Summer 1986

OSVolume Forty-eight Published for Members Number three of the Yosemite Association

from many areas . By 1965 breeding fal- few species of birds are cons were vir- r to inspire as much awe in tually ex- r.c.ound observers as can the tinct e Falcon. With their spec- east of maraerial displays, these birds the Mississippi River and were ter' have captured the imagi- declining rapidly elsewhere cc of mankind for hundreds in North America. (tars. At one time, Peregrines In 1973 the Endangered ~.td an almost cosmopolitan Species Act was en- : .hon; they were found abled and the Pere- : nearly all of North America grine Falcon now _rope. "Peregrine," which benefits from :wanderer, is a the full pro- • : t : name. Sadly, over the tection af- ecades there has been a forded species listed under this aide decline in Peregrine legislation. -sots and they have become The Peregrine decline corre-

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poisoning of the embryo. Research has indicated that 15% thinning of the eggshell is the critical level for survival of the young—below 15% the chance of survival is good, above 15% the from pesticide poisoning. Appall prospects for survival are much ently, this female can no longer reduced. In a relatively few years, lay viable eggs . Despite this, she the female may become so con- is still reproductively valuable in taminated that she cannot lay that she is an excellent foster viable eggs and, eventually, the mother and is much better at adult birds may themselves die of fledging and training young Pen the poisoning. grines than we humans would i Sources of the pesticide con- with our artificial methods. taminant are varied . Despite its use being banned in this country Falcon of the Year in 1972, DDT locally applied prior A second Peregrine aerie was di to the ban is probably still cycling covered in the Park in 1981 at through the ecosystem and ad- Hetch Hetchy reservoir. We don versely affecting the Peregrines as believe the pair bred that year—. well as other species . Also, other the female was still in immatun organochloride pesticides which plumage —but they have succes are widely used in agriculture fully raised young, without any today can break down into the manipulation on our part, each same metabolite, DDE, that is breeding in the Park are probably two later and the dummies are re- year since then. In fact, this pair poisoning the birds . Even now, remnants of a much larger Sierran placed with Peregrine hatchlings. has been unusually successful, DDT is still used as a component population. It has been a great help to our fledging 4 young birds in both in some pesticides. In addition, In 1978, after a nearly forty recovery efforts that the adult 1984 and 1985 . Four young is a DDT continues to be used in year absence, Peregrines were Peregrines will accept our taking very high success rate for Amer- Latin American countries in found to be breeding in Yosemite their unhatched eggs (whether ican Peregrine Falcons in recent malaria control, and Peregrine at El Capitan and they have oc- real or dummy) and replacing years. In fact, this was the only prey species that migrate from cupied the cliff every year since. them with 2 to 3 week old nest- nest (out of 77) in to these areas are contaminating the Twice since then (1979 and 1983) lings. It must be quite a surprise fledge 4 young in 1985. Even falcons. The pesticide can even only one adult was present, pre- to the parents to suddenly have more unusual is that in 1985 thin be carried by air and water and sumably due to the death of its these hungry and very demand- female laid 5 eggs, an event not deposited in this country via aer- mate. In every other season, the ing young mouths to feed, but we recorded in California since the ial fallout. Although Yosemite Na- El Cap falcons have fledged at have yet to see the adults reject 1930's . You can see why in the 1 tional Park is an excellent preserve least one young; however, in any of the fostered birds. In fact, 2 years we 've taken the liberty of Peregrine nesting habitat, the recent years they have needed a they usually start brooding and proclaim the Hetch Hetchy protection we provide can do little human help to do so . In addi- feeding them within an hour of female "Falcon of the Year." nothing to solve the pesticide tion to protective closures of their being placed in the nest. Nevertheless, these birds do problems plaguing the falcons. climbing routes that pass near the The augmentation of the El suffer from some pesticide con- Peregrine aeries (they have used Cap aerie for the past 5 seasons tamination. Eggshell thinning fc Manipulating the Nests two different ledges on the cliff has been necessary because this this pair has been fairly erratic: i Historic information on Pere- face), we began manipulating the female has been laying exces- 1982 they averaged 13% thin ; it grine Falcon activity in Yosemite nests, through a process called sively thin eggs (over 15%) since 1983 the results showed an in- is sketchy and somewhat con- augmentation, in 1982. 1981. In 1981 her eggs were 17% crease to 16 .3% thinning; in cos fused, but records found in the Yo- Augmentation is a technique thin. By 1984 her eggs ranged trast, the 1984 and 1985 analyse semite Research Library show in which the wild Peregrine eggs from 14 to 20% thinner than nor- showed a decrease in the aver" that, prior to the discovery of the are removed from the nest and re- mal Peregrine eggs, and in 1985 thinning to 15 .5% and 14 .4% I falcons on El Capitan in 1978, placed with either dummy eggs things became worse when respectively. Their eggs are fluc-I Peregrines had not been con- or young birds that have been eggshells ranged from 15 to 26% tuating right around the critical I firmed breeders in Yosemite since hatched in captivity. Whether or thinner than normal. We do not level. Despite this pair's appare>/ nesting on Mt . Broderick in 1941, not dummy eggs or young hatch- yet have the eggshell analysis ability to hatch thin shelled egg/ although incidental observations lings are placed into the nest de- back for 1986 but we anticipate we anticipate problems with M continued until 1949 . Peregrines pends on the breeding chronoolgy that the eggshells will be thinner them in the very near future anal were probably never abundant in of the birds and if captive young still — only 2 eggs were recovered the need to augment their nest. II Yosemite — recent research indi- are available at that time . If from the aerie (3 to 4 is normal) So far this year, the Peregrine cates a historic population of 2 to dummy eggs are used, the nest and both were already dead at the have done pretty well. The 2 5 pairs. The 2 pairs that are now must then be reentered a week or time of collection, presumably young that were placed in the FBI

