and whomr we intend to take care of. They have now been taughtr the double lesson—that the white man would notr give up the chase without the game, and at the samer time if they would come down from the mountainsr and behave themselves they would be kindlyr treated.r r r r Altogether Captain Bowling’s command spent aboutr two weeks in the Valley on this occasion. The mainr purpose of the expedition having been accomplished,r a return was made to the headquarters on the Fresnor and the Indians were placed on the reservation.r Tenaya, however, chafed under restraint and appealedr repeatedly for permission to return to the mountains.r Finally, on his solemn promise to behave, he wasr allowed to go back to the Valley, taking his immediater family with him. In a short time a number of hisr old followers made their escape from the reservationr and were supposed to have joined him. No attemptr was

SECOND EXPEDITION TO YOSEMITE 20 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall made to bring them back, and no complaint wasr heard against the Yosemites during the winter ofr 1851-52.r r r r r r

EXPEDITION OF 1852 r r r On the 20th of May, 1852, a party of eight prospectorsr started from Coarse Gold Gulch on a trip to ther upper waters of the Merced River. They had justr entered the Yosemite Valley when they were set upon,r by a band of Indians and two of them, named Roser and Shurborn, were killed and a third badly wounded.r The others got away and after enduring great hardshipsr arrived again at Coarse Gold Gulch on ther 2d of June. The same day about thirty or fortyr miners set out to punish the treacherous Yosemites.r This party found the bodies of the murdered menr and buried them at the edge of Bridalveil Meadow,r where their graves are still to be seen, but they werer compelled to return without punishing the murderers.r r r r The commander at Fort Miller being informed ofr these events, a detachment of Regulars under Lieutenantr Moore was at once dispatched into the mountains.r On arriving in the Yosemite Valley this expeditionr surprised and captured five Indians. Clothing saidr to belong to the murdered men being found uponr them, they were summarily shot. The remainder ofr the Yosemites with their old Chief Tenaya made theirr escape and fled over the mountains into the Monor country. Thither the soldiers pursued, but were unabler to catch any of them. The party lost a few horses,r killed by the Indians, explored the region about Monor Lake, discovered some gold deposits, and then returnedr to the fort on the San Joaquin by a route thatr led south of the Yosemite Valley. A diary of thisr expedition, published in one of the Stockton newspapersr about the 1st of October, 1852, contains oner of our earliest descriptions of Mono Lake and vicinity.r r r r After the return of the expedition, a party of minersr under the leadership of Leroy Vining, attracted byr the reported gold discoveries, crossed over the mountainsr and established themselves on what came to ber known as Vining’s Gulch or Creek. (The name appearsr on the maps a little later as Lee Vining Creekr and upon the present maps as Leevining Creek.)r r r

DEATH OF TENAYA r r r Tenaya and his fellow tribesmen seem to haver remained among the Monos until the summer of 1853,r when they returned once more to Yosemite Valley.r They repaid the hospitality of the Monos by stealingr a number of their horses. This proceeding stirredr the wrath of the Monos, and they determined tor wreak vengeance upon their erstwhile guests. Theyr put on their war paint and descended suddenly uponr the Yosemites while the latter were in the midst of ar gluttonous feast. Old Tenaya had his skull crushedr by a rock hurled from the hand of a Mono warrior andr all except a handful of his followers were slain. Ther tribe was virtually exterminated, though a few ofr their descendants still survive.r r r

EXPEDITION OF 1852 21 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall EARLY DEVELOPMENT r r r In spite of the exciting events which have beenr related above, Yosemite Valley was little disturbedr by the visits of white men for some years longer.r The Californians of that day, and particularly thoser in the mining region, were on the whole very littler interested in scenery. Early in 1855, however,r one of the very meager descriptions of the Valleyr which had found its way into print came by chancer r r r to the notice of J. M. Hutchings. Hutchings was atr the moment laying plans for the publication of hisr r California Magazine,r and for that reason the mentionr of a waterfall a thousand feet high arrested his attention,r and he resolved to investigate the matter.r r r r Early in the summer Hutchings organized what mayr fairly be considered the first tourist party to visitr the Yosemite, consisting of himself, Walter Millard,r and Thomas Ayres, an artist. At Mariposa, a fourthr member, Alexander Stair, joined the party. Somer difficulty was experienced in the matter of a guide,r but finally, through the assistance of Captain Bowlingr and some other members of the Mariposa Battalion,r two Indians were found to perform that essentialr service, and in due time the party found their way intor the Valley, where they spent, says Hutchings, "fiver glorious days in luxurious scenic banqueting." Uponr their return to the settlements these men gave anr enthusiastic account of their experiences. Hutchingsr wrote an article which was printed in the Mariposar Gazette of August 16th, and parts of which were quotedr in the San Francisco California Chronicle of Augustr 18th. A picture drawn by Ayres was lithographedr and published soon after, and before the year wasr out two other parties made their way into the Valleyr In the same year the construction of the first trailr into the Valley was begun by Milton and Houstonr Mann. It was completed the next year but did notr prove a paying investment and was soon sold to ther county of Mariposa and made free. The old Coulterviller trail was opened within a year or two and ther Valley thus made accessible. from both north andr south; but accessible by rather a hard and painfulr journey. As time went by roads approached everr r r

r r r PLATE IIr r Tenaya Lake where the last remnant of the Yosemite tribe was captured by the Mariposa Battalion on June 5, 1851.r r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r

EARLY DEVELOPMENT 22 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r r r nearer from various directions, but it was manyr years before they reached the floor of the Valley. Inr the early days it required fortitude as well as enthusiasmr to make a trip to Yosemite, and travelers ofr that time have left us many accounts of their discomfortingr experiences.rr r r In 1855 the walls of a cabin were erected in ther lower end of the Valley by a party of surveyors whor were seeking water for the Mariposa dry diggings, butr the first house actually completed was built in 1856-1857.r Being severely damaged by snow, it was replacedr in 1858 by a more substantial structure, whichr was kept as a hotel during the next decade by a numberr of different parties. Included in the number ofr these early Yosemite inn-keepers was the Longhurstr whom Clarence King describes as a "weather-beatenr round-the-worlder, whose function .. . . was to tellr yarns, sing songs, and feed the inner man," and whoser flapjacks the same fascinating writer professed a reluctancer to eat, because that would seem like "breakfastingr in sacrilege upon works of art." In 1859 wasr completed the central portion of the building whichr later became known as the Hutchings House, the lumberr all being hewed or sawed out by hand. It mayr be of interest to note that this building (the presentr Cedar Cottage) was the subject of the first photographr ever taken in Yosemite.r [Editor’s note:r Charles Leander Weed’s first photograph, taken June 18, 1859 was of Yosemite Falls,r not what was latter known as the Hutchings House, which was photographed 3 days later—dea.]r r r r The first permanent resident in the Valley wasr James C. Lamon, who took up a preëmption claim inr its upper end in the fall of 1859, built a cabin, andr laid out a garden and orchard which became famousr in after years. From 1862 he resided in the Valleyr both summer and winter until his death in 1876.r r r r In the spring of 1864 J. M. Hutchings came tor r r r Yosemite with his family, having purchased a claimr and arranged to buy the building to which his namer became attached. After his advent as a permanentr resident Hutchings was for a decade the leadingr figure in the Valley’s history. He was "mine host"r to a large proportion of the people who visitedr Yosemite in that period, and while there is abundantr evidence that as an hotel-keeper he was not an overwhelmingr success, we may, perhaps, assume that hisr hospitable enthusiasm compensated in some degree atr least for the defects of his hostelry.r r r

AN HISTORIC SAWMILL r r r In order to make necessary improvements in hisr establishment Hutchings erected a small sawmill nearr the Yosemite Fall, for the purpose of turning intor lumber a lot of trees that had been thrown down by ar windstorm some years before. This sawmill of Hutchings’r has rather a higher claim to notice than is possessedr by most such structures: for nearly two yearsr it was operated by no less a personage than John Muir.r Muir was then on the threshold of his career, engaged,r in the intervals between his work as sawyer and guide,r in gathering the data on which were based his glacialr studies of the high Sierra and in forming that passionater attachment for the "Mountains of Light," whichr proved to be so significant a factor in his life as wellr as in the history of the region.r r r

AN HISTORIC SAWMILL 23 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r It was also the scene of the first meeting, in August,r 1870, of two men whose names and memories willr forever linger in these mountains—Muir and the elderr Le Conte. The latter has described the meetingr and set down his first impressions of Muir:r r r r r r "To-day to Yosemite Falls. . . . Stopped a momentr at the foot of the falls, at a sawmill, to maker inquiries. Here found a man in rough miller’s garb,r whose intelligent face and earnest, clear blue eye,r excited my interest. After some conversation discoveredr that it was Mr. Muir, a gentleman of whomr I had heard much from Mrs. Prof. Carr and others.r He had also received a letter from Mrs. Carr, concerningr our party, and was looking for us. . . . I urgedr him to go with us to Mono. [Later in the day we]r learned from Mr. Muir that he would certainly go tor Mono with us. We were much delighted to hear this.r Mr. Muir is a gentleman of rare intelligence. . . .r He has lived several years in the Valley, and is thoroughlyr acquainted with the mountains in the vicinity.r A man of so much intelligence tending a sawmill!—notr for himself, but for Mr. Hutchings. This is California!"r r r r It seems singularly appropriate that these two menr should meet thus for the first time in the great templer of nature which both loved so well; and under suchr circumstances, Muir in the rough garb of a mill operatorr and Le Conte in the scarcely less rough garbr of a mountain traveler. It was Le Conte’s first summerr in the Sierra, and Muir conducted him and hisr party over the route which he himself had traced outr for the first time only a year before.r r r

CREATION OF STATE PARK r r r During the first decade after the Valley was broughtr to general notice the desirability of setting it aside asr a park became manifest. The danger that it wouldr soon fall into private hands led Senator Conness ofr California, in 1864, to secure the passage by Congressr r r r of an act granting to the State of California "ther Cleft, or Gorge, in the Granite Peak of the Sierrar Nevada Mountains . . . known as the Yosemiter Valley," with the stipulation, however, that it shouldr be held for public use, resort, and recreation and shouldr be inalienable for all time.r r r r By the same act the Mariposa Big Tree Grove,r four square miles, was also granted to the State underr the same conditions. The act further provided thatr the two grants should be managed by a board ofr commissioners consisting of the Governor and eightr other persons appointed by him.r r r r On September twenty-eighth Governor F. K. Lowr issued a proclamation naming Frederick Law Olmsted,r Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Ashburner,r I. W. Raymond, E. S. Holden, Alexander Deering,r George W. Coulter, and Galen Clark as commissioners,r and warning all persons to desist from trespassing orr settling upon either of the two grants. At the firstr session of the legislature thereafter a law was enacted,r April 2, 1866, legally constituting the Board of Commissioners,r making the necessary provisions for ther

CREATION OF STATE PARK 24 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall control and administration of the trust created byr the grant from the federal government, and making ar small appropriation for the first two years.r r r

ADMINISTRATION OF STATE COMMISSIONERS r r r r The commissioners first named and those subsequentlyr appointed were, as a whole, well selected,r but circumstances conspired to defeat many of theirr best efforts. They had scarcely entered upon ther discharge of their duties when they found themselvesr involved in a prolonged litigation. The settlers,r r r r Hutchings and Lamon, who had made their homesr in the Valley, refused to surrender their holdings uponr the invitation of the Commission. After some fruitlessr negotiation a test suit was brought against Hutchings,r which in the district court was decided in hisr favor. On appeal to the Supreme Court of the Stater the judgment was reversed, and on being carried to ther federal Supreme Court the position of the Commissionersr was fully sustained. But in the meantimer Lamon and Hutchings had brought their case tor the legislature, and that body, under the influencer of a sympathetic agitation, passed a bill grantingr to each of them a tract of 160 acres in ther Valley, subject, however, to the approval of Congress.r That approval was never given, so thatr finally, in 1875, after a second legal action againstr Hutchings, the Commissioners found themselves inr full and undisputed control, for the State, of the propertyr which they had been appointed to manage. Onr their recommendation the legislature in 1874 appropriatedr $60,000 to compensate Lamon, Hutchings, andr two others for the loss of their claims in the Valley.r r r r The Commissioners were unquestionably right inr the position which they assumed, and we cannot dismissr this phase of the subject without remarking uponr the service which they rendered to the State and ther nation in thus pursuing the case to its final settlementr in their favor. The extinguishment of private titlesr has been one of the most perplexing and difficultr problems confronting the administration of the park,r whether state or national. At the same time we cannotr overlook the equities in the case of the settlers,r nor forget the fact that Hutchings in this early periodr did more perhaps than any other one person to maker r r r known to the world the beauties and the wonders ofr Yosemite.r r r r This controversy resulted in the creation of a rallyingr point for all forces hostile to the park administration.r The granting of a road privilege on the northr side of the Valley furnishes another example of ther difficulties constantly arising. In 1869 the Commissionersr granted to certain parties interested in ther Big Oak Flat route the exclusive privilege of extendingr a toll road to the floor of the Valley on that side.r These parties having failed to carry out their agreement,r the Commissioners in 1872 granted a similarr exclusive privilege to the Coulterville and Yosemiter Turnpike Company, who went to work at once andr completed their road into the Valley June 17, 1874.r After this privilege had been granted, the Yosemiter Turnpike Road Company, representing the Big Oakr Flat route, applied for the privilege of building a freer road from the edge of the park into the Valley. This,r being denied by the Commission, the company appealedr to the legislature, which gave it the rightr prayed for. This road also was completed in ther summer of 1874, and in the following year the Wawonar road was extended into the Valley.r r r

ADMINISTRATION OF STATE COMMISSIONERS 25 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r The Commissioners were greatly handicapped byr the litigation described and the hostility which itr engendered; by the action of the legislature in overridingr their decisions, in the cases above mentioned;r by the fact that the public was generally indifferentr except as it was aroused by the distressed appeals ofr adversely affected individuals; by the lack of fundsr with which to work; and to an important degree byr the fact that there was no accepted park practice orr policy to guide them. Opposition to the Commissionr r r r culminated in the legislative session of 1880, when ther Commissioners were incontinently ousted from officer by the action of the legislators and a subsequent decisionr of the Supreme Court of the State. A new lawr was passed and a new board appointed.r r r r The new body signalized its entry into office by appointingr as Guardian J. M. Hutchings, in place ofr Galen Clark who had held the office for the precedingr fourteen years. This board profited to some extentr by the experience of its predecessor, especially sincer the controversy over private holdings had been settled,r but it also succeeded in doing many things whichr called forth sharp criticism. It was necessary tor adopt a policy for dealing with such questions asr the granting of hotel, carriage, and saddle-trainr privileges, the use that should be made of the meadowr lands, and the kind of attention that should be givenr to the wooded areas—whether to cut and prune or tor leave the brush and young trees to grow untouched;r and the policy adopted was sure to displease someone.r r r r Still, the new Commission was in much better positionr to do effective work than the old one had been,r and the next decade saw important results accomplished—ther roads and trails within the park lines werer freed from the vexatious tolls that had before encumberedr them; new roads and bridges were constructedr within both the Yosemite grant and the Mariposar Big Tree Grove; a pretentious hotel, the Stonemanr House, was erected near the upper end of the Valley,r for which the legislature in 1885 appropriated $40,000.r The new hotel turned out to be an unprofitabler investment, for, as it was not properly constructed,r expensive repairs were necessary. The building wasr finally burned to the ground in the summer of 1896.r r r r r r The remainder of the period during which Yosemiter Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under stater control witnessed slow but steady development alongr all lines; and it also witnessed a more significant thing—ther growth of a wider and more intelligent interestr in matters affecting the park, which had an inevitabler and healthy reaction upon the administration.r r r

MAPPING THE YOSEMITE REGION r r r It is only in recent years that the vast alpine regionr to the north and east of Yosemite Valley has becomer generally known to tourists, though for many yearsr before that it was familiar to many mountain lovers.r The first white men who frequented this Yosemiter hinterland were miners and sheepherders and cattlemen.r After them came the surveyors and then ther soldiers of the republic to guard the mountain meadowsr and forests from the destructive forces at work. Andr lastly the tourists, at first in little groups at long intervals,r but now in throngs, to see the glories of ther mountains.r

MAPPING THE YOSEMITE REGION 26 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r The first systematic reconnaissance of the Yosemiter region was made by the California Geological Surveyr between 1863 and 1867. The first expedition, inr 1863, covered in a general way the watershed betweenr the Merced and the Tuolumne and the headwaters ofr those rivers. Their later expeditions were made directlyr as a result of the creation of the state park,r first to survey its boundaries and secondly to gatherr data or the preparation of the maps and text of ar book descriptive of the Yosemite region which wasr published by the California Geological Survey in 1868.r It was in connection with these and other expeditionsr r r r of the State Geological Survey that Clarence Kingr had the experiences so delightfully described in hisr bookr "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."r Tor this survey we are indebted for the names of many ofr the peaks, and for the first accurate maps of the region.r The same area was covered in 1878-79 by a party ofr the Wheeler Survey in charge of Lieutenant M. M.r Macomb. The definitive mapping of the region has,r of course, been done by the United States Geologicalr Survey, whose fine topographic maps are familiar tor all mountain travelers.r r r

THE TRAIL OF THE MINER r r r The trail of the miner is found everywhere in ther Sierra Nevada. We have already seen that the discoveryr of Yosemite was a result of the mining advancer into the foothills. Subsequently there were two wellr defined periods of mining excitement which were ofr importance in the history of the region. The firstr of these began about 1857 when placer gold wasr discovered in what are broadly referred to as ther Mono diggings. To accommodate the miners and packr trains passing to and fro across the range the Monor Trail was blazed out easterly along the ridge betweenr the Merced and the Tuolumne, following in the mainr old Indian trails, and descending into the Monor plain through the steep defile of Bloody Canyon.r For a few years this trail was much traveled and thenr fell into disuse as the placers were worked out. Whenr Joseph Le Conte passed over it first in 1870 he foundr it nearly obliterated in many places.r r r r The miners went elsewhere, but soon flocked backr again in even greater numbers, when gold and silverr r r r ores were discovered in the summit ridge about 1878.r In a short time claims were staked out all the wayr from Parker Pass to Virginia Creek, but the interestr centered principally at Lundy and Tioga. In 1881r a group of Eastern capitalists incorporated the Greatr Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company for ther purpose of exploiting the central group of claims inr the Tioga District. A post office, called Bennettviller in honor of the president of the company, was establishedr and operations were vigorously pushed. Ther writer has seen in a little paper published at Lundy ar graphic description of the way in which the first machineryr for the Tioga mine was snaked up the mountainr side to Oneida Lake on skids, hoisted with a windlassr to the summit of Tioga crest and thence dragged pastr Saddlebag Lake into Tioga in the dead of winter.r r r r But this was too primitive a method to be used forr bringing in all the heavy machinery and other suppliesr required. The company therefore determined tor build a road up the western slope to Bennettville;r and thus was inaugurated the building of the famousr Tioga Road. The surveys were made in 1882 andr construction work was begun in the fall of that year,r Chinese labor being employed. The road was completedr in the fall of 1883, having cost about $62,000.r In December, 1883, and January, 1884, toll franchisesr were granted by the

THE TRAIL OF THE MINER 27 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall counties of Mariposa and Tuolumner and for a short time tolls were collected fromr travelers who used the road.r r r r Financial disaster overtook the company after itr had expended over $300,000 and the mine was closedr in July, 1884. Subsequently, in January, 1888, her entire property, including the road, was sold by ther Sheriff to W. C. N. Swift of New Bedford, Mass.,r r r r who had been interested in the original company. Inr 1889 operations were resumed in the mine but werer not long continued. The road, abandoned by itsr owners, year by year fell into disrepair.r r r r It was during this period of mining excitement thatr John L. Murphy took up his claim on the shore ofr Lake Tenaya, built a cabin, and established a stoppingr place that was sometimes distinguished with the titler of hotel. John B. Lembert took up a claim in ther Tuolumne Meadows which included the Soda Springs.r For several years a saddle train was run during ther summer between Lundy and Yosemite, and theser places were connected by telephone. There was alsor the inevitable crop of rumors regarding projectedr railroads to cross the Sierras through this region.r Finally it is to be noticed that in the summer of 1881r silver mineral was discovered near Mt. Hoffman andr the considerable excitement occasioned by it resultedr in the organization of the Mt. Hoffman Mining District.r Some months later John B. Lembert is saidr to have found a vein of silver bearing quartz in ther Tuolumne Meadows. Sufficient quantities of ore haver never been found to justify the working of theser claims.r r r

THE RÉGIME OF THE SHEEPHERDER r r r r During all this time the Yosemite region was ther haunt of the sheepherders and their all-devouringr woolly charges. The mountain meadows are ther finest of all sheep pastures, and year by year they werer visited by countless thousands of these "hoofed locusts,"r as John Muir aptly termed them. As soon asr the early summer heat dried up the grasses of ther r r r plains and foothills the herds were headed towardr the higher mountains, and before the autumn chillr started them on their backward journey to the plainsr they had penetrated into every little grassy glade,r leaving a desert in their wake, eating up or tramplingr to death every young plant that lay in their path,r not excepting the young fir, which were for them anr especially prized tidbit.r r r r John Muir in his first summer in the Sierra notedr the damage and destruction that was wrought byr the sheep. The State Engineer, Wm. Ham Hall, inr a report to the State Commission in 1882, calledr attention to the disaster threatening the Valley fromr the indiscriminate grazing of sheep in the Mercedr watershed. It was not alone the fact that the sheepr ate up every green thing within their reach, or thatr their myriad trampling feet loosened the soil on ther hillsides; the shepherd, through design or carelessness,r applied the match, and "his trail to the plain wasr marked by the smoke of the burning forest."r r r

THE RÉGIME OF THE SHEEPHERDER 28 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall CREATION OF NATIONAL PARK r r r The sheep may fairly be said to have been responsibler for the formation of the Yosemite National Park.r The first determined effort to protect the region surroundingr the Valley from the destruction wrought byr them was in 1881, when the State Commissionersr fathered a movement to include in the state park ar district somewhat smaller than the present nationalr park. A bill embodying this plan was introducedr into Congress but through the vigorous opposition ofr powerful local interests the success of the movementr was frustrated. The Commissioners continued forr r r r some years to urge the measure, but they were neverr able to muster sufficient influence to put it through.r r r r In 1889, John Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson,r one of the editors of the Century Magazine,r camped together in Tuolumne Meadows. Muirr pointed out to his friend the devastation that wasr being wrought by the sheep, and it was agreed, atr Johnson’s suggestion, that the way to save the regionr was to have it set aside as a national park. A planr of action was agreed upon—Muir to write for ther Century a series of articles designed to arouse publicr sentiment, and Johnson to secure for the movement asr much support as possible from influential men in ther East. The movement thus launched culminated successfullyr in the enactment of a law, approved Octoberr 1, 1890, to set aside this region as "reserved forestr lands." The name Yosemite National Park was somewhatr inconsistently applied to it by the Secretary ofr the Interior. The original boundaries were largerr !an the present limits of the Park, including as theyr Id a considerable area on the west and southeastr which has been eliminated by subsequent legislation.r r r

THE WORK OF THE SOLDIERS r r r r The control of the Park was vested in the Secretaryr of the Interior, and the plan of administration adoptedr was to place the local authority in the hands of anr Acting Superintendent, who was a military officer inr charge of one or more troops of cavalry. The firstr Superintendent was Captain A. E. Wood, an intelligentr and energetic officer, for whom the post atr Wawona was later named. The soldiers ordinarilyr came in in April or May and took their departure inr r r r October. During the winter two forest rangersr patrolled the Park, so far as it could be patrolled.r r r r The difficulties confronting the first Superintendentr were rather formidable: the boundaries not havingr been surveyed were difficult or impossible to locate;r the country to be patrolled was large and extremelyr rough; there was no well-planned trail system, and nor detailed topographic map showing the location ofr such trails as did exist; it was necessary for the Superintendentr to make himself acquainted with the regionr and to organize and direct a plan for protecting it,r from the encroachments of the sheep and cattlemen,r who, having had undisturbed use of the Park for ar quarter of a century, were extremely reluctant nowr to abandon it.r r r

CREATION OF NATIONAL PARK 29 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Headquarters were established at Wawona and fromr there patrols were sent out to cover the entire Parkr systematically. The principal work of these patrolsr was in fighting fires and in preventing trespassingr within the Park lines by sheep and cattle. No penaltyr had been provided by Congress for the infraction ofr rules. The army officers ingeniously adopted ther plan of driving the sheep from the Park and escortingr the herders across the mountains to the oppositer boundary. This plan when vigorously followed soonr resulted in reducing this evil to a minimum. Besidesr these more general duties the soldiers frequently werer compelled to repair trails and bridges along the liner of their march. One Superintendent reports ther clearing out and repair by the troop of more than sixtyr miles of trails in one season. The protection of ther game within the Park from the depredations of predatoryr hunters was an important duty of the patrols.r r r r These troopers were faithful and efficient. In ther r r r discharge of their duties they not infrequently werer called upon to push their way through snow-filledr passes and to ford bowlder strewn and angry mountainr streams at flood water, sometimes in peril of theirr lives. One carries away from a perusal of the reportsr of the various Superintendents an increased respectr for the military arm of the national government.r r r r To the subordinate officers of the command therer were frequent opportunities for special service. Duringr the early years Lieutenants N. F. McClure, H. C.r Benson, M. F. Davis, and W. R. Smedberg made ar careful study of the topography of the region and fromr their notes and the results of previous surveys Lieutenantr McClure prepared an excellent map for the user of the troops, on which the topography and the trailsr were accurately delineated. Lieutenant Benson spentr several seasons in the Park, first as a junior officerr and later with rank of Captain and Major as Actingr Superintendent, and has always been keenly interestedr in all matters affecting it. It was upon his suggestionr that the system of permanent patrolling stations wasr instituted in 1903. This greatly facilitated the workr of the troopers. After a few years a telephone liner was built connecting these stations with headquartersr in Yosemite Valley, and thus instant communicationr could be had with all parts of the Park.r r r

PLANTING TROUT IN YOSEMITE WATERS r r r r Lieutenant Benson was an enthusiast on the subjectr of fishing and at all times took a lively interestr in the stocking of the waters of the Park. Not onlyr did he direct the planting of trout fry sent into ther Park by the California State Fish Commissioners,r r r r but he personally netted trout in a number of lakesr and streams and placed them in unstocked waters.r r r r This was a work of primary importance, since fishr are not indigenous in any of the lakes or streams inr the upper Yosemite region. John L. Murphy is saidr to have planted trout in Tenaya Lake in 1878, andr about the same time the Yosemite State Commissionersr took up the question of stocking the Yosemiter streams. They proposed to have a hatchery establishedr in the Valley. This plan, renewed from timer to time, was not then carried out, but at their suggestionr the State Fish Commissioners sent in youngr trout to be planted in the Merced River and its tributaries.r After the establishment of the national parkr the planting of trout fry came to be one of the regularr duties of the soldiers. In 1895, Washburn Brothersr erected at Wawona a fish

THE WORK OF THE SOLDIERS 30 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall hatchery which was operatedr by the State Fish Commission, and from here millionsr of fry have been distributed in the lakes and streamsr throughout the Park. During 1919, the State Fishr and Game Commission operated a temporary hatcheryr in Yosemite Valley under an agreement with the federalr government. This work was not continued during 1920,r but the last report of the National Park Service indicatesr that a permanent hatchery will soon be established inr accordance with the agreement referred to.r r r

REVISING THE BOUNDARIES r r r No sooner had the national park been created thanr efforts were begun to effect a change of boundaries.r As first established, the Park included a large amountr of land which was owned by private parties underr patents and which was concentrated for the mostr r r

r r r PLATE IIIr r Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls. The buildings are the La Casar r Nevada, a famous hostelry of the early days whichr r has long since disappearedr r Photo by George Fisker r r r r r part in certain relatively small districts. This wasr largely in the form of timber and mining claims.r The owners very naturally objected to having theirr lands thrown into a national park with all of the inconveniencesr which that involved. There was also otherr supposedly valuable land of similar character within ther Park lines which was not yet taken up, and this was now,r by the terms of the law, withdrawn from entry.rr r

PLANTING TROUT IN YOSEMITE WATERS 31 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r From the standpoint of the administration of ther Park there were two reasons for a change: first becauser of the trouble occasioned by the presence ofr privately owned lands within the Park; and secondr because the original boundaries were laid out alongr straight lines instead of conforming to the naturalr features of the country, and thus increased greatlyr the problem of a proper patrol system. For theser reasons some of the early Superintendents advisedr reducing the size of the Park by fixing natural boundaries,r so far as possible, and eliminating the bulk ofr the mineral lands and privately owned timber. Fortunatelyr no attention seems to have been paid to theirr recommendations. Later Superintendents generallyr opposed cutting down the boundaries, but stronglyr urged the importance of extinguishing all privater holdings within the Park by purchase or otherwise.r r r r Within a few months after the Park came intor existence an attempt was made in Congress to reducer its size. This first attack upon the integrity of ther Park was defeated, largely through the efforts ofr the Sierra Club. As time went by it became clearr that one of two things was necessary—either to buyr up the private claims within the Park lines, or tor revise the boundaries so as to exclude the bulk ofr these lands. The national government was evidentlyr r r r unwilling to make the necessary appropriation to buyr the claims, and finally in 1904 a commission appointedr by the Secretary of the Interior visited the Park forr the purpose of ascertaining, among other things,r "what portions of said Park are not necessary forr park purposes, but can be returned to the public domain."r This commission, composed of Major Hiramr M. Chittenden of the Engineer Corps of the army,r R. B. Marshall of the Geological Survey, and Frankr Bond of the General Land Office, made a carefulr study of the situation and recommended the boundaryr changes that were incorporated in the Act of Congressr approved February 7, 1905. This act eliminatedr about twelve townships on the east and west andr added about three townships on the north, fixing ther eastern boundary at the summit of the Sierra Nevadar and the divide between the Merced and the Sanr Joaquin rivers. In 1906 another small tract on ther southwest was cut off, ostensibly to enable an electricr line to secure a right-of-way. All of these eliminatedr lands were added to the adjacent forest reserves.r r r r Further changes in the boundaries may be expected.r In fact the National Park Service in its recent reportsr has suggested the advisability of a further lopping offr of grazing land on the west and the addition of ar large area on the southeast (eliminated in 1905)r which includes such scenic features as the Mountr Ritter Range, Thousand Island Lake, and the Devil’sr Postpile.r r r

RECESSION OF STATE PARK r r r r The establishment of the national park resulted inr bringing into existence a dual system in the Yosemiter region, the State having control of Yosemite Valleyr r r r and the Mariposa Grove, and the national governmentr having control of the surrounding territory. This wasr an awkward and inconvenient arrangement, necessitatingr much duplication of administrative machineryr and expense. Yosemite Valley was the natural locationr for the headquarters of the national park, butr could not be used for that purpose. Headquartersr were therefore maintained at Wawona and the troopsr were constantly compelled to cross the state park linesr in carrying on their patrol work. Superintendentsr repeatedly called attention in their reports to ther anomalous situation and the difficulties which it involved.r The disadvantage of dual control was sharplyr brought out in 1903 by a fire which burned for morer than a week in the Illilouette basin, resulting in

REVISING THE BOUNDARIES 32 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall ar rather ill-tempered controversy between the state andr national park authorities over the questions as tor where the fire originated and whether the stater Guardian used due care and vigilance in its extinguishment.r This division of authority interfered withr the improvement and development of the entire region.r The national government, not having control of whatr were considered the main scenic features, did notr feel called upon to make large appropriations, and itr was never possible to induce the State Legislature tor set aside money enough to properly care for eitherr Yosemite Valley or the Mariposa Big Tree Grove.r r r r As time went by many citizens of California camer to feel that it would be better to hand back to ther national government the trust received from it inr 1864, and a movement was launched with that objectr in view. It was pointed out that conditions hadr greatly changed since 1864, at which time there werer no national parks; since then the federal governmentr r r r had inaugurated a policy of creating national parksr and had manifested a disposition to make adequater appropriations for their maintenance. A comparisonr of appropriations and results achieved in Yellowstoner National Park and in Yosemite State Park proved ar powerful argument. Many clubs and civic organizationsr were enlisted in support of the movement, chiefr among which in the zeal and effectiveness of its workr was the Sierra Club.r r r r Local state pride proved to be the greatest obstacler in the way of the recession, but this was finally overcome,r and an act passed by the State Legislature,r approved March 2, 1905, receding to the United Statesr Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove.r The adjournment of Congress prevented a formalr acceptance of the recession until 1906 and hence ther transfer could not be effected until that time. Ther Yosemite State Park finally came to an end August 1,r 1906, after an existence of forty-two years. Ther Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, Major H.r C. Benson, at once removed his headquarters fromr Wawona to the Valley and the central military campr was established on the site of the present Yosemiter Lodge. In 1920 jurisdiction in all matters civil andr judicial was transferred from the state to the nationalr government.r r r

THE SIERRA CLUB r r r r One of the most important of the forces operatingr to shape the history of the Yosemite region since ther creation of the national park has been the work ofr the Sierra Club. This organization has been instantr in season and out of season in promoting all forward-lookingr movements affecting California’s great alpiner r r r heritage. The life of the Sierra Club has been almostr exactly contemporaneous with that of Yosemite Nationalr Park. The Club was organized in 1892, butr the idea from which it was evolved had its inceptionr in the mind of Professor J. H. Senger of the Universityr of California and was expressed by him as early asr 1886. The final impetus was given to the movementr by the strongly felt need of some organization to pushr forward the work that was only begun by the parkr act of October 1, 1890.r r r r The special purposes of the Sierra Club are thus expressedr in the articles of incorporation: "To explore,r enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regionsr of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic informationr concerning them; to enlist the support and cooperationr of the people and government in preservingr the

RECESSION OF STATE PARK 33 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall forests and other natural features of the Sierrar Nevada Mountains." A detailed account of the doingsr of the Club would show how faithfully and eagerly itsr members have carried out these purposes. Duringr the first twenty-two years its work was carried onr under the inspiring leadership of John Muir.r r r r The field of the Sierra Club’s work is much morer extensive than the Yosemite National Park, but fromr the beginning it has taken a special interest in thisr region. Several of its annual outings have been heldr in the Park and surrounding territory. As early asr 1898 a building in the Valley, granted by the Stater Commissioners, was equipped as local headquartersr for the Club, to be used also as a public reading roomr and bureau of information. A few years later, afterr the death of Joseph Le Conte, the beautiful Le Conter Memorial Lodge was erected just below Glacier Point.r In 1918 it was moved about a quarter mile westward tor r r r its present site. In 1913 the Club purchased the Sodar Springs property in the Tuolumne Meadows and twor years later built upon it the E. T. Parsons Memorialr Lodge.r r r r The work of the Sierra Club in opposing attemptsr to cut down the size of the Park and in urging ther recession of the state park has been referred to above.r In every time of crisis the Club has stood forth asr champion of the forests and the mountains againstr vandalism and commercialism. The Sierra Clubr Bulletin, an annual publication, contains a wealth ofr information about the entire Sierra region—descriptive,r illustrative, and scientific. The speech andr writings of its members have gone far toward makingr known to the wide public the true character of ther Yosemite region.r r r

HETCH HETCHY: EARLY HISTORY r r r This interesting counterpart of Yosemite was discoveredr in 1850 by a mountaineer named Josephr Screech. Not long before that the Valley was ar disputed ground between the east and west sloper Indians, but the Piutes from across the range hadr gotten the upper hand and for years were accustomedr to spend some time in Hetch Hetchy in the fall of ther year gathering acorns. Screech blazed a trail into ther Valley and the rich meadow land became a grazingr ground for sheep and cattle. Subsequently the discovererr and two or three other parties took up preemptionr claims covering most of the Valley floor.r The State Geological Survey visited Hetch Hetchyr in 1867, and a description of it was published in ther San Francisco Bulletin in October of that year. Whenr r r r John Muir first visited the Valley in 1871 he found ar sheep owner named Smith in possession. This wasr doubtless the Smith who later obtained the ownershipr of a large part of the Valley and of several desirabler tracts in the vicinity, and for whom Smith’s Peakr and Smith’s Meadow were named. Muir records ther fact that in the seventies Hetch Hetchy was frequentlyr called Smith’s Valley.r r r r The number of tourists who visited Hetch Hetchyr in the early days was very small, due to its inaccessibilityr and the superior attractions of Yosemite Valley.r John Muir and other enthusiasts did much to acquaintr the public with its beauties, but it was only afterr San Francisco started her fight to secure Hetch Hetchyr as a reservoir site that it became widely known. Evenr then it was better known by report than by actualr visitation. The Sierra Club included it in several ofr its annual outings. In 1905 some Stanford Universityr students conducted a hotel camp there, under ther auspices of the Santa Fé railroad, and that served tor bring in a

THE SIERRA CLUB 34 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall number of tourists.r r r

HETCH HETCHY: THE SAN FRANCISCO WATER SUPPLY r r r The San Francisco city charter which was adoptedr in 1900 placed on the supervisors and the city engineerr the duty of conducting investigations to determiner the best available source for an adequate waterr supply for that city, this being a matter of pressingr importance. After a careful examination of somer fourteen suggested sources the Tuolumne River wasr selected as in every way the best, and there was preparedr the first draft of what came to be known as ther Hetch Hetchy project, the central feature of the planr r r r being the conversion of Hetch Hetchy Valley into ar lake-reservoir and the use of Lake Eleanor as a secondaryr storage basin. The necessary filings werer made to cover the desired water rights and an applicationr was made to the Secretary of the Interior,r under the provisions of the act of February 15, 1901,r for a permit to use the proposed reservoir and forr authorization to construct the necessary dams andr other works.r r r r As soon as the plans of San Francisco becamer known, a movement was put under way to preventr their consummation. This was the beginning of anr extraordinary contest, lasting for a dozen years, whichr was at times waged with considerable bitterness.r San Francisco’s first application was denied in 1903r by Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock. It wasr renewed in 1905 and again denied. In 1907, afterr James R. Garfield became Secretary of the Interior,r the matter was presented to him, and a hearing was heldr in San Francisco in July of that year. Further argumentsr were presented in writing after the Secretary’sr return to Washington. Finally, on May 11, 1908,r Mr. Garfield granted to the city the rights asked for,r but upon two conditions: one that the Lake Eleanorr site should be developed to its full capacity beforer any work should be undertaken on the Hetch Hetchyr site; the other that the rights of the Modesto andr Turlock irrigation districts should be fully protected.r r r r Under the terms of this grant the city proceededr to buy up the private claims involved, at a cost ofr several hundred thousand dollars, and to vote a bondr issue of $45,000,000. Construction operations hadr been started when Secretary of the Interior R. A.r Ballinger, in February, 1910, after an investigation ofr r r r the question, ordered the city to show cause whyr Hetch Hetchy Valley should not be eliminated fromr the permit granted by Secretary Garfield. Thisr looked at first like a blow to San Francisco’s plans,r but it turned out to be quite the reverse, for the fightr which was now inaugurated resulted finally in a completer triumph for the city and in the defeat of thoser who were trying to save Hetch Hetchy from inundation.r r r r A board of army engineers, consisting of Col.r John Biddle, Lieut.-Col. Harry Taylor, and Maj.r Spencer Cosby, was appointed to advise the Secretaryr of the Interior on the question. After a preliminaryr hearing in May, 1910, a continuance of one year wasr granted in order that a thorough investigation mightr be conducted. The city hired one of the best engineersr in the country and spent over a quarter of ar million dollars in an examination of every phase ofr the question and in the preparation of the reports andr plans on which its case finally rested. The finalr hearing was held November 25-30, 1912, before Secretaryr of the Interior Walter L. Fisher. The reportr of the advisory board of army engineers, presentedr February 19, 1913,

HETCH HETCHY: EARLY HISTORY 35 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall was on the whole distinctly favorabler to the city. Nevertheless Secretary Fisherr declined to act on the matter, since he was about tor retire from office and since he also felt that a questionr of such importance should be passed upon by Congress.r Franklin K. Lane, who succeeded Mr. Fisher as headr of the Interior Department, in view of his formerr connection with the case as city attorney of Sanr Francisco, likewise referred the matter to Congress,r and the fight was accordingly transferred to thatr body.r r r r r r In June, 1913, as an emergency measure, Congressmanr John E. Raker introduced a bill granting tor San Francisco the necessary rights and authorizationsr for carrying out the Hetch Hetchy water project substantiallyr in the form presented in the plans preparedr for the city by John R. Freeman. After extendedr hearings before the House committee this bill wasr redrafted in order better to protect the national parkr and to safeguard the interests of the government.r In this form, in spite of the strenuous opposition ofr many persons from all parts of the country, the billr passed the House by a practically unanimous vote,r passed the Senate by about two to one, and was approvedr by President Wilson, December 19, 1913.r Under this act San Francisco was granted the immediater use of both Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchyr Valley and the extensive engineering works called forr by the development of the project were at once putr under way. The city is required to build a scenicr road along the north side of the lake that will ber created by the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley, andr certain other roads and trails the effect of which willr be to make more accessible to tourists the countryr about Hetch Hetchy and the portions of the Parkr north of the Tuolumne River.r r r

RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN THE PARK r r r After the recession of the state park in 1906 ther administrative machinery already established wasr continued in effect for some years longer, althoughr the Acting Superintendent found himself confrontedr with much more exacting duties than formerly. Inr 1914 a new system was inaugurated. Secretary Laner r r r of the Department of the Interior, in his report forr that year, says:r r r r "The conditions in and around these reservationsr which led to the authorization of the use of the militaryr force in these parks having radically changed, ther conclusion was reached that their presence was nor longer required in the Yosemite, Sequoia, and Generalr Grant National Parks, and the Secretary of War wasr so advised. During the past year, therefore, troopsr have no longer been employed in these reservationsr and have been superseded by civilian rangers, bringingr the latter in closer touch with the actual work ofr the park management than was formerly practicabler when troops were only in the reservations for a fewr months." The general plan of the patrol system begunr under the military régime was continued by ther civilian rangers.r r r r Mark Daniels was the first Superintendent underr the new arrangement. On March 10, 1914, he wasr "commissioned as landscape engineer in the Yosemiter National Park for the purpose of preparing a comprehensiver plan for the development and improvementr of the floor of the Yosemite Valley covering the bestr locations for roads, trails, and bridges, so as to bringr into view the full scenic beauty of the surroundings,r the clearing and trimming of suitable areas of woodsr to provide attractive vistas, the proper

HETCH HETCHY: THE SAN FRANCISCO WATER SUPPLY 36 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall location andr arrangement of a village in the Yosemite Valley, etc."r An important step taken in 1915 was a change in ther method of handling concessions, placing all the hotels,r camps, and lodges (with the exception of Camp Curry)r in the hands of one company under a long term lease,r thereby providing for the building of two new hotels,r one on the floor of the Valley and one at Glacier Point.r r r r In June, 1914, Mark Daniels was appointed Generalr Superintendent and Landscape Engineer for all ther national parks under control of the Department ofr the Interior. This was as far as the executive branchr of the government could go in the reorganization ofr national park administration. The final step awaitedr the action of Congress. For some years the Secretaryr of the Interior, seconded by the President, had beenr urging the establishment of a national park service.r This was finally done by an act of Congress whichr was approved August 25, 1916. The new bureau wasr organized in the spring of 1917. As its first Directorr Mr. Lane appointed Stephen T. Mather, who hadr already, as assistant to the Secretary of the Interior,r had general oversight of national park affairs. Muchr of the recent development in this field has been duer to the clear vision, enthusiasm, and untiring energyr of Mr. Mather. The establishment of the Nationalr Park Service marks the beginning of a new era inr national park history.r r r

THE NEW YOSEMITE r r r In the last decade a change has come over Yosemite—ar change that can be fully appreciated only byr those who have seen both the old Yosemite and ther new. There has come into existence a new attituder on the part of the general public, and the administrativer development just described is in part a cause andr in part an effect of this new attitude. It is now seenr that Yosemite is not simply the glorious valley ofr that name, nor the remarkable old Sequoias, but ar vast alpine wonderland containing, besides these,r many other features quite as much worth seeing.r r r r There are several factors which have an importantr bearing upon this new conception, and it is necessaryr to mention a few of them.r r r r The Park has been made accessible to a degree thatr was formerly only dreamed of or hoped for. First,r the building of the Yosemite Valley Railroad has mader it possible for the tourist to ride in comfort to ther very edge of the Park, giving a much more effectiver approach to the Valley through the wild gorge of ther Merced River. The building of this railroad was ther final outcome of many suggestions and proposals forr a wagon road or an electric road or a steam roadr designed to do away with the worst discomforts attendingr a visit to Yosemite. It follows the route whichr was pronounced the best by two different commissionsr appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. Ther right of way up the Merced River canyon was grantedr September 5, 1905, and the road was opened to travelr in the spring of 1907. Second, the admission of automobilesr has popularized the Park in a way thatr nothing else could do. This policy was inauguratedr near the close of the 1913 season. At the presentr time approximately two thirds of the visitors to ther Park enter it in private automobiles. Third, ther rehabilitation of the Tioga Road has opened the greatr upper Yosemite region to thousands who would neverr have gone there under the old hard conditions. Thisr road, the importance of which was stressed by everyr Acting Superintendent of the Park, was purchasedr and presented to the government in 1915 through ther generosity of Stephen T. Mather and a few others.r The State of California purchased the portions of ther road outside of the Park and built an extension downr Leevining Creek to connect with the highways on ther r r r eastern side of the range, thus making this old roadr an important link in a great highway system. Fourth,r the removal of the toll annoyance from the roads andr the construction of new roads and trails within ther Park have added immensely to the comfort of touristsr and the ease of getting about to points of interest.r The park road and trail system is not yet complete,r but enough has been done to

RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN THE PARK 37 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall show beyond peradventurer how richly it pays in the finer sense to open upr the mountain playgrounds of the people.r r r r Since the recession of the state park in 1906 andr concurrent with the changes outlined above, travel tor Yosemite National Park has increased thirteenfoldr and national appropriations have grown from a fewr thousand to $300,000 for the season of 1920. Withr these changes the old Yosemite has become but ar memory. The long hard trip over mountain roadsr followed by a sojourn in the quiet and restful Valleyr has given place to comfortable automobile and trainr service and life in modern camps and hotels. Inr winter, in early spring, and in late fall the Valleyr still bears much of its old-time restful atmosphere,r but during the height of the season (July) the populationr numbers ten thousand or more. The policy ofr the National Park Service in making the Park "liveable"r and more and more accessible is unquestionablyr the right one. Even now the charm of the old Yosemiter can still be found by those who are willing to pursuer it, for in Tuolumne Meadows, at Tenaya Laker and at Merced Lake are delightful little mountainr chalets; and in spite of further encroachments ofr civilization there will always be the wildness of naturer for those who seek it.r r r r r r

REFERENCES1 r r r r Bunnell, Lafayette H., 1911.r Discovery of the Yosemite, andr the Indian War of 1851 which Led to that Event.r 4th ed.r (Gerlicher, Los Angeles) 355 pp., 34 pl., 1 map.r r r Hutchings, James M., 1888.r In the Heart of the Sierras.r (Pacific Press, Oakland.) 496 pp., illus., maps.r r r King, Clarence, 1902.r Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.r 6th ed. (Chas. Scribner’s Sons, New York.) 378 pp.r (Yosemiter on pp. 165-190.)r r r Kuykendall, Ralph S., 1919.r r “Early History of Yosemite Valley, California.”r Dept. of Int. Park Service Bulletin.r 12 pp.r r r Muir, John, 1911.r r My First Summer in the Sierra.r (The Century Co., New York.) 354 pp., illus.r r r Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1893-1920.r The Sierra Club Bulletin,r vols. i-xi., illus.r r r

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Indians of Yosemite 40 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Anthropologicalr r Museum, University of Californiar r r r r Ther Indians of Yosemite belong to a group or familyr known as the Miwok who, before the white man came,r owned the tract from the Cosumnes River on the northr to the Fresno on the south, and from the crest of ther Sierra Nevada to the edge of the San Joaquin Valley.r The name Miwok is not strictly a tribal appellation; itr is simply the word in the language of these Indiansr which means "people." In default of any specificr designation for them, this term Miwok has beenr applied in distinction from other groups of aborigines.r Of such groups, there may be mentioned as neighbors:r the Maidu to the north in the Sierra; the Yokuts to ther south in the foothills and to the southwest in the Sanr Joaquin Valley; and the Mono to the south in the highr Sierra, and to the east in Owens Valley and aboutr Mono Lake. Excepting the Mono (who are an offshootr from the Paiutes and other Shoshoneans ofr Nevada and the Great Basin country) the otherr groups of Indians adjacent to the Miwok are veryr similar to them in physical type and customs, and evenr show a probable, although distant, relationship tor them in speech. In short, the Miwok are typical andr representative California Indians, and in this capacityr r r r form part of the large body of tribes known as "Diggers."r This is, however, a misleading name; partlyr because it carries a tinge of contempt, and still morer because it lumps together a variety of nationalitiesr that sometimes differed pretty thoroughly in theirr speech or were even unaware of one another’s existence.r For this reason the more accurate terms Miwok,r Maidu, and Yokuts are preferable.r r r

ORIGIN r r r The origin of these Sierra Nevada tribes is notr definitely known. There can, however, be no seriousr doubt that they form part of the generic Americanr Indian race and that their ultimate origin must ber sought wherever the source of this division of mankindr may have lain. While no one is yet in a position tor speak dogmatically on this matter, all indicationsr point to the Indians having come at some time in ther far past from Asia, probably by the Bering Strait andr Alaska route. It is clear that in his bodily type ther Indian more nearly resembles the Mongolian of Easternr Asia than any other variety of the human species.r The long, straight, stiff hair, one of the most valuabler marks in race classification, is alone sufficient to establishr a strong presumption in this direction. As tor when this migration of the first inhabitants of Americar out of Asia took place, there is growing up a fairlyr unanimous concensus among anthropologists that thisr movement must have occurred at about the time thatr the Old Stone Age was giving place to the New inr Europe; that is to say, in the period at which chippedr stone tools were being replaced by polished ones, andr the ax, bow and arrow, textiles, agricultural implements,r r r r and domestic animals were becoming part ofr the heritage of the species. These steps in advancer are believed to have occurred about ten thousandr years ago. We may therefore say roughly that somewherer about 8000 B.C.—with an allowance of a fewr thousand years either way as a margin for error—ther American Indian became established on this continentr and began his diffusion.r r r r California was probably not very long in beingr reached; a mode of life adapted to local conditionsr was worked out, and with this the natives werer apparently content, and their development progressedr only slowly. They have left some traces of theirr occupancy in ancient village sites, shell mounds, andr the like.

