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Yosemite Conservancy Spring.Summer 2011 :: Volume 02 YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY SPRING.SUMMER 2011 :: VOLUME 02 . ISSUE 01 Paradise Awaits Visitors to the High Country INSIDE Youth Connect With Nature This Summer Yosemite Wildlife Sky Islands & High Elevation Plants Q&A With Margaret Eissler COVER PHOTO: © THOM SCHROEDER, “JULIAN AT TENAYA LAKE”. PHOTO: (RIGHT) © CHARLES CRAMER. LAKE”. PHOTO: TENAYA AT “JULIAN © THOM SCHROEDER, PHOTO: COVER PRESIDENT’S NOTE Yosemite’s High Country magine a place, with crystal clear waters, emerald green meadows and countless granite peaks reaching high YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL MEMBERS Iinto piercing blue skies; where each CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT & CEO breath is cleansing and a feeling of peace John Dorman* Mike Tollefson* and clarity pervades your senses. This VICE CHAIRMAN VICE PRESIDENT idyllic place exists in Yosemite’s High Christy Holloway* & COO Jerry Edelbrock Country, thanks to your support. COUNCIL With this in mind, we dedicate this Jeanne & Michael Anahita & Jim Lovelace issue to exploring the upcoming projects, programs and events that Adams Carolyn & Bill Lowman Lynda & Scott Adelson Dick & Ann* Otter are planned this summer in the High Country. Learn about the Gretchen Augustyn Norm & Janet Pease upcoming Tuolumne watershed trail restoration taking place with Meg & Bob Beck Sharon & Phil* Susie & Bob* Bennitt Pillsbury the help of the California Conservation Corps (CCC), and read our Barbara Boucke Arnita & Steve Proffitt Expert Insights feature about the high elevation plant survey from David Bowman & Bill Reller Gloria Miller Frankie & Skip* Rhodes park botanist Alison Colwell. Don’t miss the Q&A with founder of Allan & Marilyn Brown Angie Rios & Samuel the Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series, Margaret Eissler, who Don & Marilyn Conlan Norman Hal Cranston* Liz & Royal Robbins shares with us her experiences in Tuolumne Meadows. Also revealed Leslie & John* Dorman Lennie & Mike Roberts are ways for you to experience the High Country as a volunteer and, Dave & Dana* Dornsife Dave Rossetti & Lisa & Craig Elliott Jan Avent* you the readers, share with us you own memories, with a special Kathy Fairbanks Marjorie & Jay Rossi High Country-themed Reader Photos section. Cynthia & Bill* Floyd Linda & Steve* Sanchez Jim Freedman Thomas & Irene Bonnie & Rusty* Shephard We hope this issue will inspire you to explore beyond the valley this Gregory Dana Gaffery & Christy* & Chuck Jonathan* Spaulding summer season. Holloway Greg* & Lisa Stanger Suzanne & Dan* Jensen Ann & George* Sundby Thank you for your help making all of this possible with your Jennifer & Greg* Clifford J. Walker* Johnson Jill Appenzeller & generous support to Yosemite Conservancy. Jean Lane Wally Wallner Walt Lemmermann* Jack Walston See you in the park, Bob & Melody Lind Art Baggett & Sam & Cindy Livermore Phyllis* Weber Jon & Lillian Lovelace Polly & Ward* Wolff HONORARY YOSEMITE TRUSTEES NATIONAL PARK Thomas Bowman Superintendent Mike Tollefson, President Ed Grubb Don Neubacher Genelle Relfe *Indicates Board of Trustees Join Yosemite Conservancy on Facebook and Flicker. 02 SPRING.SUMMER 2011 :: YOSEMITECONSERVANCY.ORG SPRING.SUMMER 2011 CONTENTS VOLUME 02 . ISSUE 01 ABOVE Spring Pool, First Light, Tenaya Lake. IN THIS ISSUE DEPARTMENTS 10 EXPERT INSIGHTS 04 YOSEMITE’S HIGH COUNTRY Botanist Alison Colwell discusses Yosemite’s “sky islands” and the survey Summer marks the opening of Tioga of high elevation plants. Road and the return to Yosemite’s High Country paradise. 12 Q&A WITH A YOSEMITE INSIDER Ranger Margaret Eissler shares Tuolumne Meadows stories and previews the Parsons Memorial Lodge 06 DREAMING OF THE FUTURE Summer Series. Our signature Youth in Yosemite project is making a difference in the lives of young 14 PROJECT UPDATES people, and helping secure a better future CCC crews tackle 60 miles of trail, scientists unravel rockfall mysteries, for Yosemite. Tuolumne Grove new educational signage, and more. 08 KEEPING YOSEMITE WILD 19 PROGRAM UPDATES Yosemite’s wildest residents are better Keeping bears wild, nationally recognized theater performers, and protected thanks to our work and 40 years of Yosemite adventures. your support. 30 READER PHOTOS Yosemite Conservancy supporters CORRECTION: Our apologies for mislabeling the photo of Yosemite’s living legend, Julia Parker, on page 08 of the share their special Yosemite memories. Autumn.Winter 2010 issue. The caption referred to Lucy Parker, who instructs Yosemite Conservancy basketry courses alongside her mother, Julia Parker, and her daughter, Ursula Jones. YOSEMITECONSERVANCY.ORG :: SPRING.SUMMER 2011 03 YOSEMITE’S VENTURE BEYOND THE VALLEY THIS SUMMER HIGH TO PARADISE COUNTRY “The mountains are calling and I must go.” — JOHN MUIR PHOTO: (LEFT) © G. DAN MITCHELL, “YOUNG TREES AND POND, DANA MEADOWS”. PHOTOS: (BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT) © KEITH WALKLET. © DAVE WYMAN. © DNC. © KEITH WALKLET. © BILL BECHER. © DAVE WYMAN. © DAVE WYMAN. © DAVE WYMAN. © DAVE © BILL BECHER. © DNC. KEITH