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-est on May 5th (one the park to specify a goal of 5 pairs increases. ed from a captive-bred egg breeding pairs of Peregrines The American Peregrine Fal- Harold Gilliam :ne from a wild egg collected within the Park boundaries. con has made a tremendous to Speak at Sur) have fledged and are These birds would represent a comeback throughout its range aecoming stronger fliers. As core population from which the since the late 1960's and early Members' Meeting chase their parents around repopulation of Sierran California 1970's, largely due to very active face, they are learning could occur as well as provide a recovery efforts worldwide. perform high speed man- "floating" population of young However; the species will con- Mark your calendars for the : and are developing their birds that would serve to replace tinue to be threatened until pes- 11th Annual Yosemite Associa- ng skills . As of this writing, missing mates from existing ticide contaminants are elimi- tion member 's meeting which nave seen 3 young in the aeries. We have adopted this goal nated from their food web . When will be held on September 20-21, 1986. Wawona will be the site of - Hetchy aerie, all in nearly and wish to accomplish it and if that time comes, "hands ;:{ht plumage. through a Peregrine hacking pro- on" manipulation of breeding the gathering this year, and since gram (release of captive-reared Peregrines will no longer be the autumn weather in Wawona of 5 Pairs young without the benefit of necessary and the falcons can be is somewhat less capricious than the autumn weather in Tuol- success that we have enjoyed adults present) . Such a project allowed to reproduce naturally. In the meantime, active manage- umne, we expect that the season Yosemite with our Pere- would be expensive and not eas- ily accomplished but its urgency ment programs such as ours here will provide a beautiful outdoor -ecovery efforts would not setting for our annual assembly. sible if not for the coopera- increases each year as our existing in Yosemite will continue and Peregrine pairs accumulate poi- hopefully provide opportunities Those who were with us last year a^.d dedicated work of many may recall that 4 days of snow -duals and organizations. sons and, consequently, the for people to observe these spec- chance of losing one or both tacular birds of prey. and storms preceding the Tuol- anent among these are the umne Meadows meeting had _vees of the Santa Cruz some of us in an outright panic :ory Bird Research Group aRG), the western branch of The ewes and lambs have -t-egrine Fund . The National Bighorn Update moved upslope somewhat, but Service contracts with the are still within the canyon . The =RC each year to provide rams, however, are busy explor- _:-endants for our Peregrine The herd of bighorn sheep that ing the high ridges near the Sierra :o provide Peregrine nest- was reintroduced Iast March into crest. Park researchers expected and conduct augmentation, Lee Vining Canyon on Yosemite 's this dispersal by the rams, but _ect and analyze eggshell eastern slope is well and prosper- were surprised and pleased to .ents and to band young ing. Although seven of the trans- learn that two of the rams have the unmanipulated nest. planted sheep have died from av- already crossed the park bound- CPBRG has never been fully alanches and other natural causes, ary and are now denizens of Yo- ensated for these services at least eight new lambs were semite . It is the first time in some some years they have re- born in May, seventy years that the bighorn concerning plans and schedules. , no compensation at all. bringing the has been seen in Yosemite 's high Harold Gilliam, environ- commitment and dedica- total of sheep country. Appropriately, the rams mentaI columnist for the San - extraordinary and very above its were first glimpsed in the area of Francisco Chronicle, will be our appreciated. original Sheep Peak across the crest from featured speaker. For over 30 years ":e Yosemite Association level. Bighorn Lake. he has authored environmental :as also played a major role treatises, books and articles, and tang out the Park 's Pere- is the recipient of a number of . YA has twice provided significant conservation and -.g through The Yosemite achievement awards . Mr. Gilliam far the Peregrine program is certainly one of the most well- overburdened NPS budgets informed people on environmen- not supply the necessary tal topics in California, and es . The YA contributions we look forward to hearing especially timely in that his remarks. came at a time when the Further information concern- RG was also facing financial ing reservations and specifics aaies and it was doubtful of the meeting will be mailed _-er or not they could pro- to all members . Please call Y-eir essential services free 209-379-2646 for details. ▪:ge. C-e of the recommendations me from Peregrine research .eted here in 1983 was for

PAGE FOUR Y OSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SUMMER:1 Anatomy of a Rockslide

Jim Snyder Look at the size of the trees upper center of photograph #1 soil and debris into the cracks growing along the Vernal Fall trail. and the lower center of photo- which many plants then pionen Rockslides have not occurred Look at the lichen on the rock. Ex- graph #3 . The slope of the rock The canyon liveoak is particular] very often in the last century on cept for the new slides, there is lit- face and of the long slip joint fond of rocky places and thrives the foot trail from Happy Isles to tle bright, freshly broken rock . In lying underneath the failed blocks on the soil and water supplies the Vernal Fall bridge . Slides have the human rather than geologic is about 70, dipping sharply south provided by cracks in the grand occurred more frequently on the sense of time, rockslides along toward both river and trail. mass. Pines and firs will also tab Mist Trail, the horse trail, and this trail are rare. Another plane of fracturing advantage of the cracks and can especially on what is now the Rarity was overcome in a rush shows in the remaining roof of thrive if the sources of life are foot trail from Vernal to Nevada this past spring when three slides the slide in photograph #2 dip- generous enough for them in Fall . Only two slides have been occurred at the same location ping gradually north away from such ordinarily inhospitable recorded as falling on the trail within 30 days . Rock structure the river. And there is a series places. below the Vernal Fall bridge . An laid the groundwork for the of vertical joints as well . This A tree sprouts in a crack and earthquake on May 25, 1980, slides. If you stand safely out of complex system of fractures, sends its roots down for nutrien shook a large block from the ridge the way and look at the points of greatly oversimplified in the illus- and water. The roots work slow above Sierra Point, destroying the release from the Vernal Fall trail, tration, means that the rock has to expand some cracks and often trail to that point before it landed you can study the rock and see a little to hold it in the long sense travel hundreds of feet down in on the Vernal Fall trail . The sec- pattern of fracturing resembling of geologic time . Other forces side the rock. Cracks trap soil, ond slide or series of slides occur- the illustrated cross section. and gravity work slowly to chip and trees generate more soil. red this past spring. The predominant rock is what away at the mass, converting it Water flowing off the slick rock The trail itself tells the area 's geologists call Half Dome to talus along the Merced River at saturates the soil in the joints recent rockslide history. Much of Granodiorite . It is certainly mas- this point. which act as deep wells for plan the trail is hung on steep cliffs sive, though the mass at the point While the action of the slide is that otherwise would have little lacking the talus slopes of marked of the slide is underlain by strata set in the rock structure itself, indeed to live on. rockfall occurring on the opposite of thin layers of chemically more several other agents work on that Liveoak roots are the toughd side of the canyon . The stretch of diverse rock shown across the structure to make parts of it fail of all, forming thick mats in the trail by the spring above Happy and fall . One agent is vegetation cracks. The dark mass on the re- Isles bridges marks one fairly and another is water. Earthquakes lease point shown in photograpl large talus slope showing rockfall 1. The release point of the Feb . 7 can play a role in widening frac- from Grizzly Peak. The other slide is in upper left center just above tures, but they have rarely been talus along the trail is several the thinly stratified rock crossing the the direct, immediate cause of 2. The release point of the Feb . 13 hundred yards below the Vernal picture. The dark splotch on the Yosemite rockslides. slide shows the three major planes Fall bridge. release point is a mat of liveoak roots of cross-jointing . The fir at upper left from a tree that came down in Masses of rock move along and the small pine on the right con the slide. Liveoaks at the top of the the great joints shown at every tributed to the third slide . Lighter release point were active agents in turn in the trail. The movement streaks on the fresh rock are calichl Rough cross-section of the slide area . producing the second slide . often leaves cracks . Water washes deposits from water seepage .