INDIANS OF YOSEMITE 41 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Here the less perishable of their utensils,r such as mortars, pestles, pipes, knives, arrow points,r awls, beads, and other objects of stone, bone, and sor forth, have been preserved. In one of the mostr favorable localities on the shores of San Franciscor Bay careful computations have been made as to ther age of these deposits, with the result that the lowerr levels of the shell mounds there have been estimatedr to date back at least 3000 years. The implements atr these lower levels are ruder than those found near ther tops of the mounds; but they are after all of the samer type and even rather similar to those used by ther modern Indians of the State, including the Miwok.r We are therefore justified in assuming that nativer customs evolved very slowly in California, and thatr the ancestors of the Miwok and of the Yosemiter Indians for a very long time past have lived veryr much in the manner and under the conditions inr which they were discovered by the whites seventyr years ago.r r r r r

DECREASE OF NUMBERS r r r The Miwok probably numbered at least tenr thousand, but the population decreased with terrifyingr rapidity after the advent of the white man. Somer of the nearer groups of them were taken to the Franciscanr Missions on the coast and there died off or becamer mixed with other tribes. The miner and rancherr quickly overran the Miwok habitat after 1849. Ther Indian was crowded into the less desirable nooks; hisr native food supply was preëmpted; whiskey and newr diseases against which he had no immunity werer introduced and resulted in a startling mortality; andr the general change in mode of life—new types ofr habitations, clothing, diet, labor, etc.—accentuatedr the effect of these diseases. The consequence wasr that in the sixty years between their first serious contactr with the white man until the census of 1910, ther Miwok lost more than ninety percent. of their numbers.r This census, which may not be wholly complete butr was by far the most accurate ever made as regardsr Indians, enumerates only about seven hundred ofr them, and of these a fair proportion are mixed bloods.r The number is still shrinking, but fortunately with lessr rapidity than formerly. The Indian has begun tor adapt himself to civilized life, and has acquired somer resistance to our diseases. The Miwok therefore bidr fair to maintain themselves as a diminishing remnantr for some time longer, and quite likely even a smallr fraction of them may survive permanently.r r r r The Miwok were not divided into tribes in the usualr sense of the word. They recognized very little politicalr authority. They were broken up into small localr groups, little larger than village communities, each ofr r r r r which admitted the headship of some chief and allowedr im a rather poorly defined amount of influence onr their conduct. These numerous little bodies namedr each other, generally, after the localities which theyr inhabited. Thus the Yosemite Indians as a bodyr were ordinarily known to the other Miwok as ther Awanichi, after Awani, the largest or best knownr village site in the Valley, located not far from the footr of Yosemite Falls. In the same way a group south ofr Yosemite was called the Pohonichi, because in summerr they ranged northward to the Valley in the region ofr Bridalveil Creek, the famous falls of which are knownr as Pohono.r r r

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ORIGIN 42 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r The Yosemite Indians were in the hunting stage;r that is, they never farmed nor raised domestic animals.r Actually, however, only a small part of their diet camer from game. They probably took as many pounds ofr fish each year as of animal flesh, and a still largerr portion of their food was wild vegetable products.r Among these the acorn was preëminent, and evenr to-day the caches or bins for the storage of theser nutritious nuts can occasionally be seen in the Valley.r These are rude affairs, eight or ten feet in height, constructedr of brush much like a long and deep bird’sr nest, and set between four or five posts to keep ther receptacle and its contents off the ground. They fulfillr their function of food conservation with onlyr moderate success, since one rarely approaches one ofr these caches without seeing a squirrel run out from ar hole which it has wormed through the brush walls.r Acorns, however, are plentiful in most parts of Californiar r r r and before the American introduced hogs theyr were superabundant, so that the Indians could affordr to share part of their crop with these unbidden visitorsr and still have enough left for their own needs.r r r r Acorns contain more or less tannin. The Indianr women leached this out with hot water after the nutsr had been shelled and pounded with a pestle in a stoner mortar. The latter usually was nothing more than ar hole in the surface of some convenient outcrop ofr granite. Frequently a number of these mortar holesr were assembled in one spot; these were roofed overr with branches, and in the shade of such an arbor ther Indian women were wont to gather for hours at a timer to wield the heavy pestle and meanwhile indulge in ther gossip of which they were not less fond than theirr Caucasian sisters. After the acorns were pulverized,r the meal was sifted and then cooked in baskets into ar thin mush or gruel—the famous "acorn soup" whichr was the staff of life to most of the California Indians.r As pottery and iron vessels were unknown, cookingr had of necessity to be done in water-tight baskets. Ar basket cannot of course be set over a fire, so ther Indian woman had perforce to bring the fire into herr food, as it were. This she did by heating stones aboutr the size of her fist, picking these up with a pair ofr sticks, and dropping them into the liquid, to whichr they communicated their heat until the mass boiled,r The stones were then removed and the gruel was readyr for consumption.r r r r At least fifty to a hundred other varieties of foodr plants were utilized. Among the more important ofr these were buckeyes, which contain a narcotic poisonr that is removable by leaching like the tannin in ther acorn; chia, a variety of sage the seeds of which can ber r r r

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r r r PLATE IVr r Francisco, a Yosemite Indian, in dance costume. The crown isr r of magpie feathers, the headband of yellow-hammerr r feathers, and the white ropes about the bodyr r chiefly of eagle down. The kilt is a wildr r cat skin with bead trimmingsr r Photo by J. T. Boysenr r r [Editor’s note:r Francisco Georgely was Northern Yokuts from Chowchilla.r —DEA]r r r r r r r r most palatably prepared; and brodiaeas, often calledr wild onions or lilies, whose bulbs were dug up byr means of sharp sticks.rr r r THE BOW: HUNTING AND WARr r r r The Miwok bow was from three to four feet longr and had its back heavily covered with a layer of sinewsr to give added toughness and elasticity. It was ar rather narrow weapon, and the sinew was thickenedr at the ends and then curled back on itself in a characteristicr shape. Such at least was the bow used inr warfare and for hunting large game. For rabbits,r gophers, and birds, which can be approached closely,r a ruder weapon without the sinew backing sufficed.r For such purposes, too, the arrow was often a merer shaft, whereas the real hunting and war bow shotr arrows which were foreshafted and tipped with delicater points of flint or obsidian. The latter material, ar blackish, volcanic glass, the Miwok obtained by trader from the Mono Indians.r r THE BOW: HUNTING AND WARr 44 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r With all its inferiority to firearms, the bow is ar powerful instrument within its effective range. Ar good weapon speeds an arrow with an initial velocityr of 120 feet per second. It has definite killing power upr to fifty yards, and at double that distance can easilyr inflict wounds that subsequently prove fatal. It tearsr the tissues more than a modern bullet, and frequentlyr produces internal hemorrhages from which the victimr bleeds to death, or which so weaken game thatr it can be followed up and overtaken. The longestr attested flight for an arrow is more than a quarter of ar mile, but this record was made with a compositer Turkish bow and especial long range arrows. Ther r r r Indians never attempted shooting over such distances.r They depended rather on knowing the habits of deerr and elk and creeping up on them. A favorite devicer was for the hunter to cover himself with a deer hider and set on his head a stuffed deer’s head. In this wayr he attracted the curiosity of his quarry without alarmingr it, and was often able to approach very close to it.r r r r When the Miwok fought, which was not very often, itr most frequently took on the form of a feud for revenge.r They usually shot at each other at fairly long range;r enough, at any rate, to make possible the dodging ofr arrows. Each line of warriors therefore capered andr danced about to render it difficult for their opponentsr to take aim, and jerked forward and sidewise as theyr saw arrows coming. As might be expected, casualtiesr were rather light. It was only when one party couldr ambush another, or pounce on a settlement asleep justr before daybreak, that fatalities would run high.r r r r HABITATIONSr r r r The houses of the Yosemite and other Miwokr Indians were rude affairs, built, according to locationr and abundance of materials, either of thatch, slabs ofr bark, or with a covering of earth. In Yosemite itselfr the cedar-bark house predominated. This was a conicalr lean-to with the slabs laid on several deep, andr while not entirely wind-proof it afforded reasonabler shelter. Most of the huts were small, probably notr over ten or twelve feet in diameter. One or two ofr them may still be seen at the time of this writing,r though they present rather a sorry appearance ofr gunnysacks, worn-out quilts, and pieces of sawnr lumber mixed in with the bark slabs.r r r r r r r In the lower foothills, the native house was morer frequently of the wigwam type, thatched with grass,r rushes, or brush; and in parts of the San Joaquinr Valley the earth lodge was typical. This was morer or less excavated and covered with a heavy layer ofr earth laid on a roof of poles and brush supported byr stout timbers. The Miwok used the earth lodge mainlyr for their dance- and sweat-houses. The formerr were large affairs up to forty or more feet in diameter.r The latter were much smaller edifices in which the menr daily sweated themselves for their health and physicalr comfort. The Yosemite Indians were about at ther edge of the habit of building earth-covered dancer houses. The more northerly Miwok and the tribesr beyond used them regularly in every village of anyr consequence, whereas the Yokuts, to the south ofr Yosemite, did not erect earth lodges.r r r

r HABITATIONSr 45 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r THE NAME YOSEMITEr r r r The word "Yosemite" means Grizzly Bear in ther Miwok language. Its more exact form is "üzümati"r or"ühümati." The name became definitely attachedr to the Valley, and to the band of Indians that made itr their headquarters, from the time of their first contactr with Americans. There are several explanations. Oner story has it that an unarmed young Indian fought offr a fierce grizzly bear with only a stick, and that thisr exploit led to the adoption of the name as a sort ofr heraldic crest by his group. Somehow this legendr gives the impression of white man’s imagination; itr does not have the true ring of Indian tradition.r Another account is that Tenaya (who was the chief ofr the Yosemite band at the time of the discovery andr r r r whose name is perpetuated in that of the canyonr leading into the Valley) and his people lived in ar country infested with bears. In addition, the bandr was reputed to consist of unusually fierce warriors.r Therefore the sobriquet "Grizzlies" was bestowedr upon them by the neighboring tribes. This storyr also does not seem wholly in accord with knownr principles of Indian nomenclature; although Dr. C.r Hart Merriam says that the inhabitants of Hokokwila,r the native village where the Sentinel Hotel now stands,r were called "Yohamite," that is, "Ühümati" orr Grizzly Bear. The true explanation of the name ofr the Valley is probably to be found in a peculiar socialr institution which the Yosemite Indians shared withr the other Miwok.r r r r This entire nation is everywhere divided into twor groups or "moieties" or halves, as we might call them,r which intermarry. The first social law of theser Indians is that a man must always take to wife ar woman from the other moiety. The children followr the father, and whether boys or girls are restrictedr in their choice of wife or husband to the secondr moiety, that of their mother. In this way the lineager is carried on uninterruptedly generation afterr generation.r r r r These two intermarrying halves of the Miwokr nation have the elements land and water as theirr designations or totems, and are known as Tunuka andr Kikua. The division is made more picturesque byr assigning every known species of animal and plant tor one or the other division. Thus the bear and mostr land animals and birds belong to the land side. Fishes,r water animals, and plants and a few exceptional onesr from the land—especially the deer and coyote—arer r r r associated with water. In some parts of the Miwokr country the people therefore speak of the "Blue Jay"r and "Bullfrog" instead of the land and water divisions.r In the Yosemite region it was customary to denominater the land side "Grizzly Bears" and the water sider "Coyotes." Furthermore, within Yosemite Valley, allr the villages on the north side of the Merced River werer supposed to belong to the Grizzly Bear division, andr those on the south the Coyote. It seems more thanr probable that this local name of one of these two sidesr or divisions came to be applied, through some misunderstandingr on the part of the whites, to all ther Indians of the valley, and then to the valley itself.r r r r [Editor’s note:r For the correct origin of the word Yosemite seer r “Origin of the Word Yosemite.”—DEA]r r r

r THE NAME YOSEMITEr 46 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r VILLAGES IN YOSEMITEr r r r The points on the floor of Yosemite at which ther Indians at one time or another lived or camped arer numerous. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, the greatest livingr authority on these people, enumerates about fortyr such spots and supplies the information which her obtained about them and verified from the Indians.r The principal sites are, in order down stream on ther north side of the Merced and proceeding up streamr again on the south side: Wiskala, at the foot of Royalr Arches; Yowachki, near the mouth of Indian Canyonr (this site is still occupied by a few families); Awanir and Kumini, near Yosemite Falls, the former being ther more important, in fact recognized as the largest andr most permanent settlement in the Valley in aboriginalr days; Hakaya, near the Three Brothers; Kisi andr Chuchakala, opposite the last, on the south side of ther river; Loya, at Sentinel Rock; Hokokwila, where ther Sentinel Hotel now stands; Tuyuyuyu, near ther r r r Le Conte Memorial Lodge; and Omato, between Campr Curry and the Happy Isles.r r r r It should be said, however, that these villages werer preëminently summer encampments. Now and thenr a few families with an unusually favorable stock ofr supplies hoarded up, might remain in the valley fromr autumn to spring, but the majority of the inhabitantsr annually retreated to the canyon of the Merced Riverr below El Portal in order to avoid the heavy snowsr of the 4000-foot altitude of Yosemite. Down belowr they waited, no doubt impatiently, for spring to comer and permit them to resume occupation of the mostr favored of their hunting and food-gathering grounds.r It may be added that the Indians, as their legendsr clearly indicate, were pretty fully aware of the extraordinaryr scenic features of the Valley, and derivedr much satisfaction from them; although with theirr native stolidity they no doubt expressed themselvesr less extravagantly than is the Caucasian habit.r r r r The number of the band at the time of discovery isr not accurately known, but may be estimated to haver been in the vicinity of two hundred and fifty souls.r r r r ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICANS: TENAYAr r r r It was their raids on miners, prospectors, andr scattered storekeepers, that in 1851 led to the formationr of a little volunteer army known as Savage’sr Mariposa Battalion. This company went up intor the as yet unpenetrated mountains in pursuit of ther Yosemite "Grizzlies" and to their overwhelmingr astonishment burst into the hitherto undiscoveredr valley. In the fighting that followed, the Indiansr were defeated, and part of them, including the Chiefr r r r r Tenaya, captured. The prisoners were taken to ther San Joaquin Valley and put on a reservation. Herer they kept the peace, but were in great distress of mindr on account of their deprivation of the natural foodsr to which they were accustomed in their own haunts,r as well as owing to their enforced contiguity to alienr or hostile tribes. Tenaya pleaded to be let off. Her was finally released, returned to Yosemite, and withinr four years was followed by all the surviving membersr of the band. The old chief did not long survive: her was killed by the Monos. He was not only a braver warrior but an unusual personality, who maintainedr his authority over his people by his native influencer and by the respect which he commanded rather thanr by any legal position.r r VILLAGES IN YOSEMITEr 47 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r MARRIAGEr r r r The Miwok social customs were numerous, andr many of them strangely different from our own.r The curious system of intermarrying divisions broughtr it about that a person always knew automatically tor which moiety any given blood relative belonged. Hisr father, his father’s father, his brothers and sisters, hisr children (if he were a man), his son’s children, and hisr uncles and aunts on the father’s side, were always ofr his own "side." His mother, her father, his wife, hisr father-in-law, his daughter-in law, and his daughter’sr children, inevitably belonged to the opposite division.r His mother’s mother, however, was always on hisr own side of the line-up. A woman differed from ar man in that her children always belonged to ther opposite division. Cousins were divided betweenr the two sides according to whether the connectionr r r r between them was through the male or the femaler line.r r r r The dual totemic division was reflected in ther personal names also. Any man, woman, or child, ifr his or her name referred to coyote or deer or beaverr or otter or crane or salmon or salamander, or evenr indirectly alluded to these animals, was therebyr designated as forming part of the water division. Onr the other hand, if his name had any reference to bearr or wildcat or squirrel or raccoon or raven or a host ofr other animals he was a "landsman."r r r r A curious custom was that while in general marriager with any blood relative, even of the seventh degree,r was absolutely prohibited, an exception was made inr favor of certain first cousins. Such cousins were inr fact more or less expected to marry, if there was nor satisfactory reason to the contrary. Which cousinsr were available for marriage, depended on the dualr division principle. A man could never marry hisr father’s brother’s daughter, because the two brothers,r and therefore their children, would belong to the samer division. Cousins sprung from two sisters were also,r ineligible, because, even though women did not transmitr descent to their children, sisters were forced tor mate with husbands of the opposite moiety; consequentlyr their offspring would also be of the same descentr and ineligible to one another. The daughter ofr one’s mother’s brother, however, was looked upon asr one’s natural spouse. A simple calculation will showr that such a cousin must always be of the opposite,r division from oneself.r r r r How this curious plan of relationships, marriages,r and descent originated is unknown. The Miwoksr themselves can give no explanation but take forr r r

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r r r Miwok woman pounding acorns in bedrock mortar holer r r Photo by Univ. of Calif., Department of Anthropologyr r r r r

r r r PLATE Vr r Kalapine, an old Yosemite medicine woman, making a coiledr r basket. The process of manufacture, which is one of sewing,r r can be seen. Her hair is cut short in mourningr r r Photo by J. T. Boysenr r r r r r r granted that the system has existed since the beginningr of the world, and look upon us as very stranger beings for not observing the same customs. It isr probable that the psychological root of the observancesr was a desire to keep the blood mixed; althoughr if such were the case, the original purposer was certainly defeated by the system of first-cousinr marriages.rr r r The newly wedded man was expected to showr deference to his wife’s parents by avoiding them asr much as possible, especially the mother-in-law; andr his wife behaved similarly toward his mother and father.r The young people did not look their elders in the facer or speak to them. If communication was necessary,r the husband would address himself to his wife, and sher in turn would repeat the statement to her mother, whor would make the necessary answer by the same route,r even though all three might be sitting in the samer lodge. For a young man to do otherwise, would ber the grossest breach of decorum, and the old lady wouldr no doubt complain to her friends that her daughterr seemed to have married a man lacking in all proprietyr and affection. This is another custom which ther Indians assume is self-evident, and when asked for ar reason they can give none except that they would ber mortally ashamed to behave otherwise.r r r r MARRIAGEr 49 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r BABIESr r r r When a child is born, both father and mother haver certain taboes imposed upon them. The man mayr not hunt nor do other than the necessary work, andr both parent’s sit as quietly as possible about the house.r After this follows a longer period during which theyr r r r are free to resume normal occupations but must notr eat certain kinds of food under penalty of injury tor the health of the child.r r r r The Miwok baby is put into a frame or "carrier," ar sort of flat, hooded basket woven of slender sticks.r In this it spends the greater part of the first twelver months of its life, and is easily carried about by ther mother. The baby carrier has the further advantager of seeming to keep the infant still and contented. It isr a notorious fact that Indian babies cry much less thanr white ones, and the native mothers declare that if theyr remove the children from their carriers the kickingr about of legs and arms soon induces restlessness, discontent,r and bawling. The woven hood of each ofr these tiny cradles is ornamented with a little patternr which differs according to sex. Zigzags or diagonalr stripes show that the inmate is a boy, whereas a girl isr indicated by a pattern of diamonds.r r r r DEATH AND MOURNINGr r r r When a Miwok died, mourning and wailing werer intense. His name must under no circumstances ber spoken. To do so might invoke the ghost, and wouldr in any event be considered as the deepest of all possibler insults by his relatives. A widow cropped or burnedr her hair very short, smeared melted pitch over it, andr also covered her face and breast with the same material.r During the whole period of mourning she wasr not allowed to wash these parts of her body. Afterr a few months of pitch and dirt, her appearance wasr a startling one: sufficiently forbidding, no doubt, tor deter any prospective suitor. For the whole of ther first year of her widowhood, also, she kept silence, orr r r r spoke only in low whispers to a female relative whenr the occasion was imperative.r r r r Once a year, in each region of the Miwok country,r usually in late summer or autumn, a great commemorativer mourning ceremony for the dead was held,r which lasted amid wailing and singing for severalr nights. Toward daybreak on the last morningr immense accumulations of food and property werer thrown into the fire by the mourners. Those of ther deceased who had been of special rank, or particularlyr beloved by their survivors, were represented by ruder effigies which were also consumed in the blaze. Afterr this the mourners of the land side were ceremoniallyr washed by the water people, and vice versa, to signifyr their cleansing from the period of grief and from ther restrictions which they had been under. For ther widow it was also a much needed literal cleansing.r r r

r BABIESr 50 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r MEDICINE-MENr r r r When an Indian became sick, a shaman or mediciner man was called in. This individual had acquired hisr power from spirits. He was believed to possess ther power of clairvoyance. After dancing, singing, manipulatingr the patient, and other preliminaries, he wouldr declare that the illness was due to the infraction ofr some religious taboo, or that some evil-minded medicine-man,r a witch or wizard, had managed to lodger some foreign object or noxious little animal in the bodyr of the sufferer.r r r r He then proceeded to remove the poison by suckingr the part affected, and finally pretended to remove ar little mass of straw, a wisp of hair, a dead grasshopperr or lizard, or something of that sort. The patient andr r r r his relatives of course felt immeasurably relieved, and,r confidence having been regained, nature in most casesr concluded the recovery.r r r r If, however, the medicine-man was unfortunate andr lost several patients, especially if these died in rapidr succession, he paid dearly for his preëminence. Ther Indians were so convinced of the complete power ofr these shamans, that they gave them entire credit forr every cure that happened. Consequently they werer quite logical when they reasoned that the death of ar patient must be due to the unwillingness or evilr disposition of the practitioner. One or two fatalitiesr might be pardoned as due to mere incompetence; butr suspicion would be gathering, and after his third orr fourth loss, the medicine-man’s life was worth little.r The relatives of his deceased patients were simplyr waiting for an opportunity to ambush and murderr him, and he must be a wary or powerful man indeedr to escape permanently. Even to-day an occasionalr murder among the Sierra Nevada tribes can be tracedr to a lingering of this old custom.r r r r MYTHS AND ORIGIN BELIEFSr r r r The myths and legends of the Yosemite band restedr on the same ideas as those current among the otherr Miwok. From these latter we gather that it wasr currently believed by the natives that this earthr was peopled six successive times. The first world wasr dominated by a cannibal giant Uwulin who graduallyr devoured its inhabitants until little Fly discovered ar tiny vulnerable spot in his heel—like that of Achilles—andr despatched the malefactor. The people of ther second world were not much better off, for they werer r r r stolen away by an immense bird, a sort of Roc, namedr Yelelkin, and the remainder were persecuted by antsr until they were driven away. The third world wasr peopled by beings who were half human and halfr animal, and came to an end with their transformationr into complete animals—a sort of retrograde evolution.r The fourth race was vexed by its chief, Skunk, whor kept for himself all meat, until his people succeededr in destroying him by strategy. In his death agoniesr Skunk upheaved the mountains. This race was alsor transformed into animals. As to the fifth world,r tradition is obscure, but the sixth peopling wasr accomplished by Coyote. The earth was at this timer covered with water, but Coyote had Frog dive andr bring up a bit of soil from which he created land. Her then caused vegetation to grow up and made humanr beings. He and his associates, who up to this timer had been more or less human or even superhumanr in attributes, then became changed into animals liker those which we see to-day.r r MEDICINE-MENr 51 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r In the story of the origin of death among mankind,r Coyote also figures. His plan was to have peopler covered up for four days and then arise reborn in ther prime of manhood. For a while this arrangementr worked to the satisfaction of everyone. Once, however,r a person died just as Meadow-lark took to himselfr a wife. After a day or two, odors of decay began tor arise from the blanket-covered pile and penetratedr to the hut of the honeymoon couple. Meadow-larkr resented having his bliss disturbed in this way, andr proclaimed that a much, better plan would be to burnr up the source of the stench and leave everyone inr peace. His counsel prevailed and the first cremationr took place, which the Miwok have adhered to everr r r r since; but with it there passed away the habit ofr human lives being renewed over and over. Althoughr they believe this tale, the Miwok seem to bear nor resentment against Meadow-lark.r r r r The greatest hero of Miwok legends is Wekwek, ther Falcon, son of Condor or according to other versions ofr Yayil, and grandson of Coyote. Falcon fought andr overcame a destructive giant, Kilak; escaped a firer that consumed the surface of the world; and underwentr numberless other adventures. More than oncer he was killed and restored to life, and at other times her brought back among the living his father, his sister, orr some friend. The Miwok never tire of telling aboutr this character, who impersonates all that they conceiver of daring and magic and skill in the days of long ago.r r r r LEGENDS OF YOSEMITEr r r r About Yosemite Valley proper there are a number ofr Indian stories which have repeatedly been recordedr with but little variation, so that they may be consideredr authentic. The favorite one tells of a womanr named Tiseyak who lived far down the Merced River,r in or near the plains. Having quarreled with herr husband, she ran away eastward, creating the course ofr the present stream and causing oak trees and otherr food-bearing plants to spring up along her route. Inr Yosemite Valley her husband overtook her and beatr her soundly. In the scuffle, the hooded bady-cradler which she was carrying was thrown across to the northr wall of the canyon, where the bent hood can still ber seen in the Royal Arches. A globular basket whichr she had brought with her, landed bottom upward andr became Basket or North Dome. The husband, whor r r r r is known in the story as Nangas, "her husband,"r turned into North Dome or Washington Tower,r whereas Tiseyak herself became Half Dome, the darkr streaks on the sheer cliff of this great peak being ther tears which her pain and humiliation had caused tor stream down her face. The several versions vary inr details, but in substance the tale is told by all ther Yosemite Miwok as here outlined. It must ber remembered that oral tradition can never ber absolutely consistent in the mouths of separater individuals.r r r r El Capitan, it is said, was originally a small rock.r Once, long ago, a she-bear went to sleep on top withr her two cubs. When they awoke in the morning, ther rock had grown into the present tremendous cliff.r Neither they nor the people of the village below knewr how to rescue the unfortunates; until at last the Inchr or Measuring Worm succeeded in humping his way upr the cliff. By this time, however, the poor bear andr her cubs had starved to death, and he could do nor more than bring down their bones for cremation byr their mourning relatives.r

r MYTHS AND ORIGIN BELIEFSr 52 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Measuring Worm was now possessed by the spiritr of adventure. He reclimbed El Capitan, stretchedr himself clear across to the opposite side of the Valley,r and drew himself over. Then he recrossed. Thisr sport, however, must have weakened the walls of ther canyon, for it was not long before they began to caver and the inhabitants were obliged to flee down ther river in order to save themselves. The Indians sayr that before this catastrophe the Valley was evenr deeper than it is at present.r r r r Waterfalls are dreaded by the Miwok, and bothr Yosemite and Bridalveil Falls are believed to be inhabitedr r r r by spirits, those in the former being knownr as Poloti, and in the latter as Pohono. They causer gusts of wind which are likely to whirl into the fallsr people who venture too close. Once the Polotir captured a girl. She had gone to Yosemite Creekr from Awani or a neighboring camp to bring backr a basket of water. When she dipped up, it wasr full of snakes. These the spirits had caused tor enter the vessel so that she might abandon her accustomedr spot and move farther upstream. Eachr time she dipped her basket, the unfortunate girlr found more vermin in it, and so gradually she wentr higher and higher up until she reached the pool atr the foot of the falls, when a sudden violent gust blewr her in.r r r r It was with such tales as this that the Yosemiter Indians used to beguile the long winter evenings whiler sitting about the fire.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Barrett, S. A., 1908. "The Geography and Dialects of ther Miwok Indians." Univ. of Calif. Publications in Americanr Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. vi., No. 2.r 1919. "Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok." Univ. ofr Calif. Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,r vol. xvi., No. 1.r r r r Clark, Galen, 1904.r Indians of Yosemite Valley and Vicinity.,r (Galen Clark, Yosemite) 110 pp., illus.r r r r Gifford, E. W., 1916. "Miwok Moieties." Univ. of Calif.r Publ. in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 4r 1917.r r "Miwok Myths," Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Americanr Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 8.r r r r Kroeber, A. L., 1916. "California Place Names of Indianr Origin." Univ. of Calif. Publications in American Archaeologyr and Ethnology, vol. xii., No. 2.r

r LEGENDS OF YOSEMITEr 53 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Merriam, C. Hart, 1910.r r The Dawn of the World: Myths andr Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California.r r r r (A. H. Clark Co., Cleveland), pp., illus.r r 1917.r r "Indian Village and Camp Sites in Yosemite Valley."r Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. x., No. 2.r r r r Powers, Stephen, 1877.r r "Tribes of California." Contributionsr to North American Ethnology, vol. iii.r r r r r r r

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r By Stephen T. Matherr r

r r Director, U. S. National Park Servicer r r r r r r Ther r first national parks were set aside by Congressr with the view of conserving some of our most strikinglyr scenic natural assets. Thus, previous to 1902,r the Hot Springs, Yellowstone, Sequoia, General Grant,r Yosemite, Mount Rainier, and Crater Lake nationalr parks were reserved from public entry. These nationalr parks of early date were merely set aside forr the future; indeed, no national park policy or centralr organization which would make them available asr vacation centers for the American public was at thatr time deemed necessary. In the following years to ther time of writing Congress set aside twelve other areasr as national parks making a total of nineteen parks,r seventeen of them within the boundaries of the Unitedr States, one in Alaska, and one in the Hawaiian Islands.r

Ideals and Policy of the National Park Service 55 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Previous to 1915 the parks were all administeredr with the aid of the War Department, and policies andr the interpretation of rules and regulations variedr greatly on the different reservations. Up to 1918 roadr work in Yellowstone and Crater Lake parks wasr handled by the engineers of the War Department, butr since that time all administrative activities in ther r r r r parks have been handled by the Interior Department,r In 1916, Congress passed a bill creating the Nationalr Park Service as a bureau of this department. Sincer its establishment much has been said about the Servicer both in compliment and criticism and it is with pleasurer that the writer hails this opportunity to explainr how the ideals and policy of the Service govern ther administration of Yosemite National Park.r r r r In his message to the Director of National Parks,r former Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Laner concisely and accurately summarized the policy of ther Park Service into three broad principles: "First, thatr the national parks must be maintained in absolutelyr unimpaired form for the use of future generations asr well as those of our own time; second, that they arer set apart for the use, observation, health, and pleasurer of the people; and third, that the national interestr must dictate all decisions affecting public or privater enterprise in the parks." So much for our ideals.r Let us now consider each of the three fundamentalr principles as they are applied by the Service in Yosemiter National Park.r r r r The first principle, "that the national parks must ber maintained in absolutely unimpaired form for the use ofr future generations as well as our own," is one that mustr be upheld by the Service. This standpoint has beenr attacked time and again by private individuals andr corporations who wish to get a foothold in the people’sr parks for their own gain—to pasture herds of sheep inr our mountain flower gardens, or to turn aside ourr streams and destroy some of our most beautiful fallsr for the sake of electric power which might easily ber developed elsewhere. There are even now, at ther time of writing, applications which, if approved, wouldr r r r r r ruin the wonderful Waterwheel Falls in the Grandr Canyon of the Tuolumne and turn Nevada Falls into ar mild sedate affair instead of the wonderful torrent thatr now pours over its granite rim in the spring months.r Let the lower levels of streams like the Merced ber developed before destroying the beauty of the highr country. The Yosemite Power Plant built by ther National Park Service well below the Valley is ar practical example. If in years to come hydro-electricr development demands the destruction of beauty spotsr of the High Sierra after other sources of power haver been exhausted, it will be well to consider then, butr that time is not yet.r r r r The public is one of the best allies of the Service inr many of its practical problems of "preserving the parkr absolutely unimpaired." Campers realize the justicer of being allowed to use only dead wood for their fires.r It is especially gratifying to note that fewer forestr fires are caused each year by the carelessness ofr campers; indeed, many fires are discovered, reported,r and fought by them. People are coming to realizer that thousands of unafraid live deer and elk are muchr more to be preferred than a few invisible or dead ones,r and hundreds of real sportsmen get more pleasurer hunting with camera in national parks than they wouldr with gun outside.r r r r In this task of preserving the park one of the arch-enemiesr of the Service is fire. Rangers are always onr the lookout for the first sign of smoke and others arer always ready to go on duty as fire fighters, staying withr the r THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONALrr PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATIONrr56 TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKr Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall fight night and day until the Forest Fiend isr conquered.r r r r Often one sees in the Sierras dead or dying treesr which have been attacked by insects. A speciallyr r r r qualified ranger is assigned to the work of fightingr these pests in coöperation with the Bureau of Entomologyr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture—anotherr phase of the preservation of our parks.r r r r Some of the roads in the western part of the park,r notably the Wawona Road, traverse private timberr holdings. By negotiating with the owners of theser timberlands the government has exchanged stumpager in various out-of-the-way sections of the park andr thus preserved the scenic beauty of the roads.r r r r It is with the second ideal, "that they (the parks)r are set apart for the use, observation, health, and pleasurer of the people," that so many of the activities of ther Service are concerned. The first idea of nationalr parks seems to have been that they were stupendousr natural spectacles, to be seen (or we might say done) inr a short time, as one might view an art exhibit or ar pageant. Then came the great out-of-doors movementr and, especially since the advent of the automobile,r people turned to the national parks as placesr to live during their vacations and to "get next tor Nature." Lastly comes the realization that our parksr are not only show places and vacation lands but alsor vast school-rooms of Americanism where people arer studying, enjoying, and learning to love more deeplyr this land in which they live.r r r r In the administration of the parks the greatest goodr to the greatest number is always the most importantr factor determining the policy of the Service. Duringr the assignment of army officers to administer Yosemiter National Park all motor vehicles were prohibited fromr entering, but finally, in 1914, under instructions fromr Secretary Franklin K. Lane, automobiles were admittedr under very strict regulations. Since 1915r r r r r motor restrictions have been gradually removed untilr there are now but a few rules and these for the safetyr of motorist and pedestrian alike. The advent of ther automobile with the opportunity for its use freely inr all the parks within the last five years has been ther open sesame for many thousands; indeed, during ther season of 1919 74% of the visitors of Yosemite Nationalr Park entered in their own machines.r r r r The road problem then is one of the most importantr issues before the Service. Outside of possibly Yellowstoner there has been but little development in ther parks to enable the motorists to have the greater user of these playgrounds which they demand and deserve.r Definite projects have been laid out by the Service inr all the larger parks calling for important road building,r but up to the present time no substantial funds haver been available to carry them out. Congress, the appropriatingr body, has been engrossed with its warr problems, but I now feel that the turning point hasr arrived. As an indication of the interest of that bodyr it might be mentioned that during the present seasonr (1920) the House Appropriations Committee visitedr seven of the largest parks and expressed themselvesr as deeply impressed with the needs of the Service.r r r r As regards Yosemite National Park much remainsr to be done in the way of road development. A substantialr piece of work has been accomplished in ther reconstruction of the road from Yosemite Valley tor r THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONALrr PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATIONrr57 TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKr Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall the El Portal Entrance, a total of seven and a halfr miles built at the cost of a quarter of a million dollars.r This is the only heavy piece of road work which hasr been done in any of the parks during or since the warr period. This will connect with the all-year-roundr highway which the State is building up the Mercedr r r r Canyon and which will make the Valley more readilyr accessible to motorists in winter than it now is inr summer. The certain great increase of travel intor Yosemite Valley by this easy grade road makes itr necessary to provide a convenient outlet into the backr country. This outlet will be the road which has beenr surveyed from the Valley by Vernal and Nevada Fallsr into the Little Yosemite Valley, thence connectingr with the Tioga Road at Lake Tenaya. The surveyr has been carefully run so as not to interfere with ther beauty of the falls.r r r r The other approach roads to the Valley—the Bigr Oak Flat and the Wawona—must be widened andr their grades lowered, and the Tioga Road should haver many of its bad pitches smoothed out. Perhaps ar spur road should be built up the Lyell Fork, connectingr with the Tioga Road at Tuolumne Meadows, thusr opening up additional camping country in the scenicr Mount Lyell region.r r r r The beautiful Tuolumne Meadows, considered byr John Muir and the Sierra Club the finest campingr ground in the High Sierra, will come into much greaterr use when the new lodge for visitors is established therer (1921). A store has been started which is provingr very useful to the campers in this section.r r r r While the motorist will find a great area of the parkr accessible to him under the plans indicated, therer will be a large proportion of the park preserved forr trail trips only. The rugged canyons north of ther Tuolumne River will be for many years to come devotedr to trail travel, and Superintendent Lewis hasr plans for developing the present trail system therer which will make this magnificent section of the parkr more accessible.r r r r r r r r Each year sees the park better developed for the user of the people. The Free Public Camps in Yosemiter Valley have become very popular, a total of twenty-threer thousand four hundred persons having beenr registered during the season of 1920. Better facilitiesr must be provided in these camps; the sanitaryr system by which they will largely benefit is alreadyr under construction, and all the camps should ber lighted by electricity. Time and again Europeanr visitors express astonishment that all this service canr be free. To them it is as incomprehensible as is ourr sense of American freedom.r r r r As rapidly as conditions permit, the system of lodgesr should be extended farther back into the High Sierrar so that hikers may walk from place to place on ther highland trails and be sure of food and shelter at ther end of each day’s travel.r r r r Yosemite National Park is already a fisherman’sr paradise, especially in the High Sierra country. Eachr year many of the lakes and streams are stocked withr trout fry, but even more should be done, and eachr body of water in the park should be made productive.r A hatchery which would supply the needs of the parkr must be built in Yosemite Valley where it will ber an object of interest and instruction to thousands ofr visitors.r r THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONALrr PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATIONrr58 TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKr Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r To further exemplify the principle of use tne Servicer allows the. grazing of cattle on lands which are notr used by tourists. Overstocking, a condition which inr some sections of the High Sierra has made it next tor impossible for a camper to obtain feed for his stock,r is carefully guarded against.r r r r Upon the principle that the parks are set apart forr di observation by the people" are based many of ther r r r most recent activities of the Service. The establishmentr of the Free Nature Guide Service during ther season of 1920 proved a great success. The quickeningr interest in Nature-study work under Dr. H. C.r Bryant and Dr. Loye Miller points the way for us tor develop this work on a far greater scale in the Yosemiter as well as other national parks in future years.r r r r The Yosemite Museum is the outcome of the publicr demand for authentic exhibits of natural history,r geology, ethnology, botany, and other sciences sor well exemplified by the region. The museum wasr made possible almost entirely by gifts and loans ofr private individuals and will be developed as rapidlyr as possible by the Park Service.r r r r The Le Conte Memorial Lectures which are givenr in Yosemite under the auspices of the Extension Divisionr of the University of California have been veryr useful in bringing to the tourist a better knowledge ofr the park and of men like Le Conte and Muir who haver told its story so well.r r r r In recent years there has been a movement to taker classes into national parks for instruction and it is nowr a common experience to meet university students,r troops of Boy Scouts, and other groups studying Naturer first-hand. Such use of the parks is stronglyr encouraged by the Service.r r r r The function of the parks as factors in increasingr our national health, vitality, and happiness is a mostr important one. To encourage clean living in God’sr great out-of-doors should be one of the primary idealsr of the Service. The European visitor whose idealr vacation so often consists in lounging about a hotelr and viewing Nature from the veranda, marvels at ther number of people he finds hiking, riding, swimming,r r r r or otherwise engaged in strenuous sports in the Yosemite.r Let us encourage this American spirit to ber up and doing. Of course there are those who requirer "artificial" amusements and there will always ber entertainments, dancing, bowling, pool, etc., at ther larger hotels, camps, and lodges. Let us not, however,r "vulgarize" the parks as has been the accusationr of some visitors.r r r r I hope that winter sports in the park will become ar great feature. If Glacier Point with its beautifulr hotel were available in winter time, Sentinel Domer with its heavy snowfall could be made to rival St.r Moritz. To reach this altitude in winter the suggestionr has been made for the construction of a shaftr by which the tourist would be carried directly from ther Valley to Glacier Point. If this plan is carried out itr must be done without marring the beauty of the canyonr walls. Anything in the nature of an outsider structure could not be r THE IDEALS AND POLICY OF THE NATIONALrr PARK SERVICE PARTICULARLY IN RELATIONrr59 TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKr Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall considered.r r r r The third ideal of the Service, "that the nationalr interest must dictate all decisions affecting public orr private enterprise in the parks," is one phase of ther parks policy which is least understood by the public.r When the Department of the Interior assumed completer administration of the parks each public utilityr was handled by a separate individual or company.r Under these conditions results were not always satisfactoryr and prices were sometimes abnormally high.r Finally a large corporation, the Yosemite Nationalr Park Company, made up of hundreds of stockholders,r principally public-spirited citizens of Los Angeles andr San Francisco, was organized and all concessions exceptingr the photographic studios, a bakery, the Yosemiter Hospital, and Camp Curry were turned overr r r r to it. This organization has been doubly necessaryr during the past few seasons because of the greatlyr increased travel and the corresponding increase inr investments necessary to allow for unlimited and immediater expansion. The government regulates pricesr and this very easily by dealing with one central office.r Furthermore of all of the profits made by this larger company, over and above six per cent. for physicalr investment, the United States Government receives,r 22 1/2 per cent. While much criticism was at firstr expressed on the part of local concessionaires over ther concentration of all public utilities, it is now generallyr realized that this is the only system of managementr which could have kept pace with the park development,r and being a problem of national interest it wasr decided by the Service with a view to the greatest goodr to the greatest number.r r r r In conclusion let me say that the development ofr the Park Service has been more than gratifying,r especially as regards the esprit de corps which has notr only made the organization efficient but is daily exemplifyingr the true meaning of service. The ideal ofr each individual member of the Service and of ther Service itself is to give to the public not merely whatr they pay for, but everything within power.r r r r r r

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ADMINISTRATION OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK r r

r By W. B. Lewisr r

r Superintendent, Yosemite National Parkr r r r r Yosemite National Park,r which covers 1125r square miles, an area nearly as extensive as the Stater of Rhode Island, is a national reservation. It is completelyr subject to federal administration and is governedr by rules and regulations prescribed by ther Secretary of the Interior under authority of the law.r The enforcement of the laws and regulations is entrustedr to a Superintendent who resides and maintainsr headquarters in Yosemite Valley and who is directlyr responsible to the Director of the National Park Service,r the chief administrative officer of the entirer National Parks system.r r r r The duties of the Superintendent are multifarious.r He must supervise the many governmental activities,r some of which are the task of building and maintainingr roads and trails; the building of telephone and

"Administration of Yosemite National Park" 62 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall telegraphr lines and the operation of telephone and telegraphr service within the park, and to the connectionr of these lines with the outside commercial lines; ther building of power transmission lines and the operationr of the government-owned and -built 2000 kilowattr hydro-electric power plant; the building, maintenance,r and operation of the park shops and barns; the constructionr r r r and maintenance of living quarters for ther employees of the government; the operation of constructionr camps for the working men; the installation,r maintenance, and operation of water and sewager systems; the care of public grounds; the policing andr maintenance of the public camping grounds, etc.; andr the administration of the park ranger force. The dutiesr of this last branch of the service include the generalr policing of the park for the protection of fish and game,r the prevention and extinguishing of forest fires, ther regulation of traffic, and the general preservation ofr order, the checking of automobiles, and the maintenancer of an Information Bureau for the disseminationr of accurate, reliable, and impartial information on allr matters of interest to park visitors.r r r r The Superintendent must also hear complaints,r arbitrate differences between individuals or parties,r supervise the activities of those individuals or corporationsr who operate hotels, camps, transportationr services, etc., under government franchise, aridr adjust differences between such individuals andr corporations themselves or between them and ther public.r r r r The Superintendent further has supervision over ther cutting of timber on private lands within the park andr on government lands where, through exchanges withr private owners to preserve privately owned timberr of scenic importance, such cutting is permitted. Her must also see that the government’s interests are notr impaired under the operation of power and waterr supply projects where they are authorized by law as,r for instance, in the case with the City and County ofr San Francisco in the development of its power andr water supply project in Hetch Hetchy Valley.r r r r r r r With this diversity of governmental activities ther administrative organization is divided into variousr departments, each with its supervising officer andr each with clearly specified activities and duties. Theser various administrative and operative units togetherr with their general duties are enumerated below.r r r r Department of General Administration. The Assistantr Superintendent is in charge of this departmentr and the activities are as follows: general office management;r purchase of supplies and equipment; disbursingr of pay rolls and accounts; timekeeping; accounting;r collections of revenues from sales, franchise fees, andr fees from all other sources; appointments; employees’r compensation; preparation of contracts and vouchers;r sales; and the numerous details of local routiner matters.r r r r Department of Maintenance and Operation. Ther activities of this department, which is administeredr by a Park Supervisor who is assisted by an Assistantr Supervisor, are the most varied of any of the parkr administrative units. They consist principally ofr the maintenance of the 138 miles of park roads andr 600 miles of trails, of some 200 government buildings,r and of approximately 5 miles of water lines; the maintenancer and repair of all buildings, fences, and bridges;r the care and distribution of stock and transportationr facilities; upkeep and repair of tools and equipment;r care of public grounds and camps; disposal of garbager and waste; and the production of wood, ice, hay, etc.r

ADMINISTRATION OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 63 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Department of Engineering. A Resident Engineerr has direct charge of this unit and his duties consistr mainly of the advisory supervision of all outside maintenancer work; the making of surveys for roads, trails,r pipe lines, etc.; the preparation of plans, designs, andr r r r specifications for construction; and the inspectionr contract work.r r r r Ranger Service. It is with this phase of the parkr administration that the public comes most in contact.r The Ranger Service consists of a force of from ten tor thirty rangers (depending upon the season of the year)r under a Chief Ranger.r r r r The park is divided into a number of districts and,r during the summer months, in each is stationed ar mounted ranger who is responsible for the properr patrol of his district. It is his duty to inform, assist,r and instruct the park visitor, to prevent and extinguishr forest fires, to protect fish and game in accordancer with the park rules and regulations, to inspectr camping grounds, and to enforce the rules and regulations,r making arrests when necessary.r r r r Traffic rangers, mounted on horses and motorcycles,r are stationed on the floor of Yosemite Valley. Whiler their principal duty is to regulate traffic, they mustr also be informative to the public, patrol for fire, policer camping grounds, and, in general, preserve law andr order around the village, camps, and hotels.r r r r A specially qualified ranger is also in charge of ther Information Bureau which is maintained at the Parkr Headquarters. Here information concerning roadsr and trails and all other matters of public interest concerningr the park is given out; campers are registered;r park publications and maps are distributed and sold;r and bulletins concerning roads, trails, and generalr park conditions are prepared from time to time forr distribution to newspapers, automobile clubs, andr other organizations interested.r r r r Checking or automobile rangers are stationed atr all of the road entrances to the park, and at the topr r

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r NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INSIGNIAr 1.—Director of National Parks (Gold Star)r Assistant Director of National Parks (Silver Star)r 2.—Park Superintendentr 3.—Assistant Park Superintendentr 4.—Park Engineerr 5.—Assistant Park Engineerr 6.—Chief Park Rangerr 7.—Assistant Chief Park Rangerr 8.—Park Rangerr 9.—Temporary Park Rangerr 10.—Ranger’s Badger 11.—Collar Insigniar r r r r r and bottom of the steep grades entering Yosemiter Valley. They issue permits, collect automobile fees,r distribute park information, and collect and seal firearms.r Records are kept of every automobile or otherr vehicle passing the stations, together with the numberr of persons carried and the exact time of leaving ther stations. Checking rangers are also called upon to dor their share towards the effective operation of the parkr by observing for fires, reporting violations of regulations,r etc.rr r r Electrical Department. Under this department fallsr the maintenance and operation of the park telephone,r telegraph, power, and lighting systems. A Chief Electricianr is in direct charge.r r r r The telephone and telegraph system of the parkr consists of approximately 210 miles of telephone lines,r to which are attached from 100 to 175 telephones.r These lines radiate from Yosemite Valley to variousr parts of the park, and fifteen miles of telegraph liner links Yosemite with El Portal where connection isr made with the lines of the Pacific Telephone andr Telegraph Company.r

ADMINISTRATION OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 65 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r A 150-line switchboard is operated continuously onr a 24-hour basis throughout the year, and local andr long distance service may be had from all hotels,r camps, or ranger stations throughout the park.r The main telegraph office is located at the Parkr Headquarters Building in Yosemite Village, butr messages may be filed and received at all hotels andr camps. A messenger service is also provided duringr the summer months but this is of necessity limitedr to Yosemite Valley.r r r r The electrical system consists of a hydro-electric,r power plant of 2000 kilowatt capacity, located on ther r r r Merced River a short distance below the western endr of Yosemite Valley. This plant was completed inr June, 1919, at a cost of $212,000.00 and serves sevenr miles of high power transmission line and approximatelyr nine miles of distributing lines. The energyr here developed is used for power, lighting, heating,r and cooking purposes in the hotels and camps, and inr the residences of park employees and other governmentr buildings.r r r r Department of Forests and Timber. Under ther supervision of a Park Forester this unit of park administrationr is charged with the supervision of timberr operations in the park and the immediate representationr of the federal government on the Hetch Hetchyr project in course of development by the City andr County of San Francisco.r r r r Special work having to do with the forests of ther park is also assigned to this department.r r r r Mechanical Department. This department is presidedr over by a Master Mechanic who has charge ofr the operation of the machine shop and the maintenancer and upkeep of all motor-driven vehicles. Tor him is also assigned the task of advisory supervisionr of the upkeep and operation of all power-drivenr machinery and plants.r r r r In addition to the more or less specific activitiesr enumerated above, numerous problems of a specialr nature are from time to time taken up in connectionr with other bureaus or departments of the State andr National governments. Control of the mosquito nuisancer is carried on in coöperation with and underr the advice of the United States Public Health Servicer of the Treasury Department; the study of forest insectsr and application of the findings of the Bureau ofr r r r Entomology of the Department of Agriculture in ther elimination of insect depredations on the park forestsr are effected by the park force in coöperation withr that bureau; the planting of fish in the park waters isr done in coöperation with the California State Fishr and Game Commission; methods for the exterminationr of rodents in Yosemite Valley are applied underr the advice of the Biological Department of the Departmentr of Agriculture; and in coöperation with ther Forest Service the problem of the preservation ofr timber along the roads leading to the park is beingr worked out.r r r