WALKLET. WYMAN. © DAVE RIGHT) © KEITH WALKLET. LEFT TO (BOTTOM PHOTOS: MEADOWS”. DANA TREES AND POND, “YOUNG MITCHELL, (LEFT) © G. DAN PHOTO: “Will Tioga Pass open by “Wind in the trees is one of those things that drifts in and out of consciousness. It’s almost May 15, or not until early June?” always there, but most of the time it’s in the background. Once or twice every day, ach year, this question is asked repeatedly in it comes forward and one can really hear it. anticipation of the opening of Tioga Road and the Sometimes it is almost conversational, and it paradise beyond: the Yosemite high country. Plowing begins in mid-April, but late snows can keep the pass is always musical. It’s one of the best things Eclosed until July. about being high up.” — KARL KROEBER, Photographer & Author Millions of visitors come to Yosemite each year. For the vast majority, this means Yosemite Valley—views of the falls, Half Dome, El Capitan—and maybe a trip to Tunnel View and us hear each day. Tune into the sounds of the wind, songbirds Glacier Point. This is a fine introduction to our incomparable and flowing water—they can be magical. park, but beyond the Valley is over 1,000 square miles of pristine wilderness: alpine lakes and meadows, majestic For those willing to don a backpack and study maps, forests, glacial valleys, streams, rivers, waterfalls and granite exploring the high country affords endless adventures. The as far as the eye can see. High Sierra Camps, accessible by foot or by saddle, are an easy and painless way to get into the wilderness without This is the Yosemite that awaits those who venture up and packing a tent, food and water. The five hike-to camps are over Tioga Pass. Whether driving east from Big Oak Flat located six to ten miles apart along a loop trail. After a long past the dramatic vistas of Olmsted Point, Tenaya Lake and day’s hike, there is nothing as sweet as arriving to a hot meal Tuolumne Meadows, or west from the white tufa spires of and a tent cabin, plus a campfire and the camaraderie of Mono Lake up the steep rock faces of Lee Vining Canyon fellow hikers. to Tioga Pass, travelers making this journey across the Sierra experience the breathtaking transition between two very “I can still remember my first evening at different but interrelated regions: the Sierra Nevada and the Vogelsang. We were just finishing dinner Great Basin. after our hike in from Tuolumne Meadows Stopping at safe, designated parking areas along Tioga Road when the camp manager, banging on a pan, is the easiest way to begin exploring the high country— announced that we should all get outside with wilderness only a few feet away. Tenaya Lake is an fast and look at the peak. Following orders, excellent spot to begin the exploration—a simple picnic, we emerged from the dining tent to see a short hike or simply sitting alone on a rock provide the Vogelsang awash in alpenglow.” perfect opportunity to relax, unwind and smell the cedar, — RENÉE SIMI, John Muir Heritage Society Donor pine and sagebrush. Of course, the further you venture from the pavement, the Perhaps the single most important thing wilderness offers is a more powerful the wilderness experience becomes. The first chance to slow down, an invitation to connect with the world in all surprise is how quiet it is. Close your eyes; take a few minutes its wildness and on its terms. For many of us, it is the rare chance to to enjoy an entirely different soundscape from what most of get away from cell phones and computers. Continued on Page 11 DREAMING OF THE FUTURE Youth in Yosemite Programs Power Aspirations of a New Generation FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ARC program participants rejoice upon reaching a new height in their wilderness experience. Visitors learn from a park ranger during a Junior Ranger walk. Youth Conservation Crews work together on this trail repair project in the high country. An excited Junior Ranger with his handbook. ARC participants learned how to rappel on Yosemite’s granite walls. oing from noisy city streets to the wind-swept Among them are Junior Ranger programs, which last year taught whispers of Yosemite’s sequoias can be disquieting more than 27,000 children ages 7 to 13 about nature during to some. Yet, spending 40 days in the Yosemite visits to the park. The WildLink Program gives high school wilderness gives young people like Valeria, a high students their first chance to spend time in Yosemite’s wilderness school student from Merced County, a chance during a weeklong expedition in the park. Still other programs to envision new possibilities. She participated combine the best in youth development with park preservation, in Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC), a summer such as restoring trails, museum archiving or working alongside immersionG program in Yosemite’s backcountry that improves National Park Service staff in wilderness areas. teenagers’ academic, literacy and leadership skills. This fall she will attend Cornell University on a full-ride scholarship Young people participating with California Conservation to pursue an engineering degree.
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