I EASSOCIATION, SUMMER 1986 PAGE FIVE Februaty March 5 .50 „

one of these liveoak root tive, rather than old and stable, Liveoaks initiated the first talus slope . For the first time in by loosening a block that over a hundred years, the trail foundation for several blocks was hit by a major rockslide. v. it. The trees' search for Once a crack is filled with it enough that the light rain proba- This second slide was fol- nance, in other words, is roots and soil, water can act in bly provided some of the push lowed by a period of heavy _ndoing, and their living is other ways . Soil in the cracks can needed to break it loose . The first storms with widely fluctuating >:'irce of their demise. become so saturated that the block fell at 1 :20 p.m., Feb. 7. snowlines . That snow would fall second agent is water weight of material in the cracks That first slide removed much in the Valley at one point, chang- can affect joints and cracks and pressures on any weak block of the toe or foundation from the ing to rain to 8,000 feet within c-.-oral ways. Granites weather are greatly increased . Larger blocks above it . The piece that hours, meant increased water slowly by water. Joints may amounts of water also sharply fell was thicker at top than bot- flow off the slickrock and addi- fine at first, hardly even reduce the friction supplied by tom, a fragment formed by the tional stress along well-jointed . yet water will slowly the debris in the joints, putting intersection of the vertical with rock. _ .er the chemical weakness greater stress on remaining con- the south dipping joints shown Climbers from NPS Search dissolving elements of the nections in the rock itself . Espe- in the illustration. and Rescue, Jerry Wieczorek and slowly over time to open cially in situations with sharply With foundation gone and Chris Alger from the US Geologi- ::nt. dipping joints which leave few water pouring through old weath- cal Survey, and I checked the re- a:er also works as ice . Freez- natural ledges for blocks to rely ered cracks up to a foot wide and maining block on March 6. We --.d thawing expands cracks on, larger amounts of water in filled with roots and soil, the sec- saw slight movement there and, Lowly widens joints . When the joints grease the skids for ond block of some 1,200 tons most important, some fine, fresh ;:ocess is compounded by weakening and failure. This is broke loose about 4 p .m., Feb. 13. stress cracks along the top of the :sated soil which acts as a just what happened to cause the The new roof clearly showed the block . These, along with a very sponge, widening can be Vernal Fall trail slides. structure of the remaining rock wide joint at the rear of the block zsed . Remember, however, Rainfall in Yosemite Valley and the causes of the slide . Most and its position on a steeply dip- .ms process occurs in geo- during February and early March of the joints had weathered, and continued on page 12 rather than human time. helps show how the slides occur- there was little to hold the block red (see chart) . There was not in place . In fact the whole block 5. This block just east of the second that much rain or freezing before had dropped about a foot and release point shows a vertical frac- Trie release point of the March 8 the first slide. But the liveoaks broke off just the remaining rear ture generated by the March 8 slide. at upper center, capped by growing over the poorly sup- portion before falling. That re- Two smaller onionskin fractures -rnaining hundred ton block. ported small block had loosened mainder is the triangular piece at work in from the edge of the rock at ragged edge especially at left left center in photograph #2 . This right. In the lower left corner are shows one of the broken some of the roots from the small g points. The bright rock 4. Rock was piled on the trail up to slide buried the trail in big blocks, yellow pine . This block, already as dipping sharply toward the 12 feet deep after the third slide. In tearing out many trees to make weakened, supports several others show how gravity was favored . fact, there was no trail left. this once again a "new" and ac- above it.

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PAGE SIX YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SUMMER T=~ The Yosemite Association's New Home

Henry Berrey On the upper floor, Pres . Stei Medley presides, Linda Abbott After some sixty years of wan- performs secretarial duties, and dering, the Yosemite Association Claire Haley does her bookkeet has found a place to call home. ing and office managing. Penny On March 20, the staff moved Otwell directs field seminar bag, baggage and computers from activities, Jane Loach does the its Valley District Office to fine cashiering and Karen Cobb keen new quarters in the handsomely the records for the fundraising restored Bagby Railroad Station campaign . So, after all the years in El Portal. of being homeless or hopelessly The path to an adequate work- overcrowded, the Association place has been a twisty one. now has an attractive and func- Competition for space has been tional place to carry on its busi- severe, as the National Park ness . . . that of providing aid to Service people, too, have been Yosemite, to the National Park stuffed cheek to jowl in their offi- Service and to park visitors. ces and are forever in need of z The Yosemite Valley Railroa: more room . Whenever an area z Company built the Bagby Stat: 0 has become vacant, an N.P.S. in 1907 as a stop on the run be- administrator has pounced on it. tween Merced and El Portal. To compound the dilemma, the Hitherto, Yosemite-bound trave Association over the years has u ers journeyed to the Valley via occupied a less-than-potent place stagecoach, a long and dusty trr in the Park 's pecking order. preferable. Nothing there became manager and Pat Wight, his assis- Now they could travel in relativ During the Association's hunt available, so in mid-1985, plans tant, take care of bookselling mat- comfort along a scenic route for housing, Bagby was consid- were made for the renovation of ters on the first floor, shared with which followed the Merced Riv ered, but without much enthu- the station. Now it's done, well Mary Kate Dwire who handles The eighty-mile trip took abou siasm, a Valley site felt to be done and humming with the memberships. What was the sta- four hours and a round-trip tick Association 's activities. tion's passenger waiting room is cost $18.50, including a twelve- Henry Berry, Managing Editor of The Association offices, high- being restored to its original con- mile stage ride into the Valley. the Yosemite Natural History Associ- ceilinged and many-windowed, dition with a long, pew-like Floods destroyed much of to ation for 15 years, is now a special occupy both floors of the Bagby bench, a potbellied stove and an roadbed several times and the consultant to theAssociation. Station. Rich Reitnauer, sales ornate hanging chandelier. continued on j'ac