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r By Andrew C. Lawsonr r

r r Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University ofr r Californiar r r r r r Fromr a geological and physiographic point of viewr the Sierra Nevada is, as its Spanish name implies, ar single range built on very simple structural lines. Itr belongs to the class of mountains of the Basin Ranger type, so called because it is best exemplified in ther Great Basin, that great region of no drainage to the sear which lies between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch.r In this region the earth’s crust has been broken intor blocks, elongated in a general north-south direction.r Some of these have been depressed and lie beneath ther broad valleys of the desert, while others have beenr uplifted and constitute its linear mountain ranges.r The uplift has, however, not been uniform in mostr cases, but has been effected by a rotation of the blockr On an axis parallel to the range. It results from thisr that the block as a whole has been tilted so as tor Present a steep front, or scarp, on one side and ar gentle slope on the other. The simplicity of ther Profile thus produced has of course been greatly modifiedr by the erosion of the block which has taken placer irl the long period of time

Geology of Yosemite National Park 68 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall that has elapsed since itsr uplift.r r r r r r The Sierra Nevada is one of these uplifted and tiltedr blocks, presenting a very steep, bold front to the eastr and a slope of only about 2° to the west. The edge ofr the tilted block is the crest of the range; its easternr front is the surface of the break whereby it wasr dislocated from the relatively depressed region of ther desert; and its western slope represents the old, lowr surface of the region before it was elevated. Bothr the eastern front and the western slope have sufferedr greatly from erosion since the range came into beingr by this process of uplift and tilting. On the east ther fault scarp has been battered to a slope much lessr steep than it was originally, and the crest of the ranger has thereby migrated westward. On the west the tiltingr of the surface determined a drainage by streamsr running transverse to the axis of the range; and these,r by reason of their velocity, cut sharp trenches, whichr in the course of time have been deepened and widenedr into the great cañons of the Sierra Nevada. On ther divides between the cañons, in cases where their slopesr have not yet intersected, there are still remnants of ther old surface much in the same condition as it was beforer the uplift. From these flat-topped divides, anr observer may get such extended views in all directionsr that he forgets he is in the mountains, and, overlookingr the deep cañons, gets the sensation of being on a vastr sloping plain with occasional low hills rising above ther general surface. It is this plain which has a slope ofr 2° from the edge of the Great Valley to the regionr of the summit peaks and crests. Its remarkabler evenness on many of the divides, particularly in ther northern part of the range, is due to the fact that ther region before its uplift was extensively covered byr deposits of meandering streams, and these in turnr r r r covered by layers of volcanic ash, agglomerate, andr lava, thus smoothing out and obscuring the inequalitiesr of an erosional surface of comparatively low relief.r Considered in the light of these observations andr viewed in its entirety, the Sierra Nevada is recognizedr not only as one of the Basin Ranges, but as ther most perfect and most magnificent example of ther type.r r r r The uplift of the Sierra Nevada was not, however, ar simple sudden event, nor even a continuous process ofr earth deformation. The uplift proceeded by stagesr of which two are strongly pronounced, particularly inr the southern part of the range. Between these stagesr the process of tilting stopped for a long time, and in ther interval the cañons, which had been deepened to ther limit for the first stage, were widened into broad flat-flooredr valleys. As a consequence of the second stager of uplift, the streams flowing through these wider valleys were rejuvenated and resumed the work ofr cañon cutting, leaving large remnants of the oldr valley floors as benches or terraces above the brink ofr the cañon walls. The high valleys that border ther cañon of the Kern are perhaps the best records of thisr Period of stability in the Sierra Nevada between twor stages of uplift. The wide, level, rock floor of Tuolumner Meadows, by its contrast with the gorges ofr Tenaya Creek and Tuolumne River below the Meadows,r suggests that it, also, may have been developedr in its preglacial outlines, during this same period ofr stability.r r r r The uplifting process of the second stage is not yetr completed. In 1872, at the time of the heavy earthquaker of that year, a movement occurred on the greatr fault which bounds the Sierra Nevada on the east.r r r r By this movement the elevation of the southern partr of the range, in relation to Owens Valley, was increasedr by about twenty feet; and a fresh scarp was formed,r causing a sharp step in the profile of the lower flank ofr the range.r r r

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 69 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Having now acquired an understanding of ther general configuration of the Sierra Nevada as a singler mountain of the Basin Range type, formed by ther tilting of an elongated block of the earth’s crust, wer may proceed to consider the cañons which haver been cut into the rising mass, and particularly ther cañon of the Merced with its famous Yosemite Valley.r With one notable exception the great cañons of ther Sierra Nevada are transverse to the range. Ther dominant drainage still follows the lines imposedr upon it consequent upon the tilting of the crustalr block. In this respect the drainage pattern differsr in a marked degree from that of many other mountainr ranges. The main valleys and stream courses of ther Appalachian Range, for example, are parallel to ther length of the elevated mass, with only short transverser outlets for the extended longitudinal system.r Similarly the main drainage of the Coast Ranges isr parallel to their elongation. The reason for this isr that in these and similar mountain ranges the belts ofr rock conform in direction to the elongation of ther range, and belts of soft rock generally alternate withr belts of hard rock; so that, although the drainage mayr have been originally transverse, consequent upon ther uplift, the tributaries of these consequent streams thatr happened to be on belts of soft rock eroded cañon’sr very much faster than those which drained belts ofr hard rock, and faster than the consequent streams,r which traversed both hard and soft belts. The resultr r r r of this has been that, in the course of time, the greatr valleys of old mountains become located in the softr belts, and so become the dominant features of ther drainage systems. Such longitudinal drainage isr technically designated subsequent to distinguish it fromr the earlier transverse or consequent drainage.r r r r The reason that no notable subsequent drainager has been developed in the Sierra Nevada is twofold:r 1. The time that has elapsed since the uplift of ther range has been so short that, even in the northern partr of the range where the contrast of hard and soft beltsr is pronounced, the tributary streams have as yetr made but little headway in establishing their domination.r Geologists and geographers regard a wellr developed subsequent drainage as characteristic of ar relatively old mountain range. So we may classifyr the Sierra Nevada, on the basis of the meagerness ofr subsequent streams, as a young mountain range. 2.r In the southern part of the Sierra Nevada there are butr few contrasts in the hardness of the rocks, the mass ofr the mountain being almost wholly granite, so that ther condition favorable for the development of subsequentr streams, on a well-marked longitudinal pattern,r is lacking.r r r r The notable exception to this transverse dispositionr of the Sierran streams is the Kern River. Thisr stream, however, had its position determined for it byr a remarkable rift in the earth’s crust, parallel to ther great fault which marks the eastern boundary of ther range.r r r r Long after the uplift of the Sierra Nevada to practicallyr its present altitude, after the cañons had beenr eroded down to very nearly their present depth belowr the flat-topped divides, the climate changed for ther r r r worse. In the summit region the ablation of summerr failed to remove the snows of winter. The snows ofr many years accumulated and became packed downr of their own weight into ice, so that glaciers werer formed. At first these were small and situated on ther north side of the great peaks where ablation wasr feeble; but later they expanded into great névésr from which tongues of ice extended down into ther cañons. These tongues were veritable streams of icer many hundreds, and even thousands, of feet deep,r which flowed slowly through the cañons for ages.r They extended far below the line of perennial snows,r and in each case reached a limit, at the time of maximumr severity of climate, at a point in the cañon wherer the ablation of summer just balanced the forward flowr of the ice. At this point the glacier dumped the loadr of rock débris which had been shed upon it from ther cañon walls above. Thus a great lunate ridge ofr fragments, ranging in size from grains of sand to spaulsr the size of a house, was formed, spanning the cañonr from wall to wall.

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 70 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall This ridge is called a terminalr moraine; and there are many such moraines in ther great cañons. Besides the terminal moraine, therer are others farther up the cañons, called moraines ofr retreat, which mark stages in the waning of the glaciersr when the climate again became more genial. Tor these moraines were delivered not only the rock,r fragments which had ridden on the back of the glacierr to its end, but also similar fragments carried in ther body of ice, which had either fallen into crevasses orr had been plucked out of the floor of the cañon in placesr where the rock was so intersected by joint cracks as tor be divided into blocks, and so easily dislodged by the icer stream. Many rock fragments were also carriedr r r

r r r PLATE VIr r Two Yosemite domes. Mount Star King (left) and Half Dome (right) from the summitr r of Mount Watkinsr r r Photo by A. D. Lockwoodr r r r r r along in the bottom of the ice, and these scratched,r abraded, and polished the rock surfaces over which ther ice flowed, and were themselves scratched, abraded,r and polished by the same action. By carefullyr examining the material of some moraines one may findr an abundance of bowlders showing such evidence ofr abrasion; while in other moraines they are veryr scarce or absent.rr r r Besides the terminal moraines and moraines ofr various stages of retreat, the upper slopes of ther cañons formerly occupied by glaciers are in manyr cases, particularly near their headwaters, modified byr great ridges of glacial débris, known as lateral moraines.r These accumulations were formed in the samer way as the terminal moraines due to a sideways movementr of the ice to balance the ablation along itsr margin.r r r r The effect of the long continued flow of these icer streams upon the configuration and aspect of ther cañons is very notable, and may be observed in ther upper reaches of all the great Sierran cañons. In theirr lower stretches, the cañons are all V-shaped in transverser profile, the slopes are uneven and generallyr encumbered with a mantle of rock débris and soilr arising from the disintegration and decay of the rockr tinder the weather. Where rock surfaces are exposedr these present the appearance of fractures, or arer bounded by joint planes, and the rock is usuallyr somewhat decomposed for a short distance below ther surface. As we pass up the cañons, within the limitsr of former glaciation, the whole aspect of the landscaper changes. The cañons are no longer V-shaped inr profile, but more nearly U-shaped. All of the rockr débris and soil has been swept out of the cañon, andr r r r bare rock surfaces are seen on every hand. Theser surfaces are, moreover, not commonly fractures orr joint planes, but are clearly surfaces due to abrasionr since they show abundant evidence of scoring, striation,r fluting, and polishing. Many surfaces are sor highly polished that they reflect the sun’s rays

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 71 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall like ar mirror. Where the polish is lacking it is generallyr evident that this is due to exfoliation, the scaling off ofr the rock in thin slabs, and that the polish once extendedr over the areas thus denuded. The bare rockr surfaces have acquired rounded or hummocky formsr which, from a distance and in the aggregate, look liker the backs of sheep in a flock. They are thereforer known technically as roches moutonnées. Ther hummocks are characteristically elongated in ther direction of the cañon and have a symmetricalr transverser profile but an asymmetrical longitudinal profile,r with a steep front facing down stream. This asymmetryr is due to the fact that the upstream side of ther hummock received the full force of the abrasive impactr of the ice current, whereas the tendency on the downstreamr side was to pull out or pluck fragments fromr the rock mass and so leave a steep front. Ther abrasion thus so apparent on the roches moutonnéesr affected all surfaces over which the ice passed. Itr was not done by the ice itself, however, but by ther rock fragments imbedded in it. The passage of the icer stream through the cañons not only swept away allr loose rock and soil on the slopes, but by this processr of abrasion removed all the decomposed material, sor that the rocks so generally exposed in the glaciatedr Portions of the cañons are in a wholly sound and freshr condition. It is evident also that the abrasive processr was competent to reduce even the fresh hard rock afterr r r r the superficially decomposed material had beenr removed. The long continued abrasion and ther plucking together have deepened the cañons, at ther same time giving them their characteristic U-shapedr profile. One of the finest examples of the effect of icer upon the configuration of a cañon, once merely ar stream gorge, is afforded by Tenaya Cañon, a goodr general view of which may be had from Mirrorr Lake.r r r r The power of glaciers to deepen the cañons in whichr they flow is perhaps best exemplified in their upperr reaches where the general grade is steeper. Herer the characteristic longitudinal profile of the cañonsr is a series of steps, the present streams cascading fromr one level to another. On each step is a rock-rimmedr basin, or tam. In some cases there may be severalr such steps and tarns in the course of a mile, while inr others the steps may be much broader and morer widely spaced. No other agency is known wherebyr these tarn basins could have been formed except byr the abrasive power of rock-laden ice. Seizing uponr the inequalities of the original stream profile the icer has accentuated these into a series of giant steps,r the treads of which suffered heavy local abrasion byr the impact of the ice descending from above, while ther risers were developed into cliffs by exceptionally activer Plucking. One of the lowest of the tarns in ther vicinity of Yosemite is Tenaya Lake which lies in ar rock-rimmed basin 140 feet deep.r r r r Another extremely interesting feature of mostr glaciated cañons, to be found at their very head,r where the ice stream has its origin, is the cirque.r This is a vast amphitheatre of bare rock enclosed byr nearly vertical cliffs, generally hundreds of feet high,r r r r in the floor of which is a tam. In some of the largerr cirques there are several tarns at slightly differentr levels. These cirques appear as great bites in ther mass of the mountain and are clustered around ther high peaks of the summit that divide the drainage.r They have been formed by that peculiarly vigorousr process of ice erosion which, on a smaller scale, hasr given us the steep faces of the roches moutonnées hummocks,r and the risers on the steps of the glaciatedr cañons. The glaciers at their heads ate their way intor the mountain mass, by nibbling at the base of the cliffsr and so undermining them. The blocks of rockr plucked out from the cliffs were incorporated intor the ice and carried away by the glacier to be deliveredr chiefly on its sides, to make the great lateral morainesr which are now found below the cirques. As ther process proceeded, and the cirques were enlarged atr the expense of the peaks and ridges, the dividesr between opposing cirques were in many cases reducedr to thin partitions with sharp knife-like crests. Asr still further enlargement proceeded, these dividesr were rapidly lowered. We have thus presented to usr in this encroachment of cirques, one on the other, ar process whereby lofty mountain crests and summitsr are first gradually narrowed and then rapidly reduced.r This glacial destruction of mountain crests mayr eventually so lower the elevation that the conditionsr favoring the accumulation of ice may be done awayr with. Alpine glaciers may therefore be said to ber self-destructive. The glaciation of the high Sierra,r however, occupied

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 72 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall but a brief time from a geologicalr point of view and before the destruction of ther high peaks and summits had proceeded far the climater changed and the glaciers almost wholly meltedr r r r away, leaving only remnants in a few of the higherr cirques.r r r r Of these lingering glaciers within the limits of ther National Park the most notable, as well as the mostr accessible, are those on the east side of Mt. Dana, onr the north side of Mt. Lyell, and on the northeast sider of Mt. McClure. These glaciers are very smallr compared with the great ice stream that once filledr the whole of Tuolumne Meadows, and sent oner tongue down the cañon. of the Tuolumne River farr below Hetch Hetchy and another down Tenaya Cañonr into Yosemite. They are, however, interesting featuresr of the high Sierra and well worth a visit.r Although they are very small, they have all ther essential features and functions of their great ancestorsr except that they are in some cases broader than long.r Here at the lower edge of the ice one may see a morainer in actual process of accumulation; and on searchingr among the bowlders one may find some that have beenr abraded and scratched. The ice is traversed byr crevasses just as in the case of the great glaciers andr riding on the ice may be seen the débris shed fromr the cliffs above. If we cross the glacier to its upperr edge where it appears to adhere to the base of ther cirque walls, we find that the appearance is deceptive,r for the ice, instead of hugging closely the base of ther cliffs, is separated from them by a space of several feet.r The space extends down for a long distance betweenr the wall of rock and the wall of ice as a great chasm.r This detachment of the glacier from the cliffs isr known as the bergschrund. At the bottom of ther chasm goes on the plucking and sapping action whichr gives the cirque walls their verticality, as seen whenr the ice eventually vanishes.r r r r r r Among the glaciated cañons of the Yosemiter National Park those of the Merced and the Tuolumner are the most impressive and the most interesting.r just as at present these two streams gather up andr carry forward to the San Joaquin Valley practicallyr all the drainage of the park, so, in glacial time, ther great bodies of ice which covered the summit regionr within the limits of the park, excepting the highestr peaks, converged on the same two cañons, and flowedr down them to the limit where ablation balanced ther forward movement. Some of the ice, however, flowedr through the passes on the crest of the range towardr the east and gave rise to glacier tongues on that sider which were much shorter than those on the west;r because then, just as now, the climate was much drierr and the summers hotter than on the west side of ther summit. Most of these short glaciers on the easternr flank of the range have left splendidly developedr lateral moraines. Some of these, particularly thoser of Bloody Cañon, Leevining Cañon, and Parker Creek,r in the vicinity of Mono Lake are easily accessible tor visitors in the park. It is interesting to note that, atr the maximum extension of these east flank glaciers, ther level of Mono Lake was about 675 feet higher than atr present. At this high level the glaciers reached ther lake. But even under these conditions the greatlyr increased influx of water from the melting glaciersr was balanced by evaporation, for at its highest stager Mono Lake had no outlet. Thus we have ther apparent anomaly of glaciation combined with aridity.r The explanation of course is that the glacialr streams flowed from a humid region west of ther crest of the Sierra Nevada into an and region tor the east of the crest. The line between two stronglyr r r r contrasted climatic provinces was, however, veryr sharp.r r r r In the drainage system of Merced River Tenaya isr perhaps the most typical illustration of a thoroughlyr glaciated stream gorge. It is at the same time ther most easily accessible to visitors in the Yosemiter Valley. Everybody who goes to Yosemite gets ar glimpse of Tenaya Cañon from Mirror Lake. Yosemiter is also a glaciated cañon. There is a larger moraine spanning the Valley just below El Capitanr and the ice must have extended that far at least.r Yet the contrast between Tenaya Cañon and Yosemiter Valley is very great. If Tenaya be the typer of a glaciated cañon, Yosemite must be abnormal.r In what does the departure from the

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 73 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall type consist?r Evidently in the width of the Valley floor, its levelr character, and the entire absence of bare rock surfaces.r The floor of Yosemite is everywhere sandy and therer is reason to believe that the deposits of sand are severalr hundred feet thick. If we imagine this sand removedr and the talus at the base of the great cliffs nonexistent,r we would see the Valley as it actually was immediatelyr on the retreat of the glacier. The picture before ther mind’s eye would then differ in no essential respectr from the view we get of Tenaya Cañon. The Valleyr would then be true to type. It would be larger andr deeper, but there are good reasons for this. Ther glacier entering Yosemite from Tenaya was not ther Only one that filled the Valley with ice. An equallyr important one flowed in from the Upper Merced andr Little Yosemite; and another moved down ther Illilouette. These three great glaciers converged onr Yosemite and the cross section of the confluent glacierr in the Valley was probably not less than the sum of ther r r r cross sections of the three tributaries. This greatr increase in the volume of the ice, particularly asr expressed in its depth, together with the steepness ofr approach of the tributaries to the Valley, wouldr greatly increase the abrasive action of the glacier onr its floor. Just below the confluence, that is in Yosemite,r the cañon would be over-deepened and we wouldr have a rock-rimmed basin formed, like that of Tenayar Lake but larger and deeper. Thus, in our mentalr picture of the restoration of Yosemite as it was at ther immediate retreat of the glacier, we must introduce ar beautiful lake, in which were mirrored the majesticr walls encircling it. At the lower end of this lake, justr below El Capitan, had been left a moraine whichr helped to accentuate the depression caused by ther scour of the ice. Into this lake poured the sandy andr milky waters of the three glaciers, now separater during the long period of their retreat. These streamsr built out a delta into the lake which eventually filledr it, giving us the present floor of the Valley, sevenr miles long and one mile wide. On this floor has accumulatedr the talus of rock spauls shed from the cliffs;r and across the floor in a shallow sandy trench flowsr the Merced River, cascading over the moraine belowr El Capitan, giving us the Valley as we know itr to-day.r r r r Hetch Hetchy Valley is generally recognized asr being analogous to Yosemite though on a smallr scale. The profound gorge of the Tuolumne, with itr stepped profile of bare, glaciated rock emerges suddenlyr on a wide, flat-floored, sandy valley, justr Tenaya Cañon opens on Yosemite. Both valleysr have had the same history. Glacial abrasion andr plucking over-deepened the cañon, so that, when ther r r r

r r r PLATE VIIr r The Lyell Canyon with Mount Lyell and its glacier several miles distantr r r Photo by Wm. E. Colbyr r

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 74 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r r ice retreated, a tarn occupied the basin. This tarnr served as a trap for sediments brought down from ther melting ice above, and the filling of the basin built outr the level floor of Hetch Hetchy. The lake which willr soon be created in Hetch Hetchy Valley by the damr at its outlet, now being built by the City of Sanr Francisco, will be but a restoration on a larger scaler of the lake which once existed there. The new laker will seem very natural in its mountain setting, a gemr of great beauty and a delight to all who may have ther good fortune to see it.rr r r Little Yosemite Valley owes its flat, sandy floor andr its breadth between walls to the same process. Ther valley is but a tread on the great stepped profile ofr the Merced; and on this tread there had been scouredr out a rock-rimmed basin which, on the final retreat ofr the ice, contained a tarn about three miles long.r Several meadows in Tenaya Cañon above Tenayar Lake are similarly filled tarns, as are also manyr meadows of the higher altitudes.r r r r The contrast between the typical glaciated cañon ofr Tenaya Creek, and the aberrant Yosemite and Hetchr Hetchy valleys is not, however, due wholly to the factr that they once held lake basins now filled with sand.r The contours and the profiles of the walls of bothr Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy differ from those ofr Tenaya Cañon. The contours of Yosemite are inr general zig-zag, expressive of salients and reëntrantsr which are full of surprises and suggest some mysteriouslyr intentional process of sculpture. In the profilesr the vertical element dominates and gives the Valleyr its atmosphere of solemnity and majesty, the samer atmosphere which the great architects of the Middler Ages gave to their splendid Gothic cathedrals. Theser r r r features are in striking contrast with the smoothlyr flowing, though undulatory, contours and profilesr of Tenaya Cañon below Clouds Rest as seen fromr Mirror Lake. When we try by close observation tor ascertain the cause of this contrast we discover, asr Matthes has so well told us, that in the sculpturalr modification of the Valley by glacial erosion there hasr been a large element of control inherent in ther structure of the granite, which is the prevailing rock.r The granite originally solidified from a molten conditionr under a cover of immense thickness. This coverr was removed by erosion ages before the uplift whichr gave the Sierra Nevada its present configuration.r The relief of load, as erosion proceeded, and the loweringr of the temperature of the mass as the graniter was brought nearer the surface and eventually into ther zone of erosion, greatly changed the condition ofr compressive strain which the force of gravity imposesr upon the rock. This redistribution of strain causedr certain portions of the mass to be overstrained, andr relief was obtained by the development of systems ofr cracks or fissures which we call joints. These jointsr are in some cases straight and parallel so as to divider the rock into thick slabs, as on the face of Sentinelr Rock. In other cases there are two or three intersectingr systems which divide the rock into prisms, orr cuboidal, or rhomboidal blocks. In still other casesr the joints are curved and roughly concentric as at ther Royal Arches. Many portions of the granite are, however,r almost free from joints, or, if they be present,r they are so widely spaced that they only slightlyr affect the integrity of the rock, as at El Capitan.r r r r Now, nearly all of the vagaries of erosion, ar particularly of ice sculpture, in Yosemite Nationr r r r Park are referable to the erratic distribution of theser systems of joints and to the disposition of the jointr planes in each system. The ice, in passing over orr past jointed granite, plucked out the blocks one by oner and incorporated them within its body, carrying themr forward with the glacial flow. In the course of timer a vast quantity of rock was thus removed. In ther unjointed portions of the granite in contact with ther ice, on the other hand, erosion was limited to abrasionr and comparatively little rock was removed by thisr process. In this way there were large differences inr the rate of glacial erosion in near-by localities; andr the same influence had also affected ordinary atmosphericr and stream erosion in the ages that precededr the glacial period. The great salients like El Capitanr are composed of granite in which the joint structurer is but feebly developed and were, therefore, resistantr to erosion by the dislodgment of blocks. The troughr in which Bridalveil Creek

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 75 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall flows above the falls isr clearly conditioned by the intersection of inclinedr joints. The great steps over which Vernal Falls andr Nevada Falls tumble are equally clearly determinedr by the disposition of the joint planes there. In ther exfoliation of the curved slabs, so well exemplifiedr in the Royal Arches, we have an excellent illustrationr of the control exercised by curved joints in the developmentr of the great domes of the park, such as Northr Dome, Half Dome, and many others. The curiousr spires which are so common about Tuolumne Meadows,r and which characterize the landscape in ther wonderful view from the summit of Mt. Conness, ower their configuration to the same control of erosion byr internal structure. It is well to note, however, thatr the curved joints which determined the configurationr r r r of the domes and spires presented a structure whichr was not so favorable to dislodgment of spauls, whetherr by atmospheric agencies or by glacial plucking as wasr the structure formed by intersecting straight jointsr The domes and spires represent portions of the graniter which were, like the unjointed rock, relatively resistantr to mechanical disintegration, so that, when ther rest of the region was reduced in level, they remainedr as eminences. The higher domes and spires probablyr rose well above the surface of the great névé and ther ice streams flowing from it, so that the exfoliationr which gave them their present configuration is referabler not to ice plucking, but to the heaving action ofr freezing water in the joint cracks, and to the slow,r recurrent movements due to dilatation and contractionr under varying temperature. Half Dome,r the asymmetry of which, no less than its isolation andr height, makes it so conspicuous a feature of Yosemiter Valley, owes its peculiar configuration to the intersectionr of two systems of joints: a system of straight,r vertical joints parallel to the flat west face, probablyr disposed in a narrow zone, and a system of curvedr joints concentric with the rounded east side.r r r r Many of the lower domes have, however, been overr ridden by the ice and so have had a glacial modelling,r by abrasion, imposed upon surfaces originally whollyr determined by curved joints. In this process ar glacial modelling great thick slabs of granite whichr had become loosened from the parent mass werer plucked out by the ice, leaving vertical walls from ar few inches to twenty feet or more high facing downr stream. The ice immediately flowed into ther reëntrants thus formed and abraded the new surfacer exposed to its attack by the removal of the slab. Inr r r r r cases where this happened during the retreat of ther ice front we find abundant manifestations of glacialr scouring at sharply different levels on the bare roundedr surfaces. Some extreme cases of this sort have suggestedr to Mr. Matthes that there may have been twor glaciations of the region, and he has adduced otherr evidence in favor of this view. In this he is supportedr by the earlier interpretation of the moraines nearr Mono Lake by Russell; by the observations of Turnerr and Ransome in the Big Trees quadrangle; and byr the later observations of Knopf on the eastern flank ofr the Southern Sierra Nevada. But the doctrine of twor distinct glaciations of the Sierra Nevada is one whichr must be subjected to much more critical study beforer it can be accepted by geologists as an established fact.r There is, of course, in this doubt as to the realityr of two distinct glacial periods no objection to ther recognition of frequent retreats and advances of ther glacier front in one and the same glacial period; for wer are familiar with such oscillations in the existingr glaciers of Alaska, Norway, and the Alps.r r r r Yosemite Valley differs from Tenaya Cañon in stillr other important features which excite not only geologicalr interest, but also the wonder and admiration ofr all who come to the Valley. These are the waterfalls,r the grace and beauty of which, no less than their greatr height, have made them famous the world over.r Streams which flow with gentle gradients in comparativelyr shallow channels on the uplands correspondingr to the old surface before it was uplifted,r reach the brink of the Valley and plunge headlongr into the abyss, clearing all contact with the cliffsr for hundreds of feet. These upland channels whichr thus appear at the brink of Yosemite Valley asr r r r small notches in its walls belong to the class of so-calledr "hanging valleys," which are rather characteristicr of glaciated regions in general. They mayr have one of two different origins: 1. The relativelyr shallow upland channels may have been nonexistentr prior to the glaciation of the region, the drainager having then taken some other path. In this caser the present position of

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 76 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall the streams was determined byr the configuration of the surface vacated by the ice, andr their channels, in so far as these have been cut byr water erosion and not by glacial scouring, is wholly ar post-glacial effect. If this be the explanation ofr Yosemite and Bridalveil creeks then there is nothingr surprising in the fact that, in the short time since ther ice vanished, they have eroded but shallow trenchesr in the glaciated upland, and so appear as hangingr valleys on the brink of the Valley. 2. The uplandr creeks that now cascade into the Valley at Yosemiter Falls and Bridalveil Falls may have been preglacialr drainage lines which were temporarily occupied by ther ice with the rest of the country, and which againr became functional when their channels were vacate,r by the ice. In this case these two tributaries of ther Merced must have been engaged in the work of streamr erosion as long as the main stream and there shouldr have been, just prior to glaciation, no glaring discordancer in the depth of their trenches. If this be so, thenr the main cañon of the Merced at Yosemite Valleyr must have been very shallow just prior to glaciation,r and nearly the whole depth of the Valley would haver to be ascribed to glacial erosion. But we cannotr accept this latter explanation because the cañon of ther Merced below the limit of glaciation affords us ther measure. of preglacial. erosion and tells us that Yosemiter r r r has been only modified and over-deepened byr ice work, but not, in its larger features, created byr the glacier.r r r r It would seem, therefore, that both Yosemite Creekr and Bridalveil Creek are post-glacial drainage features;r although the argument applies with greaterr force to the former than to the latter. The samer interpretation can scarcely, however, be placed onr Illilouette Falls, and much less can it be applied tor Vernal and Nevada falls on the main flow of ther Merced. These three magnificent cascades clearlyr are on lines of pre-glacial drainage, and their relationr to Yosemite Valley is not the same as that of Yosemiter and Bridalveil falls. The drop from Little Yosemiter and that from the upland valley of the Illilouette tor the floor of Yosemite are nearly the same, and ther gorge into which the waters tumble in both cases is ar glacially modified inheritance of a pre-glacial condition.r Attention has been called to the fact that ther uplift of the Sierra Nevada took place by two mainr elevatory movements, with a long period of restr between during which the high valleys of the Kernr region were evolved to their present notable width.r It may well be that on the drainage system of ther Merced there were also similar high valleys carvedr out of the mountain mass, and that Little Yosemiter and upper Illilouette are remnants of this old topography.r Such valleys after the second uplift would,r of course, be subject to vigorous dissection by reasonr of the accentuation of the stream grades. Thisr dissection, however, probably proceeded as it doesr In plateaus underlain by flat lying strata; that is, byr the recession of falls so well exemplified at Niagarar and by the falls of the Yellowstone. At Niagara ther r r r rocks are hard limestones resting on soft shales, whiler in the Yellowstone the strata are sheets of volcanicr rock. But in both cases the gorge has been formed byr the slow upstream recession of the falls. Horizontalr jointing in the granite, such as is so well displayedr near the top of Lower Yosemite Falls, and one thirdr of the way up the walls of Hetch Hetchy, wouldr have the same effect as planes of stratification in promotingr this process of gorge cutting, particularly ifr combined with transverse vertical jointage, whichr would determine the verticality of the head of ther gorge. Both horizontal and vertical jointage are wellr displayed in the gorge between Nevada Falls and ther floor of the Valley.r r r r We may thus picture to ourselves a pre-glacierr Yosemite Valley, not as deep, nor as wide, nor asr sheer-walled as the present Valley, but neverthelessr profound erosional gorge ending in spray filledr culs-de-sacr below both Little Yosemite and the high valley ofr the Illilouette, with great cascades in them not essentiallyr different from those we see to-day with so muchr pleasure and interest. Nevada,Vernal, and Illilouetter are, therefore, from this point of view, falls whichr handed over their work of extending the cañon of ther Merced into the High Sierra to the Merced Glacierr for a geologically brief time, and have since resumedr operations at nearly the old stand. The amount ofr recession effected by the glacier was probably notr great, since the work must have been done chiefly,r not wholly, by the process of plucking, and the

GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 77 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall paucityr of the moraines below Yosemite indicates but a smallr product.r r r r Pre-glacial Tenaya Cañon, in contrast to that of ther Merced, was not extended upstream by a sappingr r r r process, but by stream corrasion through graniter traversed by a zone of vertical joints parallel to itsr length, and deficient in horizontal and in transverser vertical joints. The gorge was narrow and steep,r and although it doubtless had its cascades, these didr not have the sheer drop displayed by the Nevada andr Vernal Fails. The deepening of the cañon by streamr corrasion was more uniformly distributed throughoutr the length of the cañon.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Gilbert, Grove Karl. 1904.r "Variations of Sierra Glaciers."r Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. v., No. 1., pp. 20-25.r r 1905. "Domes and Dome Structure of the High Sierra."r Ibid., vol. v., pp. 211-220.r r 1905. "Systematic Asymmetry of Crest Lines in the Highr Sierra of California." Ibid., vol. v., pp. 279-286.r r r r Lawson, Andrew C. 1903. The Geomorphogeny of ther Upper Kern Basin. Bull. Dept. Geology, Univ. Calif. Publ.,r vol. iii., No. 15, pp. 291-376.r r r r Matthes, François E. 1910-1913. "Little Studies in ther Yosemite Valley." I. "The Extinct Eagle Peak Falls."r Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. vii., No. 4, pp. 222-224.r r r II. "The Striped Rock Floor of the Little Yosemite Valley."r Ibid., vol. viii., No. 1., pp. 3-9.r r r III. "The Winds of the Yosemite Valley." Ibid., vol. viii.,r No. 2, pp. 89-95.r r r IV. "El Capitan Moraine and Ancient Lake Yosemite."r Ibid., vol. ix., No. 1., pp. 7-15.r r 1910. "The Cliff Sculpture of the Yosemite Valley."r Abstract: Science, new ser. vol. xxxii., pp. 186. Abstract andr discussion. Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol. xxi., No. 4, pp.r 759-760.r r 1912. "Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Accountr of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys."r U. S. Dept. of the Interior, pp. 47, fig. 23.r r 1914. "Studying the Yosemite Problem." Sierra Clubr Bulletin, vol. ix., No. 3, pp. 136-147.r r r r r r Muir, John. 1915-1918.r "Studies in the Sierra." I.r "Mountain Sculpture." Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. ix., No. 4, pp.r 225-239.r r II. "Mountain Sculpture; Origin of Yosemite Valleys."r Ibid., vol. x., No. i., pp. 62-77.r r III. "Ancient Glaciers and their Pathways." Ibid., vol. x.,r No. 2, pp. 184-201 (Reprinted from Overland Monthly, July,r 1874).r r IV. "Glacial Denudation." Ibid., vol. x., No. 3, pp.r 318.r r r r

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r (Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of ther r University of California1)r r r r 1For several years past the natural history of the Yosemiter region has been the subject of special study by staff members ofr the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. This and ther following three chapters are based upon the results of that study.r Attention has been concentrated upon the mammals, birds,r reptiles, and amphibians occurring within the section across ther Sierra Nevada extending from Snelling in the San Joaquinr Valley to Mono Lake, east of the mountains. This cross-sectionr is at right angles to the main axis of the Sierras and is approximatelyr ninety miles long and seventeen miles wide. It embracesr Yosemite Valley and its environs, the lower canyon of the Mercedr River, and the country traversed by the Tioga Road; but neitherr Hetch Hetchy Valley nor the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees isr included.r r r r

Life Zones of the Yosemite Region 80 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r Ther r "Yosemite section," embracing in that termr the territory included between the eastern side of ther San Joaquin Valley and the basin in which Monor Lake lies, may be considered to afford a fair sampler of the fauna and flora of the entire Sierra Nevada.r The following brief accounts of the life zones and ofr some of the vertebrate animals belonging to them mayr thus prove useful beyond the immediate limits of ther Yosemite Park itself.r r r r r r A total of 226 kinds of birds is now authenticallyr known from the Yosemite section; there are 97 kinds ofr mammals, ranging in size from bats to bears, 20 kindr of snakes and lizards, and 11 kinds of frogs, toads, andr salamanders. This makes, all told, a vertebrate fauna,r outside of fishes, of 353 forms. This richness in numberr of kinds is due to the wide range of climatic conditions,r with the depending vegetational features,r covered in the Yosemite section. Only a small proportionr of the total number of species occur together atr any one level. The curious and interesting thing isr that the changes in faunal constitution across ther Sierras are not perfectly gradual but take place atr intervals, abruptly. Several belts or "zones" of lifer result, in each of which conditions are relatively uniform.r These belts have been described and named.r and it is useful to know their names so as to be able tor state the distribution of species in more exact termsr than would otherwise be possible. These life zonesr are correlated roughly with altitude, and from bottomr to top are called Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran,r Transition, Canadian, Hudsonian, and Arctic-Alpine.r As will be recognized at once, these zones are in ther nature of temperature belts, the warmest at the baser of the mountains, the coldest at the crest, on the highestr peaks. It will be further seen that they correspondr roughly to the transcontinental belts of climate, andr that they bear names significant of their location—Sonorar (in northern Mexico), Canada, Hudson Bay,r etc. To outline very briefly the condition of affairsr in the Yosemite section, let us begin at the west.r r r r In following the Yosemite Valley railroad out ofr Merced, one traverses for the first hour the level floorr of the San Joaquin Valley. From the train one seesr r r r along the Merced River bottom numerous Fremontr cottonwoods and valley oaks, and planted orchards ofr fig, orange, and olive, all indicative of the Lower Sonoran Life Zone.r A day put in at a representative point,r such as Snelling, would show the presence there ofr Mockingbirds, Texas Nighthawks, Blue Grosbeaks,r Dwarf Cowbirds, Fresno Pocket Gophers, Mercedr Kangaroo Rats, Golden Beavers, and other exclusivelyr warm-belt types of animals as well as of plants.r r r r At Merced Falls the railroad enters the first foot-hillsr of the Sierra Nevada, and concurrently there appearsr with remarkable abruptness an entirely new setr of trees and lesser plants, accompanied by as distinctr a set of birds and mammals. The Upper Sonoran Zoner has been entered and may always be recognizedr in distant view by the presence of digger pines,r buckeyes, blue oaks, and interior live oaks, and by ar host of bushy plants which constitutes the "Californiar chaparral." This zone continues some fifty miles,r all the way to El Portal, and up to an altitude of 4000r feet on south-facing slopes. Some of its distinctiver species of animals are: California Jay, Northern Brownr Towhee, Pallid Wren-tit, Plain Titmouse, Californiar Thrasher, California Bush-tit, San Joaquin Wren,r Hutton Vireo, Anna Hummingbird, Western Gnat-catcher,r Bell Sparrow, Rufous-crowned Sparrow,r Dusky Poor-will, Nuttall Woodpecker, Mariposar Brush Rabbit, Gilbert White-footed Mouse, Parasiticr White-footed Mouse, Mariposa Meadow Mouse,r Digger Pine Pocket Gopher, Heermann Kangaroor Rat, San Diego Alligator Lizard, and Californiar Striped Racer.r r r

LIFE ZONES OF THE YOSEMITE REGION 81 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r At El Portal, on shaded, north-facing slopes, ther visitor for the first time encounters the Transition Zone,r r r r which is characterized by the yellow pine.r Douglas spruce, golden oak, black oak, and incenser cedar. This zone continues east throughout ther Yosemite Valley, and rises on the walls of the Valleyr to about the 6000-foot level. A few Upper Sonoranr birds and mammals reach up into the Transition, butr for the most part an entirely new set predominates.r But few of these are absolutely restricted to this zone;r the greater number range farther upward, through ther next one or two zones above. The more distinctivelyr Transition vertebrates are: Band-tailed Pigeon, Californiar Purple Finch, Black-throated Gray Warbler,r Calaveras Warbler, Western Flycatcher, Black Swiftr Pigmy Owl, Northern Spotted Owl, Northwesternr Long-legged Bat, Boyle White-footed Mouse, Yosemiter Pocket Gopher, and Coral King Snake. Somer well-known species which range down into Transitionr from the zones above are: Blue-fronted Jay, Westernr Robin, Sierra Junco, Sierra Creeper, Short-tailedr Mountain Chickadee, American Dipper, Sierra Hermitr Thrush, Mountain Weasel, Yosemite Meadow Mouse,r and Sierra Nevada Flying Squirrel.r r r r At about the 6000-foot contour on any of the trailsr leading up out of the Valley, a rather impressive changer is to be noted; the golden oak becomes replaced byr the dwarf huckleberry oak, the California laurel andr maple and black oak disappear, the Jeffrey pine replacesr the yellow pine, and red firs and aspens appear.r These mark the Canadian Zone. Birds encounteredr here are: Yosemite Fox Sparrow, Williamson Sapsucker,r Sierra Grouse, Townsend Solitaire, Westernr Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Casinr Purple Finch, California Evening Grosbeak, Lincoln Sparrow,r Hammond Flycatcher, and Westernr r r r Goshawk. Among the mammals are: Navigatorr Shrew, Pacific Fisher, Allen jumping Mouse, Yellow-hairedr Porcupine, Sierra Mountain Beaver, Sierrar Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Tahoe Chipmunk,r Allen Chipmunk, Sierra Chickaree, Tenaya Blue-belliedr Lizard, Mountain Lizard, and Sierra Alligatorr Lizard.r r r

r r Life zones on cross-sectional profile of Yosemite National Parkr r r r The Hudsonian Zone is the belt of forest just belowr timberline. It contains the lodgepole pine, whichr occurs commonly in the Canadian Zone, and has alsor trees of its own, namely alpine hemlock, silver pine,r and white-bark pine. Birds become scarcer in thisr zone though mammals remain plentiful; some of ther species extend up from the zone below. The Californiar Pine Grosbeak, Mountain Bluebird, White-crownedr Sparrow, Alpine Chipmunk, Belding Ground Squirrel,r Sierra Marmot, Mountain Lemming Mouse, Grayr Bushy-tailed Wood Rat, Yosemite Cony, Sierrar White-tailed Jack-rabbit, Pine Marten, Wolverine,r and Sierra Least Weasel are rather closely restrictedr to it.r

LIFE ZONES OF THE YOSEMITE REGION 82 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r The Arctic-Alpine is the highest of all the zones andr Covers the treeless area from about the 10,500-footr contour to the summits of the loftiest peaks. Onlyr r r r one species of bird is confined to it, the Sierra Nevadar Rosy Finch. Some of the Hudsonian mammals enterr it locally; for example, Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat,r Yosemite Cony, and Alpine Chipmunk.r r r r It must be kept in mind that many of the vertebrater animals of the Yosemite section are not so closely restrictedr as the ones named in the preceding paragraphs.r Certain species range regularly through twor zones, for example, the Blue-fronted Jay; a few throughr three zones, as with the Sierra Junco, and in exceptionalr cases as many as five out of the six zones namer are covered, as is done by the Red-shafted Flicker,r Sparrow Hawk, and Western Chipping Sparrow. Ther last named was found by us summering in the oranger groves at Snelling and also among the timberline treesr in Mono Pass. It was, perhaps, more numerous onr the floor of Yosemite Valley than anywhere else.r r r r Other zonal contacts than those just given may ber mentioned for the use of persons coming into the Yosemiter National Park along the roadways or who mayr go on foot, on horseback, or by vehicle to other portionsr of the park. On the Big Oak Flat Road, ther Transition Zone is reached in the vicinity of Groveland;r Canadian is entered at Tuolumne Grove Bigr Trees and is left again near Tamarack Flat. On ther Coulterville road, Transition is reached at the top ofr the grade three miles east of Coulterville, and thisr zone is traversed practically all the way thence intor Yosemite. The Tioga Road begins in Transition,r reaches Canadian just below Aspen Valley, touchesr Hudsonian on Snow Flat and enters it again atr Lake Tenaya and continues in that zone until reachingr Warren Fork of Leevining Creek. Tuolumner Meadows, Lyell Canyon, and Tioga Pass are all in ther r r r Hudsonian Zone. The Wawona Road lies just at ther upper margin of the Transition Zone for most of itsr course between Fort Monroe and Mariposa Grove ofr Big Trees.r r r r The restriction of animals by "zones" applies particularlyr to the breeding season. Migratory speciesr of both birds and mammals range more or less widelyr at other times of the year according to food requirements.r Close adaptation of a species to a kind ofr food supply which disappears at the close of the summerr season makes necessary search elsewhere for it inr the winter time.r r r r The study of the distribution of the animal life onr the slopes of the Sierras is a fascinating one, especiallyr when the student attempts to ascertain what ther limiting factors may be; for it is certainly not in everyr instance temperature alone, up or down, which formsr the barrier to the species. The intricate interrelationsr which we seek to understand are to be worked outr only by patient and thoughtful study of the animalsr in their many and diverse environments.r r r

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REFERENCES 83 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Grinnell, J., 1915.r "A Distributional List of the Birds of California."r Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 11, 217 pp., pls. I-III.r (Published by Cooper Ornithological Club, Berkeley, Calif.)r r r r Merriam, C. H., 1898.r "Life Zones and Crop Zones of ther United States." U. S. Department of Agriculture, Divisionr of Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 10, 79 pp., 1 plate.r r r r For further information on life zones and also on the birds,r mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, consult, in addition to ther titles given, articles in the following series:r r r r University of California Publications in Zoölogy, 1908-1920.r Volumes v., vii., x., xii., xvii., xxi. Many references to ther vertebrates of the Yosemite region.r r r r r r United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biologicalr Survey, 1889-1920. Bulletins, Circulars, and other seriesr contain articles relating to vertebrates found in the Yosemiter region.r r r r The Condor, 1889-1920. A magazine of western ornithology.r Published by the Cooper Ornithological Club at Berkeley,r Calif. Contains much information relating to bird species,r which occur in the Yosemite region.r r r r r r r

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r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director,r and Tracy Irwinr r Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrater r Zoölogy, University of Californiar r

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Some Birds of Yosemite National Park 86 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Ther West is often commented upon as a regionr scant in bird life, yet the "Yosemite section" alone,r comprising an area of about fifteen hundred squarer miles, a little greater than that of the State of Rhoder Island, has been found to harbor no less than 226r different varieties of birds. Of these, 199 are "fullr species." Nor are restricted localities within thisr area lacking in their quotas; Yosemite Valley, far offr the general routes of bird migration, can already ber credited with a hundred different kinds. Dailyr censuses checked by us hour by hour prove birdsr abundant there in early summer as to both species andr individuals. A four-hour tally in Yosemite Valley onr May 31, 1915, revealed 32 species and 220 individuals;r a five hour walk in the western foothills near Pleasantr Valley a week previously showed 48 species and 490r individuals.r r r r Of all the birds in the Yosemite National Park ther Western Robin least needs introduction. Soon afterr leaving El Portal on the stage, or upon entering ther yellow pine belt along the Wawona, Big Oak Flat orr r r Coulterville Road, the visitor will catch sight of ther familiar Robin as it forages in some open glade orr sings from a perch in some roadside tree. It occursr throughout the mountain forest belt, in the Transition,r Canadian, and Hudsonian zones, chiefly about grassyr meadows and clearings. The mud-cemented nestsr are built for the most part in early May, and ther spotted young appear by June. In fall And winterr the Robins gather in flocks and wander widely as theyr seek out the then ripening berry crops. They desertr the higher mountains at this season going to the foothillsr and lower valleys; after the first snow fall of ther season, only a few remain in Yosemite Valley.r r r r An associate of the Robin is the Sierra Junco orr Snow-bird which does its foraging likewise aroundr openings in the forest or along the banks of open flowingr streams. The Junco has a black "cowl" coveringr head, neck and breast, a white-appearing bill, a darkr back and wings, and white belly. As it hops about,r the tail is opened momentarily and when the birdr flies this member is spread widely, showing a conspicuousr white margin which forms with the otherr features a ready recognition mark for the bird. Ther male Juncos sing from perches in the trees. Nests arer built upon the ground where the birds seem not lessr successful in bringing off their young than the Robinsr which place their nests in trees. The juncos stay inr pairs during the summer, but they band together atr the coming of fall and go to the foothills in flocks ofr twenty-five or more.r r r r The Robin about ten inches long, and the Junco sixr inches from bill to end of tail, may be taken as standardsr of size comparison for other birds of the region.r Both of these species are common in Yosemite Valley,r r r r

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r r r PLATE VIIIr r Male Western Warbling Vireo on the nest, singing whiler r performing the duty of incubation. This is one of ther r common summer visitant birds of the Parkr r r Photo by Henry J. Rustr r r r r r and both range in fair numbers through the higherr country nearly or quite to timberline.rr r r A small Finch found numerously in summer inr Yosemite Valley is the Western Chipping Sparrow.r Smaller than a Junco, with a bright chestnut cap, ar whitish line over the eye and streaked back but plainr under surface, it is sure to come early to attention, andr in May and June its nests will be found in the piner saplings and deer-bushes on the Valley floor. Ther "chippies," like the Juncos, form into flocks beforer they depart westward and southward for the winter.r r r r The small birds of bright and contrasted colorationr known as wood warblers are important members of ther Sierran avifauna. The Audubon Warbler, of variedr body plumage but always exhibiting a yellow rumpr and white spots on the outer tail feathers, is the mostr widely distributed species of the group. It occursr in the coniferous trees of the Transition, Canadian, andr Hudsonian zones during the summer, and winters inr large numbers in the foothills west of the park boundary.r This species both nests and forages twenty tor fifty feet above ground in evergreen trees. A somewhatr rarer species not occurring much above ther Transition Zone is the Hermit Warbler, which has ar dark body and rump, yellow head and black chin andr throat. It forages amid the same sort of surroundingsr as the Audubon Warbler. When once learned,r their songs, alone, distinguish them. The Black-throatedr Gray Warbler is a species practicallyr restricted to the golden oaks which grow in profusionr on the talus heaps and ledges along the north andr south walls of Yosemite Valley. It is a bird ofr deliberate mien and drawling song and its colorationr shows no obvious yellow. The other warblers of ther r r r park are yellow-bodied in the main. In the willowsr and cottonwoods lining the Merced River fromr Snelling up into Yosemite Valley is the Californiar Yellow Warbler. The black oaks of the Valley floorr harbor the grayish-headed Calaveras Warbler, whichr seeks a site upon the ground for nesting, while in ther moist thickets in the Yosemite is to be found the dark-r "cowled" Macgillivray or Tolmie Warbler. In ther Canadian Zone above the rim of the Yosemite gorge isr the Golden Pileolated Warbler, a

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 88 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall brilliantly yellowr bird with a shining black crown patch. It stays in ther creek dogwood and willows which grow in the wetr meadows and along rushing streams. All of theser warblers are absent from the mountains during ther winter months; their food being almost exclusively ofr insects is available here in adequate quantity for theirr sustenance only during the summer season. Each ofr our Warblers has a set song delivered persistently inr the spring months. But despite their cognomen ofr "Warbler" they do not compare as musicians withr many of the other forest songsters in either quality,r extent, or variety of song.r r r r It is to be expected that "birds of prey" aboundr in a region so well stocked with the smaller birds andr animals as is the Yosemite section. A dozen kinds ofr hawks and nine different species of owls have, indeed,r been found here. Space limits us to detailed mentionr now of only a f ew of these. The Golden Eagle isr supreme in size and in majesty of bearing among allr the Sierran land birds. It is most common in ther western foothills but is fairly well represented up intor the highest passes of the Sierra Nevada. The Goldenr Eagle measures thirty to thirty-five inches in length,r with a wing spread of six to seven feet. The leastr r r r glint of sunlight on the bird’s head and neck reflectsr a golden brown tint, and this feature accounts for itsr name. The Red-tailed Hawk is found throughoutr the mountain country, and in summer the misnamedr Sparrow Hawk visits the higher meadows and ridgesr even above timberline to search for grasshoppers.r r r r The clear cool mountain air lulls so many Yosemiter visitors to an early sleep that only the exceptionalr person will note the flitting forms or measured hoots ofr any of the owls in the region. The smallest of theser birds, the California Pigmy Owl, is perhaps the mostr likely one to be heard, because it begins calling atr early dusk and often continues in voice long afterr daybreak. It is only about seven inches long, has ar rounded head without ear tufts, yellow eyes, and ar dark brown back. It inhabits sparse woods and is ther commonest owl in Yosemite Valley. Its call is quiter distinctive, a trilled tooting which lasts several seconds,r a pause, then a single note, another pause and then ar second note, too-too-too-too-too-too-too-too-too; whoot;r whoot. Sometimes a deep reverberant whoo, whoo,r who-hoo comes from the taller trees, indicating ther presence of the big Horned Owl; and on occasion oner may hear, in Yosemite Valley, the dog-like yelpingr and barking of the rarer Spotted Owl.r r r r The Yosemite visitor who has readr John Muir’sr splendid and appreciative description of the Waterr Ouzel or Dipper in his bookr The Mountains of Californiar will be keen for a personal acquaintance withr this singular inhabitant of the Sierran creeks and rivers.r A morning along any of the streams in the park isr likely to reveal a chunkily built bird of slaty grayr coloration which is jouncing about this way and thatr on some rock in midstream or flying from one suchr r r r perch to another. Suddenly, the bird disappearsr beneath the stream, and one wonders with apprehensionr at its fate in that rushing torrent; butr speculation is dispelled when the Dipper reappears inr a few seconds up or down stream and resumes itsr "dipping" on another rock. This one-time land bird,r relative of the wrens and thrushes, has taken to livingr about, in and under the water. Its nest is placedr along the stream, usually in a niche of the rock wherer touched by light spray, so that the mossy exterior ofr the structure is kept wet and growing while the birds arer rearing their brood. The Dipper’s song is among ther most striking of all mountain bird voices, and while givenr through much of the year, it appeals best when otherr songsters are gone or quiet, during the snowy winter.r r r r The swift flowing waters of the Merced and Tuolumner rivers offer attraction to but few water birds,r but wherever the banks are low and covered withr sand or gravel there may be expected the Spottedr Sandpiper.