files and reports, going back to the the finest such facility in the uralists were trained in the son early twenties . From these, and Park System. what new notion that the stud] Carl Russell 's One Hundred Years Earlier, in 1918, attention was of living things should be con- in Yosemite, the birthdate of the Yo- directed to training naturalists ducted in their natural environ- semite Natural History Associa- with the formation of the Yosem- ments rather than in laboratori tion could have been 1923, '24 ite Field School of Natural His- The Field School training, it or '25 ; generally accepted though tory. This apparently emerged dentally, was not dissimilar to t is 1925. YNHAs parent body, the from the Service 's admiration for Yosemite Association 's present Yosemite Museum Association the study done by Mr. and Mrs. field seminar programs which O CI), first saw the light of day in 1920, C.M. Goethe of outdoor educa- have provided so much to so '21 or '23. tion programs in Europe. Goethe many since 1970. About this time, throughout later arranged for Dr. Harold C. Upon its orgnization in 192 How We Came to the Service, there was a growing Bryant of the California Depart- a Board of Trustees defined the interest in broadening visitor edu- ment of Fish and Game to head a purpose of the Yosemite Natun Be Where and cation programs in the parks . Yo- visitor education program in Yo- History Association and, while What We Are! semite ranger Ansel Hall, along semite and elsewhere in Sierra the articles may have been refit with others, laid plans for a Yo- tourist areas . NPS Director over the years, are still the polo semite museum . Aided materi- Stephen Mather, enthused about guidelines . The founders were With great help from Research ally by a grant of $50,000 from the program, hired Bryant and naturalist Bert Harwell, painter Librarian Mary Vocelka, we set the Laura Spellman Rockefeller UCLA colleague Dr. Loye Miller and writer Della Taylor (Mrs. F out to locate the places where the Memorial Fund, in 1924 a mu- to expand the Park's naturalist man H. Hoss), painter Harry C Association may have hung its seum was planned and two years programs. Out of this, grew the Best, Yosemite physician Dr. hat. This led into all sorts of NPS later was opened, perhaps the Field School where aspiring nat- Hartley Dewey and U. S. Magi

:SEMITE ASSOCIATION . SUMMER 1986 PAGE SEVEN Chevron USA Donates $250,000

THE YOSEMITE FUND

Mr. Steven P. Medley project which we understand ness and wildlife is an obligation, Yosemite Association the Park wishes to start im- not a luxury. If we fail to meet this P.O . Box 230 mediately. Chevron is very El Portal, CA 95318 interested in endangered responsibility, all of us will lose species, and our expert in this Dear Steve something irreplaceable, " said field, Pat O' Brien, plans to visit Sylla in reference to the Chevron As a result of Yosemite Associa- this project on an informal tion's request and Chevron's basis as the research proceeds. gift to The Yosemite Fund. interest in the environment You and the park personnel Chevron 's support will be and its concern about Yosemite have met Pat and seemed com- National Park, we wish to make fortable when he mentioned directed to two specific projects. a $250,000 grant to the Yosem- this earlier. This fall, work will begin to rees- ite Association for use in the Fund Raiser Poster— The bal- tablish a more natural environ- following actions: ance of the grant to develop, ment around Yosemite's famed Mirror Lake — $105,000 to print and distribute a poster Mirror Lake, which will include fund the Yosemite National which would be provided to the Park request to reestablish a general public to encourage removing obsolete facilities and more natural environment sur- individual contributions to the revegetating the area with native rounding Mirror Lake. The Yosemite Fund . The Yosemite plants . The second is research de- Park 's project covers removing Association could keep this most of the paved road and all activity going as long as it signed to halt the decline of the of the paved parking lot, devel- generates an adequate flow of Great Grey Owl, an endangered oping trails to keep visitors in contributions . We will work to species in California . Most of the limited walking areas, estab- get this project on its feet, lishing a picnic area removed including providing advertising remaining birds in the state occur At ceremonies in Washington, from the main viewing area, support. in the Yosemite region. .C ., in late May, representatives and revegetating with native Steve, we are really pleased to Yosemite Association Presi- plants . As you have discussed be a part of the restoration of Chevron U .S.A. presented with the Park Service, the San Yosemite and we are particu- dent Steve Medley observed, "We National Park Service Director Francisco Conservation Corps larly excited about the specific are most appreciative of Chev- William Penn Mott with a check will perform the majority of the projects . Enclosed is our check ron's assistance on these two basic labor, which will be paid for $250,000. for $250,000 to benefit Yosemite for from this grant. Coordina- projects which are high on our National Park. In recognizing tion with the Corps calls for list of actions necessary to keep this project be implemented Sincerely, Yosemite the very special place Lhe vital need for private funding during September/October of to support America 's parks, Chev- this year. that it is. Chevron U.S.A. is to be ron President James R. Sylla J . Lynn Maddox commended for the leadership Great Grey Owl Research — Chevron USA, Inc. emphasized the importance of $103,000 to fundYosemite's role it has assumed in the private assistance for protection and proposed research project on sector and for the example it is this California endangered preservation of wilderness species . This is a four-year setting for other corporations and wildlife. and businesses ." "Conservation of our wilder-

date J.M. Oliver. detail, for he wrote in connection relocated to the storeroom when Karraker, a deal was struck. The That the Association did suc- with a financial transaction "A his desk was reclaimed by its ends and the side of the area were ceed the Museum Association is small discrepancy [in an interest NPS owner. enclosed to make a not half-bad verified in a report by Judge account] is accounted for by In 1971, what had been the office. For a few years it was C:iver, prepared evidently in an $216.85 in interest, which said 'geology room ' in the Valley Dis- adequate, but when the staff attempt to unscramble the interest account should have trict Building was vacated . The reached its present size, condi- `HAs somewhat vague back- been $216.54."" YNHA staff, now three in tions became intolerable and Found. He wrote : ". . . there Prior to 1970, YNHA had no number, moved in . It was grand, probably in violation of OSHA wasted a kindred organization place to call home, it was wher- but short lived, moving out in workplace regulations . But, the [me Yosemite Museum Associa- ever the Chief Park Naturalist 1972. The room was to become staff carried on, buoyed up by the ton] purporting to be its happened to have his base. the Indian Cultural Museum. anticipation of something better, NHA's] predecessor, which said Though there always was a Board Back in the cold with nothing which was finally realized with organization becomes important of Trustees, decisions generally in sight. the move to the Bagby Station. cause from the loosely and en- were made by the Chief, the The north side of the Valley tirely inadequate and imperfect perennial Big Brother of the District Building had for years dal-2 . . . it appears that our organi- Association. been either an exhibit area or a zailon is the successor to the In 1970, Chief Naturalist Bill storage place for unwanted odds :miner organization." Despite an Jones hired a managing editor for and ends . It was thirty feet long , oarent lack of conviction, the the Association ; for him he found and twelve feet wide with a deep, F:dge concluded that YNHA is a an empty desk in Park Headquar- overhanging roof. It looked like 'tgitimate offspring of the ters. The other staff member the last chance. With the help of Museum Association. He evi- worked in the book storage Assistant Superintendent John dently had the lawyer's nose for room. Very shortly, the M.E. was Good and Chief Naturalist Dave

PAGE EIGHT YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SUMMER 1986 New "Underwater" Archeological Discoveries at Lake Eleanor

Scott L . Carpenter and in the mid-1800 's. There are even Laura A. Kim tales of cattle ranchers who ran stock in this once-lush valley. A team of National Park Service Now Lake Eleanor is a popular archeologists completed the re- destination for backpackers, cording of a prehistoric Indian fisherpeople, bald eagle watchers, campsite situated 40 feet beneath and many more. the surface of Lake Eleanor, and Constructed in 1917, the Lake finished the day as dry as a bone. Eleanor reservoir was designed to How did they manage that? supply power for construction of The opportunity to conduct the O'Shaugnessey Dam at this "underwater" archeological Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Both survey presented itself when the reservoirs are part of a larger net- City and County of San Fran- work that supplies domestic cisco's Hetch Hetchy Water and water and power for the City and Power Division, which operates County of . both the Hetch Hetchy and Lake Getting to see the original Eleanor reservoirs, proposed to Lake Eleanor topography, while drain the reservoir to its natural the reservoir is drained, is a rare lake and stream levels in order to opportunity— happening only repair cracks in the dam face . Staff once in every 20 to 30 years. The of the Yosemite Archeology timing of the October project was Office spent approximately ten critical, requiring careful logistical days surveying the dry reservoir planning to survey the approxi- bed in October of 1985. mately 350 acres of land before the floor of the reservoir, and of Situated just inside the north- the fall and winter storms inun- course, there is no vegetation to ern boundary of Yosemite dated the reservoir bed. obscure one's view of the ground. National Park, the Lake Eleanor The field team of archeologists Hence, many features and ar- Valley was a popular summer and systematically walked over the tifacts of cultural sites can still be fall home for both the Central entire area searching for clues of found in place on the reservoir Sierra Miwoks and the Owens any prehistoric or historic period bed. The archeologists were able Valley Paiute from east of the Sier- occupation or activity. Because of to locate numerous bedrock mor- ran crest . In historic times, at Ieast the configuration of the natural tars (used by the Indians to grind two settlers homesteaded there; lake and surrounding feeder acorns and other plant materials), Kibbe Creek is named after streams, there is a relatively lim- stone tools and arrowheads, and Horace J. Kibbe who settled there ited amount of silt deposited on remnants of various historic structures. Upon location, each site was temporarily marked with a large black plastic cross so that it could be easily identified by a passing helicopter to aid with mapping and aerial photography. A surpris- ing result of the aerial photog- raphy was the discovery of at least four recessional moraines left by the glaciers that carved the Eleanor Creek valley. After the initial location of the that might yield more informa- cultural sites, the archeologists tion about the age and function revisited every site to record and of the sites. map each one . Each feature was Within days the reconnais- photographed, and collections sance fieldwork was completed were made of selected artifacts and the reservoir level began to slowly rise. All of the data col- Scott Carpenter is the Yosemite lected were processed and ana- National Park Archeologist and Co- lyzed, and the historical informa- Director of the Yosemite Research tion of the Lake Eleanor area and Center. Laura Kim is a Staff the construction of the dam was Archeologist in Yosemite . examined and summarized . The

T _ `1ITE ASSOCIATION . SUMMER 1986 PAGE NINE Nphoto-mosaic aerial view of Lake Oileanor showing the natural lake ke:. Lake Eleanor dam at the far Irk the lighter colored area is the Reservoir bottom. This composite Was produced to aid in the location Mod mapping of the archeological rd historical sites along Eleanor (seek.

and a rock-lined well . Also can be interpreted in their original recorded was the original dam at context. Too often, as the water the mouth of Lake Eleanor, con- level of Lake Eleanor recedes structed of v-notched logs milled through its seasonal course, sites on-site. become exposed to relic collect- Due to the relatively intact ing and vandalism. state of these cultural sites, future As the information analysis research possibilities at Lake for this project is completed we Eleanor are great. Given more will begin to see a better picture time to conduct future fieldwork, of what life was like in the Lake archeologists will be able to more Eleanor valley during the past completely document these sites 2000 years . When the data is and conduct limited subsurface added to the cultural resources test excavations . In the meantime database for the rest of Yosemite, the National Park Service needs we will have the opportunity to the assistance of the public to pre- further our knowledge about serve these fragile sites in place — occupation and trade throughout to allow all of the features and the Sierra Nevada, as well as the artifacts to remain where they complexities of natural resource utilization by prehistoric and Below : Mortar holes in granite out- crop (foreground) at original lake- historic inhabitants . It makes shore. Bottom: V-notched, pegged log us wonder about the secrets that cribwork at early dam, circa 1917, on lie beneath the Hetch Hetchy mouth of original Lake Eleanor. reservoir. basic archeological survey in 1956 and recorded 16 prehistoric Indian sites, most of which cluster around the original stream banks and lakeshore. The 1985 survey covered more terrain and re- corded a total of 29 prehistoric and historic cultural sites, at least 24 of which are new discoveries. One large village site was found to have nine bedrock mor- tar outcrops, with over 100 mor- tar cups, along an area at least 250 yards following the bank of the original Eleanor Creek . In addi- tion, numerous small village or large camp sites were recorded. These sites also cluster along the original waterways . Most of these sites contain bedrock mor- tar outcrops and obsidian and chert stone tools. Preliminary artifact analysis indicates that some of these sites may date :v Cribwork abutments of historic back at least 1500 years. '_ge that once crossed Eleanor The archeologists also located -ek below the natural Lake the site of one of the sawmills L-,or . Left: Rock-lined well at at was probably the homestead used during the clear-cutting of I Herman Wolfe, mid-1800's. the reservoir basin in 1917. This site is still marked by large piles b6emite Archeology Office will of sawdust that have not yet -nplete a detailed report on the eroded away under the approxi- eat this year. mately 30 feet of water that '.rcheologists from the Uni- usually covers the area . Home- - :f California at Berkeley steading activity of the 1800 's is 7ed a similar but more obvious from cabin foundations