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 89 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Lagrange, Yosemite Valley, and Tuolumner Meadows are but three of its several knownr haunts within the Yosemite section. In summer ther pairs are busy with their nesting duties, and their clearr calls ring out at all times of the day as the birds trotr along the strand or fly in semicircular course fromr place to place along the shores in search of food.r These are typical "shore-birds" and their nest consistsr of little more than a depression in the gravelr large enough to shelter the four good-sized eggs.r r r r The mountain forests furnish the homes of manyr different kinds of Woodpeckers. The Yosemite sectionr has thus far revealed no less than twelve species,r some in the foothills, some in the high mountains,r others encompassing both these habitats. At middler r r r altitudes, in Yosemite Valley and the Canadian Zoner above, is the White-headed Woodpecker which isr solidly black except for a pure white head and smallr patch of white on each wing. It might be thought thatr a bird of such coloration would be conspicuous, butr the very reverse is true; these colors blend exceedinglyr well with the background whether this be formed byr the bleached or blackened stumps, or the high lightsr and shadows on the living trees. The Whiteheadr nests usually within twelve feet of the ground, byr preference in a shattered stump or in an upstandingr branch of a prostrate trunk. During the late springr and early summer months its domestic program is thusr capable of easy study.r r r r "Cock-of-the-Woods" is an appropriate name givenr to the Pileated Woodpecker, the giant among all ther local Woodpeckers. It measures over seventeen inchesr in length as compared with the twelve inches of ther well-known Red-shafted Flicker. A bird of blackr body, it shows white in large patches on both outerr and inner surfaces of the wings and a stripe of white onr its neck, while the head bears a flaming red crest.r This Woodpecker occurs at times in Yosemite Valley,r but his kind is more abundant in places of greaterr altitude where there are numerous dead stubs of red orr white fir to be prospected for grubs or, in spring, to ber excavated for nesting places. When at work the noiser produced by the Pileated’s big chisel-like beak soundsr like the strokes of a distant woodchopper or the blowsr struck by a telephone repair man. When on the wingr the Pileated Woodpecker pursues a nearly level course,r flashing the white wing patches regularly, and oftenr uttering a sustained and far-carrying kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk.r r r r r r The California Woodpecker, so common in ther California valleys and foothills, reaches the oak-dottedr floor of Yosemite Valley in fair numbers, andr its work may be seen in many places there. This isr "el carpintero" of the Spanish explorers, the birdr which stores for itself a supply of acorns, wedgingr each into a newly dug pit in the bark of some convenientr oak or pine tree. Certain big trees in Yosemiter Valley are studded with acorns for many feet from ther ground. With golden oaks on the talus slopes andr black oaks on the Valley floor the birds should neverr be at a loss for their favorite nuts. Yet another typer of food is needed, for in summer they are regularly tor be seen flying out from exposed perches to capturer passing insects.r r r r Over the open gorge of the Yosemite and from mostr of the "inspiration" points about the rim, may ber seen every day of the summer season, the "policemenr of the upper air," the Swifts and Swallows. The dark-bodiedr form, of crossbow outline, which cuts the airr at lightning speed is the White-throated Swift, andr its more leisurely associate, which displays a pure whiter under surface, is the Violet-green Swallow. The Swiftr is of about twice the bulk of the Swallow, its proportionatelyr narrower wings are concave instead ofr straight-margined behind, and it is much more swiftr and daring than the Violet-green; when flying it oftenr utters a torrential series of notes. louder and morer hurried in delivery than any calls given by

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 90 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall swallows.r r r r The Band-tailed Pigeon, western counterpart. ofr the now extinct Passenger Pigeon, is found in fairr numbers in the Yosemite region practically throughoutr the year. Yosemite Valley harbors one or morer flocks of these birds, and while acorns constitute theirr r r r main source of food, toyon and coffee-berries, andr scattered grain in the poultry yards of indulgent residentsr of the Valley afford the birds forage when ther first named staple is scarce or wanting. The bluishr gray back, pinkish breast, and dusky-banded tail arer color features to be looked for. The big birds arer often unnoticed amid the oak foliage until they flushr with a loud clapping of wings and make off in swiftr course to some other retreat.r r r r At the lower limit in scale of size among Sierranr and indeed all Californian birds is the Calliope Hummingbird,r the little green and violet-feathered jewel,r which flits lightly about the flowers of the mountainr meadows. This midget, weighing about one-tenth ofr an ounce (3 grams), is but a summer visitant here andr winters in Mexico. The thickets of Sierran currantr break into blossom in the Canadian Zone during Mayr or early June. The Calliopes at the same time appearr in numbers, the males foraging and battling with oner another on the upper slopes while the females stayr down toward the canyon bottoms preparing to rearr their broods. The "gorget" of iridescent hues on ther throat of the male consists of long lance-shaped feathersr which in display are held out apart from the snowyr white color of the neck. This is the only Hummingbirdr which, so far as we know definitely, nests in ther park; the Anna and Black-chinned occur in the westernr foothill country as far up as El Portal, and ther Rufous Hummingbird passes south along the Sierrasr in July and August.r r r r From early morning until late dusk, throughout ther mountain forest belt, is to be heard the droningr zuweez of the Western Wood Pewee. This is ther commonest and most widely distributed member ofr r r r the flycatcher family although other species of ther group occur in numbers in appropriate places in ther Yosemite section. The Pewee is a bird of open forest,r usually perching fifteen to forty feet above the groundr in a place where it has a clear view of its surroundings.r The bird sits quietly, but its head turns this way andr that as it watches for passing insects. These arer captured by short quick sorties, the Pewee returningr to the same or a nearby perch after each pursuit. Ther Pewee is plain dark brown above and on the sides ofr the body, with yellowish white on the middle of ther lower surface. The larger Olive-sided Flycatcherr which chooses the lofty tree-tops as lookouts hasr whitish flank patches and a loud three-syllabled call;r and the small weak-voiced flycatchers have light ever rings and light bars on the wings.r r r r About the same time that the newly arrived visitorr sees his first Robin, another, even bolder member ofr the mountain avifauna will likely force itself uponr the attention. This is the Blue-fronted Jay, localr representative of the crested or Steller Jays of westernr North American generally. It is a common residentr of the Transition and Canadian zones of the park.r The bird spends most of its time in the trees; a favoriter perch is near the top of a tall conifer from where itr can see all that goes on in the forest. When ascendingr to such a station the bird will keep close to the trunk,r hopping up and around from one branch to anotherr as if following a spiral staircase. In nesting time ther two members of a pair keep close together. Whiler ordinarily noisy, a "zone of quiet" is maintainedr about their own nest. At this season they are wont tor raid the nests of smaller birds carrying off the eggs orr young to serve for their own food; the small parentsr r r

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r r r PLATE IXr r The Water Ouzelr r r Photo by Gertrude Metcalfe Sholesr r r r r r r r know this, for whenever a piratical jay approachesr they at once set up a remonstrant calling that attractsr sympathizers from far and near.rr r r The "high Sierra" has its component of bird life,r smaller to be sure in both species and numbers thanr the lower, more thickly wooded areas, but containing ar number of distinctive types worth a long hike to getr acquainted with. The Clark Nutcracker, a memberr of the Crow Family, and the local "camp robber," is ar denizen of the Hudsonian Zone, sometimes rangingr down to the upper limits of the Transition, and againr and more often up above timberline. It wears a piedr plumage, gray on the body with black flight feathers,r while each wing shows a white spot, and the tail ar broad white margin when the bird takes to flight.r The daily round of foraging after pine seeds either inr the trees or on the ground beneath soon results in ther plumage acquiring a brownish overtone due to pitch,r and after the birds have gone through with the dutiesr of the nesting season (March to May) some individualsr present a bedraggled appearance indeed.r r r r Early summer visitors to the Canadian Zone arer likely to hear a song of exquisite beauty coming fromr the top of some lofty fir or pine. Interspersedr between the warbling strains are numerous metallicr clinking notes resembling a ground squirrel’s whistle.r All of these are from the repertoire of the Townsendr Solitaire, in

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 92 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall several respects an unique member of ther Thrush Family. The Solitaire is a grayish bird ofr slender form and long tail. When it takes to flightr one sees a light margin to the outer tail feathers and ar broad yellowish bar upon each open wing. One wouldr search the trees in vain for this bird’s nest; the tree-topsr are used only for singing and foraging. At nestingr r r r time a sheltered spot on the ground is selected,r such as the base of some uprooted tree or a niche in ar roadside bank, and here a nest of loose construction,r with many pine needles and twig-ends stragglingr below it, is placed. In the fall the Solitaires ranger over the country widely, going here and there afterr berries of juniper, toyon, and mistletoe, which furnishr their sustenance in the colder months of the year.r r r r Two Thrushes occur in the region during summer,r the larger and more plainly garbed Russet-backed,r rather sparingly and chiefly in the Transition Zone,r and the Sierra Hermit Thrush, vesper songster in ther wooded glades, which is found in Yosemite Valley butr more commonly in the zones above. The latter, toldr at once by its rather bright "rufous" rump and tail,r has a peculiar habit of twitching or refolding its wingsr at short intervals and slowly depressing the tail at ther same instant. It keeps close to the stands of smallr dense conifers in canyon bottoms whence its song ofr set theme but much varying key comes at short intervals,r especially in the morning and evening hours ofr twilight.r r r r The Sierras possess three distinct Grosbeaks, twor of which are resident at high altitudes practicallyr throughout the year. In the Hudsonian Zone is ther rather rare California Pine Grosbeak, a gray bird ofr slender appearing body and long tail. The femalesr and young are "washed" with yellow on the head andr breast while the adult males are brilliant red overr nearly the entire body. In the Canadian and Transitionr zones one is likely to see the more chunkily builtr and vari-colored California Evening Grosbeak. Thisr bird has a huge greenish yellow bill. The bodyr plumage of the male is yellow, the tail and wings blackr r r r with a large patch of white along the inner margin ofr each wing. The female is gray with scattered whiter markings on the dark flight feathers. Neither of theser Grosbeaks is an elaborate singer; their best efforts arer little-more than a repetition of the high-pitched callr notes.r r r r The Black-headed Grosbeak, one of the largest andr most strikingly colored of the finch and sparrow tribe,r has gained a special reputation in Yosemite Valley byr reason of i ts habit of appropriating butter and otherr viands from tables set beneath the trees. The plumager of the male is varied with black, brown, and white,r while the female is much streaked, especially aboutr the head. In May and June these Grosbeaks are inr full voice in Yosemite Valley. Novices confuse ther song of this Grosbeak with that of the Robin, but ther former is fuller and quicker, with many little trillsr and warbles not heard in the Robin’s rather monotonousr carol. The Black-headed Grosbeak builds ar simple nest, little more than a cupped platform of finer interlacing twigs, and. often so thin that an observerr standing on the ground can look through the bottomr and see at least the outline of whatever it contains.r r r r The brush belt of the Canadian Zone with its manzanita,r snow bush, chinquapin, and huckleberry oak isr the home of a big, ground-dwelling type of Finch, ther Fox Sparrow. Winter or summer, birds of this sortr are there, though the race represented, and of courser the individuals, change with the season. In summerr there is the grayish toned race called Yosemite Foxr Sparrow while winter sees this variety replaced byr brown backed birds from the Alaska coast. All arer alike in being ground foragers, who kick and dig withr their stout feet in the leafy waste, sending up littler r r r jets of débris with an accompanying noise out of allr proportion

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 93 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall to the size of the bird, and such as sometimesr frightens timid walkers along the trails whor suspect some lurking wild beast. Passing theser thickets in summer one is apt to hear the clear ringingr lay of the bird, and if one camps near a ridge topr touched early by the morning sun, he will likely ber awakened by the songs of the Fox Sparrows who haver moved upslope to catch these first warming rays afterr a chilly night.r r r r Often while traversing trails through open forest,r there comes from the tree tops a quaint, nasal weh,r weh, weh—syllables which sound like the blasts of anr elfin horn. Search as he may, the traveler will atr best locate a small form moving about the trunk andr limbs near the tiptop of the tree. If luck and patiencer favor, the bird may come low enough so that itsr grayish back, black head with light stripe over eye,r reddish under surface, and very short squared tailr show it to be a Red-breasted Nuthatch. The birdr forages exclusively on the bark, hunting out insectsr which have secluded themselves in crevices. Inr moving about, the Nuthatch goes either up or down,r with seemingly equal facility. The Slender-billedr Nuthatch, western relative of the White-breasted ofr the East, occurs at lower altitudes, and occasionally, inr the yellow pine belt, a troop of the Pygmy Nuthatchesr may be encountered.r r r r Each part of the tree receives attention from somer particular type of bird. Kinglets and Warblers searchr the foliage, Vireos the smaller twigs, Woodpeckers seekr grubs buried within the wood, while Nuthatches andr Creepers scrutinize the bark of trunk and limbs. Ther Sierra Creeper, the local variety of an almost world-rangingr r r r species, is found on the forest trees of ther Transition and higher zones. The Creeper wears ar streaked brown pattern of color on the back and ther under surface is white; its tail feathers are long-pointedr and stiffened so as to give the bird support as it clingsr to the side of a tree. Unlike the Nuthatch, ther Creeper moves only upward on the trunk; it ascendsr from the base, often spiralling around the trunk, andr when it arrives at the top of one tree it flies off to ther base of another. Its call is fine and wiry and the songr is but little more than several of these faint high-pitchedr notes in quick succession.r r r r Chickadees are associated in the mind with forests,r and in the Yosemite region is to be found the Mountainr Chickadee, inhabitant of the woods, throughoutr the Transition and Canadian zones. Memories of ther plainly pronounced chick-a-dee-dee and of the clearr whistled song remain long in the minds of travelersr who visit the California Sierras. In fall and winterr the birds go about in companies but in spring theser companies break up into pairs, and by early May ther nesting duties are begun. First comes selection of ar nest site, usually an old hole of the White-headedr Woodpecker. This chosen, it may be remodelled orr cleaned out somewhat, when it is lined with feathersr and hair, and then five to eight eggs are laid. Whenr the brood is hatched and grown they fairly fill ther cavity, and anyone who has taken out a family ofr Chickadees to make their portraits will attest to ther impossibility of being quite able to fit them back intor the nest hole again. The Mountain Chickadeer remains in the Sierras through the winter, and itsr familiar call is one of the few bird notes to be heardr when the Yosemite Valley is blanketed with snow.r r r r r r Along the streams at middle altitudes in the Transitionr and Canadian zones one is sure to hear, duringr the early summer months, the pleasing song of ther Western Warbling Vireo. Many birds sing only atr morning and evening, a few chiefly during midday,r and some of those who keep up their songs and callsr throughout the day soon weary the human hearer;r but all this does not apply to the Western Warblingr Vireo. Even during afternoons of drowsy heat wer have heard these birds in almost continuous song.r Singing does not hinder the birds in the performancer of their regular duties, for we have seen one carryingr material and

SOME BIRDS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 94 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall building its nest while it sang, and it isr commonly known among bird students that this Vireor sings regularly while sitting upon its eggs.r r r r The open grassy areas of the Hudsonian Zone, suchr as those which constitute Tuolumne Meadows, affordr an abundant supply of insect food for a brief periodr during the summer months, and several birds migrater to these high mountain locations to take advantage ofr this ephemeral food supply. The Mountain Bluebirdr is one of these summer visitants to the high Sierras.r Paler in tone of blue than either its relative of ther California foothills or the Eastern Bluebird, thisr species in its coloration reflects the intense lightsr and pallid tones of the high mountains. When ther first mountaineers of the season reach the alpiner meadows, pairs of Mountain Bluebirds are preparingr to nest, seeking old woodpecker holes or similar cavitiesr of dead trees. By July the young are hatchedr and then the parent birds busy themselves huntingr insects in the fast growing grasses of the meadows.r A favorite method with this bird is to hover in oner place with rapidly beating wings ten to twenty feetr r r r above the ground and intently scan the turf belowr for prey. When an insect is spied the bird dropsr rapidly to the surface, captures the object and thenr makes off with it to a perch or to the nest.r r r r From well up in the forest trees there comes duringr the spring and early summer a clear song of considerabler volume which seems to say, 0, Oh-Oh, Cheerily,r Cheerily, Cheerily. One would be tempted to look forr a bird of considerable size, but the songster is actuallyr one of the smallest in the mountains, the Ruby-crownedr Kinglet. There are two species of ther diminutive Kinglets with bright crown markings, inr our mountains. The Ruby-crown has a red crownr patch present only in the male. This is normallyr concealed by the other feathers of the head but can ber flashed forth with startling effect when the bird isr excited. The Golden-crowned Kinglet on the otherr hand wears a yellowish crown patch bounded by black.r It is present in both sexes and in both is held permanentlyr in view. In addition to its pleasing song, ther Ruby-crown gives a loud sputtering note or "ratchet-call"r which it utters when excited over any unusualr event such as the appearance on the scene of a Bluejayr or Owl.r r r r Surely the visitor who really looks for birds in ther Yosemite region will not be disappointed. For ther experience of those who have already made fair trialr has proven the richness of the possibilities here. Andr these possibilities are far from exhausted; new discoveriesr are sure to reward careful search for manyr seasons to come.r r r r r

REFERENCES r r r Bailey, F. M., 1917. Handbook of Birds of the Western Unitedr States.r (7th ed., rev., Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.) liv+574 pp.,r 36 pls., 601 figs. in text.r r r r Emerson, W. O., 1893.r "Random Bird-Notes from Merced Bigr Trees and Yosemite Valley." Zoe, vol. iv., July, 1893, pp.r 176-182.r

REFERENCES 95 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Grinnell, J., "Early Summer Birds in Yosemite Valley."r Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. viii., June, 1911, pp. 118-124.r r r r Grinnell, J., 1915.r "A Distributional List of the Birds ofr California." Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 11, 217 pp., pls.r I-III. (Published by Cooper Ornithological Club, Berkeley,r Calif.)r r r r Grinnell, J., Bryant, H. C., and Storer, T. I., 1918. The Gamer Birds of California.r (University of California Press, Berkeley)r x+641 pp., 16 col. pls., 94 figs. in text.r r r r Keeler, C. A., 1908.r "Bird Life of Yosemite Park." Sierrar Club Bulletin, vol. v., January, 1908, pp. 245-254.r r r r Mailliard, J., 1918. "Early Autumn Birds in Yosemite Valley."r Condor, vol. xx., January, 1918, pp. 11-19.r r r r Muir, J., 1894. r The Mountains of California. (New York , Ther Century Co.) xv+381 pp., 53 illus.r r 1898. "Among the Birds of the Yosemite." Atlanticr Monthly, vol. lxxxii., December, 1898, pp. 751-760.r r 1901. Our National Parks.r (Boston, Houghton Mifflinr Co.) 10+370 pp., frontispiece, map, 10 plates.r r r r Ray, M. S., 1898.r "A Summer Trip to Yosemite." Osprey,r vol. iii., December, 1898, p. 55.r r r r Torrey, B., 1913.r Field-Days in California. (Boston, Houghtonr Mifflin Co.) 10+235 pp., 9 pls.r r r r Widmann, O., 1904.r "Yosemite Valley Birds." Auk, vol.r xxi., January, 1904, pp. 66-73.r r r r r r

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r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director,r and Tracy Irwinr r Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrater r Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r

r (Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of ther r University of California)r r r r r r r Ther Yosemite region possesses an abundant populationr of mammals both as to species and individuals.r A total of ninety-seven different kinds is definitelyr credited to the region. Subtracting three speciesr known to be extinct, and eight varietal forms, we haver record of eighty-six "full species" now to be foundr between Snelling and Mono Lake. The determinationr of the population as to individuals is more difficultr with

Some Mammals of Yosemite National Park 98 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall mammals than with birds, and has beenr attempted in only a few places. In so far as datar have been assembled it is estimated that mammalsr exist throughout the country at large in the ratio tor birds of ten to one.r r r r The average visitor, nevertheless, sees much less ofr mammals than of birds. Squirrels and Chipmunksr are out during the daylight hours, and occasionally ar Bear or Coyote or a group of Deer is observed, but ther presence of most other mammals must be ascertainedr by noting their "sign," tracks, and workings. Footprintsr of Badgers, Wolverines, and Mountain Lions mayr be seen in trails and roadways, or on snow; gnawedr r r r tree trunks give evidence of Porcupines; and earthr mounds of different sorts indicate the presence ofr Moles and Gophers; but the host of small species ofr Mice and Shrews leave less evidence of their presencer than any of the above, and only assiduous trappingr (which can be done in the park only under specialr permit for scientific purposes) will reveal the abundancer and variety of mammalian life which is activer during the hours of darkness.r r r r Among all this multitude of mammals there is notr one species which need be feared by visitors on ther ground of personal violence. Bears in search of foodr will sometimes raid camps at night, especially whenr the occupants are away, and Mice and Chipmunks willr gnaw into stores of provisions, but these temporaryr inconveniences, if they are experienced at all, arer certainly far more than offset by the pleasure to ber gained in observing the ways in which these diverser types of animals carry out their several existences.r r r r The California Gray Squirrel will be one of ther first mammals to attract the attention of the visitorr to Yosemite, for it is fairly well represented in ther Transition Zone forests which are traversed by ther several roadways leading into the mountains fromr the west, and it is common among the trees on ther floor of Yosemite Valley. The Gray Squirrel isr typical of the tree dwelling members of the squirrelr family. Its lithe body, strong legs, and long, heavilyr bushed tail all enable it to jump readily from branchr to branch, while the sharp curved claws enable it tor cling securely to the bark of trunk or branches. Ther Gray Squirrel is active practically throughout ther year, so that visitors at whatever season will seer the species; however, more individuals are out in goodr r r

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r r r r PLATE Xr r r Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, the only species of hoofed big game now to be found in Yosemiter National Park.r r r Photo from habitat group, California Academy of Sciences, San Franciscor r r r r r r weather than during times of heavy snow. Theser animals find their usual forage in the acorns of severalr kinds of oaks and in the cones of the pines, particularlyr those of the yellow pine. From the time that the firstr cones reach full size, in early summer, until the lastr seeds are matured in late fall or early winter, the Grayr Squirrel pays devoted attention to the cone crop asr long as this holds out. The squirrels ascend the treesr and cut the cones loose from the branches. No effortr is made to hold onto them at this time, and the heavyr green cones come hurtling down and strike the groundr with a force that is, to say the least, disconcerting tor persons who may be walking near or under the trees.r After cutting off one or more cones, a squirrel willr descend to the ground and proceed to open up a cone.r Sitting up on its haunches and steadying the cone inr its forefeet, the animal gnaws off the scales whichr protect the seeds, beginning at the base of the cone.r Like other rodents or "gnawing" animals, the Grayr Squirrel is provided with two opposed pairs of stoutr chisel-like teeth in the forepart of its jaws, and theser serve to cut quickly through the tough bases of ther scales. In a surprisingly short time the cone isr reduced to a core and a heap of scales while ther squirrel has consumed the stock of seeds or nuts orr stored them in part within its cheeks. The groundr beneath "fruiting" pines is often strewn thickly withr piles of these "table scraps" from numerous feasts.rr r r At other times of the year the Gray Squirrel livesr on a variety of vegetable materials, especially uponr acorns, many of which are buried in the ground in ther fall. In the spring it sometimes turns its attention tor the eggs and nestlings of birds which nest in trees.r The birds recognize the squirrel as a possible enemyr r r r and are quick to set up a disturbance whenever a Grayr Squirrel appears in the near vicinity of their nestingr precincts.r r r r The Gray Squirrel population in Yosemite Valleyr seems somewhat larger than in like territory elsewhere.r This may be due to the additional food availabler about houses and camps as well as to the abundancer of oaks and yellow pines there. An estimate made inr Yosemite Valley during October, 1914, placed ther numbers of the Gray Squirrel at one per acre. Ther Valley, below the 4250-foot contour, and from "Ther Gateway" below Cascades eastward, contains aboutr seven and a half square miles. This would give ar total Gray Squirrel population, in the fall, of 4800,r which is believed to be considerably in excess of ther numbers to be found in any equal area in the openr woods of the Transition Zone elsewhere.r

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 100 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r In the forests of the Canadian and Hudsonianr zones lives the Sierra Chickaree, a "red" squirrelr similar in general habits to the Gray Squirrel but ofr smaller size and different coloration. The Chickareer is dark brown tinged with reddish on the upper surface,r has a black line along each side of the body, andr the lower surface of the body is white or buffy white.r Its body is about eight inches long and the moderatelyr bushy tail five or six inches. The mode of life of ther Chickaree is similar to that of the Gray Squirrel.r It is a dweller in the trees and comes to the groundr only when necessary to retrieve a fallen cone or tor cross an opening not bridged by overhead branches.r Where trees are close together as in many parts of ther lodgepole pine forest the Chickaree literally lives inr the trees.r r r r The food of this species is similar to that of the Grayr r r r Squirrel but not so varied; there are no large oaksr and but few nut producing plants within the Chickaree’sr domain. It must perforce live more extensivelyr on the seeds of cone-bearing trees. The Chickareesr which dwell in the Canadian Zone where firs are abundantr may be seen in the fall assiduously gathering ther thin-scaled cones of the red and white firs. Theser are "cachéd" by being buried along the sides of somer large log near the squirrels’ home tree. When ther snow comes the cones gain further protection, in coldr storage as it were, whence they are drawn upon andr used by the Chickaree, as need be throughout ther winter. In the spring observant travelers will findr the logs strewn with the scales and cone-cores discardedr by the squirrels during their meals. Ther voice of the Chickaree is decidedly different fromr that of the Gray Squirrel and is also much morer varied. One common call is a prolonged trill of highr pitch; and there is a striking single note which is givenr from time to time with an insistent delivery.r r r r There are seven species of small striped Chipmunksr in the Yosemite section, and five of these occur withinr the Park boundaries. All agree in general patternr of markings, having the head and back marked withr alternate stripes of dark and light color and with morer or less bright brown along the sides, but there arer decided differences in tone of coloration. There arer also considerable differences in size, habits, and localr distribution of the several species.r r r r Chipmunks in general are nimble creatures, to ber seen scurrying about in their eager search for food, atr frequent intervals playing with one another or fleeingr from supposed or real enemies. There is a distinctiver sort of quick intermittent or "jerky" movement on ther r r r part of a chipmunk, in which the animal will move ar few steps and then be absolutely still for severalr seconds, save perhaps for a sideward switching of ther bushy tail. In these short intervals of quiet ther streaked pattern fairly melts into the animal’s surroundingsr so that the eye may lose the creature for ther moment altogether. Sudden changes of position arer often each accompanied by a single exclamatory note.r If a Chipmunk becomes thoroughly frightened itr makes off pell-mell and in direct course toward itsr retreat, scarcely looking behind, and uttering a torrentr of excited chippings as it goes.r r r r The usual note with all of the species is a highr pitched psst which is often repeated to form a sputteringr series. The larger species have also a hollow low-tonedr pook which may be likened to the bark of a dog,r as it is given with rather long rests between successiver notes.r

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 101 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Each species of Chipmunk has a definite generalr range and a particular "niche" within this range; nor two species are found in exactly the same surroundings.r On the west slope of the mountains in portions of ther Upper Sonoran and Transition zones containing mixedr chaparral and trees there is the Mariposa Chipmunkr (Eutamias merriami mariposae) a large dark grayishr species. It is found in small numbers in thicketsr along the north and south walls of Yosemite Valley.r The most widely distributed and commonest speciesr of the Yosemite region is the Tahoe Chipmunkr (Eutamias speciosus frater) which occurs throughoutr the Canadian and Hudsonian Zones. It may ber known at once by its small size (total length aboutr eight inches), bright highly contrasted pattern ofr coloration, extremely lively manner, and especially byr r r

r r r PLATE XIr r Mountain Lion or Cougarr r r Photo from habitat group, California Academy of Sciences, San Franciscor r r r r r r its habit of seeking safety high in the trees, ratherr than in logs, thickets, or rock heaps. Tahoe Chipmunksr have been seen fifty feet or more above ther ground, while none of the other species in the highr mountains goes much if any over five feet from ther ground.rr r r The Canadian Zone possesses also a rather larger species of predominantly grayish coloration, the Allenr Chipmunk (Eutamias senex). This one lives aboutr boulders, fallen logs, and brush patches. In the upperr part of the Transition Zone and the lower portion ofr the Canadian there is a species of about the -same sizer and practically the same habits as the preceding, butr with much taller ears and a conspicuous white spot atr the hinder base of each ear. This is the Long-earedr Chipmunk (Eutamias quadrimaculatus), almost asr brightly colored as the Tahoe Chipmunk. Ther smallest and palest-colored species within the park isr the Alpine Chipmunk (Eutamias alpinus) which dwellsr among rocks and fallen trees in the Hudsonian Zone.r It is the timberline chipmunk, the last to be seenr during an ascent of Mount Lyell or any of the otherr loftier summits.r r r r All of the chipmunks living above the snow-liner (about 3300 feet) in the Yosemite section hibernater for longer or shorter periods of time in winter, althoughr their larger relatives, the Gray Squirrel and Chickaree,r are active throughout this season, retiring only onr very stormy days.r

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 102 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r There is one member of the squirrel tribe which isr observed by very few Yosemite visitors. This is ther strictly nocturnal Sierra Nevada Flying Squirrel, ther only local mammal except the bats which is able tor travel through the air. The word "flying" is herer r r r used inaccurately, as this squirrel is only able to volplaner from a high perch to a lower one. Its body isr flattened, and between the fore and hind leg on eachr side there stretches a furred double layer of skin whichr adds to the animal’s spread and makes feasible itsr oblique passage through the air. Its dense silky hairr seems to be an adaptation in this direction and alsor contributes to the quietness of its "flight." Ther Flying Squirrel lives in the Transition and Canadianr Zones, being fairly common in the black oaks in Yosemiter Valley and in the red firs above the Valley rim.r r r r All of the members of the squirrel kind mentioned inr the preceding paragraphs are species which live andr find shelter chiefly or entirely in trees or logs; but therer are also important members of the group which dwellr upon and beneath the ground. These are the Groundr Squirrels and the Marmot. The California Groundr Squirrel, of brown tone of coloration with whitishr shoulders, is in habits the western counterpart of ther Prairie Dog and is found, in the Yosemite region, fromr the San Joaquin Valley up to an altitude of 8200 feetr in the mountains. In the Canadian and Hudsonianr zones is the Sierra Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel,r locally called "copperhead." This species has ther head and shoulders golden yellow while the body isr marked along each side with two jet black stripesr enclosing one of pure white. The "niche" of thisr species is in the open forest about bases of large treesr and rocks. The Hudsonian Zone supports anotherr burrowing species, the Belding Ground Squirrel orr "picket-pin," a rather plainly garbed animal ofr yellowish brown coloration and with a reddish washr along the back. It lives altogether in the meadowsr where it finds abundant forage during the summerr r r r months and where it may often be seen sitting up inr characteristically erect posture on the lookout forr danger.r r r r The Golden-mantled and Belding Ground Squirrelsr hibernate regularly and so do those representatives ofr the California Ground Squirrel which live in the Transitionr and Canadian zones where snow lies on ther ground during the winter months. All of these rodentsr feed to repletion during the summer and by fall theirr bodies are heavily stocked with fat which then servesr to warm and nourish them during the long winterr sleep.r r r r The Sierra Marmot (Marmota flaviventer sierra),r often called "Woodchuck," is the largest local representativer of the squirrel family in the Yosemite region.r In bodily configuration the Marmot is stouter than ther other members of the family, with proportionatelyr shorter legs and tail. It is not infrequently mistakenr for the badger, a totally different animal which, however,r often lives in the same sort of country. Adultr Marmots measure 15 to 18 inches (head and body),r with the tail 5 to 8 inches long, while the weight rangesr from 4 to 6 3/4 pounds with different individuals. Herer in the Sierras the Marmot is a high mountain animal,r dwelling chiefly in the Hudsonian Zone. The winterr months (from about October until May) are spent inr hibernation. Each Marmot has a burrow in ther ground, usually beneath some huge granite bowlder atr the edge of a meadow or at the base of a tree at ther margin of the forest. On all pleasant days the Marmotsr are out during the warmer hours, either foragingr in the grass of the meadows or resting near theirr burrows. During the summer months the Marmotsr must eat not only to supply their daily needs but alsor r r r to take on fat to carry them through the long winter.r It is not an uncommon experience during this seasonr to come upon one of the animals out some distancer from its burrow and busily engaged in cropping ther new grasses. If frightened while so engaged ther Marmot will make off with a lumbering gallop towardr its

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 103 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall burrow. When not feeding, the animals spendr much time sunning themselves on the tops of bowldersr or at the mouths of their burrows. In any situation,r when alarmed, the Marmot utters a shrill bark orr whistle. Sometimes it stands up on its hind legs tor get a better view of the object which it is keepingr under surveillance.r r r r The Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionusr hemionus) is the large mammal most likely to ber seen by the Yosemite visitor. In early days, whenr white pen first thronged the Sierran foothills in searchr of gold, no less than four species of homed or antleredr big game animals inhabited the Yosemite region.r The San Joaquin Valley marshes supported the Tuler or Dwarf Elk; the plains both east and west of ther Sierras were the ranges of the American Antelope; ther high Sierran crest was the habitat of the Sierra Mountainr Sheep, while on the intervening slopes of ther mountains there lived the Mule Deer. The firstr three have vanished from the Yosemite section, probablyr never to return, but the Deer are still present inr goodly numbers. Deer are present in the parkr throughout the year, though their local distributionr changes with the season. In the summer time theyr are more common in the higher zones and many arer to be seen at Chinquapin, above Yosemite Falls andr in the vicinity of Merced Lake, and a few wanderr above timberline along the Sierran crest. With ther r r r

r r r PLATE XIIr r American Black Bear amid the yellow pines in Yosemite Valleyr

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r r Photo by J. T .Boysenr r r r r r r coming of winter they are forced to lower levels andr concentrate in that season in the upper foothills alongr the western boundary of the park. At all times ofr year they find their forage chiefly among the bushyr plants, most especially the various species of deerr brush or mountain lilac (Ceanothus). Our Deer dor not habitually graze in meadows.rr r r The Mule Deer gains its name from the large sizer of its ears, which are about eight inches long and fourr inches across. The tail lends further character to ther suggested comparison, for this member is slender andr nearly devoid of hairs . toward the base beneath. Inr the summer months the Deer wear a thin reddishr colored coat, which is acquired in June and carried untilr October; then the thick gray pelage of winter isr assumed.r r r r The fawns of the Mule Deer are born about ther first of July, but the does keep their charges hiddenr until a month or so later, after which time the young inr the spotted reddish coats are seen rather commonly.r The usual number at a birth is two, though singler fawns are often seen and rarely there are three young.r The young run with the mother until the followingr spring or until they are "yearlings." Then sher deserts them to prepare for the new litter.r The Deer in the park have responded favorably tor protection from hunting, and large bands are seenr there during the winter months. Some pass throughr Yosemite Valley but the larger migratory movementsr are along the ridges above.r r r r Discussion of Deer leads logically to mention of theirr principal enemy, excepting man, the Mountain Lionr or Cougar. Save for the Wild Cat or "Lynx Cat"r (two names for one and the same species) there is nor r r r other member of the cat tribe here; there are nor Canada Lynxes in the Sierra Nevada. The Mountainr Lion when fully adult measures about 6 1/2 feet fromr tip to tip, of which about thirty inches is the tail.r The body coloration is usually reddish brown, sometimesr gray. The only difference between males andr females is in size, the former being the larger. Mountainr Lions are so wary that but few are seen underr ordinary circumstances. Many persons have livedr in the mountains for years without seeing one of ther animals. Only when trailed and treed by dogs arer they to be seen readily. However, evidences of theirr presence and activity are relatively common. Theirr tracks are seen in summer along dusty trails or crossingr roads, and rather commonly after the snows of winterr come. The footprints are catlike, and measure fromr three to four inches in each surface dimension. Ther depredations of the Mountain Lion among the Deerr are most evident during the winter. In that seasonr the deer are concentrated in the foothills at the marginr of the heavy snow, and then the Cougars have ar relatively easy time to obtain prey.r r r r Another "predatory" mammal, common in ther high Sierras and likely to be seen by visitors to ther park, is the Mountain Coyote (Canis latrans lestes).r Standing about 20 inches high at the shoulder with ar body length of 30 to 33 inches, with ears about 4 inchesr tall, and weighing as much as 25 pounds, some particularlyr long-haired and gray colored individualr Coyotes are designated as "gray wolves" by localr trappers. All efforts, however, to obtain actualr specimens of the real wolf have been unavailing. Ther Mountain Coyte is less restricted in diet than ther Cougar. It feeds upon a variety of small game suchr r r r as ground squirrels and gophers, and even at timesr captures insects; manzanita berries are also eatenr in season. Coyotes sometimes feed upon deer, butr their "venison" comes mostly from carcasses left byr the Mountain Lion. The barking of the Coyote isr often heard in the mountains and the combination ofr yelps, squeals, and howls in the voice of an individualr often gives the impression that there are several ratherr than a single

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 105 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall animal.r r r r Bears there are in the Yosemite, even close aboutr the floor of the Valley. Indeed, the word Yosemite,r of Indian origin, means big bear or grizzly bear. Ifr ever there were grizzlies in Yosemite Valley, as therer were certainly at other points in the region such asr Wawona, none are left to-day. The famous grizzlyr with its huge size, long front claws, and "silver-tipped"r fur is extinct here now, but its smaller tree-climbingr relative, the Black Bear, is still thriving in goodlyr numbers. These smaller bears exhibit two colorr phases, some individuals being black, others cinnamon;r and litters of cubs have been seen in which oner individual of the two was black and the other cinnamonr colored. The name "brown bear" properlyr applies to a species not found here. The Black Bearr is found throughout the Transition and Canadianr zones of the park and is likely to be seen, from Juner until October, by visitors to the Yosemite Valley andr adjacent points. The various garbage dumps whichr have been established in the Valley attract the bearsr regularly in the night time. Several bears have hadr their headquarters in the rock slides near El Capitanr from where they can fare forth and hunt for food inr the table and kitchen débris. Under native conditionsr they eat berries and seeds, beetles, ants, and otherr r r r insects, and small mammals; the wide variety of theirr likes in the matter of food places much material withinr easy reach. In October or early November the Bearsr seek some secluded cavern or hollow tree and curl upr there for a sleep which lasts until early the followingr spring. Persons camping out in the mountains arer sometimes disturbed by having their provisions raided-r by bears, but there are no instances known to us inr which anyone has been injured by a bear when ther start of the trouble did not lie with the personr concerned.r r r r There are numerous species of smaller carnivores inr the Sierras of the Yosemite region. Many of theser will be recognized at once as among the importantr "fur-bearing" species. About the rock slides of ther Hudsonian Zone is the brownish colored Sierra Piner Marten (Martes caurina sierrae); in the forests of ther Canadian and Hudsonian zones is found the Pacificr Fisher (Martes pennand pacifica), a much largerr animal of generally similar build with a long bushyr tail and much black in its pelage. In the highestr parts of the mountains there is the Sierra Nevadar Wolverine (Gulo luscus luteus), a heavy-bodied animalr of yellow and brown coloration, now rare. About ther buildings in Yosemite Valley and around rock slidesr in the higher mountains the Mountain Weasel (Mustelar arizonensis) occurs in considerable numbers. Ther Weasel has a slender body, scarcely two inches throughr but nine or ten inches in length. The body color isr yellowish brown in summer, but this changes to whiter in the winter season. The end of the long and slenderr tail remains black at all seasons so that in winterr pelage our Weasel is an "ermine" in generalr appearance.r r r r r

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r r r PLATE XIIIr r Three notable animals of Yosemite National Parkr r The California Grey Squirrel (upper), Tahoe Chipmunkr r (middle), and Pacific Rattlesnake (lower)r r r Photos of squirrel and snake by J. T. Boysen, Yosemite;r r Chipmunk by J. Dixon, California Museum ofr r Vertebrate Zoölogyr r r r r r r r The predacious mammals considered thus far arer all of considerable size, but there are "hunters" ofr smaller bulk though no less daring or active in theirr pursuit of prey.r r r r The rocky shores of the streams and crevicesr beneath logs and brush constitute the forage ground ofr several small species of animals called Shrews. Theser are related to the moles, and may be known as a groupr by their long slender noses, long tails, and their shortr smooth fur. These small predators, most of whichr are less than two inches in length of body, are voraciousr feeders, to judge from their habits in captivity;r their presence in a region suffices to explain whyr bodies of small birds or mammals disappear so quicklyr When trapping in localities where Shrews abound itr is not an- uncommon experience to have specimensr caught during the early hours of the night, halfr devoured by morning.r

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 107 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Bats are present in most of the region, whence atr least eight species are now known. Certain speciesr are restricted to the warmer valleys and foothills,r others occur over the floor of the Yosemite gorge, andr one species, the High Sierra Bat, has been taken atr 10,350 feet altitude near Vogelsang Lake, almost ther highest altitudinal record for any species of bat in thisr country.r r r r Many of the larger accomplishments in nature suchr as the felling of large trees by storms, the scouring ofr valleys by freshets, or the results of earthquakes, arer spectacular in the extreme; but other highly importantr operations are carried on in such an unobtrusiver manner that they excite no popular interest or comment.r The actions of Gophers and Moles and otherr burrowing animals as agents of erosion and soil manufacturer r r r are examples in this latter category. In cultivatedr districts the Pocket Gophers are looked upon asr unmitigated nuisances, but their rôle in the mountainsr is totally different. The numerous earth mounds andr tunnels made by Gophers play an important part inr pulverizing and aerating the granitic soil and permittingr water to permeate below the surface. The finer surface material is washed down by the melting snowsr and the summer rains to add to the fertile plains of ther great valleys. During the summer the Gophers pushr the loosened soil from below ground out on the surface;r but in winter this material is packed into tunnels inr the snow and these "earth cores" are to be seen everywherer in the higher mountains in early summer.r r r r Moles likewise live most of their time beneath ther surface of the ground, but their structure, and habits,r and their mode of life, are quite different from thoser of Gophers. The Moles never appear above the surfacer and their earth mounds are erupted from beneath,r being split with many cracks and having a rough andr irregular outline. The Gopher comes to the surfacer with each lot of earth he has loosened and pushes itr out so that eventually his mound has a crescenticr rim with a low spot at one side indicating the site ofr the exit after closure. Moles often run along justr an inch or two beneath the surface of the ground andr the resulting "ridges" are plainly evident in placesr where the animals have been hunting actively forr insects. The Mole is chiefly if not wholly dependentr upon insects, worms, and other low forms of animalr life, while the Gopher feeds entirely upon roots andr other parts of plants.r r r r As stated in the opening paragraph there is a surprisinglyr large population of small mammals, ther r r r presence of which can hardly be surmised by ther casual observer. Intensive trapping shows that rockr crevices, old logs, brush heaps, and the like arer tenanted by large numbers of White-footed Mice ofr several species, all agile long-tailed rodents; the grassyr meadows everywhere are the homes of chunkily builtr Meadow Mice with short legs and soft furry coats; andr the higher meadows support many of the long-tailedr long-legged Jumping Mice. In the rock slides of ther higher mountains there lives the much larger Bushy-tailedr Wood Rat. This animal, like its smooth-tailedr house-building relative in the foothills, is commonlyr called "pack rat" or "trade rat" because of its habitr of carrying away articles of camp equipment and oftenr leaving in their places chips of wood, or other similarr tokens. The Bushy-tail lives in the rock slides of ther Hudsonian Zone, along with the Yosemite Cony andr the Sierra Pine Marten. The Wood Rats exhibit somer tendency toward house-building as is shown by ther accumulations of twigs and sticks in some of the rockr crevices, but the animals rarely do as much in thisr direction as the Streator Wood Rats in the Upperr Sonoran and low Transition zones.r r r

SOME MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 108 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r In the lodgepole pines of the Canadian Zone ther work of the Yellow-haired Porcupine is to be seen inr many places; more rarely the animal itself is discovered.r The Porcupine scarcely needs description. Itr is a rodent, or gnawing mammal, of large size, weighingr when adult fifteen pounds or more. The wholer upper surface of the body is provided with long quillsr which grow out beyond the warmth-giving under-fur.r These quills have very sharp points, provided withr slight barbs which adhere readily to any rough or softr substance into which they are thrust, while the quillsr r r r are readily released from their attachment to the skin.r The Porcupine cannot "shoot" its quills as is supposedr by some persons, but for defense it curls its body up sor as to be surrounded by its spiny covering and its tail isr lashed from side to side. Any person or carnivorer incautious enough to come in contact with the quillsr speedily receives a number of these in its flesh. Ther Porcupine has one particular item of forage which itr seeks at all times of year, namely the inner growingr layers of the bark of the pine. A recently-fallen treer is likely to have all of its branches stripped of bark andr graven with the paired markings left by the incisorr teeth of the animal. But downed trees are not ar necessity, for the Porcupine climbs well and often itsr forage is obtained well up in some large tree. Ther lodgepole pine with its thin outer bark seems to affordr the animal the most suitable kind of forage, and wherer common it is eaten to the exclusion of other coniferousr trees.r r r r This brief account of the more noteworthy mammalsr of the Yosemite section may well close with mentionr of that interesting resident of the large heaps of slider rock in the Hudsonian Zone, the Yosemite Conyr (Ochotona schisticeps muiri), variously called "pika,"r "little chief hare" and "rock rabbit." The latter twor names have reference to the relationship of the Conyr with the rabbits, a kinship evinced more by internalr structure than external features. The Cony measuresr less than seven inches in length and has nor obvious tail, both pairs of legs are short, and the earsr are rounded. The covering of hair everywhere isr dense. Its habits are unique; it runs on all foursr with a hobbling gait, and does not sit up on itsr haunches like a rabbit. Instead of migrating to ar r r r milder climate, or else hibernating, during the winterr season, the Cony keeps active even though its rockr slide home is covered by many feet of snow. Inr summer it is busy with food-getting, and cuts, dries,r and piles up in airy, yet protected places, large heapsr of "hay." This includes stems and leaves from mostr of the common plants in the vicinity. The animalsr rarely forage beyond the margins of the rock slides,r seeming to feel that within these heaps of tumbledr granite they are afforded their only reliable protection.r When not engaged in foraging the Cony is accustomedr to perch on some one of its observation posts in ther rock slide and there keep watch of the neighborhood.r The nasal "bleating" notes are given at this time.r Thus the Cony, unlike the rabbits, makes regular user of its voice.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Grinnell, J., 1913. "A Distributional List of the Mammals ofr California." Proceedings California Academy of Sciences,r 4th series, vol. iii., pp. 265-390, pls. 15, 16.r r r r Nelson, E. W., 1918.r Wild Animals of North America. (Washington,r D. C., National Geographic Society: reprint withr additions from National Geographic Magazine, vol. xxx., No.r 5, Nov. 1916, and vol. xxxiii., No. 5, May 1918). Numerousr illus.r r r