PAGE TEN YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION, SUMMER 1986 Summer Books of Interest

New Publication The following selection of National Park Guide books are works which chronicle Michael Frome the wide and varied scope of Faces in All Kinds of Places Rand McNally & Co ., 1986. Yosemite and the High Sierra re- A Worm's-Eve View of Flowers. (#15125) $9 .95. gion, or the national parks gener- Michael Elsohn Ross. eyes of a curious worm as she Beginning with a foreword by ally. All can be purchased from Yosemite Association, 1986. explores her rooftop . Scientific National Park Service Director the Association at the Yosemite (#385) $4 .95. concepts, language, and facts are William Penn Mott, Jr., this 20th Valley Visitor Bookstore, or by This latest book offering from presented with simple text, en- anniversary edition highlights 48 mail order, using the order form the Yosemite Association was gaging fantasy and whimsical national parks (including Yosem- on page 14 of this issue . Members developed for a younger audi- illustrations . Parents, teachers ite) and includes information on of the Association are entitled to ence . In this delightful story, child- and young readers will find 300 other properties managed by a 15% discount off retail prices. ren of all ages are introduced to "Faces" easy to understand and the National Park Service. As the world of flowers through the fun to read. thorough as ever, Rand McNally Pages of Stone: has published a guide for the Geology of Western National traveling public, providing clear Parks &Monuments. trustworthy account of Rocky and Mexican mountains ; in the basic directions, practical informa- 2: Sierra Nevada, Cascades Mountain trapping of that period Rockies and Northern Appala- tion, advice and recommenda- and Pacific Coast. and also includes his experiences chians, and in the arctic —with tions. The guide notes the best Halka Chronic. with the Walker expedition from reference to timberlines recreations, attractions, camping The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1986. Salt Lake to California for a possi- worldwide. (304 pages). and nearby points of interest. If (#14735) $14 .95. ble glimpse of Yosemite Valley in you are looking for a guide to na- Author Halka Chronic believes 1833. Depicting the love of adven- The Big Oak Flat Road tional parks, Rand McNally sets science is fascinating, fun and ture for its own sake and a pride to Yosemite the standard in the field . Includes should be presented in simple in advancing the westward Margaret E . Schlichtmann and full color maps and photos, and language for everyone. This book march of the American people Irene D. Paden. sources for additional informa- is number two in a series of 4 motivated Leonard and his com- The Awani Press, 1986. tion if needed . (248 pages). geology guides for hikers and car- panions . The stories later thrilled (#6210) $8.95. travelers covering the Western and fascinated all who heard Winner of the prestigious Com- Western Forests . Chronic maintains them, and the repeated telling led monwealth Club Award in 1955 The Audubon Society Nature Guides. that "geology is scenery; lovely an enterprising small town news- for contribution to California Stephen Whitney. to look at, but also a vivid por- paper editor to publish Leonard's history, this publication presents Alfred A . Knopf, New York, 1985. trayal of the story of our planet." carefully written manuscript in the story of the freight route from (#5840) $14 .95. The book begins with a brief, both his newspaper and in book the "loading levee" in Stockton This 671-page guide is designed painless mini-course in basic con- form. A fascinating slice of his- through to the Southern Mines for use both at home and in the cepts of geology, and the author tory from our western United and on to Yosemite, and the early field. Clearly arranged in four then takes the reader on a geo- States history. (274 pages). white families living "along the parts — habitat essays, color logic tour of the parks and monu- route." Almost everything headed plates, species descriptions, and ments and introduces each with Timberline: to the mines, to the families of appendices — it puts information basic facts. Next, key geologic Mountain and Arctic Forest Frontiers. Knights Ferry,, or on to Yosemite, at your fingertips that would attractions are pointed out and Stephen Arno. came by boat to Stockton and otherwise only be accessible explained with the aid of photo- The Mountaineers, 1984. was loaded into the great wagons through a small library of field graphs, maps and easy-to-under- (#17205) $9 .95. for the journey over the Big Oak guides . You will discover the stand diagrams . (970 pages). Timberline — where the trees Flat Road. The route was the life many kinds of forest habitats, the end — is a biological boundary line for those along its way as relationships between plants and Adventures of a visible to even the casual traveler well as the path of anticipation animals there, and highlights not Mountain Man: throughout North America. and discovery for those hardy to be missed . The color plates, The Narrative of Zenas Leonard Where highways or hiking trails world travelers eager to see for each a clear illustration of its sub- Written by Himself, Edited by ascend to upper timberlines, vis- themselves the wonders of Yo- ject, feature woodland and forest Milo Milton Quaife. itors see patchy forest and semite. Meticulously based on settings and over 600 photo- University of Nebraska meadows give way to stunted interviews, questionnaires and graphs of different plant and Press, 1978. trees and finally to mere shrub- letters, the authors present a fac- animal species. Information (#5090) $6.95. like trees and tundra . This book tual account of the once-lively provided about a plant or animal Created from the original manu- describes what timberlines are settlements, the people and the includes a description, the range, script of Zenas Leonard, the nar- and why they exist, and what events of that era in the history of specific habitat and comments. rative chronicles his adventures human uses have been made of the Big Oak Flat Road . Although The appendices include a bibliog- from 1830, when he left his fam- the timberline environment . It replaced with a modern paved raphy, a glossary, and a compre- ily's home in Pennsylvania to par- surveys tree species and condi- highway, many of the places de- hensive index. The book even ticipate in an expedition across tions of individual North Amer- scribed may still be located and, provides suggestions for opti- the Rocky Mountains, to his re- ican timberlines — in the Pacific within Yosemite, provide great mum use in home or field! turn home in 1835 . It provides a Coast, Great Basin, Southwest hiking routes. (356 pages) . c-' `E ASSOCIATIOa~ . SUMMER 1986 PAGE ELEVEN ydriiantes in the Rocks