REFERENCES 109 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Stephens, F., 1906. California Mammals.r (San Diego, Calif.,r West Coast Publishing Co.), 351 pp., illustrated.r r r r r r

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r By Joseph Grinnell,r Director,r and Tracy Irwinr r Storer,r Field Naturalist, Museum of Vertebrater r Zoölogy, University of Californiar r r

r (Contribution of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy of ther r University of California)r r r r r Nextr lower in the evolutionary scale below the birdsr and mammals stand the reptiles, including ther turtles, lizards, and snakes, and next below them ther group known as amphibians or batrachians comprisingr the salamanders, toads and frogs. The Yosemiter region contains twenty-one species in the first namedr group and eleven in the second. Among all theser "cold-blooded" vertebrates there is but one poisonousr species, the Pacific Rattlesnake; none of the othersr need be feared at all. All the snakes, even the Rattler,r will slip away

Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park 111 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall quietly unless cornered and provokedr into fighting. As normal parts of the protectedr animal life in Yosemite National Park no personr should kill any of these reptiles or amphibians, saver the Rattlesnake.r r r r As a rule, the numbers of both species and individualsr decrease with altitude. Above the Transitionr Zone there are but few reptiles, though amphibiansr are well represented as to individuals. One speciesr in the latter group, the Pacific Tree-toad (Hylar regilla), may be heard in spring at almost all altitudes.r r r r Although scarcely an inch in length, it is notablyr hardy and ranges up even to timberline. In the highr mountain meadows will be found a toad peculiar tor the region, the Yosemite Toad (Bufo canorus), andr its mellow notes are pleasing additions to the chorusr of bird songs just after the snow leaves. Yellow-legged Frogsr throng all the stream sides and lake marginsr up to timberline. The salamanders are less inr evidence, and careful search is required to locate them.r One species, the Lyell Salamander, is known only fromr the Yosemite Park, the two known specimens havingr been taken in the head of Lyell Canyon at an altituder of 10,800 feet.r r r r The Pacific Mud Turtle is the only representativer of its tribe found in the region; it has not yet been discoveredr higher than the 3000-foot level in the westernr foothills. Of the nine kinds of lizards the most commonr and most widely distributed group comprises ther "Swifts" (Sceloporus) which live about trees and onr rocks and logs. These are dark bodied, with more orr less blue on the under surface. The Alligator Lizardsr (Gerrhonotus) which have long slender bodies, smallr legs and large diamond-shaped heads are found inr grass and under brush piles and chaparral. Theser are reputed to be poisonous, but their only defenser when handled is to give their captor a sharp pinch inr their relatively heavy jaws. They have no poisonr glands. In the leafy débris beneath the golden oaksr along the walls of Yosemite Valley there is the larger Red-headed Skink (Plestiodon skiltonianum) whichr has a pinkish-red head and olive-green body. It hasr exceedingly smooth scales so that it can slip throughr one’s fingers as if oiled.r r r r The snakes of the region comprise eleven species.r r r r In the Yosemite Valley is found the Rubber Snaker (Charina bottae), a smooth scaled "double-ended" relativer of the pythons and boas of the tropics but notr known to exceed thirty inches in length. There arer numerous Garter Snakes (Thamnophis) in the region.r These are often called Water Snakes, in recognition ofr their preference for moist meadows and the marginsr of pools. They may usually be identified at once byr the three light yellow stripes along the body, one onr each side and the third along the middle of the back.r r r r The most beautiful of the local snakes is the Coral King Snake,r a small, smooth scaled, perfectly harmlessr species which lives along the golden-oak . talus slopesr and is frequently met with on the lower trails. Itsr banded coloration is of black, red, and yellow, all ofr bright tone. Gopher Snakes have been found in ther western foothill country but have not yet beenr recorded within the park itself.r r r r The Pacific Rattlesnake is likely to be found anywherer in the Yosemite National Park below aboutr 8500 feet altitude, but in Yosemite Valley, and alongr the well-traveled trails so many of the snakes haver been killed that the species is becoming rare in mostr of these places. The Rattler has many distinctiver features, and in consequence will be recognized at once,r even by persons who know it only by reputation. Ther head is

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF YOSEMITE NATIONALPARK 112 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall bluntly triangular, the neck constricted; ther stout body is covered with ridged or keeled scales,r and the short tail has at the end a short segmentedr rattle which the animal can vibrate to produce the well-knownr warning sound. The Rattlesnake is essentially ar ground dweller and seeks refuge at night and duringr the winter in a crevice in the rocks or a hole in ther ground. Occasionally a number collect together in ar r r r favourable location, forming one of the rattlesnaker "dens" really more common in folklore than fact.r The rattlers subsist largely upon small rodents—ground squirrels,r chipmunks, meadow mice, andr pocket gophers.r r r r From time to time the Rattlesnake, like otherr snakes, sheds the outer layer of the skin, and eachr time this occurs a new segment is added to the rattler at the end of the tail; for the substance of the rattler grows in continuation with this outer "epidermis."r These molts do not occur at any regular time, andr some individuals probably molt much oftener thanr others so that the number of rattles cannot be takenr as an index of the age of the snake, only of the numberr of molts it has undergone. The "button" at the endr of the rattle and several of the terminal segments arer sometimes lost through accident and so a very larger snake may have only a few rattles. The largest numberr known to us to have been found in one series wasr twenty-two; eight to ten is near the average. At ther time of molt the skin covering the eye is cast off andr just previous to this operation the eye may be slightlyr clouded over. This has given rise to a belief thatr Rattlesnakes become "blind" (especially in late summerr when many individuals molt), and it is currentlyr believed that the snakes are then more likely to striker without rattling than at other times of the year.r r r r When excited the Rattlesnake vibrates the tip ofr the tail rapidly, causing the horny rattle to give forthr a cicada-like, buzz that is unmistakable. If dangerr threatens, the snake places its body in a series ofr S-shaped curves, the tip of the tail being held vertically.r To "strike," the reptile straightens out suddenly,r lunging at its prey or enemy, dropping ther r r r lower jaw and erecting the hollow teeth or "fangs"r in the roof of the mouth so that they point almostr straight forward. At best the Rattler cannot striker more than two-thirds its total length. Stories ofr snakes "jumping" at their enemies are without foundation.r If the snake hits the object of its attack ther two hollow fangs are buried in the flesh, the lower jawr is brought up and poison is forced into the wounds.r Leather tramping boots or puttees usually afford fullr protection against the Rattlesnake, as the animals arer not known to strike much if any over twelve inchesr above ground.r r r r If a person chances to be struck by a Rattler certainr things should be done, promptly but with as littler flurry as possible.r r r r (1) If bitten on the leg or arm, apply a tourniquetr above the wound, that is, toward the heart from ther bite. This is done in order to stop the flow of bloodr toward the heart. A bandana handkerchief twistedr tight by means of a stick makes a good tourniquet.r r r r (2) Cut the wound open with a pocket-knife, orr cauterize with a red hot iron. If possible, inject ar solution of potassium permanganate into the surfacer immediately surrounding the bite. If the solution cannotr be made, apply crystals of permanganate directlyr at the place of the bite.r r r

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF YOSEMITE NATIONALPARK 113 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r (3) After about one hour loosen the tourniquetr slightly for a fraction of a minute, then tighten downr again; after this, loosening and tightening should ber done every fifteen minutes or so.r r r r (4) The patient should be placed in a comfortabler position. A mild stimulant, such as coffee, may ber given. Do not give whiskey. A doctor should ber summoned as soon as possible.r r r r [Editor’s note:r the above information for snakebite first aid is obsoleter and should not be followed. In particular, do notr use a tourniquet, do not cut the wound open, do not apply heat,r and do not apply ice.—DEA]r r r r r

REFERENCES r r r Dickerson, M. C., 1906. The Frog Book.r (New York, Doubledayr Page & Co.) xvii+253 pp., 16 col. pls., 96 half tones,r 36 figs. in text.r r r r Ditmars, R. L., 1907. The Reptile Book.r (New York, Doubledayr Page & Co.) xxxii+472 pp., 136 pls.r r r r Grinnell, J., and Camp, C. L., 1917.r A Distributional list ofr the Amphibians and Reptiles of California. University ofr California Publications in Zoölogy, vol. 17, pp. 127-208,r 14 figs. in text.r r r r Van Denburgh, J., 1897. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast andr Great Basin. California Academy of Sciences, Occasionalr Papers, No. 5, 236 pp., many text figs.r r r r r r

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THE FISHES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK r r

r By Barton Warren Evermannr r

r r Director, Museum, California Academy of Sciencesr r r r r r Ther fish fauna of Yosemite National Park is not ar rich one. Of native species there are two Suckers,r three Minnows, and one Trout; and of these only ther Trout is at all common. If we include the fishes notr native to the region but which have been introducedr into its lakes and streams, the number will be increasedr by nine additional species of Trout. The ten kinds ofr Trout in the park about in order of their relativer abundance are:r r

r Rainbow Trout; Salmo irideus Gibbonsr r Eastern Brook Trout; Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill)r

The Fishes of Yosemite National Park 116 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Shasta Trout; Salmo shasta (Jordan)r r Loch Leven Trout; Salmo trutta levenensis (Walker)r r Cutthroat Trout; Salmo clarkii Richardsonr r Steelhead Trout; Salmo gairdneri Richardsonr r Brown Trout; Salmo fario Linnaeusr r Tahoe Trout; Salmo henshawi Gill & Jordanr r Dolly Varden Trout; Salvelinus parkei (Suckley)r r Golden Trout; Salmo roosevelti Evermannr r r r This list includes most of the trout known fromr California waters.r r r r The limited space available will permit only a veryr brief treatment of each species. It is hoped, however,r at anyone interested can, with these short descriptions,r r r r identify with reasonable certainty the fishesr he may find within the limits of Yosemite Nationalr Park.r r r r In the first place, let it be said that all real trout ofr whatever kind, belong to the Salmonidae or Salmonr Family. This family includes not only the true Troutr but also the Salmons and the Charrs. Some of ther species, usually the larger ones, are marine and anadromous,r living most of their lives in the sea and Corningr into freshwater streams only for spawning purposes.r Others live habitually and continuously in the colderr streams and lakes.r r r r Of all the families of fishes there is none more interestingr than the Salmonidae, from whatever point ofr view they may be considered. To the biologist, ther family is of surpassing interest because of the remarkabler life histories and habits of the many species; tor the angler, no fish has appealed more strongly thanr the Salmon and Trout because of their game qualitiesr and their beauty; to the epicure, there is none morer delicious; to the lover of the beautiful as exhibited inr animate forms, there is perhaps nothing that appealsr more strongly than the silvery sheen, roseate orr golden hugs, and the beautiful form of the Salmon,r the Brook Trout, or the Golden Trout; to the fish culturist,r the Salmonidae are of the greatest interest andr importance, more species of this family being propagatedr artificially than of all other species combined;r and to the commercial fisherman, this family of fishesr is the most important in all the world.r r r r The true Trout all belong to the genus Salmo andr are found only in the northern parts of Asia, Europe,r and North America; in Europe they extend as farr south as the Pyrenees; and in America to Lower Californiar r r

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r r r PLATE XIVr r Some Trout of Yosemite National Parkr r Top to bottom—Rainbow Trout, Steelhead Trout, Easternr r Brook Trout, Golden (or Roosevelt) Troutr r r Pictures from California Fish and Game Commissionr r r r r r r and Durango, and eastward as far as the Blackr Hills and Colorado.rr r r California is richer in Trout than any other countryr in the world, the number of species or kinds nowr known from her lakes and streams being about ar dozen.r r r r It has been a more or less common practice to speakr of the Trout of California as falling naturally into threer series, popularly known as the Steelhead, Rainbow,r and Cutthroat groups. This grouping is no longerr accepted without reservations by ichthyologists. Itr has been shown that the Steelheads of Californiar streams are simply Rainbows that have gone out tor sea, and, after growing to considerable size and becomingr silvery in color, have returned to fresh water,r and that the Rainbows are simply the individualsr that never went to sea. For present purposes, however,r it seems best to treat them separately.r r r

THE FISHES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 118 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall CUTTHROAT TROUT r

r Salmo clarkii Richardsonr r r r Other names.—Red-throated Trout; Clark Trout;r Black-spotted Trout; Clark Cutthroat Trout.r Description.—The Cutthroat Trout can be readilyr known from all other trout by the red blotches on ther membranes of the lower jaw. This mark is usuallyr diagnostic of all the various species of so-called Cutthroatr Trout, of which there are in western Americar not fewer than a dozen recognizable forms. Theser different forms may be distinguished from each otherr by proportional measurements, size of scales, andr coloration. The Clark Trout is characterized by itsr r r fine scales and the presence of small teeth on ther hyoid bone.r r r r Distribution.—This species occurs in streams andr lakes from the Columbia River south to northwesternr California. It probably did not occur originallyr anywhere in the southern High Sierra, but it has beenr introduced into many streams and lakes. In Yosemiter National Park it is most abundant in ther Tuolumne River from Hetch Hetchy to its source, inr the South Fork of the Merced, and in Gaylor andr Peeler lakes.r r r

TAHOE TROUT r

r Salmo henshawi Gill & Jordanr r r r Other names.—Henshaw Trout; Black-spottedr Trout; Truckee Trout; Silver Trout; Redfish; Tommy;r Black Trout; Salmo tahoensis; Salmo purpuratus henshawi;r Salmo mykiss henshawi; Salmo clarkii henshawi.r r r r Description.—Color, dark olive-green above, bodyr everywhere with rather widely scattered black spots,r red darker on membranes of lower jaw; body stout,r the greatest depth about one-fourth the total length;r scales small.r r r r Distribution.—This is the common trout of Laker Tahoe and its connecting waters; also of Donner,r Webber, and Independence lakes and the upper part ofr Truckee River. It is not common in the park, butr was introduced into the Tuolumne River at Hetchr Hetchy Valley, Soda Springs, and in the Lyell Canyonr in 1896.r r Habits.—During a portion of the year the Tahoer Trout lives in deep water, and can be caught, if at all,r only on long lines. Early in the spring and in ther r r r summer, they are to be found in relatively shallowr water. It may be that food supply accounts for, thisr migration, as spawning minnows seem to be the

CUTTHROAT TROUT 119 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall attractiver food when the trout is in shallow water.r The greatest number of this species are taken byr trolling with a spoon. (Snyder.)r r r r The Tahoe Trout appears to feed largely on minnows,r but black ants and other insects are taken in quantity.r r r

STEELHEAD r

r Salmo gairdneri Richardsonr r r r Other names.—Steelhead Trout; Steelhead Salmon;r Salmon Trout; Hardhead.r r r r Marks for field identification.—Large size; smallr head; large scales; bright silvery color; absence ofr red on lower jaw.r r r r Distribution.—The Steelhead enters coastwiser streams from Ventura northward, ascending to theirr headwaters for spawning purposes and then returningr to the sea. Since 1917 the species has been introducedr into Yosemite National Park in the Mercedr River and in Babcock, Emeric, Grant, Tenaya, andr Ten lakes.r r r r Habits.—The Steelhead is more or less anadromousr in its habits, being migratory like the salmon andr spending much of its time in salt water, and ascendingr freshwater streams at spawning time.r r r r As a game-fish, the steelhead is a favorite withr anglers. Its game qualities, together with its larger size, make this one of the fishes most sought after byr the followers of good old Isaak Walton. When inr fresh water it will not only take the trolling spoon,r but will rise readily to the fly.r r r r Ar The Steelhead is an excellent food-fish, and its larger size and abundance make it of considerable commercialr value. It is an important fish in the fish culturalr operations of California and of other Pacific Coastr states and of the Federal government. It has been introducedr into Lake Superior and is now an abundantr and much prized game-fish in that lake and its tributaryr streams.r r r r The fact that most ichthyologists and many anglersr regard Steelheads simply as sea-run individuals ofr Rainbow Trout has not escaped the writer’s attention,r and he himself is inclined to accept the view. Neverthelessr it is known that in some places, they are entirelyr distinct and easily distinguishable. At anyr

TAHOE TROUT 120 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall rate, it is deemed best for present purposes to treatr the Steelhead as a distinct species.r r r

RAINBOW TROUT r

r Salmo irideus Gibbonsr r r r Other names.—Mountain Trout; Speckled Trout;r Brook Trout; California Trout; Sea-run form;r Steelhead; Steelhead Trout; Steelhead Salmon; Salmonr Trout; Salmo rivularis, in part; Salmo gairdneri,r in part.r r r r Description.—Body usually profusely covered withr small roundish or star-shaped black spots, mostr numerous on back and upper part of side; middle ofr side with a rich rosy band; ground-color of back darkr olive-green; fins all more or less spotted the dorsal, anal,r and ventrals not usually tipped with white.r r r r Distribution.—This is, as far as is known, the onlyr native Trout in the Merced and Tuolumne rivers andr their tributaries. It is very abundant in the park,r r r r having been introduced or transplanted into mostr streams and lakes in the Yosemite region. Locallyr the species is confused with its close relative, ther Shasta Trout, which has been widely planted in ther waters of the park under the name of Rainbowr Trout.r r r r Habits.—As a game fish the Rainbow Trout is oner of the best. It runs upstream in early spring tor spawn, leaping over waterfalls and entering the smallr streams forming the headwaters. Here the eggs arer deposited in the sand and the young hatched out.r r r r By far the largest output of the state hatcheries isr composed of Rainbow Trout, and there is a goodr reason, for this is considered the best game-fish of all,r and it is most highly prized by anglers. The Rainbowr often leaves the water in its eagerness to take ar fly. So readily does it take a fly, in fact, that therer is seldom need to resort to bait or other lures.r r r r The Rainbow varies in coloring according to age,r sex, and location. Those individuals which are abler to reach the sea spend part of each year there, returnr to the freshwater stream a larger and more silvery-coloredr fish commonly called Steelhead. Spawningr fish travel far up the coastal streams and spawn highr up in the small tributaries. Their habits in this regardr are more like those of the salmon than those ofr the trout. Unlike the salmon, however, the Steelheadr does not, as a rule, die after spawning.r r r

STEELHEAD 121 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r In beauty of color, gracefulness of form and movement,r sprightliness when in the water, reckless dashr with which it springs from the water to meet ther descending fly ere it strikes the surface, and the madr and repeated leaps from the water when hooked, ther Rainbow Trout must ever hold a very high rank.r r r r r r The gamest fish we have ever seen was a sixteen-inchr Rainbow taken on a fly in a small tributary of ther Williamson River in southern Oregon. It was in ar broad and deep pool of exceedingly cool water. Asr the angler from behind a clump of willows made ther first cast, the trout bounded from the water and metr the fly in the air a foot or more above the surface;r missing it, he dropped upon the water only to turnr about and strike viciously a second time at the flyr just as it touched the surface; though he again missedr the fly, the hook caught him in the jaw from the outside,r and then began a fight which would delight ther heart of any angler. His first effort was to reach ther bottom of the pool, then, doubling upon the line, her made three jumps from the water in quick succession,r clearing the surface in each instance from one to fourr feet, and every time doing his utmost to free himselfr from the hook by shaking his head vigorously as ar dog shakes a rat. Then he would rush wildly aboutr in the large pool, now attempting to go down ther riffle below the pool, now trying the opposite direction,r and often striving to hide under one or the otherr of the banks. It was easy to handle the fish when ther dash was made up or down stream or for the oppositer side, but when he turned about and made a rush forr the protection of the overhanging bank upon whichr the angler stood, it was not easy to keep the line taut.r Movements such as these were frequently repeatedr and two more leaps were made. But finally he wasr worn out after as honest a fight as trout ever made.r r r r The Rainbow takes the fly so readily that there isr no reason for resorting to grasshoppers, salmon eggs,r or other bait. It is a fish whose gameness will satisfyr the most exacting of expert anglers and whose readinessr r r r

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r r r PLATE XVr r Some Trout of Yosemite National Parkr r Top to bottom—Lake Tahoe Trout, Brown Trout, Cutthroatr r (or Black spotted) Trout, Loch Leven Troutr r r Pictures from California Fish and Game Commissionr r r r r r r to take any proper lure will please the mostr impatient of amateurs.rr r r Spawning takes place in winter and early spring,r varying with the temperature and locality. Ther bulk of the eggs are usually taken in February, March,r and April, although spawning continues through Mayr in the mountain districts.r r r r The Rainbow feeds on worms, insect larvae, andr salmon eggs. In streams in which the Salmon andr Rainbow exist together, the Rainbow is more destructiver to the salmon eggs than is any other species exceptr the Dolly Varden.r r r

SHASTA TROUT r

SHASTA TROUT 123 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Salmo shasta (Jordan)r r r r Other names.—McCloud River Trout; McCloudr River Rainbow; Shasta Rainbow; Rainbow Troutr (of fish culturists); Salmo gairdneri shasta; Salmor irideus shasta.r r r r Marks for field identification.—Differs from otherr Rainbow Trout, with the exception of that of ther Klamath River, in its larger size, smaller mouth, andr larger eyes; scales intermediate in size between Cutthroatr and sea-run Rainbow, caudal fin more deeplyr incised than in typical Cutthroat.r r r r Distribution.—McCloud River and streams of ther Sierra Nevada from Mount Shasta southward at leastr to Calaveras County. This species has been widelyr introduced into the streams and lakes of Yosemiter National Park where it is not officially distinguishedr from the true Rainbow.r r r r Habits.—This Rainbow lives in water with a comparativelyr high temperature if it is plentiful and runningr r r r with a strong current; but in sluggish waterr even when the temperature is considerably lower, nor other species will do as well. This species appears tor inhabit the rapids more largely than the slow-movingr water. The spawning season in California extendsr from early February to May. Males are good breedersr at two years of age, but the females rarely producer eggs until the third season. The Shasta Trout mayr lack a little of the wild gameness of the typical Rainbow,r but that is made good by its larger size. It isr largely an insect feeder and, therefore, a favorite ofr the fly fisherman.r r r r This is the Rainbow which has been most widelyr used in fish cultural operations and has been morer widely distributed than any other species.r r r r THE GOLDEN TROUT OF THE SOUTHERNr r HIGH SIERRAr r r r The Golden Trout of California are, so far asr known, found only in the headwaters of the Kernr River, all in the vicinity of Mount Whitney. Throughr the activities of the California Fish and Game Commissionr and other agencies, their original distributionr has been somewhat extended by transplanting.r r r r Four species of trout are now recognized as nativer to the upper Kern River Basin, namely: The Kernr River Trout or Gilbert Trout (Salmo gilberti), ther Soda Creek or White’s Golden Trout (Salmo whitei),r the South Fork of the Kern Golden Trout (Salmor agua-bonita), and the Roosevelt Trout or Goldenr Trout of Volcano r THE GOLDEN TROUT OF THE SOUTHERNr r HIGH SIERRAr 124 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Creek (Salmo roosevelti). All exceptr the Gilbert Trout are of the Golden Trout type.r r r r All four of these species belong to the Rainbowr r r r series, the species of which as a whole may be distinguished,r with greater or less difficulty, from those ofr the Steelhead series or sea-run Rainbows on the oner hand by the usually brighter colors, and on the otherr hand from the Cutthroat series, by the absence of ar red or scarlet dash on the throat, and the entirer absence of hyoid teeth.r r r

GOLDEN TROUT r

r Salmo roosevelti Evermannr r r r Other names.—Roosevelt Trout; Golden Trout ofr Volcano Creek; Golden Trout of Golden Trout Creek;r Volcano Creek Golden Trout; Mount Whitneyr Golden Trout.r r r r Marks for field identification.—Color, delicater golden olive on the head, back, and upper part of ther sides; clear golden yellow along and below the lateralr line, overlaid by a delicate rosy lateral band; underr parts rich cadmium yellow; body without black spotsr except on the caudal peduncle; scales extremely small.r r r r Distribution.—The Golden or Roosevelt Trout isr native only to Volcano Creek in the Mount Whitneyr region. It is a creek fish and appears to keep withinr the peculiar environment of this small stream. Ther species has been transplanted to and thrives in severalr near-by streams. In 1919 it was introduced into oner of the unstocked lakes of Yosemite National Park.r r r r Habits.—As a game-fish the Golden Trout is one ofr the best. It will rise to any kind of lure, includingr the artificial fly, at any time of day. In the morningr and again in the evening, it will take the fly with ar rush and make a good fight, jumping when permittedr to do so; during the middle of the day it rises morer r r r deliberately and may sometimes be tempted only withr grasshoppers. It is a fish that does not give up soonr but continues the fight. Its unusual breadth of finsr and strength of caudal peduncle, together with ther turbulent water in which it dwells, enable it to maker a fight equaling that offered by many larger trout.r r r r The scales are smaller than in any other knownr species of trout. They are so small, indeed, as tor have caused so good an observer as Stewart Edwardr White to declare that this trout had no scales at all.r r r

GOLDEN TROUT 125 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Although now abundant in Volcano Creek, ther Golden Trout cannot long remain so unless affordedr some protection. The great beauty of the Rooseveltr Trout lies in the richness of its colors and in the trimnessr of its form—characteristics which fully entitler the species to be known above all others as ther Golden Trout.r r r

BROWN TROUT r

r Salmo fario Linnaeusr r r r Other names.—European Brown Trout; Germanr Brown Trout; von Behr Trout.r r r r Marks for field identification.—This Trout can ber distinguished from all other species by the decidedlyr brown color of the back and sides, the black spotsr on the back, and red spots on the sides; the belly isr silvery or brownish.r r r r Distribution.—The Brown Trout was introducedr into the United States in 1895, and since then a numberr of streams in California have been stocked. Inr Yosemite National Park it may be taken in the Mercedr River, in the south Fork of the Merced River, and inr Merced and Edna lakes.r r r r r r r Habits.—The Brown Trout lives in clear, cold,r rapid streams and at the mouths of streams tributaryr to lakes. It grows to be of large size, but matures atr about eight inches in length. In its movements it isr swift, and it leaps over obstructions like the salmon.r It usually feeds in the morning and evening, is morer active during evening and night, and often lies quietlyr in deep pools or in the shadow of overhanging bushesr and trees for hours at a time during the day. Itsr food is formed of insects and their larvae, worms, mollusks,r and small fishes, and, like the Rainbow Trout,r it is fond of the eggs of fishes. Spawning begins inr October and continues until January. Eggs are depositedr in crevices, between stones, under projectingr roots of trees, and sometimes in nests excavated byr the spawning fishes. The parents cover the eggs tor some extent with gravel.r r r

LOCH LEVEN TROUT r

r Salmo trutta levenensis (Walker)r r r

BROWN TROUT 126 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Other names.—Scotch Trout; Salmo levenensis.r r r r Marks for field identification.—The true Lochr Leven Trout is a slimmer fish than the Brown Trout,r and the adipose fin is smaller. Furthermore, it isr fully spotted and lacks the brown color of the Brownr Trout. The sides are silvery, with a varying numberr of X-shaped black spots or rounded brown or blackr spots.r r r r Distribution.—This trout, a native of the lakes ofr Scotland, was introduced into California in 1894, andr has since been placed in many streams and lakes ofr the State. Seventeen lakes of Yosemite National Park—amongr them the noted Benson, May, Merced,r r r r Washburn, and Ten lakes—have been stocked withr this species. Fry have also been planted in ther Merced and Tuolumne rivers.r r r r Habits.—The spawning season may begin in Octoberr and continues until January. This trout is largelyr non-migratory in its native habitat. It takes ther artificial fly readily. The food of this species includesr freshwater mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and smallr fish. Hybridization between this species and ther Brown Trout is common.r r r

EASTERN BROOK TROUT r

r r Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill)r r r r Other names.—Brook Trout; Speckled Trout; Fontinalis;r Salmo fontinalis; American Charr.r r r r Marks for field identification.—This beautiful andr best-known trout is easily distinguished from all otherr trout of our waters by the red spots on the sides butr not on the back, and the mottled or marbled color ofr the upper parts.r r r r Distribution.—This trout is native only to ther eastern part of North America westward to Minnesotar and Iowa. It has been introduced very widely allr over the world. It has been placed in many Californiar streams and lakes and is one of the most abundantr species in most streams and lakes of Yosemiter National Park.r r r r Habits.—Eastern Brook, Trout abound chiefly inr cold, slow-running meadow brooks; but they thriver in all pure cold waters whether of stream, lake, orr pond. The fish is wary and great skill is required tor catch it. The

LOCH LEVEN TROUT 127 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall outstanding peculiarity of its habitsr is evidenced by the fact that a person acquainted withr r r r its haunts can go out and catch a string of Easternr Brook in a comparatively short time, while others,r with better tackle and equal skill, will fish a wholer day for them in vain. The largest Brook Trout arer found in the deep, wide pools in the warmer rivuletsr near their source. Eastern Brook Trout do not keepr well nor ship well, probably on account of the fat.r They spawn high up in tributary streams and so earlyr (October to January) that eggs for hatchery purposesr are almost impossible to obtain.r r r

DOLLY VARDEN TROUT r

r Salvelinus parkei (Suckley)r r r r Other names.—Malma; Salmon Trout (Alaska andr Montana); Bull Trout (Idaho); Western Charr; Oregonr Charr; Salvelinus malma (in part).r r r r Marks for field identification.—This fish may ber readily distinguished from all other species of Salmonidaer native to western America by the presence ofr small red or orange spots on the body. From ther Eastern Brook Trout (introduced into many Californiar waters) which also has red spots on the body,r the Dolly Varden Trout may be known by the absencer of blackish marblings or reticulations on ther back, and by the presence of red spots on the back.r r r r Distribution.—The Dolly Varden Trout is of wider distribution. It is found from western Montana andr Idaho to Oregon and Washington, and northwardr through British Columbia and Alaska to the Arctic.r In California it is native only to the McCloud River,r but has been introduced into other streams. Inr Yosemite National Park the species is found only inr one of the Chain o’ Lakes at the source of the Southr r r r Fork of the Merced River and very rarely in ther Merced River in Yosemite Valley.r r r r Habits.—The Dolly Varden is the poorest of allr trouts. It does not rank high as a game-fish, and, asr a food-fish, it is inferior to any other species. Inr Alaska it is very destructive to the eggs and fry of ther salmon. It attains a weight of two to twelve pounds.r r r

r r . r . r . r . r . r . r .r r r r r This completes the list of Trout, both native andr introduced, that are found in Yosemite Nationalr Park. There remain but two suckers and threer minnows that might be found within the park limits.r The

EASTERN BROOK TROUT 128 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Sacramento or Western Sucker (Calostomus occidentalis)r is common in the lower reaches of all streamsr of the State, but the Hardhead Sucker (Pantosteusr araeopus) is a very rare species. Of the three speciesr of Minnows, the first is the Kaweah Chub, Lake Fish,r or Hardhead (Mylopharodon conocephalus), one of ther largest of Minnows. It reaches a length of two orr three feet and a weight of several pounds. The nextr Minnow is the Sacramento Pike or Squawfishr (Ptychocheilus grandis). This fish, which reaches ar length of two or three feet, is abundant in the lowerr portions of all the larger tributaries of the San Joaquin.r Still another minnow is the Chub (Siphatelesr formosus), a small species, usually not exceeding fourr or five inches in length. So far as the writer knowsr none of these minnows or suckers has been recordedr from any locality within the limits of Yosemiter National Park.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Evermann, Barton Warren, 1906.r The Golden Trout of ther Southern High Sierras. Bull. Bureau Fisheries, Vol. 25,r pp. 1-51, 3 colored plates, 45 half tones, and one map.r r r r r r Evermann, Barton Warren, andr Bryant, Harold C., 1919.r California Trout. California Fish and Game, Vol. 5, No. 3,r pp. 105-135, 4 colored plates and 13 half tones, July, 1919.r r r r Jordan, David Starr, and Evermann, Barton Warren, 1896.r A Check-list of the Fishes and Fish-like Vertebrates of North andr Middle America. Rept. U.S. Fish Com. for 1895, Vol. 21,r pp. 207-584.r r 1896-1900. The Fishes of North and Middle America. Bulletinr 47, U. S. National Museum, 4 vols., pp. ccxv+3313,r pls. 392.r r 1902. American Food and Game Fishes. (Doubleday, Pager & Co., Garden City, N. Y.) pp. 1+572, with numerousr colored plates, half tones, and text figures.r r r r r r

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r r Assistant Professor of Entomology, University ofr r Californiar r r r r r r r r Tor r the uninitiated the word "insect" conjurs allr kinds of creepy crawly "bugs"—yet to those who arer at all interested in Nature, the study of entomology isr a most fascinating one. The insect fauna of Yosemiter National Park is especially rich and offers an excellentr field to collectors.r r [Editor’s note:r collecting is not allowed within Yosemite National Park.—DEA]r r Indeed, so numerous are ther species that many will be noticed by even the mostr casual observer. The Nature-lover will be most atr tracted by the multi-colored butterflies, the dayr flying moths, the bronze and gold timber beetles, andr such other insects as are beautiful in form and haver interesting habits. To the naturalist all of the insectr life will be attractive and he will be kept busy, for ther region possesses a most wonderful assemblage of forms.r Even the most prosaic individual must needs taker notice, for the thirsty mosquito or deer fly will soonerr or later tax him for a meal and the sociable ant willr always be ready to welcome him.r r r r The butterflies and moths, which belong to the orderr Lepidoptera, are generally the first to claim attention.r Some of the former will be seen in the park nor matter where one wanders. In the meadows therer will be the ever present sulphur butterfly (Coliasr r r r eurytheme Boisd.) and numerous busy skippers, asr well as an occasional large orange-red fritellary orr silver spot, so named from the numerous silveryr patches on the under side of the wings. The largestr of our mountain fritellaries is leto (Argynnis leto Behr.r Plate xvi, 9), a noble insect with a wing expanse ofr about three inches, but the commonest is Behr’s fritellaryr (Argynnis monticola Behr.), a somewhat smallerr species. About damp patches along the roadside orr at the sandy

Insects of Yosemite National Park 131 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall margins of streams great congregationsr of butterflies may often be seen, all eagerly quenchingr their thirst. The dominant species here will generallyr be the California tortoise shell (Vanessa californicar Behr.) which is of a rich red color above andr dark, almost black, beneath. This insect is alwaysr abundant in the mountains. Some years its larvaer have been so numerous that they have become seriousr pests, defoliating the deer brush and other species ofr wild lilac over extensive areas. Other butterfliesr often found drinking are numerous species of bluesr and a sprinkling of white admirals (Basilarchia lorquinir Boisd.). The latter is a moderate-sized, blackr butterfly with red tips to the wings. A somewhatr larger butterfly which simulates it in color patternr is Adelpha bredowii var. californica But. (Plate xvi, 4).r Of the several swallowtails the commonest is the darkr yellow tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus Boisd.).r Less common is its creamy colored cousin, Papilior eurymedon Boisd., and the prize of all is the two-tailedr swallowtail. (Papilio daunus Boisd. Plater xvi, 1) which is a rare visitor.r r r r As one leaves the Valley and enters the high countryr other butterflies will be noticed. One of these,r Parnassius clodius Menetr. (Plate xvi, 11), is truly ar r r r butterfly of the high mountains. It is of fair size,r white, with several short black bars on the forewingsr and a few pink spots on the hind, and with much ofr the wing membrane uncovered by scales. One mostr often sees it flying about the higher mountain meadowsr or beneath such scattered trees as occur in the alpiner forests. One may at times notice flying about ther yellow pines numbers of the pine white (Neophasiar menapia Feld. Plate xvi, 8). Its distinguishing characteristicr is the pinkish outlining to the veins onr the underside of the wings. The caterpillars of thisr species often greatly injure the pines through defoliation.r At the tops of the various domes and atr other exposed lookout places two more whitesr (Pieris sisymbri Boisd. and Pieris occidentalis Reak.)r may generally be seen on sunny days. These prominentr places are, in fact, favorite congregating spots forr many types of insects besides the butterflies. Lazilyr sailing across the valleys we are almost sure to seer our well-known friend from the lowlands, the monarchr or milkweed butterfly (Anosia plexippus Linn.).r This large red butterfly wanders far and wide duringr the summer months in search of the food plant for itsr young, the various species of milkweed, but in later autumn it migrates to the coast to one or the other ofr its numerous assembling grounds where it spends ther winter. The highly prized black alpine swallowtailr (Papilio indra Reakirt. Plate xvi, 6) may also greetr one’s vision as it soars away from its rocky heights.r r r r Mountaineers will probably be familiar with ourr three most common high-mountain species. Ther brilliant little copper (Chrysophanus cupreus Edw.r Plate xvi, 3) may often be seen basking in sunny spotsr in Tuolumne Meadows. Behr’s sulphur (Colaisr r r r behri Edw. Plate xvi, 5), a rather small greenishr yellow butterfly, which haunts the most alpiner meadows and grassy slopes, is a southern remnant orr relict of an arctic race left stranded and isolated inr our southern Sierra. That hardy gray satyr of ther heights, (Aeneis ivallda Mead. (Plate xvi, 7), can onlyr be found about the crags and high rocky slopes wherer it flies freely from place to place when the weather isr pleasant but instantly settles when it is otherwise, andr because of the harmony of its colors with the surroundingsr disappears from view. Even this habitr does not always protect it, for many a specimen hasr been caught up by a mountain storm and left tor perish high up on the snowfields and glaciers.r r r r Of the moths there are even more species to ber found than there are of the butterflies, but the mostr are of somber appearance or so small that they willr rarely attract the notice of any but the expert. ofr the more conspicuous several are day-flying like ther showy orange and black "sheep moth" (Pseudohazisr eglanterina Boisd. Plate xvi, 10). This flies throughoutr the chaparral areas of the Sierra and as a resultr may often be seen about the lower ridges and lesserr peaks. Its larvae when fully grown are several inchesr long

INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 132 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall and black, armed with prickly yellow spines.r They feed on the willow and several of the chaparralr shrubs. Another day-flying moth is the wild forget-me-not mothr (Gnophaela latipennis Boisd. Plater xvi, 2), a beautiful black species maculated withr yellow. Whenever one can locate a patch of its foodr plant at higher levels it can generally be found. Ther most conspicuous of the night-flying moths is ther large California silk moth (Samia rubra Behr.), a mothr with a wing expanse of several inches and with a brickr r r r

r r r PLATE XVIr r Some Butterflies and Moths of Yosemite Nationalr r Parkr r r r r red color. This species in its earlier stage feeds onr various shrubs, chiefly the pigeon berry or cascara,r and as an adult may often be attracted to light. Ther most important moth in the park, however, from ther standpoint of destructiveness is a very diminutiver one. It is the lodgepole pine or "tamarack" needler miner (Recurvaria milleri Busck.), so called from ther fact that its larvae tunnel the terminals. of the needlesr of this common pine of the higher altitudes. Thisr kills the needles, thus weakening the trees so that theyr fall an easy prey to the attacks of the destructiver bark beetles. The great areas of dead "tamaracks"r or lodgepole pines which one sees in the mid-Sierranr region bear mute testimony to the destructiveness ofr this insect.rr r r After the moths and butterflies, the beetles or Coleopterar provide us with the greatest number of showyr representatives. Among the conspicuous species ofr this order in the park are a number of the long-hornedr wood boring beetles of the family Cerambycidae.r One of these, the elderberry beetle (Desmocerus auripennisr Chev. Plate xvii, 4), is often to be seen restingr on the leaves of its food plant. It is a large

INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 133 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall bluish-blackr beetle with wing cases entirely red if a male orr blue bordered with red if a female. Another is ther maculated timberman (Monohammus maculosus Lec.r Plate xvii, 7), a large black and white clouded beetler which may often be found resting on the sticks ofr corded pine wood or stretched out along the protectedr portion of an old log. When isolated from its environmentr this is a very conspicuous insect, but whenr at rest on the side of an old log, it so thoroughly blendsr with its surroundings that it is hard to detect. Ar most interesting and peculiar long-horned beetle isr r r r Ulochaetes leoninus Lec. (Plate xvii, 8), a good-sizedr and somewhat hairy black and yellow barred beetler which has its wing causes so very much abbreviatedr that the greater portion of the wings are exposed to viewr even when folded. This species haunts the deadr yellow and Jeffrey pines. On milkweed plants anotherr very conspicuous member of the family may ber seen. It is the so-called milkweed beetle (Tetraopesr femoratus var. basalis Lec.) which is of a bright redr color spotted with black. Many of the beetles ofr this family are pollen feeders, and such flowers as ther wild lilac and wild hellebore are especially attractiver to them. Here many of the wasplike members ofr the great genus Leptura (Plate xvii, 18) may be found.r Even at night one may collect some of these beetlesr for many are nocturnal and often fly to lights. Twor of the largest are Ergates spiculatus Lec. (Plate xvii,r 17) and Prionus Californicus Mots. (Plate xvii, 15),r the former over two inches in length and the latterr an inch and a half and both of a reddish-brown color.r r r r Another group of timber beetles are the so-calledr jewel beetles, the family Buprestidae. Within ther park a good collector might find twenty species. Ther best known is the golden-lined Buprestid (Buprestisr aurulenta Linn. Plate xvii, 6), a beautiful greenishr or bronze-green beetle margined with gold. Thisr species, which is about one inch in length, breeds inr both pines and firs. Another species is Buprestisr fasciata Fab., the male of which is green blotched withr yellow and the female entirely green. These generallyr rest on green willow or poplar leaves, but duringr their young lives live in the Douglas fir. Two of ther smaller members of this family sometimes do considerabler damage through the work of their larvae.r r r r The first of these (Melanophila drummondi Kirdy) is ar flat bronze beetle generally spotted with yellow whichr normally breeds in the dead Douglas and true firs.r The other (Melanophila gentilis Lec.) is a rich blue-greenr or greenish-blue species which is restricted tor the pines. Most of the members of. this family confiner themselves to their food trees, but a few frequentr flowers.r r r r A third group of timber beetles are the so-calledr bark borers or engraver beetles of the family Scolytidae.r The members of this family are generallyr small and of somber color, but they are at times veryr abundant and often tremendously destructive. Ther females bore tunnels beneath the bark where theyr deposit their eggs. The young, upon hatching, alsor bore tunnels, but generally in the opposite direction.r As a result of the work of adult and larvae the tree isr soon girdled. Though these beetles normally attackr only the dead and dying trees, they at times turn theirr attention to the living ones. As a result there is anr enormous loss of some of our very best timber everyr year. In the park itself one may notice many treesr which are gradually dying as indicated by the yellowingr of their tops, or trees with brown needles which arer already dead. If one strips off the bark of any ofr these trees he will find the insects at work or if theyr have emerged he will find the results of their labors,r the peculiar adult and larval tunnels which generallyr engrave both bark and sapwood.r r r r Among the host of other beetles which are to ber found on the herbage, on the ground, or in the water,r but a few can here be mentioned. One of these isr the true milkweed beetle (Chrysochus cobaltinus Lec.r Plate xvii, 20), a chunky beetle of brilliant metallicr r r r blue color. It feeds upon the roots of the milkweedr during the larval stage and on the foliage as an adult.r In spite of its conspicuousness it is rarely molested byr birds, no doubt because like the lady beetles it is veryr distasteful to them. Another interesting night-flyingr beetle is

INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 134 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall the large white striped June beetle (Polyphyllar decemlineata Say. Plate xvii, 19), which is perhapsr the largest of its family in the mountains. Itr often comes tumbling about one’s house or camp fire.r A smaller and somewhat distant relative of the latterr is the little "tumble bug" (Canthon simplex var. militarisr Horn). This bluish-black beetle with redr shoulders is a close relative of the sacred scarabeus ofr Egypt and has similar habits. If one watches ther less frequented roads and trails he may be rewardedr by finding some of these beetles at work hauling andr pulling their precious pellets to a safe retreat. Inr the flower of the azalia another species of scarabidr may be found. This is a very pretty pollen- andr petal-feeding species (Hoplia dispar Lee.) which mayr appear in a dress of various colors-orange, brown,r or green.r r r r Among the ground beetles most species are ofr somber appearance, but there are a few exceptions.r Two of these are the brilliant green tiger beetlesr (Cicindela perveridis Schaupp. Plate xvii, 1, andr Cicindela depressula Casey). These are generally tor be found only at the higher altitudes and generallyr on the grassy slopes just below the snow fields. Herer their larvae sink their shafts into the earth and lie inr wait for their prey while the active and long-leggedr adults seek theirs in the open chase.r r r r In the water there are also many beetles both greatr and small. Some, like the water scavengers (Hydrophilidae),r r r r prefer warm and stagnant waters; others,r like the whirligigs (Gyrinidae), most enjoy skatingr over the surface of the water; and still others, liker the predaceous diving beetles (Dytiscidae), will liver and thrive in even the coldest streams and lakes. Ther most interesting aquatic beetle in the mountains isr Ampizoa insolens Lee. (Plate xvii, 3). It is a flattenedr beetle a little less than a half inch in length andr in color an opaque black. It may be found crawlingr over the rocks and in the cold mountain streams. Althoughr it lives in the water it looks more like a landr dweller and is, in fact, equally related to both landr and water beetles. It may be well to state that notr one beetle in our country is poisonous, and that all mayr be handled with perfect safety. A very interestingr beetle collection may easily be made by carrying ar small vial of alcohol. Specimens should be removedr and mounted on pins at the end of each day’sr collecting.r r r r There are in the park a goodly number of species ofr wasps, bees, ants, and other insects of the great orderr Hymenoptera. Most of these are small, but a fewr such as the horn tails or wood wasps are of fair size.r The females of these insects are provided each withr along, stout drill which enables them to bore straightr into solid wood where they deposit their eggs. Oner of these, a large black species with orange wingsr (Urocerus Californicus Nort. Plate xvii, 2), has anr appearance not unlike some of the large so-calledr tarantula hawks of the Southwest. It is harmless,r however, for it cannot sting. The larvae often do considerabler damage to timber and would do even morer were it not for the fact that they are heavily parasitizedr by a large wasp of the family Ichneumonidae.r r r r One of these is a black and yellow insect (Megarissar nortoni Cress. Plate xvii, 5) which has a threadliker ovipositor longer than its body—so long, in fact, thatr it cannot be used in the usual way but must be curledr over the back and brought down in front of the headr before it can be used. With this wonderful instrumentr a hole is soon sunk in the timber where the woodr wasp larvae are boring, and an egg is laid in theirr neighborhood.r r r r Among the larger bees the carpenter bees of ther genus Xylocopa are perhaps as notable as any. Theser black or bluish-black bees are fully as large as bumbler bees and every bit as energetic. They have a habitr of selecting well-seasoned wood such as an old cedarr fence post or a portion of a building, and of excavatingr out a long chamber for their young much in the samer way that a woodpecker does. If one approachesr their

INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 135 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall home they circle about in a threatening mannerr but rarely do they attack one.r r r r Other wood workers of this order which might ber ment ioned are the large timber ants of the genusr Camponotus. These are either black or red and black,r and are the largest ants we have. Their nests arer made in old logs and stumps and even in the hearts ofr growing trees when they have the opportunity to enterr through an old scar. At times they do some damager but on the whole they are beneficial, for the workersr destroy great numbers of destructive forest beetles;r furthermore their wood work is, as a rule, only in oldr logs which are useless and should be removed. Ther winged adults of these ants often congregate in greatr numbers, like the lady beetles, about the summitsr of the lesser peaks.r r r r Of the two-winged flies or Diptera there are also ar r r r great number, some of recognizable size and of peculiarr interest. About the meadows and in the neighborhoodr of watercourses mosquitoes are often quiter abundant. At higher altitudes, however, there isr nothing to fear from these insects other than the annoyancer of a few bites, for there are no malaria carriersr or Anopheles much above five thousand feet. Ar small vial of oil of citronella will generally provider the means of repelling the meadow species. Horser flies and deer flies (Tabanidae) are also annoying atr times, but the selection of proper camp sites awayr from marshy places, their normal breeding grounds,r will generally give ample protection. Among ther flies that will catch one’s eye during his rambles arer the sun and hover flies (Syrphidae. Plate xvii, 12 andr 14), many members of which, in their early stages,r prey upon plant lice and which, in the adult stage,r often mimic bees and wasps with which they oftenr associate. One will also see many bee flies (Bombylidae.r Plate xvii, 9 and 11), some hovering aboutr the flowers like humming birds and others skimmingr over the ground to alight here and there in sunnyr spots. Often the robber flies (Asilidae. Plate xvii,r 16) may be noticed. These hawks of the fly worldr are parasitic in their larval state and predaceous inr the adult stage. The more gayly colored speciesr haunt the forests where they may be seen sunningr themselves on old logs, but the more somber colored,r the grays and browns, frequent sandy areas.r r r r Among the other orders of insects the grasshoppersr will, of course, claim a certain degree of attention.r Of these we have a few meadow species which, liker the devastating grasshopper (Melanoplus devastatorr Scudd.), may at times destroy much of the uplandr r r r feed but are generally not numerous enough to greatlyr exceed their demand as fish bait. Many species, however,r are quite interesting to those who will take timer to observe them. Some of these have beautiful under-wingsr of yellow, orange, red, blue, or black and somer clap their wings together in flight and hover hawk-liker as they rise, giving out such a strident sound that theyr can be heard for some distance. One of the latter, ar blue-winged species (Cireottix thallassinus Saus.), isr more common farther north, but a second, a black-wingedr species (Cireottix maculatus Scudd.), is fairlyr abundant at high altitudes in the middle Sierra.r Many of the grasshoppers also show marked degreesr of color protection, an example being the whiter and black species which chooses only granite slopesr for a resting place.r r r r Nests of termites or white ants may often be foundr in the woods beneath the bark of old fallen trees. Wer have but few species of these insects outside of ther tropics, but one of our species is exceedingly large.r This is a brown species (Termopsis nevadensis Hagen.r Plate xvii, 13) which is found widely distributedr throughout California but which is especially abundantr in the mountains. The insects are very industriousr creatures and will in a short time completelyr honeycomb a large log. Upon opening one of theser nests one

INSECTS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 136 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall finds not only a host of their light coloredr workers and big-headed soldiers but also many wingedr adults. Many hours might be spent interestinglyr and profitably investigating the habits of these remarkabler social insects. Even the bears are fond ofr the termites and the Indians likewise dig out theirr nests and use the eggs and larvae for food.r r r r In the water one may find the interesting caddice fly larvae,r r r

r r r PLATE XVIIr r Some Beetles, Wasps, and Flies of Yosemiter r National Parkr r r r r r each enclosed in its own peculiar case, andr also the flat bodied larvae of the rock flies crouchingr close against the rocks. The adults of both insectsr will be found in the immediate neighborhood, ther moth-like caddice flies dancing over the waters andr the rock flies resting along the banks. A somewhatr distant relative of the above flies is the night-flyingr brown lace-winged fly (Polystoechotes punctulatus Fab.r Plate xvii, 10). It is the largest of its race andr peculiar in that its larvae have never been discovered.rr r r In this short article it is possible to mention brieflyr only a few representative species of the differentr types of insects found in Yosemite National Park.r The following list of references will aid those whor wish to investigate more thoroughly the fascinatingr science of Entomology.r

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REFERENCES r r r Comstock, J. H. and A. B.,r 1895. A Manual for the Study ofr Insects. (Comstock Publishing Co., Ithaca, N. Y.) pp. 701,r cuts 799.r r How to Know the Butterflies. (Comstock Publishing Co.,r Ithaca, N. Y.) pp. 311, 45 col. pls.r r r r Essig, E. O., 1915.r Injurious and Beneficial Insects of California.r (Calif. State Com. of Hort.) pp. 541, illus. 503.r r r r Holland, W. J., 1899.r The Butterfly Book. (Doubleday &r McClure Co., N. Y.) pp. 382, col. pls. 48, figs. 183.r r 1908. The Moth Book. (Doubleday, Page & Co., N. Y.)r pp. 479, pls. colored 48, figs. 263.r r r r Howard, L. O., 1912. The Insect Book.r (Doubleday, Page &r Co., N. Y.) pp. 429, pls. 48, illus. 264.r r r r Kellogg, Vernon L., 1905. American Insects.r (Henry Holtr & Co., N. Y.) pp. 674, pls. 13, figs. 812.r r r Lutz, F. E., 1918. Field Book of Insects.r (G. P. Putnam’s Sons,r N. Y.) pp. 509, pls. 101.rr r r Scudder, S. H., 1881.r Butterflies. (Henry Holt & Co., N. Y.)r pp. 322, illus. 201.r r r r r r Wheeler, W. M., 1910. Ants.r (Columbia Univ. Press, N. Y.)r pp. 663, illus. 286.r r r r Woodworth, C. W., 1913.r Guide to California Insects. (Ther Law Press, Berkeley, Cal.) pp. 360, figs. 361.r r r r Wright, W. G., 1905.r The Butterflies of the West Coast.r (Whitaker, Ray & Co., S.F.) pp. 257+vii, col. pls. 32.r r r r r r r

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Trees of Yosemite National Park 140 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r Ther r forests of the West, although the grandestr in the world, are not at all complex, for where oner might find two hundred and fifty varieties of trees inr some of the eastern hardwood forests, he would findr but thirty-five species within the 1125 square miles ofr Yosemite National Park. Of these few species ther conifers (cone-bearing trees) are by far the mostr important. They may easily be identified by ther aid of the Key to the Treesr in the appendix of thisr volume.r r r r In the Sierra Nevada Mountains the abrupt riser from almost sea level to twelve or thirteen thousandr feet causes within a few miles as great a diversity ofr climates as one would encounter in traveling fromr Mexico to Alaska. Each tree species has its ownr climatic requirements. We therefore find the treesr Occurring in definite belts, one above the other. Thoser hardy pioneers which can withstand the long andr intense cold of arctic winters have been driven tor timberline, while the most drought-resistant speciesr have claimed the dry foothill regions. So definite isr this balance in Nature that, by observing the trees,r r r r one can estimate quite definitely the altitude at whichr he stands.r r r r Entering the park from the west, one first passesr through the treeless or oak-dotted San Joaquin Valleyr and lower foothills. In the upper foothills and lowerr mountains (1000 to 3000 feet altitude) is the Foothillr Forest (Upper Sonoran Zone). Only a few speciesr can withstand the severe drought of the long aridr summers and these grow in open park-like stands.r The one characteristic conifer of the region is ther silvery gray, many-branched digger pine (Pinus sabiniana).r The small knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata)r occurs but infrequently. Of the hardwoods, the oaksr are predominant. Among these are the valley oakr (Quercus lobata), the California black oak (Q. californica),r the interior live oak (Q. wislizeni), and ther canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis). Along the streams.r may be found several species of willow (Salix sp.),r black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa),r Californiar buckeye (Aesculus californica), mountain laurelr (Umbellularia californica), and California nutmegr (Tumion californicum). The brush or chaparral which coversr many of the hillsides is often interspersed with scatteredr specimens of mountain mahogany (Cercocarpisr parvifolius).r r r r At about three thousand feet elevation one entersr the Main Timber Belt (Transition Zone) of the Sierrar Nevada. This forest, which extends from threer thousand to seven thousand feet altitude, is one of ther finest in the world both as regards size and value ofr timber and perfection of its charming landscapes. Atr the lower elevations the first trees to greet one are ther brilliantly green western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa),r the fragrant incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), andr r r

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r r r PLATE XVIIIr r A Yosemite forest of Pine, Fir, Incense Cedar, and Sequoiar r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r r the rugged Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia). At anr altitude of about five thousand feet we find the giantr sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and the beautifulr white fir (Abies concolor) forming an important part ofr the forest family. Here and there are groves of ther monarch of all trees, the giant sequoia (Sequoia gigantea).r At higher elevations the Jeffrey pine (Pinusr jeffreyi) replaces its close relative the western yellowr pine. In the lower part of the Main Timber Belt andr generally on the fertile bottomlands are a few hardwoods.r Most beautiful of all these is the floweringr dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). Others are the broadleafr maple (Acer macrophyllum), its close relative, ther dwarf maple (Acer glabrum), the black cottonwoodr (Populus trichocarpa), the quaking aspen (Populusr tremuloides), California black oak (Quercus californica),r canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis), California laurelr (Umbellularia californica), alder (Alnus rhombifolia),r and various species of willow (Salix sp.).rr r r Above the Main Timber Belt between the altitudesr of seven thousand and nine thousand feet is ther Sub-alpine Forest (Canadian Zone), a region characterizedr by dense forests of small or medium-sizer trees. The typical trees of the region are the red firr (Abies magnifica), white fir (Abies concolor), lodgepoler pine or "tamarack" (Pinus contorta), and Jeffrey piner Pinus jeffreyi). On open rocky sites the westernr juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) is conspicuous, andr near the upper limit of the belt the western white piner (Pinus monticola) occurs scattered throughout ther forest. The only hardwood of the region is the quakingr aspen (Populus tremuloides) which forms beautifulr groves in some of the high mountain garden-spots.r r r r In the Alpine or Timberline Forest (Hudsonian Zone),r r r r which extends from approximately nine thousand feetr elevation to timberline, only the hardiest species canr exist. The two principal trees are the gracefulr mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) and ther storm-resistant white bark pine (Pinus albicaulis). At ther lower edge of the belt these merge with red fir (Abiesr magnifica), western white pine (Pinus monticola) andr lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta).r r r r Yosemite Valley might be called the meeting placer of the trees. Although at an altitude of but fourr thousand feet, several species which are normallyr found at twice that elevation thrive in the shade ofr the

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 142 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall great south wall. The opposite side of the Valleyr is so warm that we find many patches of vegetationr typical of the foothill region. For the tree-lover andr botanist the Valley is therefore an ideal vacationr land, both because of the great variety of plant lifer within its walls and the accessibility to the highr country beyond.r r r r So much for the trees as they live together inr communities—but let us now seek to know then, asr individuals. Botanists have grouped all plantsr according to their relationship into divisions, classes,r orders, families, genera, and finally species. Sincer some trees have as many as twenty different names,r each of which is used exclusively in a differentr locality, it is important to state also the botanicalr (or universal) name. This is a combination of ther names of the genus and species to which the plantr belongs.r r r r Everyone is familiar with the two broad classes ofr trees—the broadleaf trees or hardwoods, and ther evergreen trees or conifers. The former group,r although abundantly represented in Yosemite Valley,r r r

r r r PLATE XIXr r Red Fir—White Fir forest on the Pohono Trail which passesr r through miles of most exquisite wild flower gardensr r r Photo by Ansel F. Hallr r r r r r probably forms less than one per cent. of the forestsr of the park. The conifers will therefore be describedr more in detail.rr r

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 143 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Cone-bearing trees are classified by dendrologistsr into three families: the Pine Family (Pinaceae), ther Redwood Family (Taxodiaceae,), and the Cypressr Family (Cupressaceae). Their leaves are retainedr from two to ten years, which causes them to be calledr evergreens.r r r r The Pine Family is by far the most important in ther park—for that matter, in all the world. It containsr all the pines, firs, hemlocks, and the Douglas fir andr also the spruces, larches, and true cedars. The latterr do not occur in the Sierra. All these trees have needle-liker leaves and bear but two seeds beneath each scaler of their cones.r r r r The pines (Genus Pinus) are represented in ther park by eight species, some of which may be foundr at any altitude. The characteristic distinguishingr this from all other genera is the occurrence of ther needles in bundles of five, four, three, or two (and inr one species singly), the base of each bundle beingr surrounded by a paper-like sheath. The five-needler Pines are called the white pines and those with threer needles the yellow pines.r r r r Of the three five-needle pines of the Park, the sugarr pine (Pinus lambertiana) is by far the most important.r It is not only the largest pine in the world but alsor One of the most majestically beautiful. It may easilyr be recognized (a) by its carmine-brown flaky barkr which is generally divided into long plates by longitudinalr fissures, (b) by its five-needle bundles aboutr three inches in length, and (c) by the immense conesr (twelve to twenty-four inches long) which hang pendentr r r r r from the tips of the long straight horizontalr branches, or which may be found on the forest floorr beneath. A white sugar which exudes from ther heartwood when the tree is wounded gives it itsr common name. On the floor of the Valley are butr few specimens, but a short distance up the slopes ther species enters into the forest composition and growsr abundantly up to about seven thousand feet elevation.r r r r The western white pine (Pinus monticola) whichr forms an important part of the forests of Idaho andr Montana, occurs in California—the southern part ofr its range—only on the higher mountain slopes, rangingr in the park from 6500 to 10,000 feet elevation. Ther young trees with their bluish-green foliage and silveryr gray bark are exceedingly symmetrical. Trees overr two feet in diameter take on a more rugged appearancer and their bark, which then continuously flakes off,r checks into very distinctive five-sided grayish-purpler plates. The tree is one of the largest in the sub-alpiner forests and may be distinguished (a) by its five-needler bundles which range from two to four inches inr length, (b) by its long feathery cones (length five tor eight inches) which are borne in clusters at the endsr of the long straight branches, and (c) by the veryr characteristic five-sided small plates in the bark of ther older trees.r r r r Hardiest of all Yosemite trees is the five-needledr white bark pine (Pinus albicaulis). A few large specimensr 2 1/2 feet in diameter and up to 30 feet in heightr are sometimes encountered between 9000 and 10,000r feet elevation, but the species is most evident atr timberline where it forms a scattered forest of dwarfr or prostrate trees. These trees, always in keepingr with their bleak surroundings, are the delight of ther r r r mountaineer. In early spring the raspberry-red ofr the fragrant flowers, the chocolate brown or purpler of the immature cones, the yellowish-green of the shortr leaf-tufts, and the silvery white bark of the branchesr and

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 144 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall trunk contrast most harmoniously. Specimensr may be identified (a) by having five short leaves perr bundle (length 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches) which are tufted atr the ends of the flexible branchlets, (b) by the smallr hard cones (about the size of a hen’s egg), and (c) byr the smooth white bark.r r r r Least important of the park’s three yellow pines isr the digger pine (Pinus sabiniana) of the low dry foot-hillr country. Its wide-branching habit and sparser silvery gray foliage set it apart from all other species.r Most important of its distinguishing characteristicsr are (a) the gray-green clusters of long flexible leavesr (length 8 1/2 to 12 inches) which occur three in ar bundle, (b) the low-branching habit, and (c) the larger heavily armed cones which generally remain on ther trees.r r r r The western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) and ther Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) are so closely related thatr even botanists differ as to their separation. Bothr trees reach a large size (maximum diameter 8 to 10r feet) and are tall and symmetrical. They are exceedinglyr abundant within the park and form the greaterr part of the forests of Yosemite Valley. The richr green foliage is made up of three-needle bundles whichr range from 5 to 11 inches in length. The flaky barkr of all older trees is distinctively divided into larger Yellow plates by deep fissures. The two species growr abundantly from 3000 to 7500 feet elevation, ther Western yellow pine preferring the lower altitudes andr the Jeffrey pine the heights. The chief contrastsr r r r between the two species are (a) in the cones, which arer 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 inches in length in the western yellow Piner and 5 1/2 to 11 1/2 inches in the Jeffrey pine, (b) in ther bark which is yellowish-brown in the former and reddish-brownr in the latter, and (c) in the foliage which isr a deep yellow-green in the former and a dark blue-greenr in the latter.r r r r The only two-needle pine of the park, the lodgepoler pine or "tamarack" (Pinus contorta), forms extensiver forests at elevations of 7000 to 9500 feet—indeed, it isr so abundant as to be the one plebian tree of the Highr Sierra. In general the tree is not more than 2 feet inr diameter and 50 feet in height, but much larger specimensr may be found. The species may be distinguishedr (a) by its two-needle bundles which range in lengthr from 1 to 2 1/2 inches and are generally curved, (b)r by its small cones (length 3/4 to 2 1/2 inches), and (c)r by its thin, flaky, purplish bark.r r r r The only known specimen of the one leaf pinyon ofr nut pine (Pinus monophylla) in the park grows inr Pate Valley in the gorge of the Grand Canyon of ther Tuolumne. It probably sprang from a seed carriedr over the mountains by the Indians from the Monor Lake region where the nuts of this small tree form anr important part of the food of the natives.r r r r Of the four American hemlocks but one speciesr occurs in the Sierra Nevada. The mountain hemlockr (Tsuga mertensiana) ventures southward from Alaskar along the mountain sides, ascending higher andr higher until, in Yosemite National Park, it is foundr only in alpine forests above 9000 feet elevation. Itr is universally proclaimed the most graceful tree of ther mountains. The beautiful drooping tip and branchesr set it aside from all other conifers, and its customaryr r r

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r r r PLATE XXr r Western Juniper Trees at Benson Laker r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r r bleak surroundings only enhance its graceful charm.r The tree may easily be distinguished (a) by its droopingr habit, (b) by the short, petioled leaves 1/2 to 1/4r inches in length which clothe the branchlets all around,r but sometimes have the appearance of being groupedr in star-shaped clusters, and (c) by the small pendulousr papery cones (length 1/2 to 3 inches) which adorn ther ends of the branches.rr r r The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia) is the mostr important timber tree in the world. In Oregon andr Washington it forms great forests, but here near ther southern limit of its range we find it sparsely mixedr with other species of the middle altitudes. There arer some splendid old specimens in the cool shade ofr Yosemite’s great south wall and on the talus slopes upr to 6500 feet elevation. The tree is most easilyr recognized (a) by its medium sized pendulous conesr which are two to four inches in length and have trident-shapedr bracts sticking from between the scales, (b)r by its drooping lower branchlets which are clothed allr around with petioled leaves from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches inr length, and (c) by the thick, deeply furrowed ashyr brown bark.r r r r The true firs (genus Abies) differ from all theirr American relatives of the Pine Family by bearing erectr cones. These generally occur at the very tips of ther trees, and since the scales and seeds are shed one byr one and blown away by the winds, they are almostr never found beneath the trees. Of our nine Americanr firs two species inhabit the Sierra Nevada. Ther white fir (Abies concolor) is common at middle altitudes,r ranging from 3500 to 8000 feet, while the redr fir (Abies magnifica) claims the higher slopes. Bothr Species are beautifully symmetrical with erect, narrow,r r r r r dense, spire-like crowns and delicate regularly whorledr branches. All firs are lovers of shade and thereforer grow in dense stands crowding out the less tolerantr species. The white fir may be identified (a) by ther leaves, which are 1 to 2 inches long, without leafr stalks, and flattened or two-ranked on the lowerr branchlets, (b) by the bark which in the younger treesr is white and bears balsam blisters and in the olderr trees is deeply furrowed, corky, and ashy gray inr color, (c) by the cones which are 3 to 5 inches inr length and borne erect near the tops of the trees,r and (d) by the habitat, the tree generally occurring atr middle altitudes as an associate of yellow and sugarr pines. The red fir (Abies magnifica) may be identifiedr (a) by its short needles 3/4 to 1 inch in length whichr generally curl upward on the branchlets, (b) by ther bark which in the young trees is silvery gray but inr middle aged and older trees is a deep carmine-red andr divided into small plates, (c) by the large cones 6 tor 8 inches in length, which are borne near the tipsr of the trees and generally have bracts sticking fromr between the scales, and (d) by the

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 146 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall altitude, the treer generally occurring between 7500 and 9500 feetr elevation.r r r r The Redwood Family (Taxodiaceae) is representedr in the United States by only three species and inr Yosemite National Park by a single species, the giantr sequoia (Sequoia gigantea). This tree, widely famedr as the oldest and largest living thing, occurs in butr twenty-six groves which are all found in the middler elevations of the Sierra Nevada from the vicinityr of Lake Tahoe on the north to the region aboutr Kings River Canyon on the south. There are threer groves in the park, the nearest to Yosemite being 17.2r r r r r wiles distant. The following chapter is entirelyr devoted to the habits and history of this most wonderfulr tree. In its natural habitat the tree is seldomr confused with any of its associates. Among its distinguishingr characteristics are (a) the massive clearr trunks with their cinnamon- or chocolate-brown fibrousr bark, (b) the closely overlapped leaves whichr are awl-like on the lower part of the tree and scale-liker near the top, and (e) the brilliant brown cones whichr vary in length from 1 1/2 to 3 inches.r r r r The members of the Cypress Family (Cupressaceae),r in which are the many so-called American cedars, allr have scale-like leaves and stringy fibrous bark. Twor Yosemite trees belong to this family. The incenser cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) is one of the most abundantr trees in the Valley and on the talus slopes above.r The vivid green of its perfectly formed crown contrastedr with its fluted brown trunk make it a constantr object of admiration. Chief among the distinguishingr characteristics are (a) the flat sprays which are mader up of scalelike leaves, the bases of which are closelyr adherent to the branchlets, (b) the small cones whichr range from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches in length and are made upr of five (apparently three) scales, and (c) the golden-r or cinnamon-brown fibrous bark.r r r r The western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) is anr inhabitant of the upper slopes and is generally foundr above the Valley rim on exposed rocky sites where itsr gnarled form picturesquely decorates the bare graniter pavements. Scattered specimens may be foundr struggling upward in most unhospitable places almostr to timberline. The characteristics which easily identifyr the species are (a) its gnarled form, (b) its thin,r stringy, light cinnamon-brown bark, (c) its tiny scale-liker r r r leaves which are arranged in whorls of three aroundr the branchlets and are closely pressed to the twigs, andr (d) its fruit which is a small blue berry with a sweetish,r pungent, aromatic taste. The berries are really modifiedr cones.r r r r A most interesting little evergreen is the Californiar nutmeg (Tumion californicum), a close relative to ther conifers. A few specimens may be found in the canyonr of the Merced below Cascade Falls. The sharp-pointedr needle-like leaves which range in length fromr 1 to 2 inches are flattened in two ranks along ther branchlets and omit a very characteristic pungent odorr when bruised. The fleshy fruits average about 1 1/2r inches in length and have a hard-shelled kernel which,r when dried, looks much like the nutmeg of commerce.r r r r The broad-leaved trees of the park are of comparativelyr little importance—far less so than wouldr appear from a casual inspection of the oak-dotted floorr of Yosemite Valley. These deciduous trees grow atr the lower elevations and prefer the rich bottomlandsr and moist stream margins. The oaks are predominant.r In the hot foothills is the valley white oakr (Quercus lobata) which, in the region about El Portalr is replaced by

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 147 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall the Caldomia black oak (Quercus californica),r gigantic specimens of which may be seenr throughout the canyon of the Merced and in Yosemiter Valley. The latter may be distinguished by its larger leaves, the deep lobes of which are sharply pointed, andr by the dark bark which is deeply checked into smallr plates. The talus slopes above the Valley floor arer the favorite habitat of the canyon live oak (Quercusr chrysolepis) which may be distinguished by its whitishr bark and by its small entire and toothed leaves on ther same twigs, the old leaves being lead color beneath,r r r

r r r PLATE XXIr r Mountain Hemlocks on the rim of Matterhorn Canyonr r r Photo by Walter L. Huberr r r r r r r arid the young leaves yellow powdery beneath. Abover 5000 feet one commonly finds the dwarf huckleberry oakr (Quercus vaccinifolia), a shrub 4 to 8 feetr high which much resembles the canyon live oak.rr r r Another common tree of the talus slopes is the California laurel or "bay"r (Umbellularia californica). Ther evergreen, smooth, shiny leaves have a most agreeabler camphoric-pungent odor when crushed, and are driedr and used for spice. The yellow flowers of early springr develop into olive-like fruits which mature in autumn.r r r r Along the streams, especially within the Valley, arer a number of moisture-loving species. Of these ther tree which excites the most admiration is the floweringr dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). In early spring ther showy white flowers (really modified flower-bud scales)r appear even before the leaves and often completelyr cover the crown. In autumn the clusters of brightr red fruit and brilliant red, orange, and yellow foliager make it the most beautifully colored of all Yosemiter trees. The broadleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) isr abundant in moist shady spots, especially in ther shadow of the great south wall of the Valley and in ther deep canyon of the Merced at its head. The dwarfr maple (Acer glabrum) has been reported fromr Yosemite but is very rare. The alder (Alnus rhombifolia)r is never found far from water. It may easilyr be identified by its rather coarsely veined, toothedr leaves and by the peculiar little cones which arer retained on the trees after the seeds are shed. Twelver species of willow occur within the park but all exceptr the yellow and black willows (Salix lasiandra and S.r nigra) are shrubs. The black cottonwood (Populusr trichocarpa) is the largest of our poplars. It is ar common tree of the moist bottomlands of middler r r r elevations and may be distinguished by its yellowishr white bark and by its thick leathery leaves whichr are deep shiny green above and silvery white beneath.r

TREES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 148 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r The little quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) isr one of the most lovable of all mountain trees. Whenr unexpectedly found in meadows and garden spots ofr the High Sierra it is always an object of delight. Ther small delta-shaped leaves which are yellow-green abover and silvery beneath are so fastened to their twigs thatr they tremble with the least breeze. This characteristic,r together with the smooth, white bark make itr impossible to confuse the tree with any other species.r r r r The mountain mahogany (Cercocarpis parvifolius)r is a small tree of the foothill region. Being generallyr found in the chaparral areas it enters the park onlyr in the lower reaches of the great canyons. Specimensr may be taken in the region about El Portal.r r r r By using ther Key to the Conifersr presented in the Appendixr of this volume one may easily identify anyr evergreen in the park.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Hill, C. L., 1916.r Forests of Yosemite, Sequoia, and Generalr Grand National Parks. U. S. Dept. of the Interior, 39 pp.,r 22 illus.r r r r Jepson, W. L., 1909. Trees of California.r (Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, San Francisco)r 228 pp., 117 figs., illus., pls.r r 1910. Silva of California. (University Press, Berkeley)r 480 pp., 85 pls., illus.r r r r Muir, John, 1907.r Mountains of California.r (Century Co.,r New York), 381 pp., illus.,r The Forests on pp. 139-225.r r 1912.r The Yosemite.r (Century Co., New York), 284 pp.r illus., maps,r The Trees on pp. 87-147.r r r r Sargent, C. S., 1905. Manual of the Trees of North Americar (Houghton, Mifflin Co., New York) pp. xxiii + 826, 642 illus.r r r r Sudworth, G. B., 1908. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope.r Dept. Agric., Div. Forestry, 441 pp., 207 figs., maps.r

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r By Willis Linn Jepsonr r

r r Professor of Botany, University of Californiar r r r r r r Ther r Big Tree or Sequoia gigantea is one of the mostr charmingly attractive features of Yosemite Nationalr Park. This most wonderful and most lovable of allr tree species occurs in scattered communities orr "groves" on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadar Mountains between the elevations of 4600 and 8000r feet.r

The Giant Sequoia 151 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Of the twenty-six groves, the northernmost, nearr Lake Tahoe, contains but six trees. Further southwardr the species becomes more and more abundantr until, in the region near the Kings and Kern Rivers,r great forests are formed. The largest and mostr famous of these is the Giant Forest of Sequoiar National Park.r r r r Within Yosemite National Park are three groves.r The Tuolumne Grove, about 1 1/2 miles west of Craner Flat on the Big Oak Flat Road, contains 40 treesr Which occur at about 5800 feet elevation. The Mercedr Grove, about 3 miles east of Hazel Green, containsr 33 trees and is traversed by the Coulterville Road tor Yosemite at an altitude of 5500 feet. The Mariposar Grove 4 miles southeast of Wawona on the mountainr heights above the South Fork of the Merced Riverr contains 490 mature trees.r r r r r r This latter grove is in a number of respects the mostr remarkable of all clusters of the Big Trees which occurr in the society called the "grove." It really consistsr of two almost distinct groups of trees, the upper grover of 364 trees at an altitude of 7000 feet, and the lowerr grove of 126 trees at an elevation of 5400 feet. Ther road first enters the lower grove, passing between ther Four Sentinel trees, with the fifth, the Sergeant ofr the Guard, standing a little apart. Soon a cluster ofr large Sequoias comes into view. Among these,r prostrate, lies the Father of the Forest along whoser trunk a six-horse stage has been driven and at oner time a whole troop of cavalry lined up in formation.r r r r The road winds upward and tunnels directlyr beneath the base of the Wawona Tree through ar passage sufficiently large for the largest of old-timer stage coaches and modern auto-busses. Beyond thisr point is the Alabama Tree which is considered ther most perfect and symmetrical tree in the grove. Afterr passing many individuals which ennoble the forest byr their commanding size, the roads of the grove finallyr center at the Big Tree Cabin which is set amid ar cluster of truly magnificent specimens of this wonderfulr race of forest giants. All of these trees have beenr individualized with favorite names, such as Ohio,r Massachusetts, General Lafayette, St. Louis, Philadelphia,r Galen Clark, and many more. The Oldr Guard consists of four very fine trees in a row. Ther four trees of the Diamond Group are so disposed thatr they form the corners of a diamond. About ninety-eightr trees of the upper grove and thirteen of thoser in the lower grove have received names.r r r r The dimensions in feet of a number of the morer remarkable trees of the Mariposa Grove as given byr r r r

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r r r PLATE XXIIr r Big Tree Cabin in the Mariposa Grove. The cabin was built around 1860 by Galen Clarkr r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r r the Department of the Interior "Circular of Generalr Information regarding Yosemite National Park" forr 1919 are shown in the following table:rr r Tree Height Diam. at 10 ft. Diam. at Base Mark Twain 331 13.0 16.9 Capt. A. E. Wood 310 12.7 16.5 Columbia 294 16.5 25.6 South Carolina 264 17.3 23.5 Washington 235 20.7 29.3 Forest Queen 219 12.1 17.0 Grizzly Giant 204 20.5 29.6 r r r r The height of the Big Tree commonly averages fromr 125 to 225 feet, but trees in excess of these figures arer well known. The best authenticated of recent figuresr of the extreme heights of known trees are those forr the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Parkr which is 279.9 feet high and for the Dalton Tree in ther Muir Grove which is 292 feet high. These appear tor be extreme figures for trees in the forests of the southernr Sierra Nevada. The Columbia Tree in ther Mariposa Grove is 294 feet high and the Mark Twainr Tree is said to be 331 feet high, a figure in excess of anyr measurements hitherto given which have been mader by presumably accurate methods.r r r r Height is a matter which can be determined withr fair degree of accuracy and when determined is notr variable. Diameter, on the other hand, is not sor definitely determinable. Diameters at the ground dor not, in many cases, give significant or proportionater values to the trunks for the reason that the Big Treesr Often swell excessively at the base. The writer hasr found by actual measurement that the diameter at ther base in certain cases is twice that at ten feet abover r r r the ground. The only figures valid for purposes ofr comparison must therefore be taken sufficiently abover the ground to minimize the error due to this factor.r As so many people have a natural interest in ther largest known diameters there are here given ther diameters

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Diameter Diameter Name of Tree at 12 ft. at ground General Sherman 27 1/2 ft. 34 1/3 ft. (Sequoia Park) General Grant 23 " 35 1/4 " (General Grant Park) Grizzly Giant 20 (at 11 ft.) 31 1/4 " (Mariposa Grove) Boole Tree (Converse 25 3/4 (at 10 ft.) 36 " Basin, King’s River) r r r It must here be emphasized, however, that characteristicallyr the taper is very slight. Indeed, allr observers unite in agreeing that the outstanding featurer of the Big Tree, more remarkable and impressiver than any other, is the columnar character of its trunk.r The great height of the clear column and the mannerr in which it maintains its diameter upward from ther ground to the crown are most extraordinary.r r r r In the matter of longevity the Big Tree is undoubtedlyr edly the oldest living thing on the planet. Its ager varies from 900 to 2100 years and in not a few casesr it probably attains to an age of 3000 years. The ager of one tree logged in the Converse Basin has beenr determined with closely approximate accuracy asr 3148 years. This is the oldest tree of which we haver any definite record.r r r r Standing in rhapsodical admiration before ar Sequoia gigantea one can easily imagine it to ber r r r 5000 or 10,000 years of age. The figure eightr thousand years has been placed on the Grizzly Giantr at the instance of a distinguished authority on fishes.r As a matter of fact no one knows the age of ther Grizzly Giant as there is no satisfactory way ofr determining its age except by cutting it down. Ar small core could be taken from its trunk by a specialr tool, but this means might not prove satisfactory, andr such mutilation is not likely to be permitted. Therer is no way of determining the age of a particularr individual merely by means of the diameter. Fromr various age studies I have found, on the average,r about 20 years to the inch. The Father of the Forestr in the Calaveras Grove has a diameter of 27 feet insider the bark at about 8 feet above the ground. Itsr calculated age would therefore be 6480 years. Whenr cut down its age was determined to be about 1300r years. In the Converse basin the writer determinedr the age of a tree 11 feet 7 1/2 inches in diameterr to be 2019 years. The ring count was accurate withinr a possible error of only 10 or 15 years in either direction.r Another tree 24 feet in diameter, twice the diameterr of the first, was only 1346 years old—a littler over half the age of the first. Trees of various speciesr often take on an appearance of great age when comparativelyr young, due to storm, wind, disease, orr under-nutrition. Senility or its appearance is notr always a matter of years, and attempts to assign ar longevity of four thousand years or more to the Bigr Tree rest on no substantial basis.r r r

THE GIANT SEQUOIA 154 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r The age of individual Big Trees, however imposingr their life, should not be confused with the age of ther Sequoia race. The Big Tree is descended from pine-liker ancestors, and the Pine Family itself and its alliesr r r r are very much older racially than the Redwood Familyr to which the Big Tree belongs. The morphology ofr the flowers and cones of a pine, not to speak of ther presence of resin, indicate a family very much olderr than the Redwood Family. Measured in terms ofr history of life upon this earth, the species of Sequoiar are recent; they are relatively modem compared withr the pines, firs, and spruces, and their allies—indeed,r they are the merest parvenues.r r r r In another sense they have a highly dignified ancestryr and represent a race of trees which were once morer numerous upon the surface of the earth than atr present. During the Miocene age of the Tertiaryr period many species of Sequoia were distributed overr the northern hemisphere and perhaps also occurredr in the southern hemisphere. At any rate the remainsr of Sequoia species have been observed in the rocks ofr Austria, France, England, western Asia, Spitzbergen,r at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, British Columbia,r Yellowstone Park, Oregon, and many otherr stations. They undoubtedly formed very extensiver forests during the Miocene period. It is supposedr that during one of the glacial ages all the speciesr became extinct excepting the two which are now livingr in California, viz., the Big Tree of the Sierras (Sequoiar gigantea) and the Redwood of the Californian Coastr Ranges (Sequoia sempervirens).r r r r Of these two species the Big Tree grows to a muchr more colossal size. It begins as a young tree withr the pyramidal outline of an arbor-vitae, its trunkr clothed with branches to the ground and its crownr tapering to a cone-like apex. After it attains to ther age of two or three hundred years it becomes a treer 75 to 125 feet high, and begins to prune its trunk ofr r r r branches from the ground upwards. As it goes intor the adult period, the crown continues to move upwardr and a clear shaft results which is 100 to 150 feet orr more up to the first limb and clothed with a deeplyr furrowed fibrous red bark which is very non-inflammable.r r r r The Sierran forest is typically a fire forest; that is tor say, all the tree species have shown reaction in structurer or life history to long continued fires which haver undoubtedly run over California woodlands for manyr thousands of years and perhaps for a longer period.r The trunks of the pines, firs, and cedars have becomer encased in exceedingly thickened bark which isr undoubtedly a very effective protection to the vitalr cambium layer which lays between the bark and ther wood and provides for the tree’s increase in thickness.r The bark of these trees, on the other hand, containsr more or less resin which increases the fire hazard.r r r r In the case of the Big Tree, however, there isr practically no resin in the whole trunk. Resin isr found not at all in the tree except in microscopicr quantities in the first annual layer of wood, in ther leaves, and in the staminate catkins. The bark isr quite free from resin except for its possible occurrencer in case of mutilation, and by its peculiar fibrous naturer forms an almost asbestos-like covering to the trunk.r This bark is a beautiful red-brown or cinnamon colorr six to twelve inches thick. It often attains a greaterr thickness, and bark two feet through is actuallyr known. Fires burn through this heavy layer of barkr very slowly, and it is only after repeated conflagrationsr that the Forest Fiend obtains entrance to the woodyr layers. Even then progress is slow because the woodr is non-resinous and burns slowly. Nearly all maturer r r r trees or trees past maturity show signs of fire ravage,r although in many cases the attack has beenr negligible.r r r

THE GIANT SEQUOIA 155 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r As the tree grows on past maturity it eventuallyr begins to die in the top. This may be the result ofr the gradual exhaustion of its food supply or it may ber due to years of deficient seasonal rainfall. It isr possible that the tops of Sequoias may be killed byr lightning, but we know of no direct evidence to thisr effect. We certainly have no record of a Sequoia treer ever having been killed by lightning, although pines,r firs, and other trees of the Sierran forests are frequentlyr killed or completely shattered. Probably allr old trees of Sequoia gigantea have been struck byr lightning; certainly very many of them within ther period of the white man’s observation.r r r r One of the most remarkable of forest experiences isr to see at night a fire burning 150 or 200 feet in the airr in the very tip-top of a great Sequoia tree. Suchr fires are set by lightning. On account of their inaccessibilityr and their tendency to throw off live sparks,r they are a great source of worry to the forest rangerr who can do nothing but camp in the neighborhoodr until the fire burns itself out or is extinguished by ar propitious rainfall.r r r r The cone of the Big Tree is two to three inches longr and bears two hundred to three hundred seeds, aboutr twenty-five per cent. of which are viable. It is quiter common to hear tourists marvel at the ridiculouslyr small size of the cone borne by so gigantic a tree, butr the complacent tourist may well be thankful that ther size of the cone does not correspond to the size of ther tree beneath which he stands with admiring gaze.r r r r In some of the rhapsodies which have been spokenr r r r

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r r r PLATE XXIIIr r Typical forest in the Mariposa Grove. Left to right, Sugarr r Pine, Red Fir, Incense Cedar, Sequoia, young Sugarr r Pine, group of Firs, and Sequoia. The groundr r is covered with Sugar Pine Conesr r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r r or written about the Sequoia gigantea, it is the habit tor speak of this tree as passing out, as a relic, as makingr its last stand upon the western flanks of the Sierrar Nevada, and as being a decadent survival. In ar sense it is a survival but it is a most lusty and vigorousr survival. No other tree grows to so great a size; nor other tree has such longevity; and no other coniferousr tree has such resistance to disease except its cousin ther Redwood of the Coast. In open spaces in the forest,r seedlings appear in great numbers, especially in ther southern part of the range of the species. Here theyr often form weedy thickets through which it is impossibler to force one’s way. In the southern Sierra Nevadar the Big Tree forms extensive forests, and is often ther dominant tree in its areas of best development. Ther species is so abundant that it has been lumbered onr an extensive scale and many millions of board feetr of lumber from the Big Tree have been put on ther market and sold as Redwood.rr r r The appearance of the wood does not differ veryr much from that of the well-known Coast Redwood.r It is much the same color, texture, and weight. Ther difference in strength can well be illustrated by observationr that in Tulare County vineyards, grapevine stakesr made from Big Tree wood are two inches square, whiler in Napa Valley vineyards, similar stakes made fromr Redwood are about one inch square. Redwood resistsr a far greater lateral strain than the Big Tree wood.r The latter has a tendency to fracture transverselyr When split, whereas the Redwood splits cleanlyr throughout. One sometimes sees in the beds ofr Sierran rivers huge but short logs which are brokenr off squarely at the ends. These great leviathansr have been weathered by successive floods and arer r r r often smoothed by rolling from side to side of ther canyon wall. They are

THE GIANT SEQUOIA 157 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall fractured segments of ther trunks of the great giants of the Sierra.r In the Big Tree, the Sugar Pine, the Yellow Pine.r the Red and White Firs, and the Incense Cedar wer have in this Yosemite region the finest and mostr remarkable group of conifers in the world. Theyr serve to give the park an interest and charm whichr highly gratifies our aesthetic sense and stirs deeplyr our imagination regarding this earth upon which wer live. The Big Tree and the Yellow Pine would be fitr tenants for Paradise, and this region is Paradise enow.r r r

REFERENCES r r r r Chase, J. S., 1911. Yosemite Trails..r r (Houghton, Mifflin Co.,r Boston) pp. 1-354, 16 illus., 1 map.r r r r Dudley, W. R., and others. 1900.r A Short Account of the Trees of California.r U. S. Dept. of Agric., Div. Forestryr Bull. 28, 30 pp., 17 pls.r r r r Hutchings, J. M., 1888.r r In the Heart of the Sierras. (Pacificr Press, Oakland) 496 pp., about 200 woodcuts, photo-plater and maps.r The Big Trees on pp.r 216-232 &r 241-247. Ill.r r r r Jepson, W. L., 1909. Trees of California.r (Potter Bros., S. F.),r 288 pp., 117 figs., illus., pls., The Big Trees on pp. 101-106.r r 1910. Silva of California. (Univ. Press, Berkeley) 480r pp., 85 pls., illus., The Big Tree on pp. 58, 139-147.r r r r Kellogg, A., 1882. Forest Trees of California.r Second Reportr of the State Mineralogist of California, App. 1, pp. 1-148.r The Big Tree on pp. 21-24.r r r r Muir, John, 1894.r r The Mountains of California.r (The Centuryr Co., N. Y.) 382 pp., illus.,r r The Big Tree on pp. 179-200.r r r r Shinn, Chas. H., 1889. "The Big Tree."r Garden and Forest, 2:r 614-615.r r r r Sudworth, G. B., 1908. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope.r Dept. Agric. Div. Forestry, Bull., pp. 441, maps. illus., Ther Big Tree on pp. 139- 145.r r r

REFERENCES 158 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Williamson, R. S., 1857.r The Mammoth Trees of California.r Pacific Railroad Report, 5: 257-259.r r r r r r r r

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FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 r r

r By Willis Linn Jepsonr r

r r Professor of Botany, University of Californiar r r r r 1Based upon the botany series of the LeConte Memorial Lecturesr delivered by Dr. Jepson in Yosemite, June, 1918.r r Pages 253, 258,r 259, and 260r were, under Dr. Jepson’s direction,r either written or expanded by me. This paper was also used byr me for reference in preparing my article in ther Sierra Club Bulletinr for January, 1921, but credit for the portions on the Snowr Plant and one or two other species was inadvertently omitted.r r

Flowers of Yosemite National Park 160 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Elizabeth Van E. Ferguson, r r Research Assistant.r r r r r r Yosemite National Parkr r offers a remarkably richr field for the botanist. The same factors which determiner the great diversity of animal life influence to ar much greater degree the species and forms of plant life.r Some plants have become highly specialized to endurer the many months of drought in the semi-arid foothills,r while others have developed a hardiness which enablesr them to exist in the bleak reaches above timberline.r Even in the middle regions where optimum conditionsr attain, the exhuberant abundance of wild blossomsr changes in character with each change of site; eachr species seems to have its own niche, whether it be inr swamp, on fertile hillside, or on desiccated graniter barrens. Indeed, so great is the range of naturalr conditions to be encountered in the park between ther foothills and the mountain glaciers that there are nor r r r less than twelve hundred species and varieties ofr flowering plants and ferns native to this area. Whiler most of these are typical of the entire Sierra Nevada,r many are exceedingly rare, and a few species are onlyr known from small areas within the park.r r r r By whichever route the traveler enters Yosemite,r he will pass through the shrub formation known by ther Spanish name chaparral. So densely does this society,r clothe its area in the Upper Sonoran or Foothill Zoner that it is often impossible to force one’s way throughr it. The various shrubs which go to form this closer cover are of much the same stature and aspect, andr form a remarkably uniform population on exceedinglyr dry and well-drained slopes. The excessive drought,r the high summer temperature, and the rocky orr gravelly nature of the soil are the chief factors whichr have caused these various chaparral shrubs to developr many characteristics in common; of these the mostr striking are their dwarf habit, reduced leaf surface,r small flowers, hard close-grained wood, and rigidr thorny branchlets. It is only superficially, however,r that these shrubs are alike. They are derived notr from one family, nor two, nor three, but represent ther pioneer spirit in many different stocks which haver successfully met the conditions imposed by Naturer in the chaparral area.r r r r One of the most important and abundant of theser shrubs is Buck Brush (Ceanothus cuneatus), a grayr bush five to eight feet high with tough thorny branchlets,r opposite leaves, and hard close-grained wood. Itr is everywhere abundant, and its short blunt spursr make it a terror of the cattlemen riding the range.r The small white flowers are in themselves insignificantr but a profuse production of small honey-scented clustersr r r

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r r r PLATE XXIVr r Washington Lily (Lilium Washingtonianum)r r A fine species which fills the Yellow Pine forest with ar r delightful fragrancer r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r causes the shrubs for a time to take on a delicater hue. An allied species is the Jack Brush (Ceanothusr divaricatus), with longer flower clusters and alternater leaves, which occurs in the canyon of the Mercedr nearer the Valley. All species of Ceanothus are commonlyr though incorrectly known as "California Lilac."rr r r In approaching the Valley from El Portal, if earlyr enough in the year, one will be rewarded with the sightr of that unusual glory, the Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).r Before the foliage even hints at showing its tenderr green leaves the tree is shrouded in a cloud of redr blossoms. It belongs to the Pea Family and in summerr its branches are heavily hung with purplish pods.r Along the streams at the same altitudes is the Winer Bush or Sweet Shrub (Calycanthus occidentalis), a bushr with large opposite leaves, aromatic flowers, and red-brownr sepals and petals which are borne on a cupliker base. Farther up the canyon of the Merced one of ther most pleasing sights in early summer is the Philadelphusr (P. lewisii var. californicus) which is similar tor the Syringa of Eastern gardens. It forms fragrantr thickets along the stream banks and because of itsr somewhat orange-like flowers is often called Mockr Orange. It is perhaps rivaled by its associate, ther Bladdernut (Staphylea Bolanderi) which grows in ther canyons of the foothills, especially above El Portalr near Pulpit Rock. The Bladdernut has its leafletsr in threes and covers itself with white drooping flowerr clusters which later develop into curious bladder-liker three-horned seed pods. It was first collected in 1874r by Dr. Henry N. Bolander, one of the early botanicalr explorers of the Yosemite region.r r r

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 162 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Everywhere the shrubs lend interest and charm tor the Mountain sides and the open forest floors or valleyr r r r levels. Foremost among these stands the Deer Brushr (Ceanothus integerrimus) with its tall slender stems,r scattered foliage, thin leaves, and abundant masses ofr delicate white blossoms. The foliage of this bush isr eaten by the deer and it is also an important browser for cattle. Chemical analysis indicates that its leavesr have a higher nutritive value than those of any otherr native shrub. It is when the Deer Brush is in bloom,r however, that it most attracts the eye of the traveler.r The thickets with their dainty plumelike flower-clustersr borne aloft on slender branchlets form ar billowy mass of white over considerable forest areas.r A less common species is a close relative, the Sweetr Birch (Ceanothus parvifolius), which is found in ther Mariposa Grove, about Chinquapin, in the vicinity ofr Grouse Creek, and at similar altitudes. It inhabitsr open spots in the forest where its stems spread out andr form the root crown in a somewhat wheel-like fashion.r Its diminutive shiny leaves and small clusters ofr flowers in delicate shades of blue make it an attractiver asset of the forest floor.r r r r As the traveler enters the Valley his views of ther Merced River will often be enhanced by the abundantr bloom of the Western Azalea (Rhododendron occidentale)r as it contests for a place among the willowr thickets. In June or July its sweet fragrance charmsr one to follow the stream and see its beauties. oftenr the great flower-clusters nod to the stream and almostr dip their delicate orange and white petals into ther swiftly running water.r r r r But it is the Valley floor with its riotous wealth, ofr color which in favorable seasons shows best ther variety of the native vegetation. In late spring or earlyr summer the meadows are carpeted with great massesr r r r of bright flowering annuals and taller brilliant perennials.r The delicate Canchalangua (Erythraea venusta)r with its showy clusters of bright pink flowers; ther taller Collomia (Gilia grandiflora) with its denser heads of dainty funnelform flowers, cream to almostr salmon in colour; many patches of golden Mimulus orr Monkey Flower; countless blue flowers, such as ther light blue Pentstemon (P. confertus) with its flowers inr whorls on tall stems; tall blue "Forget-me-nots"r (Lappula velutina); tiny dark blue Collinsia (C. parviflora)r and the larger almost white Collinsia, tinctoria; ther red Indian Paint Brush (Castilleia miniata); the brilliantr scarlet Pentstemon (P. bridgesii) with lance-shapedr leaves and funnelform corolla about one inch long; andr quantities of golden Buttercups (Ranunculus occidentalisr var. eisenii), all go to form the brilliant mosaicr of large sheets and pools of color on the Valleyr levels.r r r r At altitudes of 3600 to 5000 feet, after the shallowr springtime pools have evaporated, these areas becomer midsummer beauty spots with a thick growth ofr Downingia montana. This is a little Lobelia withr delicate jewel-like blossoms, the upper lip very smallr with two minute lavender lobes, the lower lip of threer broad-spreading lobes, white at the throat, and with ar bright blue border. A mass of these dainty bluer flowers is the loveliest sight imaginable and may ber seen in Hetch Hetchy Valley and on the Hog Ranchr Road to Crocker’s Station.r r r r One of the plants found in Yosemite Valley and atr similar altitudes which receives especial attentionr from the traveler is the Bleeding Heart (Dicentra,r formosa) Its leaves are finely cut and its flowersr are pendulous in clusters from the summit of the stem.r r r r The flower itself is flattened, of a rose-purple color,r and about three fourths of an inch long.r