reddish-to-beige above and often has a yellowish tail. Until last smewhere in the rocks right summer, these were the only curled up in caves, crevices, Hydromantes known in North .:us slopes are comfortable s America . Then, on June 25, 1985, ': cmantes, Sierra salaman- ti Ted Pappenfuss of Berkeley's r. .Vhile outside the tern- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology :tire might be a searing 100 and Robert Macey, a Santa Cruz tees plus or the sun might be undergrad, on a search for slender :Thing living things with salamanders on the east side of roe alpine ultraviolet rays, the Sierra found instead a flat one. r _: cmantes stay cool. This new Hydromantes, which my most recent quest for is even flatter than its nearest rela- -cmantes, I scrambled up a tive, the Mt . Lyell salamander, dried oats-covered hillside, lives in an unlikely habitat of de- _is: wilting terminally along sert scrub and volcanic rock near Jcay. Heat waves shimmered a small stream in the vicinity of r skeletons of last spring 's Independence, California . This lowers, yellow star thistles as yet unnamed salamander is -tied my bare legs, and my colored a greenish-lichen-blotch =oral artery thudded dully. hue above and is flecked with 'y I reached relief, a limes- silver below cave. A cool breeze flowed It would indeed be easy to go this cave mouth and I soon through life on this planet with- r- ersed myself in this oasis of looks like a slimy piece of crawl- body length to zap insect prey. out ever encountering a Hydro- anti darkness . Inside the ing granite, belongs to a large fam- They have webbed toes and dis- mantes. I have yet to have the rn. water dripped off ily of lungless salamanders (Pleth- tinctively flattened bodies, both pleasure. Physically, they are not sn-ded calcite formations which odontidae) all of which breathe adaptations to a life of crawling as impressive as a Sequoia with T-ne places undulated like through their moist skins . As Sier- in crevices . Hydromantes are which they have some things in -. issue. Branching miniature ran mountaineers know, alpine alone among western salaman- common . Both the plodding =crests covered other sur- sun is not kind to skin, yet this ders in using their tails as climb- Hydromantes and the towering e Bats chittered as they creature can survive by habitating ing aids as they free climb cliffs Sequoia are relics of a warmer, sscped overhead and between cool, moist sanctuaries in rock. and walls of caverns. moister age and both have some- Isics. With my flashlight I Being a Hydromantes, it also pos- The Mt . Lyell salamander was how survived in scattered popula- d damp places, but I found sesses characteristics unique to thought to be the only North tions. The Sequoia group survives amanders with webbed feet that genus . Each Hydromantes American Hydromantes for years in China and California, and mushroom tongues. I found has a mushroom-like tongue cap- until the Shasta and Limestone Hydromantes have made their s.:nrnanders at all. I wasn't able of extending a third of its Salamanders were discovered . On last stand in Southern Europe and song to find them though. February 24, 1952, Joe Gorman, a the Sierra Nevada where they .-antes are found in very Berkeley zoology graduate stu- survive in moist oases in the -es. dent, was returning from a trip to midst of seasonally hot and dry 'uly 18, 1915, no Hydro- Yosemite where he had collected environments. :tad ever been found in data on a new site of the Mt . Lyell Sir Charles Lyell, for whom merica. A species in San salamander. He and his wife, Mt. Lyell and the salamander are another in the French Gerry, stopped near Briceburg on named, would have been in- Riveria, both cave Route 140 near the Merced River trigued by the mysteries of Hy- were the only ones and, after turning some rocks as dromantes. How did these small to science. Charles Camp, all herpetologists do, found a reclusive creatures become so dis- of Joseph Grinnell 's Hydromantes . Instead of being junct in their distribution on this mite Survey, found granite colored, it was brown planet? Why did they survive in looking salamanders above and orange cream below such seemingly limited and harsh ap about 1 mile and bigger than Mt. Lyell sala- continued on page 12 !ye alt. Lyell Glacier at manders . It was found in an area Grinnell called it the of limestone bedrock and thus Michael Elsohn Ross has au- event' of the survey. No named the Limestone Salaman- thored several books published by -ender had ever been der (Hydromantes Brunus). the Association, is an accomplished sr :nth a high elevation in In 1953, Gorman came across naturalist, and teaches many out- .erica. t a third Hydromantes in limestone door classes for us . He is responsible '_r_ Lyell salamander (Hv- caves near Mt. Shasta at 2,500 for the clever line drawings illus- Aw =:atvicephalus), which phtacsc.joh feet. The Shasta Salamander is trating the text.

PAGE TWELVE Y OSEMITE ASSOCIATION ; SUMMER i Rockslide Hydromantes New Home from page 5 from page 11 om page 7

ping plane, suggested where the habitats? Why are they the only automobile became popular, re• break would occur, We deter- genus of lungless salamanders in suiting in the railroad 's financia. mined to monitor the cracks. the old world? Lyell, whose rev- collapse in 1945. When the line Only two days later during olutionary book, Principles of Geol- was abandoned, a Mrs. Della another heavy storm, the third ogy. inspired Darwin and his Gress bought the Bagby statior. slide occurred bringing down theories of evolution, would have and set up housekeeping. Then another 1,600 tons of rock and looked for geologic clues to these she lived until shortly before di clearing away most of the precari- questions . However, he would waters of the upstream Ex- ous overhang. This last block had probably be as baffled as modern chequer Reservoir lapped at he , been held solely by its western day scientists who are using doorstep . She sold out to the connection, roughly eight feet theories based on continental Merced Irrigation District. square, not far from the stress drift and glaciation to explain It is thought because of certain Meanwhile, Chief Park Nat' cracks and the heavy rain reduced how Hydromantes ploddingly primitive features that the lime- ralist Doug Hubbard had laid the friction enough that the dispersed and mysteriously be- stone salamander is most closely plans for an elaborate transport connection could not hold ; the came separated . Using biochemi- linked to the ancient Hydro- tion museum at El Portal, plans block swung down, snapping cal analysis, it has been estimated mantes from which the others which included the Bagby Sta- its connection. that European and Sierran Hydro- evolved . Deep in the past, Hydro- tion. Through the YNHA, the sl As it fell, the block slid and mantes have been separated 30 mantes might have been living tion was acquired in 1966 and bounded along the steeply in- million years (distant cousins in- from North America across Asia moved to dry ground in El Pora clined plane, landing first on the deed!) This date does not fit well to Europe . When climatic condi- There it sat neglected, the plan! small bench formed by more into the time frame of any of the tions dramatically changed, only for the museum having bogged finely stratified rock . There the dispersal/separation theories and populations in suitable environ- down in money shortage prob- impact left a considerable crater so the mystery lives on. ments survived . Thus, relic popu- lems. Despite its formerly forla and broke the block up further to lations adapted to changing condition, it has been designate increase its impact on the talus conditions in their particular as an historic structure on the below. Impact also knocked out a environment and now, presto— National Register. Its new utili: smaller block below the thin we have 6 unique species . Per- tion as offices should benefit bi strata, and that may provide now haps out there in other unlikely the building and the Yosemite a new roof for future slide activ- places, other mutated Hydro- Association. ity. Impact in the talus moved an mantes remain undiscovered. additional 2,000 tons of rock On this planet where continu- downstope, forming a huge talus ally changing environments have gully and burying the trail loca- wiped out 9/10 of all life forms, tion up to 12 feet deep, shown in these flattened bug zappers have