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 163 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Another striking plant of moist or swampy placesr is the Scarlet Monkey Flower (Mimulus cardinalis).r The rich green foliage, soft with hairs, makes a beautifulr setting for the large brilliant flowers. Theser gorgeous plants may be seen in several places in ther Valley, usually by streams or near the bases of ther waterfalls.r r r r One of the remarkable sights of the upper reachesr of the Valley in midsummer are the fields of tall yellowr Evening Primroses (Oenothera biennis). They haver very handsome large golden flowers which open at twilightr and close again in the middle of the following day.r In favorable seasons the dry open fields about Yosemiter are often yellow with these stately plants. Manyr of the finest groups, however, are now a thing of ther past, due to the mowing of the meadows for wild hay.r r r r In the edges of brushy thickets one finds the Wildr Ginger (Asarum Hartwegi) with its broad mottledr leaves and its curious purple flowers close againstr the ground. It is one of the most singular plantr inhabitants of the Valley floor and is always worthr searching for in May and June.r r r r In dry spots near the Yosemite Black Oaks, ther Sierra Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) develops itsr bunches of highly specialized pink or reddish-purpler flowers above its white hoary leaves and is a mostr interesting plant on account of its habit of catchingr and imprisoning flies.r r r r Along the roads one may see in May or June ther White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus). This isr one of the handsomest of all Mariposas and is remarkabler for its range of color. Along the Wawona Roadr r r r one form has deep wine-red petals which are darkerr toward the middle and are crossed below by a broadr yellow band; still other plants, the more usual form,r are nearly white with a dark brown eye surroundedr by yellowish shadings.r r r r The Lily Family is well represented by many otherr interesting species. The Tiger or Leopard Lilyr (Lilium pardalinum) occurs in such places as Bridalveilr Meadows where as many as twenty-eight flowersr have been counted on a single plant. The Little Tigerr Lily (Lilium parvum) has flowers about half as larger and grows in moist meadows at higher elevations.r r r r On the walls of the Valley are several rarities, oner of them being the Cliff Buttercup (Ranunculus hystriculus).r Its sepals are white and petal-like and ther petals, which are small and inconspicuous, are developedr as spoon-shaped nectaries. The whole flowerr looks more like an anemone than a buttercup and hasr a great historical interest as it is in reality one of ther most ancient of flowering plants. It grows on cliffs andr ledges where it is reached by the spray from Yosemiter Falls, Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls, and other cataractsr about the Valley. It is as delicately beautiful as it isr rare.r

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 164 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Leaving the Valley and passing into the main piner belt (Transition Zone) one finds many interestingr plants. Here the Deer Brush and Manzanitas coverr great areas. A very abundant plant is the Mountainr Misery (Chambaetia foliolosa). There is no mistakingr it. The strawberry-like flowers (which it comes byr honestly since it is a member of the Rose Family)r and the fernlike foliage mark it distinctively. Ther woody stems grow six inches to two feet high andr colonize, almost to the exclusion of other herbs, milesr r r r and miles of the open slopes and flats beneath the Pinesr in the Yellow Pine belt. It is sometimes called Bearr Clover or Tar Brush, but the true folk name, Mountain Misery,r is a better term, for it comes right fromr the soil and is born of the daily work and experience ofr the mountain rancher. He cannot trail his animalsr through it, for they leave little or no track in thisr growth; the foliage has a tarry secretion which gumsr up his clothing; and the herbage is offensive to hisr cattle and so it is useless as a fodder plant. To ther mountain rancher, then, this herb is the last word inr expression of the day’s discontent and inadequacy.r To many a mountain-lover, however, its spicy odorr suggests the many drowsy sunny days spent beneathr the pines.r r r r Beneath the Yellow Pines on the road fromr Yosemite to Wawona the Tuolumne and Merced Bigr Tree Groves the ground is often covered with the greenr carpet of the Mahala Mats, a species of Ceanothus.r It has small clusters of blue flowers, leaves spiny atr the tips, and distinct horns on the seed pods. Ther mats are closely grown and, while irregular in shape,r often become five to fifteen feet broad.r r r r Of all rarities in the park no other plant excites sor much popular interest, perhaps, as the Snow Plantr (Sarcodes sanguinea). It is a very Mephistophelesr amongst plants, and its dazzling red color has exercisedr a strange and almost weird fascination upon ther popular mind. The whole plant—flowers, bracts, andr stems alike—is of a bloody red hue. It springs upr from the leafy mold of the forest floor, and (as ther police judge would say) is without obvious means ofr support, since it has no chlorophyll, no green leaves, tor manufacture its own food as most other plants mustr r r

r r r PLATE XXVr r Indian Paint Red Heather Evening Primrose Brush (Bryanthus Breweri) (Oenothera biennis) (Castilleia miniata)

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r r r Photos by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r do. While called a parasite it is not such and does notr draw its sustenance from the living tissues of anotherr plant. It is a saprophyte—that is, it lives on deadr and decaying vegetable matter. Its stems rise fromr an underground, very much involved, interlaced, andr compact mass of coralline roots which gather up itsr food materials. One, two, three, or four stems riser from this root mass, or sometimes a cluster of a dozen.r The writer has even found as many as sixteen. Ther Snow Plant ha’s not anything to do with snow anyr more than many other Sierra plants which come upr after the snow or snow banks have disappeared. Probablyr the Snow Plant has never been seen rising fromr winter snow. After the stems start up through ther layer of pine needles or forest mold and after ther stem is once above the ground, a light snowfall mayr come and the blood-red stems may thus appear tor have risen through this virgin snowfall. In this way,r most likely, the name Snow Plant originated. A near relativer is the Pine Drops (Pterospora andromedea), a red-brownr plant with a slender stem one to two feet highr which is commonly found beneath the Yellow Pines.rr r r One of the great rarities of this region is a species ofr Lewisia (Lewisia yosemitiana) which grows in ther granite sand on top of the domes about Yosemiter and nowhere else in the world. The white flowers riser from underground roots and open out on the sandr like stars set in the very crowns of the domes. Theser plants are very delicate as well as very rare and shouldr never be disturbed, since they will fall to pieces in one’sr hand if dug up from the place where they grow, as if inr resentment at man’s interference with them. They,r however, are well worth seeking for field study byr lovers of rare plant life.r r r r r r In dry open swales of the great Yellow Pine Forestr one comes upon the tall stalks (four to six feet high) ofr a great white lily bearing sometimes ten or fifteenr flowers, which now is called the Washington Lilyr (Lilium Washingtonianum) although that pioneerr botanist, Dr. Kellogg, distinctly named it the Ladyr Washington Lily, after Martha Washington, the firstr lady of the land, as he said.r r r r On sandy pine barrens great areas may be crimsonedr with little Mimulus (M. torreyi and M. bolanderi).r Here also Pussy’s Paws (Calyptridium umbellatum)r often add to the pink or red carpet of the forest floor.r The stems radiate from a central rosette of leavesr which lie flat on the ground and bear at the ends anr involved soft mass of flowers, forming a cluster whichr whitens with age and suggests the common name byr which the plant is known. In sunny spots the tallr scarlet Gilia (G. aggregata) form brilliant patches whichr greatly attract the humming-birds in their search forr hidden sweets. Its corollas are tubular and about anr inch and a half long, the exserted stamens inserted inr the notches between the lanceolate lobes. Still otherr areas are blue with other Gilias such as G. leptalea, ther flowers of Which are about one half inch long.r r r r On granite sand spaces one may find many acresr covered with Golden Stars (Brodiaea aurea), a speciesr of Brodiaea which is related to the blue Grass Nuts ofr the foothills. In the forest one meets the Nuttall Mariposar Lily (Calochortus Nuttallii), its almost white,r flowers bearing an inky spot about the gland at ther base of the petals. At slightly higher altitudes mayr be found the tiny Sierra Pussy’s Ears (Calochortusr nudus) with its small white hairy petals.r r r r Sandy areas will often be clouded by the delicater r r r little white flowered Eriogonum (E. spergulinum). Itr

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 166 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall is a dainty little annual with small white flowers borner on hairlike stalks which give it a very airy and fragiler appearance. It has somewhat the appearance of ther Baby’s Breath of our gardens and is in places so abundantr that it forms a great Milky Way through ther forest which is as beautiful by moonlight as byr day. Another delicate white flowering herb with ar diffusely branching flower cluster is the Silver Tailsr (Potentilla santolinoides). This may be easily recognizedr by its peculiar caterpillar-like leaves which formr a silvery rosette at the base.r r r r Rocky or gravelly slopes are often resplendent withr lovely hanging gardens of Pride of the Mountainsr (Pentstemon menziesii). This brave plant grows inr the most unhospitable places but developes into a tallr and bushy plant with ovate finely toothed leaves andr beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers which are reddish inr color. Wherever this Pentstemon appears it is indeedr the Pride of the Mountains, blooming profusely as itr does in the midst of rocky barrens.r r r r The high mountain meadows above Yosemite arer frequently wonderful wild gardens. In one of thoser meadows it was once the author’s good fortune to seer fully twenty thousand plants of the Jeffrey Shootingr Stars (Dodecatheon Jeffreyi) in full bloom. This is ar Plant which resembles the Cyclamen of our gardens.r Among the Shooting Stars one often finds the featheryr White flowers of Polygonum (P. bistortoides); the slenderr stems are very erect and bear at the summit a closer Mass of small white flowers which at a distance lookr like neat white flags. A meadow full of Shooting Starsr and this white Polygonum has the appearance of ar fresh and orderly mountain garden. The streamr r r r which usually meanders through these rich meadowsr is often lined with clumps of the Labrador Tea (Ledumr glandulosum). This is an evergreen shrub withr shiny oval leaves which, due to the resin which theyr contain, are peculiarly fragrant when crushed. Ther white flowers are grouped at the ends of the branchesr in flat-topped clusters. By the stream bed oner may often find lovely robust plants of the large Pinkr Monkey Flower (Mimulus Lewisii) which replacesr the scarlet species of the Yosemite and lower valleys.r The flowers are showy light pink, and plainly two-lippedr but the two lips are similar. In these swampsr grow the quaint Elephant Heads (Pedicularis attollens)r with its slender rose-pink spikes. The name Elephantr Heads arises from the peculiar corolla with its hoodedr upper lip prolonged into a curved beak or proboscis.r Associated with the foregoing one finds the blue Pentstemonr (P. confertus) which is not so tall nor sor many flowered as that at lower altitudes. Often ar marshy stretch may be covered with the pale creamyr cups of the Marsh Matigold (Caltha biflora).r r r r The different meadows often vary greatly in theirr plant composition. On the one hand one may seer meadows filled with flowers which grow higher thanr the waist and so thickly that it is impossible to stepr without-treading down many plants. There are Reinr Orchis (Habenaria unalaschensis) with long tresses ofr small white flowers; many species of Lupins, the largestr and most attractive of which bears great massesr of showy blue spikes (Lupinus longipes); the greatr yellow Cone flower (Rudbeckia californica) standingr shoulder high and ending in a single conical head;r the purple Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) whichr raises its long wands to the breeze; and the curiousr r r

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r r r PLATE XXVIr r The Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguines)r r This remarkable plant, which is entirely fire-red, is one of ther r most curious species in the Parkr r r Photo by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r Corn Lily (Veratrum californicum) which adds itsr characteristic large-leafed clumps and stout cornliker stems to the meadow population, recalling in itsr appearance the Eastern False Hellebore. Instead ofr these rank growing meadows one may see a closer carpet of green painted here and there with brilliantr patches of crimson, gold, and pale lavender. Ther crimson on closer observation proves to be the brightr crimson Paint Brush (Castilleja Culbertsonii), the goldr a Potentilla (P. gordoni), and the lavender the Mountainr Daisy (Erigeron compositus).rr r r A common shrub at altitudes of five thousand tor eight thousand feet is the Green Manzanita (Arctostaphylusr patula). The stems of this manzanita arer three to six feet high and much branched so as to maker a spreading shrub. The leaves are very green andr fresh looking and the bell-shaped flowers deep pinkr and in compact terminal clusters. More or less associatedr with it at the higher altitudes one finds the Bitterr Cherry (Prunus emarginata), its crimson cherries mostr attractive to the eye in August but shocking to ther taste. It forms dense thickets on moist slopes and isr often quite abundant.r r r r Throughout the Yosemite region one is impressedr with the number of species of Eriogonum. One ofr these which is not uncommon between five thousandr arid seven thousand feet is the Sulphur Flower (Eriogonumr umbellatum), noticeable for the spots of yellowr which it lays upon many a stony slope or rocky crag.r 0n Lambert’s Dome one will find another kind,r Lobb’s Eriogonum (E. Lobbii) whose white flowersr are Much larger and, since the stem reclines uponr the granite rock upon which the plant grows, it seemsr as if they

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 168 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall weighed down the stalk which bears them.r r r r At the high altitudes, generally from 7500 to 9000r feet, there appears the Snow Brush (Ceanothus cordulatus).r This is a low flat-topped shrub which formsr circular mounds five to ten or fifteen feet broad andr commonly one to three feet high with olive or grayishr branches and rigid or often spinelike twigs. Its lowr compact growth is the result of the heavy burden ofr snow that it must carry for several months of the year.r In the summer it also carries a white burden, but thisr time it is light and fragrant instead of heavy and cold.r Whether it is the abundance of white bloom in ther summer or the snow of the winter which causes thisr species to be called Snow Brush is disputed, but itsr distinct habit and abundant occurrence at higherr altitudes always focuses the attention of ther mountaineer.r r r r The swampy, alpine meadows of the Hudsonianr Zone (at about 9000 to 10,000 feet) often possess anr interesting inhabitant of the Heath Family. Ther little Kalmia (K. Polifolia var. microphylla) with itsr curious pink bloom carrying the anthers in pockets ofr the corolla, is always a quest with the climbers whor know rare plants. If one watch these meadows carefullyr he will see the tiny pink or white bells of ther Dwarf Bilberry (Vaccinium caesspitosum) close againstr the ground. On gentle slopes moist with seepager water from the snow banks above, one finds the Snowr Fairies (Lewisia Pygmaea), tiny plants with a fewr white star flowers. Two other diminutive shrubs of ther Heath Family also grow at these high altitudes. Ther Red Heather (Bryanthus Breweri) has stems denselyr clothed with linear leaves and ending in a cluster of redr flowers with conspicuous darker red stamens; it has ther greater altitudinal range of the two heathers and isr r r r often quite abundant. The White Heather Bell (Cassioper Mertensiana) is usually found with the Redr Heather at the higher altitudes; it grows in heavyr masses along the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne andr picturesquely decorates the margins of most highr mountain lakes.r r r r As the traveler climbs the high ridges and peaksr and passes upward beyond the limit of trees he isr conscious that he is approaching the limits of life forr both plants and animals. In consequence, his interestr is intensified in those plants which occupy ther frontiers of the earth’s vegetation and typify ther Boreal Zone. Due to the high actinic quality ofr the light, most of these plants possess intensely pure orr delicate colors and tell the climber that he has reachedr a world different from that at lower altitudes. Inr their reproductive season these flowers appear veryr fragile and seem in strange contrast to their harshr and wild surroundings. If closely examined, however,r it will be found that the permanent portion of ther plant body is extremely condensed at or below ther surface of the ground and is well fitted for the longr arctic winter and the daily changes in temperaturer from freezing to summer mildness which occur even inr July and August at 9500 to 13,000 feet.r r r r Those alpine plants which are extremely condensedr and developed laterally are technically characterizedr as "Cushion plants." In this form of plant body ther stems branch and rebranch, forming with the leavesr a closely interlaced cushion-like vegetative body restingr on the ground. From this surface the flowerr stalks arise. The Alpine Eriogonum (E. incanum)r illustrates this high montane vegetative habit as doesr also the little golden Draba (D. Lemmoni), its leavesr r r r forming close rosettes at the base and its bright yellowr flowers with the petals in fours. One of the mostr handsome of these plants is the Alpine Phlox (P.r Douglasii), its cushion covered with white flowers,r long to be remembered as a thing of beauty. Twor alpine Erigerons, dwarfs with daisy-like flowers,r inhabit the highest peaks. E. compositus has leavesr toothed or lobed at the apex, while those of E. ursinusr are entire.r r r

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 169 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r The second type of alpine plant is frequently muchr dwarfed but does not develop the body laterally intor a distinct smooth cushion. Like the cushion plantsr they often have, however, most delicate or showyr flowers. One of the most glorious of these highr mountain species is the Yellow Columbine (Aquilegiar pubescens), a lovely graceful plant to which the wildr grandeur of its rocky surroundings is an almostr dramatic foil. It grows on high ridges at about eightr thousand to ten thousand feet and has large andr handsome flowers which run through a considerabler gamut of colors from yellow, white, or cream to pinkr or lavender. It is a very aristocrat among ther Columbines, quite different from the modest red-floweredr sort which grows in the Valley. This latterr is the same as the common Columbine (Aquilegiar truncata) of the Coast Ranges.r r r r Between eleven thousand and thirteen thousandr feet one finds the Alpine Buttercup (Ranunculusr oxynotus) which, in a modified form, extends northwardr through Oregon, Washington, and Britishr Columbia to Alaska and as far as the Bering Sea wherer it is found almost at sea-level. It is a characteristicr Buttercup with deep golden yellow corolla, the onlyr one of its genus in the alpine Sierra. Another truer r r

r r r PLATE XXVIIr r Shooting Star Bleeding Heart Elephant Heads (Dodecatheon Jeffreyi) (Dicentra formosa) (Pedicularis attollens) r r r Photos by A. C. Pillsburyr r r r r r alpine inhabitant is the Sierra Hulsea (H. algida), ar sturdy but small sunflower-like plant three to sixr inches high with more or less white woolly leaves andr stems. The bright blue trumpets of Pentstemonr menziesii var. davidsonii are truly remarkable for ther pure tone of the intensely blue corollas. A Stone-crop,r the Alpine Sedum (S. roseum) inhabits the alpine rocksr and forms matlike clusters of fleshy leaves and pinkishr flowers.rr r r Much sought by mountaineers is the Sierra Primroser (Primula suffrutescens), a handsome but smallr red-flowered plant with very shiny, toothed leavesr which grows on the rockiest and highest peaks.r Equaling it in interest are the sky-blue Polemoniumsr (P. eximium) which are sometimes called Sky Pilots,r their petioles crowded with tiny leaf segments and ther stems ending in dense clusters of lovely blue flowersr which defy the barrenness of their surroundings.r Little Alpine Willow trees an inch high (Salix tenera)r further testify to the arctic character of the highestr Sierran peaks. On these same peaks grows the Alpiner Sorrel (Oxyria digyna), an interesting little plant ofr rock crevices with pinkish insignificant flowers andr

FLOWERS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1 170 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall roundish cordate leaves.r r r r The Steer’s Head (Dicentra uniflora) is anotherr reward to the alpine climber to such high places asr Mount Dana, Macomb Ridge, and Tower Peak. Itsr delicate blossoms borne on slender naked stems two orr three inches high, come up at the edge of snow banksr and sometimes in crevasses of snow near the marginsr of bowlders. The flowers are of very singular construction,r the lateral sepals spread out in such a wayr as to answer to the horns of a steer; the two innerr Petals are so constructed as to form the snout, and ther r r r inner sepals or forelocks point to the eyes, which arer furnished by the shoulders of the petals. Theser flowers hang on their stems in such a manner asr to suggest drowsy cattle, their heads cocked a bitr as if half disturbed by an intruder and mildly surprised.r Its singular appearance and its rarity giver this plant a unique interest, to which may be addedr the observation that perhaps no other species ofr our alpine flora is so typically a relic of preglacialr times.r r r r The flora of the Sierra Nevada comprises one ofr most marked and distinct units of vegetation of ther earth’s surface. The Yosemite area is thoroughlyr typical of it, and not elsewhere on the Sierra chain canr a transection of it be studied to better advantage thanr here. All the flowering formations are remarkable,r and each in its best seasons has its own peculiar interests.r This fact is singularly true because primitiver conditions prevail over most of the area, and even inr the foothills undisturbed plant societies may still ber found by the explorer; while within the park limitsr the native plant life still reflects the old-time glory ofr the natural gardens of the Sierras.r r r

REFERENCES r r r Armstrong, Margaret, 1915.r Western Wild Flowersr (G. P.r Putnam’s Sons, N. Y.) pp. i-xx + 596, 500 illus., 48r col. pls.r r r r Congdon, J. W., 1891. Mariposa County as a Botanical District.r Zoe, 2: 234; 3: 25, 125, 314.r r r r Hall, H. M., and Hall, C. C.,r 1912. A Yosemite Flora. (Paulr Elder & Co., S. F.) pp. i-vii + 1-282, 11 pls., 171 figs.r r r r Hutchings, J. M., 1888.r r In the Heart of the Sierras.r (Pacificr Press, Oakland) pp. 496, pls., illus.r r r "The Shrubbery and Flowers of Yosemite"r on pp. 361-362,r r "The Snow Plant"r on pp. 465-466.r r r r r r

REFERENCES 171 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Jepson, W. L., 1911.r Flora of Middle Western California. (Associatedr Students Store, Berkeley.) Edition 2, pp. 1-515.r r 1909-1914. Flora of California. (Associated Studentsr Store, Berkeley.) pp. 1-528, figs. 1-105.r r 1912. "The Steer’s Head Flower." Sierra Club Bulletin,r 8: 266-269, fig.r r r r Parsons, M. E., andr Buck, M. W., 1909.r The Wild Flowers ofr California. (Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, S. F.) pp.r i-cvi + 1-417. (Descriptions and illustrations of the mostr conspicuous species.)r r r r r r

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r By Raymond H. Baileyr r

r r Manager of the Camping Tours Department, Yosemiter r National Park Co.r r r r

Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Park 173 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r Fewr r of us indeed are so well adapted to modernr conditions of living that Nature’s call to play Gypsyr a while finds no response. There comes a longing tor revert to the natural ways of living our early ancestorsr enjoyed, and to throw off for a time some of the shacklesr with which civilization has bound us.r r r r Pure, cold, sparkling water, not from a pipe, butr from a mountain spring; the murmur and fragrance ofr the breeze among the pines and fir trees; and the songr of birds and the call of the wild creatures of the forest,r grip the imagination and are woven in with a desirer for recreation and relaxation. Thus a wish is born forr a taste of simple living out in the open, away from ther haunts of man and free from cares and responsibility.r r r r This wish is quite universal. It finds expression inr "Weary Willie" with his tomato can boiling over ar cheery fire beside the railroad track, living off the landr as he goes. But it also exists in high places. Whiler the rest of the Belgian royal party stopped at ther hotel but a few miles distant, Prince Leopold chose tor camp out beside Bridalveil Creek, spending the nightr in a sleeping-bag beneath the pines, gathering firewood,r and eating flap-jacks in such numbers as only a growingr r r r boy can encompass. Even the apartment dweller,r bored with the daily drudgery of the compact andr convenient kitchenette, finds delight in her culinaryr duties as she cooks such delectable dainties as fish,r bacon, and browned pancakes over an open fire; andr one unaccustomed to the simplest duties at homer discovers pleasure in service and the self-reliancer which comes with each new task learned whiler camping.r r r r It is doubtful if there can be found another spotr on earth with so many conditions favorable to campingr out in the open as are found in the Yosemite Nationalr Park and other near-by regions in the Sierra Nevadar Mountains. This is where John Muir spent so muchr of his time, and of which he wrote so beautifully, andr after all his world-wide travel he declared that he stillr loved it the best.r r r r The weather is ideal for camping in the summer andr fall—pleasantly warm during the day without beingr hot, the nights ranging from cool to cold according tor the altitude. Day after day is clear, without a cloudr in the sky, and the heavens are marvelously bright atr night. The freedom from rain is one of the mostr delightful features, there being no storms for weeksr at a time. When they do occur they are usuallyr brief afternoon thunder showers, recurring perhapsr for two or three days. Except for a large piece ofr waterproof canvas for an emergency, little or no provisionr need be made by the camper against rain; ther use of tents for shelter in this region are the exceptionr rather than the rule.r r r r Annoying flies, insects, and other pests are practicallyr unknown with the exception of mosquitoes,r which are troublesome in some places only for a shortr r r r time after the snow has melted from the ground,r leaving temporary pools of water in hollows. Butr even mosquitoes are usually lacking or can be avoidedr in choosing a camp site.r r r r The air is invigorating, and water, abundant everywhere,r is crystal clear and icy cold. The manyr mountain streams and lakes throughout the park,r teeming with trout, make a fisherman’s paradise.r

CAMPING AND MOUNTAINEERING INrr YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 174 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Virgin forests of pine, fir, cedar, and scores of otherr species, dotted with flower carpeted meadows, extendr to the slopes of the rugged snow-capped peaks whichr beckon to those below to come upward and enjoy ther magnificence of the views they command.r r r r Only a very small portion of the park is accessibler to the tourist stopping at the hotels and lodges in ther Yosemite Valley and its immediate vicinity. Butr the whole park is open to the camper, inviting him tor leave the beaten paths and to explore regions seldomr visited, to view beauty and grandeur in solitude, tor fish where no other fisherman has just preceded him,r and to enjoy the pleasures of camping in lovely spotsr at will, without schedule, and without a thought of ther outside world which seems so far removed.r r r r The Camping Seasonr r r r The season well suited to camping on the floor of ther Yosemite Valley, which is at an elevation of about fourr thousand feet, usually extends from May to October,r inclusive. April and November are often delightful,r but provision should be made for occasional stormsr and cold weather. In other portions of the park ther camping period is shorter, depending upon the amountr of snow on the ground, which, in turn, is dependentr r r r largely upon the altitude—July, August, and Septemberr being the best months.r r r r During the first of the season there is the greaterr volume of water which is advantageous for its scenicr value but sometimes undesirable for the best travelingr and fishing in the higher sections. Wild flowers are inr their prime somewhere during all the season, atr increasing elevations as the months progress. Inr fall the coloring is beautiful, the air is crisp andr invigorating, and the number of visitors is small.r July is the month of greatest travel.r r r r Where to Campr r r r The Yosemite National Park is one large campingr ground. Wherever there is wood and water, and feedr if there is stock, there is a potential camp. Trailsr lead to all parts of the park, and it is a poor trail indeedr which does not pass at least one good camping spotr every hour or two. Auto roads are fewer but affordr many camp sites, especially the Tioga Road, whichr passes Lake Tenaya, through Tuolumne Meadows,r and over Tioga Pass, connecting with the roads tor Lake Tahoe on the north and to Los Angeles by wayr of Owen’s Lake to the south.r r r

r The Camping Seasonr 175 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r The choice of a camping place or camping itineraryr is largely a matter of the objectives sought and ther time at one’s disposal. If mountain climbing andr high alpine scenery is desired, the crest of the Highr Sierra forming the easterly boundary of the park willr afford the best in this line. There is hardly a sectionr where excellent trout fishing is not to be had, but ther best near-by points are to the east and northeast ofr Yosemite Valley, and it is still better farther northr where it is less frequented.r r r r r r As a fixed camp or auto camp, Tuolumne Meadowsr is unusually well located, there being innumerabler lakes, streams, waterfalls, peaks, and varied pointsr of interest within a day’s walking distance. Rodgersr Lake is probably the gem of the park, and is notedr for its splendid fishing as are also Benson Lake andr Matterhorn Creek, near by.r r r r The Northerly portion of the park is least frequentedr because farthest from the Valley, but it isr rugged and interesting, and well worth while for ther one who has three or four weeks to spend.r r r r How to Gor r r r There are about as many gradations in the mannerr of camping as there are campers. At one extreme arer those who would go light like John Muir, for days withr but some tea and a few crusts of bread, or like anotherr mountaineer whose only excess clothing was a singler sock, that each of his hard-worked feet might have ar change of raiment on alternate days. Then there is ther "Tin Lizzie," with parents in the front seat and bulgingr with progeny in the rear, the back and sides packedr and draped with every conceivable household article,r Lares et Penates and all, until the identity of ther conveyance is completely concealed except for ther rattle. The student with a month’s growth towardr his first beard, traveling with a donkey, Stevensonr fashion, and the luxurious limousine parked besider the Tuolumne River are equally in keeping as typesr of camping to be found.r r r r The stationary or fixed camp appeals to those whoser desire is to be settled in some beautiful spot, to rest, orr use the camp as a base for excursions to near-by pointsr of interest. As the transportation of equipment andr r r r supplies is simplest on this kind of an outing, ther amount of comfort and luxury which may be indulgedr in is a matter of personal taste. In the Yosemiter Valley, beside the Merced River, are a number ofr camping places, some for autoists, and others for thoser without machines, prepared by the Government withr piped water and sanitation provisions, and assignedr to campers at the office of the Park Superintendent.r The Tuolumne Meadows are also particularly wellr suited to camping in a fixed spot for those who wish tor loaf or fish or to make side trips to the many near-byr points of interest.r r r r But in order to see much of the park it is necessaryr to move camp from place to place. The mostr independent and least expensive means of travel isr afoot, carrying the total camping equipment andr provisions on the back. This is enjoyable for goodr walkers with strong backs, but should not ber attempted by r Where to Campr 176 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall any not wishing strenuous, hard work.r Those carrying their own loads should observe ther Rule of I. 0. U.—Inches, Ounces, and Utility—discardingr all but the real necessities, for a pack whichr feels light in the morning grows very heavy before ther day’s tramp is done, and robs such a trip of much ofr its pleasurer r r r Many enjoy walking on the trails who do not wishr to be burdened with carrying their outfits. Burrosr and pack mules may be used for this purpose. Onlyr animals accustomed to mountain trails and brokenr to packing should be taken, as other animals are likelyr to prove useless, if not dangerous, on the trails. Ifr there are but one or two pack animals it is usuallyr advisable to tether them out with long ropes so as tor keep them from wandering away from camp. The bestr r r r stand of grass should be selected, as free from treesr and snags as possible, and the animals shifted to newr locations at frequent intervals, as it takes considerabler green feed to keep a working animal in condition. Ifr there are several animals, it is customary to hobbler a mare, or one or more of the more adventuresomer animals, and place bells on others to help locate ther band. Grain need not be taken for the animals if carer be exercised in selecting camps where the food is good,r but a little grain fed the first morning or two is oftenr helpful in keeping the stock near camp.r r r r About every second or third year the park is visitedr for its annual outing by the Sierra Club, a conservationr and mountaineering organization which has taken ar leading part in the preservation of the forests andr other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountainsr and in the development of National Parks. Approximatelyr for the whole month of July, about twor hundred of its members and friends walk from campr to camp, some ten to fifteen miles a day, the commissaryr and transportation of the entire outfit beingr provided by the organization. This is a delightfulr way of camping in the park, inexpensively andr relieved of all cooking and packing.r r r r Riding horseback, with pack animals to transportr the outfit over the trails, is still another way of campingr out, and a most delightful way of getting aboutr the park with the greatest amount of comfort. Carer should be exercised to take only saddle animals andr pack animals which are accustomed to mountainr trails, and double cinch saddles are advisable. If it isr desired to lighten the work of such a trip, this can ber done by engaging a guide, packer, or cook, or ther whole trip may be arranged, outfitted, and conductedr r r r by the Camping Tours Department of the Yosemiter National Park Co., which also conducts certainr definitely scheduled camping trips which anyone mayr join.r r r Automobile camping is becoming very popular, andr when the new highway is completed into Yosemiter Valley will undoubtedly increase very greatly. Butr as yet it should be understood that although ther roads are very good of their kind, still they are mountainr roads, steep and rough in places. They are safer for careful driving and for machines which are in goodr running order. Brakes should be in first class condition,r and two spare tires are advisable. The motorr trip from Yosemite to Lake Tahoe by way of ther Tioga Road and the Leevining Creek Grade is particularlyr fine, and there are good camping places alongr the route.r r r

r How to Gor 177 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r What to Taker r r r The question of what to take and what not to taker on a camping trip is a most important one. To ber without real necessities can prove very annoying butr to be burdened with a lot of unnecessary things veryr often mars the comfort and pleasure of a trip. It isr well to take just as little as is consistent with comfort,r but that little just right, keeping in mind that it is ther general tendency to take entirely too much in a desirer to play safe. If the means of transportation ber knapsacking, the load of necessity must be cut to ar minimum, whereas it can be materially increased ifr carried by pack-train or automobile.r r r There are a number of good books on the subject ofr camping which deal in minute detail with such subjectsr as clothing, personal effects, camping equipment,r r r r packing-outfits, cooking utensils, provisions, cooking,r selection of camp sites, etc., which will prove quiter helpful to a camper. No attempt will be made herer to cover these subjects in detail, but a few suggestionsr as to some items, particularly as related to conditionsr in this park, may be of service. Since there are sor many types of camping, and as no two experiencedr campers will agree on many details regarding camping,r each prospective camper will have to judge of ther applicability of the following suggestions to the particularr conditions of the trip contemplated.r r r r Clothing should be durable, of medium warmth, andr comfortably large. The following list is suggestedr as suitable for a month’s outing:r r r r 2 suits medium weight underwearr r 2 woolen and 1 cotton shirt (or waists)r r 6 prs. socks or stockings (medium to heavy)r r 1 outing suit or old business suitr r 1 extra pair trousers, riding breeches, or skirt ofr khaki, corduroy, or whipcordr r 1 sweaterr r 1 pair stout walking shoes with puttees or leggingsr (or light boots, if preferred)r r 1 pr. comfortable light shoes for campr r 1 pr. gloves or gauntletsr r 1 soft felt or cloth hat with fairly wide brimr r 2 bandannas and 3 khaki handkerchiefsr r 1 pr. flannelette pajamasr r r r For riding or hiking, riding breeches are most commonlyr worn by women, or riding habits if muchr time is to be spent in the saddle. Short skirts, however,r but a few inches below the knee, and worn withr shorter knickerbockers of the same color, are suitabler for general wear if preferred.r r r r r r Special care should be taken to have comfortable,r good-fitting shoes, and it is well if possible to breakr r What to Taker 178 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall them in before starting on a trip. Shoes with broadr toes and low, flat heels, of the Munson type of last,r with soles heavy enough for cone-headed Hungarianr nails, are good for trail work and mountain climbingr But avoid crowding the soles with nails, as too manyr result in a poorer grip than none at all; and there shouldr be no nails in the shoes for riding. If shoes a half sizer larger than usual are worn with two pairs of socks,r one medium cotton and one heavy woolen pair, frictionr is reduced, and there is less danger of blisters. Whenr the feet become toughened, if two pairs of socks prover uncomfortably warm, one may be discarded by usingr cork inner soles.r r r r Heavy, high boots are to be avoided if much walkingr or climbing is to be done, but stout-soled, light-topped,r ten- or twelve-inch boots, just high enough tor hold the trouser legs, are particularly good. Appearancer is sacrificed, but greater freedom of movementr is obtained than with high boots or with ridingr breeches, shoes, and puttees.r r r r Basket-ball or similar shoes with heavy rubber solesr are good for smooth rock surfaces, comfortable forr camp use, and are used almost exclusively by somer hikers for all-around service.r r r r As ordinary shoe laces wear out quickly on walkingr trips, it is well to take an extra pair, or better still,r some buckskin laces. If ice work is to be encountered,r a set of baseball cleats screwed to the soles of walkingr shoes is good, but unless this kind of climbing isr particularly sought on some of the glaciers, there isr no need of them in this park.r r r r Although generally there is very little use for a rain-coat,r r r r a very light weight one is occasionally handy inr the event of a storm, and a bathing-suit is also convenientr on occasion.r r r r Personal effects are likely to become burdensomer unless care is taken to eliminate all but the truly usefulr ones. A very few toilet articles will suffice. Watch,r knife, and compass are very useful, and one shouldr never be out in the mountains without a map andr matches. With the one there is very little likelihoodr of becoming lost, and with the other comparativer comfort may be enjoyed even if caught out over night.r Many a person has experienced inconvenience, anxietyr and discomfort, if not danger, because of trusting tor someone else to carry these very necessary articles.r r r r An excellent Topographic Map of Yosemite Nationalr Park is published by the U. S. Geological Survey,r and may be obtained by remitting 25 cents by moneyr order or cash to the Director of the United Statesr Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. The map isr 28 1/2 by 27 inches; the scale approximately 2 miles tor the inch; and the roads, trails, and names are printedr in black, the streams and lakes in blue, and the reliefr in brown, indicated by contour lines representing 100-footr intervals. This same map, folded and boundr between paper covers, may be obtained by remittingr cents. It will not stand a great deal of usager without tearing along the creases, but the flat mapr selling for 25 cents may be mounted in durable formr convenient for carrying in the pocket by cutting itr into sections along the lines indicating each io minutesr in latitude and r What to Taker 179 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall longitude, and pasting these sectionsr 1/4 inch apart on muslin of a little closer weave thanr cheesecloth.r r r r The U. S. Geological Survey also publishes a Map ofr r r r Yosemite Valley, 35 x 15 1/2 inches, scale 2000 feet tor the inch, with 50-foot contour intervals, which willr be mailed upon remittance of 10 cents in coin. Thisr is a splendid large-scale map of Yosemite Valley andr its immediate vicinity, but does not cover the rest ofr the park.r r r r These maps may also be purchased in Yosemite (byr personal application, but not by mail) at the officer of the Superintendent of the park or at the generalr merchandise store.r r r r Tinted glasses are often useful for relieving the eyesr from the glare of the sun on the rocks, and quiter indispensable on glaciers or large snow fields. Ar pedometer, adjusted to the length of one’s step, is goodr for approximating the distance traveled in walking.r A small electric flashlight or the smallest size acetelener camp light or some type of folding candle lanternr comes in very handy at times. If mosquitoes shouldr be encountered, a bar of mosquito netting or a smallr vial of oil of citronella (repellent) might not comer amiss. Stout twine is often in demand.r r r r Adhesive tape rivals the safety-pin as "handy man"r about camp. By applying it to the portion of ther foot where soreness first begins to manifest itself, ar blister usually can be avoided, and it is good forr holding gauze or wrappings in place. Tape may ber used to secure the cover on an opened can, seal ther holes in a can of milk, patch a cracked watch crystal,r effect hasty repairs to clothing, and accomplish manyr original acts which readily suggest themselves.r r r r Take no fire-arms, as hunting is prohibited in thisr park, but be prepared with finishing tackle, for troutr are plentiful. California Royal Coachman, and Grayr and Brown Hackle flies with peacock body, are universallyr r r r good, and many others do well according to ther local conditions. Numbers eight and ten are the sizesr generally used. The necessary State Fishing Licenser may be secured in Yosemite. The daily catch of troutr is limited to twenty fish, providing, however, that in nor event may more be caught than are to be used.r It is hardly necessary to suggest a camera and andr ample supply of films for a trip into a region of suchr beauty and magnificence.r r r r Sleeping equipment is a most important consideration,r since about a third of one’s time is spent in bed.r The type of bedding is largely a matter of choice, butr as experienced campers differ materially as to the best,r more than one will be mentioned. All bedding materialr is best if dark in color, so as not to show the dirt.r Three wool blankets of about five pounds each arer ample for cold nights in the higher altitudes, and twor are sufficient for usual needs. A 10-ounce canvasr about seven feet square when folded will serve as ar ground cloth and also an extra covering. If the blanketsr are folded lengthwise and sewed along the bottomr and side, or fastened with large safety pins or smallr blanket pins, this sleeping-bag will give greaterr warmth and comfort. The canvas may also be mader into a bag.r r What to Taker 180 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r The following quotation from an Outing Announcementr of the Sierra Club describes a lighter weightr sleeping outfit recommended for use in this region:r "This should consist of a sleeping-bag made by doublingr two wool comforts, so as to give the bag the greatestr length, and sewing securely across the bottom andr two thirds of the way up the side. This bag shouldr be lined and covered with gingham or sateen, whichr should project a foot or two beyond the top as a looser r r r flap. The wool comforters may be sewed up intor separate bags as indicated, and one lined and the otherr covered. One bag can then be slipped inside the otherr for ordinary, use and removed easily for knapsackr trips where economy of weight is desirable. A tallr person will require extra length comforters. Blanketsr are too heavy and cotton comforts are not desirable.r A waterproof sheet or covering at least six by six feetr should be taken. Canvas and the ordinary rubberr blanket are entirely too heavy for this purpose. Ther most serviceable and satisfactory material is waterproofr silk (balloon silk). It is strong, durable, perfectlyr waterproof, and very light. A piece five yardsr in length, cut in half and sewed together along one side,r will make a large sheet that will protect the sleepingr bag from the ground and form a covering as well."r r r r One thick lamb’s wool batting comforter is lighterr and has about the same warmth as two ordinary woolr comforters, and an eiderdown quilt is still lighter forr the same amount of warmth but not so serviceable.r If a sleeping-bag is used it should be so made that itr is capable of being aired easily. Should the beddingr prove inadequate for the coldest nights, a hot-waterr bottle, heated rock, a pair of soft woolen bed socks willr probably solve the difficulty by keeping the feet warm.r A small down cushion makes a very light but comfortabler pillow. Air cushions are less comfortable butr more convenient.r r r r Suitable packing equipment adds to the comfort andr convenience of a camping trip. A hiker’s whole outfitr may be rolled up inside sleeping-blankets andr carried over one shoulder, but it is preferable to use ar pack-sack or pack-harness for greater convenience andr comfort, and in order to secure a better distributionr r r r of the load; this permits of the use of a light-weightr sleeping-bag which is much warmer for its weight thanr blankets. Even for carrying lunch and other lightr articles on the trail, a small knapsack or rucksack withr straps over both shoulders is much more comfortabler and permits greater freedom in walking than a bagr carried on but one shoulder.r r r r In packing animals, the use of coal-oil boxes (ther cases in which two five-gallon cans are shipped) slippedr into kyacks or strapped in canvas slings, greatlyr facilitates the packing of provisions or equipmentr without danger of injury from pressure of the packr ropes. Dunnage bags of stout canvas three feet longr and eighteen inches in diameter (when packed) arer very convenient for packing sleeping equipment andr personal effects.r r r r A pocket roll is most useful in packing and carryingr one’s effects. Again quoting from the Sierra Club’sr Outing Announcement, a description for a pocket rollr follows: "It should be made of denim or drilling, asr follows: A piece three feet square is first taken as ar back, and three box-plaited pockets, each of a footr deep, and one above the other and extending the entirer width, are securely sewed to the back and bound withr tape. The upper pocket can be divided into threer divisions to hold small articles. All these pockets canr be closed with flaps or tied with tapes. Into this rollr all one’s belongings except bedding can be packed, andr it can be arranged with eyelet and cord, and hungr to a tree when in camp."r r What to Taker 181 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r As cooking utensils are bulky and hard to pack atr best, care should be taken to have them of convenientr shape and size, and nesting one inside the other as farr as possible. Some of the kettles at least, should be ofr r r r granite or enamel ware, so as to render them safer against acid while cooking or holding certain fruits.r or vegetables. Tight-clamped covers for these kettlesr will make it possible to carry such foods from one campr to another. Nesting ten- or twelve-inch galvanizedr buckets are handy for cold water, hot water, andr dishpan. Be sure there is an extra can opener.r r r r Fireless cooker, Dutch oven or folding reflectingr oven, shovel, and axe, are all good if consistent withr the means of transportation, but none are necessities.r Some type of folding stove, grate, or fire irons is veryr convenient, and a great time-saver when shifting campr often. Two iron bars 1/4 inch by 1 inch by 3 feet long,r having riveted to each end folding legs of the samer material 15 inches long, pointed at the ends, make ar very good set of fire irons when driven into the groundr about 5 inches apart at one end to hold the smallerr cooking utensils, and about 8 inches at the other endr for the larger ones.r r r r Provisions should not as a rule include many cannedr goods containing a large percentage of water unlessr the transportation is a minor consideration. Driedr fruits and vegetables go much farther for their weightr and bulk. It is well to plan for variety in the diet, asr this can be done with a little thought without increasingr the weight or expense. Small cloth bags are goodr for packing broken package- or bulk-goods, for paperr sacks will soon go to pieces.r r r r On a camping trip one craves sweets and fats muchr more than normally. One quarter pound per day perr person is about the average amount of sugar used.r Jams and jellies and an abundance of dried fruits gor well. Bacon is the regular stand-by, and ham comesr next. An average use of bacon and ham (principallyr r r r r bacon) is about one fourth to one third pound per dayr per person if used freely. If the grease is saved forr frying fish and hot cakes, making gravies, etc., littler lard or other fats need be taken for shortening andr cooking. Hot cereals for breakfast and tea as a beverager are generally liked, even by those who seldomr care for them at home. Beef extract, bouillon cubes,r and powdered soup are convenient as soup stocks.r r r r Butter as now packed in convenient one-poundr tins cannot be distinguished from the fresh, and therer is now some very successful powdered milk in gradesr from skimmed milk to cream. While not quite sor instantaneously available for use as canned milk, it isr much lighter and less bulky, and is generally preferredr to canned milk because of a more natural flavor.r r r r About five pounds per day per person is consideredr a normal allowance of provisions if they include thoser which are watery and bulky, while just about half thatr amount is sufficient if the foods are all concentratedr such as would be suitable for a knapsack trip.r r r r What to Taker 182 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r What can be Supplied in Yosemiter r r r A tourist or "dude," as more frequently designatedr by the guides and packers, may come to Yosemite withr never a thought of camping out and, if the notionr suddenly appeals to him, either purchase or rent everythingr essential for a comfortable camping trip. Ther Yosemite National Park Co., operating under concessionr from the Government, conducts several departmentsr which will be of service to a camper, and all rates andr prices will be found reasonable, being controlled andr authorized by the Government.r r r r The General Merchandise Store carries a good liner r r r of outing clothes and shoes suitable for camping, cookingr utensils, supplies, and a large stock of provisions.r It has on sale the folded map of Yosemite Nationalr Park previously mentioned, fishing tackle, And ther necessary State Fishing License. A limited stock ofr provisions may be obtained from some of the lodger,r in the park outside of the Valley.r r r r The Housekeeping Department can supply a partr of any number of persons with a full camping outfitr including tent, bedding, furniture, cooking utensils,r etc., for a fixed camp in Yosemite Valley, set up readyr for housekeeping.r r r r The Camping Tours Department serves those whor wish to move from place to place while camping out.r Guides, packers, cooks, saddle-animals, pack-animals,r and packing and camping equipment can be furnishedr those wishing to manage their own camping trips.r All-Expense Camping Tours at a fixed daily rate perr person are planned, arranged, and conducted for partiesr desiring exclusive service for saddle trips independentr of schedules, but wishing to be relieved of allr personal responsibility of management and to be abler to start on the trail carefree and without loss of time.r All riding and packing stock, attendants, sleeping andr cooking equipment, and provisions, are included inr the charge—in fact everything necessary for a completer and comfortable camping trip except one’sr clothing and personal belongings. A number ofr definitely scheduled All-Expense Camping Tours ofr from two days to two or three weeks are organized andr conducted during the summer for any individuals whor may wish to join such parties. A booklet telling ofr the trips and various activities of the Campingr Tours Department may be secured from the Yosemiter r r r National Park Company. Photographic suppliesr may be obtained at the numerous studios in ther Valley. Yosemite is well able to equip an unpreparedr camper with all the necessities for a trip, but shouldr there still remain some articles he may desire, they canr be secured quickly and conveniently by parcels post.r r r r There are a number of places in the park wherer one may secure information regarding camping. Ther National Park Service has an Information Bureau atr the office of the Park Superintendent. The rangers inr charge are well informed, maps of the park and Valleyr are on display and for sale, and the official booklet ofr General Information Regarding Yosemite Nationalr Park issued by the Department of the Interior is therer for distribution. The Park Service also maintains ar free Nature Guide Service with headquarters in ther Government Administration Building in Yosemite.r The transportation offices in the various hotels, lodges,r and camps, are also prepared to impart information.r

r What can be Supplied in Yosemiter 183 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r The Sierra Club maintains the LeConte Memorialr Lodge in Yosemite Valley, and the Parsons Memorialr Lodge in the Tuolumne Meadows, where maps andr books pertaining to the park are available, and informationr may be obtained from those in charge. Rangersr stationed at various points throughout the parkr can also be of assistance to campers, and their ’phonesr are available in case of need.r r r r On the Trailr r r r Before starting on the trail be sure that all fires haver been carefully extinguished, and that the camp siter has been left clean and inviting for the next camper.r The value of an early start to get the most pleasurer r r r out of a day’s travel can hardly be overstated; if a longr day’s journey is to be made it is quite essential. Butr even for a short trip, traveling is at its best in the coolr of the morning, stopping along the trail may then ber indulged in without a sense of hurry, and an early campr can be made in time to fish, swim, loaf, or explorer around camp during a part of the afternoon.r r r r Whether walking or riding it is well to start out at anr easy pace, increasing it gradually until muscles arer limbered and breathing comes easily. Many have ar tendency to tire themselves or their animals out duringr the first hour of travel by exhausting too much of theirr energy at the start. Endurance at a moderate gaitr throughout the day is what counts, rather than a speedr which cannot be maintained. As a rule it will ber found that it does not pay to take steep shortcuts on anr up-grade; while saving a trifle in time at the momentr as against the longer but easier grade, the additionalr effort and resulting exhaustion usually more than offsetr the temporary gain. Excessive drinking of the icyr cold water of the mountain streams and lakes is to ber avoided when one is hot, as it often brings on illness.r Drinking small amounts at frequent intervals can ber done with safety.r r r r Most of the trails in the immediate vicinity of ther Valley are very well made, and junction points arer usually marked by sign boards. Farther into ther mountains of the park, where there is less travel, notr so much attention has been paid to easy grades orr marking of junctions, but with the aid of the topographicr map little difficulty is experienced in followingr any of them.r r r r Except in occasional obscure places, trails in commonr use are clearly evident by the slight depressionr r r r worn in the ground. But sometimes in rocky places,r meadows, or forests where the ground is thickly strewnr with litter, or when the ground is covered with snow,r the path underfoot is not distinguishable. To provider against such contingencies, trails are generallyr indicated by a continuous series of easily recognizedr marks within sight of each other.r r r r In the forest, the marks are blazes on trees close tor the trail, a blaze being a cut through the bark exposingr a r On the Trailr 184 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall surface of the lighter colored sapwood. Blazesr are cut in various shapes, many trails being marked byr those having the form of the letter "T." In rockyr places trails are usually indicated by several rocksr piled one on top of the other, commonly known asr "ducs," "monuments," or "cairns." In meadows,r stakes or ducs are sometimes set along the trail if ther trail is not marked where it leaves the meadow.r r r r By referring occasionally to the Topographic Map ofr Yosemite National Park, which no camper should ber without, the proper trails at junction points are easilyr ascertained; and if doubt exists at any time regardingr a trail, it may be dispelled by checking its course withr that of the trail indicated on the map. In this connectionr it may be well to make a few suggestions as tor how to read this map, for those not accustomed to ther use of a topographic map.r r r r Names, roads, trails, boundary lines, etc., are shownr in black, and lakes, rivers, creeks, etc., in blue, as onr ordinary maps; but the brown figures and linesr indicate elevations. Each brown line shows ther contour of the land at its particular elevation abover sea level, and the space between lines represents anr interval of one hundred feet in elevation. At intervalsr of each five hundred feet above sea level is a heavyr r r r brown line with figures every now and then showingr its altitude. The elevation of any point may thus ber determined by following the contour line passingr through it, back to the nearest figures in the heavyr brown line next below it in elevation, and then addingr one hundred feet for each space separating these lines.r The exact elevations of principal peaks, lakes, andr other points of interest are also indicated by brownr figures.r r r r The spacing, position, and form of these brown linesr tell at a glance the story of the topography of ther country. If they are spaced far apart, the landr between them slopes gently, while if they are close,r together a steep slope is indicated. The form ther lines take and their relation to each other indicate ther form and nature of the landscape. The size and shaper of a mountain, ridge, spur, etc., are indicated, and ther position shown as related to other features of ther landscape and to the points of the compass. It willr be noticed that a contour line in crossing a canyonr forms an angle which invariably points upstream, thusr indicating at a glance the direction in which ther stream flows. A little study will reveal many suchr short-cuts for reading the features of the map rapidly,r so that with a little use, the map will picture ther country in relief at a glance.r r r r Trails may then be left if one wishes to cut acrossr country, as it is known in advance what will ber encountered in the way of canyons, ridges, passes, etc.r But it must be remembered that the map does notr show the surface characteristics of the country. Ar steep mountain side which may be easy traveling ifr it affords good footing in a forest, may present difficultiesr ties if it proves to be a mass of broken rock, or may ber r r r impassable if it is a smooth granite slope. For thisr reason it is usually inadvisable to attempt to taker horses off the trail into unknown territory, but afootr one can usually find some way around mostr obstructions.r r r r But before leaving a trail be sure that you have ther points of the compass well in mind in relation to ther direction in which you are to travel, so that if your should have any difficulty in retracing your steps, ther map and compass may be brought to the rescue. Inr order to square the map accurately with the compassr it must be borne in mind that the magnetic north isr about sixteen degrees east of the true north in thisr park, so that r On the Trailr 185 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall while the north and south line of ther compass should be parallel with the north and southr line of the map, the magnetic needle should be pointingr sixteen degrees east of north. With the map spreadr out horizontally and the top thus pointing accuratelyr to the north, it is usually easy to find one’s location atr any time providing a view of some known object canr be obtained. By sighting across the position of anr object on the map to the object itself, a line is foundr passing through one’s location, and the intersectionr of two such lines will definitely establish one’s positionr on the map.r r r r In Campr r r r If a comfortable trip is sought, try to make campr early enough to permit of some leisure without havingr to rush to prepare camp and get dinner before dark.r In selecting a camp site a number of considerationsr enter in. Convenience to a sufficient supply of goodr Wood and water perhaps come first. As no standingr r r r timber, living branches, or shrubbery are allowed tor be cut in the Park, dead wood must be depended uponr entirely for fuel. For cooking purposes, limbs fromr one to two inches in diameter usually give best results,r with smaller branches for kindling of quick, smallr fires. If such wood is not found on the ground it isr often obtained by breaking the lower dead branchesr from living trees. This wood is dry even when thatr laying on the ground may be damp, and being usuallyr brittle, it breaks readily into lengths by striking itr against a rock, so that an axe is seldom necessary.r An abundance of good feed should be near by for ther animals.r r r r Seek level, dry spots for sleeping quarters. Ther edge of a meadow, although apparently dry in the daytime,r is likely to prove damp and cold at night, whiler a few steps distance into the forest or an elevationr a few feet higher will generally secure a dry spot whichr will be many degrees warmer. Where pine needlesr are available, a pile of them spread out and used as ar mattress will add greatly to the warmth and comfortr of the bed. Should mosquitoes be encountered near ar meadow, lake, or other spot where there is standingr water, they can often be avoided by pitching camp ar short distance away on higher ground or on a runningr stream. It is seldom necessary to seek shelter fromr wind unless camping in a draw or near a high mountainr pass, but it is well to determine the prevailing directionr of even a slight breeze so that the fire may be builtr where the smoke will blow away from camp ratherr than toward it. The location of the camp withr relation to the fishing, view, mountain climbing, conveniencer for side trips, or such other objectives asr may be sought, will readily suggest itself. A tent isr r r r not often needed as shelter against storms, but isr desired by some for convenience as a dressing roomr and place for storage. However, it is advisable to haver a waterproof fly or canvas of some sort for use in caser of rain, and each individual should have a waterproofr covering of some-kind for his bedding.r r r r Too much emphasis cannot be laid on the necessityr of selecting safe places for cooking fires or camp fires.r The danger of causing a disastrous forest fire is constantlyr present unless every possible precaution forr prevention is taken. Usually a sandy or gravelly spotr is conveniently at hand, and if not, it often can be mader by scraping away the surface covering of pine needlesr or leaves from an area several feet in diameter. Butr if the forest floor is thick and does not expose a surfacer free from roots or leaf-mold, it is unsafe, as a fire willr often smolder in such material for hours or even daysr under the surface before coming to a blaze. A firer just large enough for one’s wants requires the leastr fuel, is least likely to spread, and is the easiest tor extinguish upon departure. If no camp stove or fire-ironsr are brought, flat rocks with straight edges oftenr can be found, r In Campr 186 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall and quite a satisfactory fireplace may ber built with parallel sides about six or eight inches apartr and three or four feet long. A little piece of candle isr often helpful in lighting a fire if small kindling isr scarce or the wood is damp.r r r r In frying trout more can be cooked in the pan ifr the heads are removed, and severing the backbone inr several places will prevent a newly caught trout fromr curling up while cooking. As the heat necessary tor boil water is approximately two degrees less for eachr one thousand feet above sea-level, boiled foods requirer considerably longer cooking at the higher altitudes.r r r r Many canned foods being unsafe when allowed tor stand in their tins after opening, it is a good rule tor empty all tins of their contents as soon as opened.r r r r It is advisable to make up one’s bed before dark, andr to gather enough wood for dinner and breakfast, puttingr a little kindling in some covered place if dampnessr during the night seems likely. Covering the food-stuffsr will protect them from possible moisture andr various small night-prowling animals as well as thoser which arise with the break of day. Occasionallyr leather goods such as shoes, straps, and saddles arer damaged by small animals at night, unless they arer hung up or otherwise put out of reach.r r r r Before leaving camp a little house-cleaning is inr order. Make sure that all tin cans, paper, and refuser have been buried or burned, that the water supply hasr been left clean and free from waste of any kind, thatr the fires have been extinguished thoroughly, and thatr no articles have been left behind.r r r r Mountaineeringr r r r As a rule, mountain climbing in the park isr incidental to a camping trip rather than its mainr objective, for the reason that there are so manyr splendid peaks which are easily and safely climbedr from comfortable base camps. In many of the goodr camping places well below timberline, visited in ther course of an outing, the camper will find himself atr such an elevation, and so close to the base of some peak,r that it is a simple matter to make the ascent andr return to the camp in a single day’s trip. Althoughr many peaks rise to an altitude of about thirteenr thousand feet above sea-level, no one mountain of ther r r r park stands out in isolation, towering preëminentlyr above its fellows and thus inviting the special attentionr of the mountaineer. By this it is not to ber inferred that the peaks do not stand out from oner another sufficiently to command splendid views, forr many of them offer magnificent panoramas of forests,r lakes, and snow-clad peaks as far as the eye can reach,r and are more than worthy of the slight effort usuallyr required to reach them. But instead of rising aloner and from a low altitude they are usually found inr groups or in a chain, and commence to rise as individualr peaks from a high base altitude.r r r

r Mountaineeringr 187 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Sierra Characteristicsr r r r The Sierra Nevada Range is a huge block of ther earth’s crust tipped so that it rises very abruptlyr along its eastern edge, but sloping gently toward ther west. The apex of this block forms the crest of ther High Sierra which serves as the eastern boundary liner of the park. The predominating rock is granite,r varied now and then by some other formation suchr as the metamorphic rock of Mt. Dana and Mt. Gibbs.r It is generally characteristic of the peaks that-theirr east and north faces are precipitous, while they sloper more gently toward the south and west. Glacialr action is strongly in evidence in polished surfaces,r carved domes, scoured canyons, and moraines. Ar few small residual glaciers still remain on the protectedr northern slopes of some of the higher peaks,r where they have cut precipitously walled cirquesr or amphitheaters well into the mountain sides almostr to the very summits.r r r r True alpine conditions of climbing are not oftenr r r r encountered in the High Sierra unless deliberatelyr sought, and alpen-stocks and ropes are very seldomr required. Forests extend well up the slopes of manyr of the peaks, the timberline generally being aboutr ten thousand or eleven thousand feet. Usually butr few large snow fields are found after the middle ofr July, even at the highest altitudes, but there are oftenr patches in sheltered places or where the drifts haver been heavy. Practically all of the principal peaks.r of the park can be climbed, many of them calling forr no special requirements except an early start, endurance,r and care to avoid dislodging loose rocks. Somer present an element of danger toward the top if ther summits are shattered into large blocks difficultr to get over or around, and require a steady nerve,r and a little skillful and careful rock work.r r r r Near-by Yosemite Peaksr r r r Climbing to the points and peaks about the rim ofr the Valley may hardly be considered mountaineering,r since many of them may be reached by well-builtr trails all or most of the way, but as some of themr command excellent views of the Valley or its surroundingsr they are worthy of mention in this connection.r Glacier Point is probably the finest viewpoint of thisr kind, affording a good bird’s-eye view of the easternr end of the floor of the Valley and a splendid panoramar of the High Sierra peaks. It is connected with Yosemite Valleyr by a steep footpath, two horse trails, andr an automobile road. Sentinel Dome, about a mile andr a half to the southwest, permits of a wider outlookr on the high mountain country, while Taft Point,r Crocker Point, Stanford Point, and other points alongr r r r the beautiful Pohono Trail present intimate views ofr Yosemite Valley from various angles along its southernr rim.r r r r From the north and west the Valley may be viewedr to advantage from North Dome, Yosemite Point,r Eagle Peak, and El Capitan, the most sweepingr panorama being that obtained from Eagle Peak. Ther most varied view to be had from such a low elevationr is that from Sierra Point, a climb of about a thousandr feet on a footpath starting from the Vernal Fallsr Trail opposite the Happy Isles. The Vernal, Nevada,r Illilouette, and Upper and Lower Yosemite falls mayr all be seen from. this one spot.r

r Sierra Characteristicsr 188 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Clouds Rest (9924 feet) and Half Dome (8937 feet)r command excellent views of Yosemite Valley from ther east, and magnificent panoramas of the High Sierra.r There is a horse trail almost to the very summit ofr Clouds Rest and to within about 1000 feet in elevationr of the top of Half Dome. The last four or five hundredr feet of this latter climb is quite unique, requiringr the use of the arms as well as the legs, there being twor parallel steel cable handrails where the surface of ther rock is so steep that it is impossible to climb afootr unaided.r r r r High Sierra Peaksr r r r There are dozens of mountains in the Yosemiter National Park twelve thousand or thirteen thousandr feet in height, and a hundred or two above ten thousandr feet, from which wonderful views of the surroundingr country are to be had. Only a few of the betterr known or more accessible ones will be mentioned.r r r r The highest of them, which is also one of the veryr r r r finest viewpoints and perhaps the most interestingr peak to climb, is Mt. Lyell (13,090 feet). It is usuallyr climbed from a base camp nine thousand feet inr elevation, where the Lyell Fork of. the Tuolumner River emerges into the long meadow of Lyell Canyon.r Making an early start, equipped with tinted glasses tor protect the eyes against the snow’s glare, and with ther face blackened or covered with grease paint to preventr snow-burn, the climb of five and a half miles to ther summit is usually made in four or five hours. Followingr up the west bank of the stream for a little more,r than two miles, the McClure Fork is crossed at ther head of a Cascade at the 10,600-foot level. Generallyr after the middle of July it is quite free from snow up tor this point. Then the rock spurs separating ther McClure Fork and Lyell Fork, with stretches of ar large snow field in between, are followed for a littler over two miles more, veering a little to the southeastr to the foot of the Lyell Glacier. This small residualr glacier, nestling in an amphitheater which it has cutr into the northern face of the peak, is about threer quarters of a mile long and twice that in width, and isr usually almost entirely covered with deeply pittedr snow, making rather laborious climbing. At the headr of the glacier, where the moving ice has separated fromr that clinging to the head wall, is a bergschrund,r usually open to a considerable depth for the greaterr part of the width of the glacier. But it is generallyr filled with snow directly below Lyell’s summit, so thatr it may be crossed where a long, narrow snow tonguer extends well up in between the rugged cliffs. Leavingr the snow tongue where it becomes too steep for travel,r and climbing up the right hand cliff, the summit isr reached after fifteen to thirty minutes of steep rockr r r r climbing where care must be taken not to dislodger loose rocks. At times when there is very little snowr covering the glacier, the bergschrund is so wide openr that it cannot be crossed at the base of the snow tongue.r The ascent can then be made up the rock wall fromr the extreme easterly end of the glacier. A splendidr panorama of snow-clad peaks, innumerable lakes, ther sources of several rivers, and broad expanses of forestr may be seen in every direction—a glorious spectacler never to be forgotten, and a lesson in the geographyr of the surrounding country which cannot be equalledr in any other way.r r r r The customary base camp for climbing Mt. Danar (13,050 feet) is about four miles below the summit,r at the 9700-foot level on the little branch of the Danar Fork of the Tuolumne River which originates in ther canyon between Mt. Dana and Mt. Gibbs. Theser two colorful peaks of metamorphic rock stand out inr contrast with r Near-by Yosemite Peaksr 189 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall the neighboring gray granite peaks.r This canyon is followed up to within a few hundredr yards of the saddle between these two mountains, atr an elevation of 11,500 feet. Although it is ratherr rough traveling in some places, horses may be riddenr to this point. There is then something over a mile ofr simple, but rather arduous, climbing to the northwest,r over heaps of roughly piled and often loosely balancedr rocks. To the usually fine scenery witnessed from ar mountain top there is here added a view of ther interesting Mono Craters and the beautiful blues ofr Mono Lake to the east, and a display of the extensiver Tuolumne Meadows to the west.r r r r Another mountain in the main crest of the ranger from which a wide outlook may be obtained is Mt.r Conness (12,556 feet), a rugged and imposing peak,r r r r but very easily climbed. A horse trail leads nearlyr to the top from a lovely base camp at Young Laker about four miles to the southwest.r r r r Mt. Hoffmann (10,921 feet) generally climbed fromr the south, is comparatively isolated and affords ar view very well worth while. Cathedral Peak, Unicorn Peak,r Echo Peak, and Columbia Finger, a groupr of peaks to the south of Tuolumne Meadows allr approaching eleven thousand feet in elevation, arer interesting ascents for experienced climbers. Inr each case the climb is simple to within a short distancer of the top, where the fractured rocks of the summitr require a steady nerve and some very careful rockr work to avoid a misstep which would be fraught withr danger.r r r r Colby Mountain (9700 feet), near the Ten Lakesr Basin, commands a view of the Grand Canyon of ther Tuolumne, a magnificent gorge which affords a veryr interesting but strenuous four or five day knapsackr trip from Tuolumne Meadows to Hetch Hetchyr Valley.r r r r To the south of Merced Lake is Mt. Clark (11,506r feet), presenting a very clear-cut and regular profile.r against the skyline. It stands out at the end of ar long spur, commanding a good view of the south-easterlyr portion of the park, but it is not very oftenr climbed because rather difficult and far from a convenientr base camp. The ascent may be made fromr the northeast with the final climb along the southeastr knife edge.r r r r The highest peak in the Yosemite region, Mt.r Ritter (13,156 feet), is just outside of the park boundary,r about five miles in a direct line southeast of Mt.r Lyell. The climb is made up a steep rock chimney onr r r r r the west side, or across the head of the glacier from ther southeast if approached from the Shadow Lake side.r It is considered one of the more difficult mountainr climbs, but has its reward in a wonderful view of ther watersheds of the North Fork and Middle Fork of ther San Joaquin River.r r r r There are scores of other high mountains, wellr worthy of the effort of the climber because of ther splendid view they afford, and there is hardly a campingr place in the park but has at least a little peakr near by to tempt the one who has the spirit of ther ditty: "The bear went over the mountain to see whatr he could see."r r r r High Sierra Peaksr 190 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r REFERENCESr r r r Boy Scouts of America. 1919.r The Official Handbook for Boys.r (Boy Scouts of America, New York) 496 pp.,r illus.r r r r Chase, J. Smeaton. 1911.r Yosemite Trails; Camp and Pack-train in ther Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada. r (Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston and New York) 354 pp.,r illus.r r r r Kephart, Horace. 1918.r Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campersr and for Travelers in the Wilderness.r (The Macmillan Company, New York.) vol. i.: Camping,r 405 pp., illus., vol. ii.: Woodcraft, 479 pp., illus.r r r King, Clarence, 1902.r Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.r (Chas. Scribner’s Sons, New York.) 378 pp., (Yosemite onr pp. 165-190).r r r Le Conte, J. N., 1907.r The High Sierra of California.r Amer. Alpine Club. Publ., vol. i., No. 1, 16 pp., illus.r r r Muir, John. 1914.r The Yosemite.r (The Century Co., New York.) 270 pp., illus.r r r "Nessmuk." 1884. Woodcraft.r (Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York.) 149 pp., illus.r r r Sierra Club, San Francisco. 1893-1920.r The Sierra Club Bulletin; vols. i.-xi., pls., illus.r r r r r r Taylor, Jay L. B. 1917.r Handbook for Rangers and Woodsmen.r John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.) 420 pp., illus.r r r U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1915,r The Handbook for Campers in the National Forests in California.r (Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.)r 48 pp., illus.r

r REFERENCESr 191 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.r 1917.r The National Parks Portfolio.r By Robert Sterling Yard,r Chief Educational Division, National Park Service.r (Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office,r Washington, D. C.) 260 pp., illus. (r r Yosemite sectionr is a separate pamphlet of 24 pages.)r r 1920. Rules and Regulations, Yosemite National Parkr (Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C.) 80r pp., illus., maps. (Annually revised booklet.)r r r Williams, John H., 1914.r Yosemite and Its High Sierra.r (John H. Williams, Tacoma and San Francisco.) 145 pp., illus.r r r Yosemite National Park Co., 1920.r Camping Tours, Yosemite National Park.r (Yosemite National Park Co., Yosemite, Cal.)r Leaflet dealing with Yosemite Campingr conditions and the activities of the Camping Tours Department.r r r r r r

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r By Wallace B. Curtisr r r

r r Associate Manager, Curry Camping Companyr r r r r Yosemite National Parkr was first opened to Motorr travel late in the 1914 season. At that time the parkr as under the local government of the War Department,r and for the first few months conditions were farr from satisfactory. The next year, park controlr passed to the Department of the Interior and ther National Park Service was established, and since thenr there has been a steady improvement of conditions,r until now the motorist enjoys all the freedom thatr is practicable to allow.r r r

Motoring in Yosemite National Park 194 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r There are three well-established roads into ther valley, known as the Wawona Road, the Big Oakr Flat Road, and the Coulterville Road; and, in addition,r the famous Tioga Road cuts directly across ther park from Mono Lake westward over the summit ofr the Sierras. Still another road is in course of construction,r and upon its completion it will undoubtedlyr be the most popular of them all. Starting from Mercedr it will follow the State Highway to Mariposa, thenr across the mountains to the Merced River Canyon,r and thence to El Portal. From there into Yosemiter Valley a splendid highway is already constructed. Onr entire road there will be no elevation greater thanr r r r three thousand feet until one enters the park, so allr year round travel will be an easy possibility.r r r r Rules and road maps can be obtained from eitherr the National Park Service Headquarters in Yosemiter or at any of the hotels, camps, or lodges, and inasmuchr as there are minor changes in these from time to timer they will not be taken up here.r r r r Driving over mountain roads is not so dangerous,r as many people would have one believe, provided thatr one or two simple rules are always followed. Ther first, of these is, “Always keep your car under fullr control.” Many drivers have the habit of coastingr with their gears out of mesh; the risk of such a practicer is apparent, so whenever a car is on a down-grade,r the gears should be thrown into second or low andr compression used as a brake.r r r r The second rule is, “Don’t be afraid to shift gears.”r You may hear a driver boast that he made suchr and such a grade on “high,” but that is merely anr admission of poor judgment, for such practice putsr an undue strain upon the motor and transmission.r Before you start up a grade, decide what gear you arer going to use, get up good engine speed, and shift intor gear. Shifting gears on any grade is dangerous practicer and especially so in mountain driving.r r r r The driver of the car has one thing to keep in mindr and that is, that he must keep his eyes on the road andr let the rest of the passengers look at the scenery. Hisr car should be equipped with a good loud horn and itr should be used frequently.r r r r The principal requisite for good mountain drivingr is good common sense, and if this is coupled with ther following suggestions, no one need have any hesitancyr about attempting the trip.r r r r r r r Carburetor Adjustment. While it is true that withr higher altitudes the air mixture changes because of ther increasing thinness of the air, still it is advisable forr the average motorist to leave his carburetor untouchedr throughout the trip to the Valley. Carburetor adjustmentr to meet constantly changing air conditions is ar matter of expert judgment, and the layman is expectedr to know nothing about such adjustments. Ther only place where a carburetor adjustment mightr prove really necessary is at the summit of the Tiogar Road, while motoring to or from the low country. Inr case of trouble on this road, which seems to ber caused by an improper carburetor adjustment, simplyr give a little more air to the mixture.r

MOTORING IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 195 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Use of Brakes. Come down hill as much as possibler on compression, in order to save brakes. Never letr your car gather more momentum than can be overcomer with the known strength of the brakes. Alternater the use of the brakes, first using the foot braker and then the hand brake, so that one set will notr become overheated and wear out.r r r r Use of Gears. Always decide when approaching ar hill what gear will carry the car over the grade and thenr shift into that gear before starting up the hill. Inr mountain country it is often dangerous to shift gearsr On a steep hill, and it is always an unnecessary strainr on the car.r r r r Always keep the gears in mesh—it insures controlr of the car. It is now a State and National Park lawr to keep gears always in mesh on Sierra roads. Neverr run on high over a steep grade just to test out ther power of the motor—it is the worst and most uselessr strain on the machine on mountain roads.r r r r Tires. Always keep tires up to guaranteed pressurer r r r on a Yosemite trip. Poor brake use, such as slidingr the wheels, or slowing up very suddenly just before ar rut, will wear out tires prematurely.r r r r The State and National Park law requires that atr least one spare tire be carried on the roads of Yosemiter National Park.r r r r Radiators. Never try to make a record for snallr consumption of water on a trip over any of the roadsr into Yosemite. Such a practice unnecessarily heatsr up the engine, and thus increases the consumption ofr gas and oil. Keep the radiator full of water at allr times. The water of mountain creeks is usable, butr it should be strained through a cloth before using.r r r r Supplies to Carry. Carry an extra supply of oil:r it is more essential than gasoline.r r r r Carry a supply of extra bolts and nuts forr specific make of car.r r r r Carry a spare fan belt.r r r r Carry a can of grease and use it freely.r

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r By Arthur C. Pillsbury,r Yosemite Californiar r r r Nor souvenir of a vacation can compare with one’sr pictures. They are more than mere records of ther scenery; each has its own associations, and each bringsr back memories outside the photo itself. We shouldr strive, however, to produce photographs which haver an intrinsic worth as pictures—likenesses whichr express our own impressions to others. In Yosemiter Valley attractive views disclose themselves to everyr side and even the amateur will have no trouble inr securing beautiful pictures if he but give a littler thought to composition and correct exposures.r

Photography in Yosemite National Park 198 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Few people realize what an important part lightr and shade play in the composition of photographs.r Under the high noonday sun most pictures are "flat"r and lifeless, and it is during the morning and afternoonr hours that the photographer gets his best exposures.r The Yosemite features change rapidly in this respectr from hour to hour during the day, and the followingr suggestions are offered with the hope that they willr help to solve some of the visitor’s problems.r r r r From within the Valley itself the surroundingr mountains and cliffs appear high and near—consequentlyr you would better point the camera up to taker their tops. Do not be afraid of distoring them asr r you would a tall building if you did the same thing, forr in Nature there are no parallel lines so marked as tor offend in a picturer r r r As to lighting, one should remember that no matterr how beautiful a subject is at a given time, it is mostr beautiful at some certain hours during the day.r Yosemite Falls is a good example. At nine o’clock ther sun is casting shadows across its cliffs, and the Falls arer very beautiful, but the foreground is more or less in ther shadow. By ten the sun is on the foreground and fullr on the cliffs, but the light is a little "flat" and stays sor until about one or half past. After this time the Fallsr are casting their shadows, and every rocket as itr shoots out casts its shadow, so they seem to stand outr clear cut from the wall. This latter effect increasesr until two or half past, when the lower half of the Lowerr Fall is in the shadow. These light and shade effects,r in the writer’s opinion, make the best picture. Afterr two thirty the change is very rapid and by threer o’clock the Falls are almost entirely shaded.r r r r Bridalveil Falls are in the shadow all the morningr hours, so close views are not good until one o’clockr when the upper half of the Falls is touched by sunshiner and veiled by wonderfully luminous mist. This,r their best time and condition for posing, continuesr until two thirty.r r r r El Capitan from "River View" has several lightingr effects that are pleasing. From seven to eight in ther morning the shadow cast by the granite wall makes ar bold picture which is particularly good in enlargements.r During the late morning hours the sun beatsr down on its smooth face without shadows until oner o’clock, when the profile begins to stand out, andr ridges, quite unnoticed half an hour before, begin tor r r r assume shape and substance; these, the best effects,r are of short duration.r r r r At Happy Isles, the Meeting of the Waters, the bestr time for photographs is from ten to twelve o’clock.r Going on up the trail one will find a triangle of sunshiner on the lovely Vernal Falls at ten, which continuesr to light their wonderful outpouring of jewels and colorr until about eleven; later they are apt to be but a broadr white streak in one’s picture.r r r

PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 199 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r Nevada Falls seems a thing of life between elevenr and twelve thirty when its great rockets cast shadowsr upon the face of the Fall, but when fully lit by the sunr it does not picture as well.r r r r Mirror Lake is at its best until, at about eightr o’clock, its surface is struck by the sun, and it losesr its reflective power. After this time it is disappointingr unless the sky holds floating clouds which producer the most beautiful effect of all.r r r r The foregoing remarks are but a few of the manyr which might be included if space permitted. Ther writer will be pleased to make further such suggestionsr to those who will see him personally in Yosemite.r r r r A word about the time of one’s exposures. Comparedr with the smoke-laden atmosphere of cities, ther light in Yosemite is much faster and clearer, givingr strong negatives and good prints and enlargements.r The normal exposure within the Valley should be 1/25r second at U. S. stop 8. Mirror Lake before sunriser requires about 1/5 second exposure at U. S. aperature 8,r and pictures taken beneath the Big Trees should ber given about 1/2 second with the same opening.r r r r At higher altitudes the atmosphere becomes thinner,r with the effect that the sky appears more intenselyr blue but at the same time becomes darker, the sun’sr r r r rays become brighter and hotter, and the shadowsr become deeper and colder. As we ascend we get lessr diffused illumination from the atmosphere itself, andr less protection from the direct rays of the sun. Wer will therefore get more contract in our negativesr which are exposed at the higher elevations, and onr account of the more intense light the camera should ber stopped down to 16 for 1/25 second exposure.r r r r Distant views require only half as much exposure asr near-by subjects. Instead of reducing the exposurer the better plan is to diminish the opening so as tor admit less light.r r r r If the above suggestions are borne in mind ther amateur will find no difficulty in obtaining really goodr pictures during hs Yosemite vacation.r r r r r r r

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THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OF YOSEMITEr r VALLEY r r

By Ansel F. Hall r r r Oner often reads praises and generalities aboutr Yosemite climate and weather but, so far as the writerr knows, no concise statement as to exactly what mightr be expected at any given time of year has ever beenr published. The accompanying table has been compiledr from the U. S. Weather Bureau daily records forr the past eleven years and the data summarized forr each month. By examining this table one may determiner with fair accuracy the conditions which willr be encountered at the time of his visit. The followingr remarks, however, should be borne in mind.r r r r Temperature. The Mean Maximum is the averager of the hottest temperatures for each day during ther month (generally about 2 p.m.).r The Mean Minimumr is the average of the coldest temperatures for eachr night during the month (generally about 3 a.m.).r The Mean Temperature is the average temperaturer for the entire month. The Maximum Temperaturer is the hottest recorded temperature during the monthr and the Minimum the coldest recorded during ther same period. The Greatest Daily Range is ther greatest temperature change for any twenty-four-hourr period during the month. The Mean Maximumr and the Mean Temperature show very little variationr r r r between the different years, but the Mean Minimumr varies considerably, especially in the late spring andr summer months. The Greatest Daily Ranges for ther different months fluctuate greatly in different years,r sometimes as much as fifteen degrees, so this factorr in the table is not as reliable for forecasting temperaturesr as are the other averages.r

Appendix 202 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r r r Precipitation. Rainfall is a factor which variesr extremely in different years in both amount and frequency.r The frequency is indicated in the horizontalr column headed "Number of Days with .01 inch orr more Precipitation"; it must be remembered in thisr connection that from May to October on days uponr which rain does fall it is generally as short thunderr showers.r r r r Snowfall. Snowfall is the one climatic factor whichr shows the most variation from year to year. A lightr snowfall sometimes occurs in October and may ber rather definitely expected in November, the first snowr in five of the past eleven years having occurred duringr the latter month; during these two months the snowr generally melts quickly. In December, however, oner may reasonably expect permanent snow, for ther records show that in all but three of the past elevenr years Yosemite Valley has had a "white Christmas."r The melting of the permanent snow is more definiter and may be expected quite regularly between Marchr 15th and 30th.r r r r Clear Days. The number of clear, partly cloudy,r and cloudy days per month is surprisingly the samer from year to year and these figures in the table willr closely approximate actual conditions for any month.r r r r r r WEATHER REPORT SUMMARY, YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA—AVERAGE FOR ELEVEN YEARS (1909r TO 1919 INCLUSIVE)r r r

MONTHLY SUMMARY Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Average Temperature Degrees Mean Maximum 44.2 52.0 60.8 69.8 74.3 85.5 91.5 93.2 84.6 71.1 58.2 45.8 69.2 F. Mean Minimum " 21.2 23.8 27.4 32.7 36.7 42.9 48.5 47.2 41.2 28.7 25.4 21.0 33.1 Mean " 32.7 37.4 44.2 51.2 55.5 64.2 69.6 70. 1 63.6 53.2 41.8 33.4 51.4 Maximum " 56.7 64.2 77.2 83.0 90.3 95.0 99.6 100.5 94.9 87.8 73.3 59.2 81.0 Minimum " 6.8 11.3 18.6 22.6 26.7 33.2 37.4 36.9 32.1 23.4 16.9 8.4 22.9 Greatest Daily " 36.0 42.3 48.3 51.3 51.4 52.2 53.7 56.0 55.6 56.4 46.5 39.0 49.1 Range Precipitation Totals Total Inches 8.96 6.00 4.53 1.56 2.39 .40 .23 .28 1.06 1.54 2.94 3.90 33.88 Greatest in 24 " 1.94 1.43 1.18 .70 1.18 .16 .12 .17 .58 .72 1.11 1.57 hours Snow Total snowfall Inches 33.1 58.5 18.7 3.6 Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 3.5 16.9 134.3 On ground 15th " 11.6 9.3 7.6 Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 1.9 On ground 30th " 10.4 13.2 Trace Trace .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 Trace 7.4

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Number of Days per Month With .01 in. or more precip. 10.8 9.5 8.4 5.5 4.9 2.0 1.1 1.4 2.4 3.6 5.4 5.9 61. Clear 11.3 11.4 13.8 13.2 18.6 24.8 26.6 25.2 21.8 19.9 16.3 14.2 217. Partly cloudy 8.1 7.3 8.7 8.9 6.6 2.8 3.0 2.9 4.3 5.4 6.7 6.7 71. Cloudy 11.6 9.6 8.4 8.8 5.2 2.5 1.4 2.8 4.0 5.7 7.0 10.7 77. r r r r r r TABLE OF LAKES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr r r

Lake. Species of Trout. Fishing. Adair Lake Golden Trout, 1919 ? Arndt Lake None No fish Babcock Lake Rainbow (Date unknown), Good Steelhead, 1919 Bearup Lake Loch Leven (Date unknown) Fair Benson Lake Species unknown, 1897 Good Loch Leven, 1905 Rainbow, 1905 Bernice Lake Eastern Brook, 1917 Good Loch Leven, 1913 Branigan Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Breeze Lake Loch Leven, 1905 Poor Eastern Brook, 1917 Rainbow, 1917 Buena Vista Lake Eastern Brook, 1892, 1908, 1918, 1919 Excellent Rainbow, 1892 Cathedral Lake Eastern Brook, 1897, 1915 Poor Chain o’ Lakes (near Dolly Varden, (Date unknown) Good Fernandez Pass) (3) Chiquito Lake1 None No fish Crescent Lake Eastern Brook, 1891, 1909, 1911 Poor Doe Lake No fish No fish Dog Lake Eastern Brook, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919 Good Rainbow, 1920 Loch Leven, 1920 Dorothy Lake Rainbow, 1911, 1913 Fair Echo Lake Eastern Brook, 1913 Fair Edith Lake None No fish Edna Lake Brown Trout, 1905 ? Eleanor Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Excellent Eastern Brook, 1908 r WEATHER REPORT SUMMARY, YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA—AVERAGEFOR ELEVEN YEARS204 (1909r TO 1919 INCLUSIVE)r Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Elizabeth Lake Eastern Brook, 1907 Good Ellery Lake1 ? Good Emeric Lake Steelhead, 1919 Good Emigrant Lake1 Loch Leven (Date unknown) Good Evelyn Lake Loch Leven, 1913 Poor Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Eastern Brook, 1913 Fletcher Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Poor Loch Leven, 1913 Flora Lake None No fish Gabriel Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) No fish Gaylor Lakes (5) Rainbow, 1906 Good Cutthroat (Date unknown) Givens Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) No fish Grant Lakes (2) Easter Brook, 1918 Good Steelhead, 1918 Grouse Lake Rainbow, 1917 Good Harden Lake None No fish Harriet Lake None No fish Helen Lake (Near None No fish Mt. Starr King) Helen Lake (Near Kuna None No fish Crest Hidden Lake None No fish Huckleberry Lake1 Loch Leven (Date unknown) Good Ireland Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Excellent Irwin Lake Rainbow, 1912 Fair Johnson Lake Rainbow, 1897 Excellent Eastern Brook, 1891, 1911, 1917, 1919 Kibbie Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Good Laurel Lake Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Good Rainbow (Date unknown) Lillian Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Lost Lake None No fish Lukens Lake None No fish Mary Lake Rainbow, 1911 Fair Mattie Lake None No fish May Lake Eastern Brook, 1908, 1917 Good Loch Leven, 1908 Rainbow, 1908, 1913 McCabe Lakes (5) Loch Leven, 1920 ? McGee Lake Rainbow, 1913 Poor Eastern Brook, 1916, 1917 Merced Lake Good r TABLE OF LAKES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHINGNOTESr 205 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Brown Trout, 1905 Loch Leven, 1905, 1918 Species unknown, 1908 Mildred Lake Species and date unknown Good Miller Lake Species unknown, 1911 ? Minnow Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Good Murdock Lake None No fish Neall Lake Species and date unknown Good Onion Lake None No fish Ostrander Lake Rainbow, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1911 Good Eastern Brook, 1893, 1899 Cutthroat (Date unknown) Peeler Lake1 Cutthroat Excellent Rock Island Lake None No fish Rodgers Lake Rainbow, 1907 Excellent Loch Leven, 1907 Royal Arch Lake Eastern Brook, 1897 Excellent Rutherford Lake1 Rainbow (Date unknown) Excellent Eastern Brook, 1905 Saddlebag Lake1 Species and date unknown Good Shamrock Lake None No fish Sister Lake None No fish Smedberg Lake No record Poor Snow Lake None No fish Soldier Lake None No fish Spiller Lake Species unknown, 1875 Poor Summit Lake1 Species and date unknown Poor Surprise Lake None No fish Swamp Lake (Near McGill None No fish Meadow) Swamp Lake (Near None No fish Gravelly Ford Table Lake None No fish Tallulah Lake None No fish Tenaya Lake Eastern Brook, 1909, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Fair Rainbow, 1911, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Loch Leven, 1911, 1920 Cutthroat, 1918, 1919 Steelhead, 1919 Ten Lakes (10) Eastern Brook, 1908, 1913, 1915, 1918 Good Loch Leven, 1908 Steelhead, 1918 Tilden Lake Species unknown, 1905, 1911 Good Rainbow, 1912 r TABLE OF LAKES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHINGNOTESr 206 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Tioga Lake1 Species and date unknown Good Twin Lakes Species and date unknown ? Vernon Lake Rainbow, 1878, 1880 Good Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Virginia Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Virginia Lakes1 Species and date unknown Good Vogelsang Lake Loch Leven, 1913 None Eastern Brook, 1918 Washburn Lake Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Loch Leven, 1905 Species unknown, 1908 Wilmer Lake Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Eastern Brook (Date unknown) Young Lake Eastern Brook, 1914 Good Rainbow, 1914 Unnamed chain of Lakes Loch Leven, 1911 ? near Lake Eleanor (4) Unnamed lake 1 mi. west of Loch Leven, 1913 ? Parsons Peak Unnamed lake at the Cutthroat, 1919 ? source of Emeric Creek Golden, 1920 Unnamed lakes just Rainbow. 1912 ? west of Schofield Peak Unnamed lake near Eastern Brook, 1918 No fishing Vogelsang Pass Unnamed lakes (2) near Eastern Brook, 1917 Good Bernice Lake r r r 1 = Outside park boundaries.r r r r Besides the lakes listed above (112 in the Park and 10 just outside) ther U. S. G. S. "Topographic Map of Yosemite National Park" shows 317 otherr unnamed lakes—mostly small—within the Park.r The total number of lakesr within the Park is 429.r r r r r r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr r r

Stream. Species of Trout. Fishing. Alder Creek Eastern Brook, 1891 Fish plentiful r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr 207 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Loch Leven, 1897 but small Rainbow (Date unknown) Alkali Creek None No fishing Avalanche Creek None No fishing Babcock Creek Rainbow, 1896 Fair Eastern Brook, 1905 Big Creek Species unknown, 1905 ? Big Meadow Creek None No fishing Bishop Creek Rainbow, 1896 Poor Bluejay Creek None No fishing Breeze Creek Rainbow, 1896 Good Bridalveil Creek Rainbow, 1892, 1899, 1905 Good Eastern Brook, 1893, 1899 Buck Creek None No fishing Budd Creek None No fishing Buena Vista Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Camp Creek None No fishing Cascade Creek Eastern Brook, 1897 Fish all small Cathedral Creek Eastern Brook, 1917 Plentiful but Rainbow, 1920 small Cherry Creek1 Species and date unknown Good Chilnualna Creek Eastern Brook, 1892, 1899 Fish plentiful Rainbow, 1892, 1899 but small Conness Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Crane Creek Rainbow, 1915, 1916, 1917 Fish all small Dana Fork Tuolumne R Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Delaney Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Poor Dingley Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Poor Eagle Peak Creek None No fish Echo Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 --- Eleanor Creek Species and date unknown Good Falls Creek Rainbow, 1913 Good Fletcher Creek E. Brook (Date unknown) Good Florence Creek ? ? Foerster Creek None No fish Frog Creek Rainbow, 1905 Good Givens Creek None No fish Gray Creek None No fish Grouse Creek Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Illilouette Creek, near mouth Cutthroat, 1918 Good Illilouette Creek, above Eastern Brook, 1893 Good Valley rim Rainbow, 1893, 1905 Illilouette Creek, Clark Fork Rainbow, 1905 Good r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr 208 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Indian Creek, near Chinquapin Rainbow (Date unknown) Fair Indian Creek, Indian Canyon None No fish Ireland Creek None No fish Jack Main Creek Rainbow, 11905 Good Kerrick Creek Species unknown, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1906 Kibbie Creek None No fishing Leevining Creek1 Species and date unknown Good Lilly Creek None No fishing Little Crane Creek Species and date unknown Fair Little Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1891, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1891, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917 Lyell Fork, Merced R. Eastern Brook, 1908 Good Rainbow, 1908 Lyell Fork, Tuolumne River Eastern Brook, 1879, 1919 Good Rainbow, 1896, 1915 Cutthroat, 1896 Tahoe Trout, 1896 Matterhorn Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Merced River, Eastern Brook, 1918, 1919 Good at El Portal at Yosemite Valley Rainbow, 1909, 1912, 1917 Fair Brown Trout, 1905, 11920 Loch Leven, 1912 Dolly Varden (Date unknown) Steelhead, 1917 Cutthroat, 1918, 1919 Eastern Brook, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 at Little Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1891, 1905 Good Rainbow, 1891, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917 Merced River, McClure Fork Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Merced River, Lyell Fork Rainbow, 1908 Good Eastern Brook, 1908 Merced River, South Fork Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Brown Trout (Date unknown) Eastern Brook, 1899 at Gravelly Ford Cutthroat, 1895 Good near Buck Camp Eastern Brook, 1899 Good Rainbow, 1899 Miller Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 Good Moss Creek Rainbow, 1915 Fish plentiful Eastern Brook (Date unknown) but small Murphy Creek Species and date unknown Fair North Crane Creek Species and date unknown Fish all small Ottoway Creek None No fish r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr 209 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Pigeon Creek None No fish Piute Creek Rainbow, 1896 Good Eastern Brook, 1903, 1905 Porcupine Creek Species unknown, 1897 Fish all small Rafferty Creek None No fishing Rancheria Creek Eastern Brook, 1905 Good Red Creek None No fish Register Creek None No fish Return Creek Eastern Brook, 1896, 1913 Poor Ribbon Creek None No fish Rodgers Canyon Cr. Rainbow (Date unknown) Good Rush Creek (Merced) Rainbow, 1892, 1897 Poor Unknown, 1905 Sentinel Creek None No fishing Slide Canyon Cr. None No fishing Smith Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 Fish all small Snow Creek Species and date unknown Fish all small Spiller Creek None No fishing Stubblefield Canyon Cr. None No fishing Sunrise Creek Species and date unknown Poor Tamarack Creek Eastern Brook, 1896, 1920 Fish all small Rainbow or Cutthroat, 1919 Tenaya Creek in Yosemite Eastern Brook, 1907 Fair Valley Rainbow, 1909 Thompson Canyon Cr. None No fish Tilden Canyon Cr. Species and date unknown Good Tiltill Creek Species unknown, 1897 Fair Eastern Brook, 1905 Tripple Creek Eastern Brook. 1907 Good Tuolumne River Tahoe Trout, 1896 Good at Hetch Hetchy Cutthroat, 1896 Rainbow, 1896, 1906 Eastern Brook, 1906 at Conness Creek Cutthroat, 1896 Good at Soda Springs Tahoe, 1895 Good Loch Leven, 1920 Rainbow. 1896, 1915, 1920 Tuolumne River, Lyell Tahoe, 1896 Good Fork Rainbow, 1896, 1915 Eastern Brook, 1897, 1899, 1919 Cutthroat, 1896 Tuolumne River, Dana Rainbow (Date not known) Good Fork Good r TABLE OF STREAMS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITHr FISHING NOTESr 210 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall

Tuolumne River, Middle Loch Leven, 1897 Fork Eastern Brook, 1906, 1917, 1918, 1919 Tuolumne River, South Species unknown, 1905 Good Fork Rainbow, 1899 Eastern Brook, 1906, 1917, 1918, 919 Virginia Canyon Cr. Loch Leven, 1920 ? Rainbow, 1920 Wilson Creek Eastern Brook, 1916 ? Yosemite Creek Eastern Brook, 1893, 1897, 1917 Fair Rainbow, 1893, 1905 Cutthroat, 1897 r r r 1 = Outside park boundaries.r r r r r r r

THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES r r r In using the following key the trees are eliminatedr by groups until the species is finally determined.r For example: We may first examine the leaves tor determine whether they are in bundles or arrangedr singly on the branchlets; this will eliminate the larger group "I" or "II." If the tree falls in group "I"r we then determine whether there are 5, 3, 2, or 1 needlesr in a sheath; this will put the tree in class "A," "B,"r "C," or "D." If the species falls in class "A" it mayr be further traced by comparing the characteristicsr listed under subdivisions "1," "2," and "3"; theser will determine the species.r r r

KEY TO THE CONE-BEARING TREES OFr r YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK r r r (All have needle-like, awl-like, or scale-like leaves)r r r r r I.—Leaves in bundles with a sheath around the baser (Pines)r r r

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r 1—Cone large (12 to 24 in.). Bark red-brown, inr large plates, and flaky. Alt. 4000 to 7000.r

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KEY TO THE CONE-BEARING TREES OFrr YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 212 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r 2—Foliage green. Tree large and generally withr but one main trunk. Bark in large plates and flaky.r Alt. 2000 to 8000.r

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r C—Needles in bundles of 2. Cones small (3/4 tor 2 1/2 in.). Small tree (average 70 ft. tall and 2 ft.r in dia.). Bark purple-gray and in flakes (notr plates).r

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r LODGEPOLE PINE OR "TAMARACK" . . .r Pinus contortar

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r D—Needles one in a sheath. Cones small (2 tor 3 in.) but seeds large. Tree small. Occursr entirely on eastern slope of Sierra Nevada exceptr one tree in Pate Valley.r

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r PINYON OR NUT PINE . . . Pinus monophyllar

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r A—Leaves linear (i.e., needle-like.) Bark neverr fibrous or stringy.r

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r 1—Fruit a cone.r

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r (a)—Cones erect and occur only near tops ofr trees. Leaves without petioles (leaf stalks). (Firs)r

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r I—Bark of old trees gray and deeply furrowed.r Needles on lower branches spread flatr (2-ranked). Alt. 4000 to 8000.r

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r WHITE FIR . . . Abies concolorr

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r II—Bark of old trees red and roughened byr vertical and transverse fissures. Needles allr around branchlets and curved up. Alt.r above 7000.r

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r (b)—Cones pendent. Leaves with petioles.r

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r I—Cone medium sized (2 to 4 in.) and withr trident-shaped bracts sticking from betweenr the scales. Tip of tree erect. Alt. 3000r to 6000.r

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r DOUGLAS FIR . . . Pseudotsuga taxifoliar

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r II—Cone small (i in.) and without exsertedr bracts. Tip of tree drooping. Alt. onlyr above 8500.r

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r MOUNTAIN HEMLOCK . . . Tsuga mertensianar

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r 2—Fruit a drupe (like a plum) with a kernel muchr like a nutmeg when dried. Needles sharp-pointedr and two-ranked. Small tree occurring in ther canyon of the Merced only below Cascade Falls.r

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r B—Leaves scale-like or awl-like. Bark of all olderr trees fibrous and stringy.r

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r 1—Fruit a blue berry (really a modified cone).r Leaves scale-like and closely pressed around twigs.r Spray round. Inhabits open rocky sites above 7000r ft. alt.r

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r WESTERN JUNIPER . . . Juniperus occidentalisr

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r 2—Fruit a true cone.r

r (a)—Cones medium size (1 1/2 to 3 in.) and withr many scales. Needles of lower branches awl-like.r Mature trees very large. Occurs only in scatteredr groves, the nearest of which is 17 1/2 miles fromr Yosemite.rr r

r GIANT SEQUOIA . . . Sequoia gigantear

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r (b)—Cones small (i inch or less) and with only 5r (apparently 3) scales. Needles scale-like andr decurrent (i.e., with a portion of their bases fastenedr along the branchlets). Trees up to 5 feet in diameter.r Spray flattened. Occurs abundantly inr Yosemite Valley and up to 8000 ft. alt.r

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r INCENSE CEDAR . . . Libocedrus decurrensr

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r • Cover and wrapper [images]

r • Title Page

r • Introductory Note

Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921) edited by Ansel F. Hall 218 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r • Table of Contents

r • Illustrations

r • History of the Yosemite Regionr by Ralph S. Kuykendall

r • Indians of Yosemiter by A. L. Kroeber

r • Ideals and Policy of the National Park Servicer by Stephen T. Mather

r • Administration of Yosemite National Parkr by W. B. Lewis

r • Geology of Yosemite National Parkr by Andrew C. Lawson

r • Life Zones of the Yosemite Regionr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Some Birds of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Some Mammals of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Parkr by Joseph Grinnell & Tracy Irwin Storer

r • The Fishes of Yosemite National Parkr by Barton Warren Evermann

r • Insects of Yosemite National Parkr by Edwin C. Van Dyke

r • Trees of Yosemite National Parkr by Ansel F. Hall

r • The Giant Sequoiar by Willis Linn Jepson

r • Flowers of Yosemite National Parkr by Willis Linn Jepson

r • Camping and Mountaineering in Yosemite National Parkr by Raymond H. Bailey

Contents 219 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall r • Motoring in Yosemite National Parkr by Wallace B. Curtis

r • Photography in Yosemite National Parkr by Arthur C. Pillsbury

r • Appendixr [Weather,r Lakes,r Streams, &r Tree Identification]r

r • Map of Yosemite National Park rr r r r r About the Editor r r

About the Editor 220 Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), edited by Ansel F. Hall Bibliographical Information r r Hall, Ansel Franklin (1894-1962)r Handbook of Yosemite National Park:r a compendium of articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authoritiesr (New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921).r 347 pp. ill. folded map. 20 cm.r Brown cloth covering with ivory and black lettering and cover art.r Dust jacket with green lettering and art.r LCCN 21014069.r Library of Congress Call No. F 868.Y6 H18r r r r Digitized by Dan Anderson, August 2004, from a copy in the UCSD Library.r These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose,r provided this notice is left intact.r r —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.usr r r r r r r r r

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