photograph #4. -HcEurea Pe .4.' -! survived . Now their only current Because it was next to the threats are changes created by had/sm..ca..reeaa- dno eA- river, the trail could be easily "Lord Man" as , the cleared by blasting . Checking the Sequoia 's savior, called us. new release point confirmed sus- picions that the slide activity was not yet over. A hundred ton block weathering pattern common to thousands upon thousands of used, often by novice hikers, th perched at the top of the release many rocks . This rock, however, people who use it each year to Solicitor also recommended sib point had moved slightly and is a large part of the support for see Vernal and Nevada falls . Once at the slide area itself. These sip showed some new cracks along blocks above it . When it falls, its the rains were over and tempera- specific to the hazard, state its base. Roots behind remaining failure will duplicate the situation tures rose, danger of another slide Caution slabs suggested that remaining of Feb . 7 by leaving a roof with decreased . Modification of the Active Rock Slide Area connections were often only at release points was out of several less supported blocks over slides' No Stopping Next 150 Yati one end, leaving gravity the upper it. Slowly, or maybe quickly, the the question and the trail 's great hand under the right conditions. slides will work up to the popularity eliminated closure as I walk through the slide area As the last slide fell, its falling hundred ton block which will an unenforceable option. nearly day and watch people put stress on surrounding rock. then crash to the talus below Consultation with Service passing through it . Most pay 1a We could track that stress and see This slide sequence may also officials and the Department of attention, but some become where it was likely to produce move the instability a little further Interior Solicitor led to a plan for acutely aware of what the roue future slides . Photograph #5 east, opening new weak points the trail. Recognizing that "tort trail means. One gentleman frt shows a rock just left of the small along those sharply dipping claims are the cost of doing busi- England asked about the slide liveoak on the right side of the joints . Among other things, this ness in a national park," the Park as he looked up at the marked release point shown in photo- means that the rock structure is Service has to make "every rea- fractures. After hearing a little graph #3 . The rock cracked and complex enough that no human sonable effort"—"reasonable" is a about how it all happened, he moved about one quarter inch on effort can effectively stabilize key word — to tell visitors about exclaimed, "It's simply majestic March 8 . Two smaller cracks the remainder. Taking one potential hazards in the park. as many others scurried arour4 show the work of that onionskin block down would only weaken Knowing the rockslide potential, us. He sensed for a moment tll other rock sections and create an Service personnel also have to crash of breaking rock, the snit Jim Snyder is a trail-crew foreman endless and impossible mainte- monitor the slide area . Normally of grinding granite boulders, al in Yosemite whose park interests are nance task. trailhead signs warning of these the instant in which great fallil diverse and multiple . He is a regular This situation posed a prob- hazards would be enough, but, weight made another forceful contributor to this publication . lem for the trail below and the because this trail is so heavily landscape change.

—E ASSOCIATION, SUMMER 1986 PAGE THIRTEEN Yosetite CATALOG

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designed with front snap fasten- conversation This is it— Yosemite Association Decals ers on the straps . This allows and this is the only place and Patches comfortable positioning on your it is available. Our association logo, depicting belt—even between belt loops; White with black design, Half Dome is offered to our m no need to take your belt off first. 8 ounce capacity. The material is high quality Cor- bers in these two useful forms. dura pack cloth . It has a water- Help announce your affiliation Yosemite Association Cap with our organization to othe proof coating on one side and (#1600) $5 .00. should not be dry cleaned or by purchasing and using Yose Complete your outdoor ward- Association patches and dec machine washed — most surface robe with this trendy item from soil may be removed by gently Patch $1.50; Decal $1.00. the Association collection! It 's the brushing with mild soap or deter- perfect hat for a hot, sunny day Yosemite Association T Shi gent and rinsed with a damp in the great outdoors—mesh fab- cloth. Beige with the dark brown ric to keep a cool head, a gener- Comfortable, heavy quality, and white Yosemite Association ous bill to shade your face, and 100% cotton Hanes "Beefy-7 patch, the Pelican Pouch meas- adjustable strap in the back to shirts are printed with the Yo- ures 8 x 5 x 2½ inches. insure a good fit for everyone . All semite Association's handsom of this plus the Yosemite Associa- Half Dome logo on front . Chit The Yosemite Fund Mug tion patch to let everyone know ren's sizes are available in shor (#1626) $5.00. what your favorite organization sleeve; adult sizes in short and long sleeve. This is the first time that this item is! Brown with white accent. has been offered to our member- Color: Tan with brown emblen ship. The cup is decorated with Yosemite Association Mug Child sizes (short sleeve): small, the newly-designed scratchboard (#1625) $5 .00. medium and large $6.00. Adult logo by Larry Duke of San Fran- A new addition to our product sizes (short sleeve) : small, media cisco for use in conjunction with line is this white ceramic mug large and extra-large $8.00; (lo Yosemite Association's fund- with our logo and name im- sleeve): small, medium, large at raising effort, The Yosemite Fund. printed in brown . Distinctive and extra-large $10 .00. Need a useful conversation piece functional, the mug holds 8 with potential for meaningful ounces of your favorite beverage .

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Quantity' Price Quantity' Price Ordered Item # Description Each Total Ordered Item # Description Each Total Members' discounts are not applicable when purchasing the following items. 1650 Y.A . T-shirt Childs Lg . short sleeve $ 6.00 1650 Y A . T-shirt Childs Med . short sleeve $ 6.00 1650 Y A . T-shirt Childs Small short sleeve $ 6.00 1675 Y.A . T-shirt Adult X-Lg . short sleeve $ 8.00 1675 Y.A . T-shirt Adult Lg. short sleeve $ 8.00 _ 1675 Y.A . T-shirt Adult Med. short sleeve $ 8.00 111 1675 1 Y.A . T-shirt Adult Small short sleeve $ 8.00 1680 Y.A . T-shirt Adult X-Lg. long sleeve $10 .00 1680 Y.A. T-shirt Adult Lg . long sleeve $10 .00 1680 Y.A. T-shirt Adult Med . long sleeve $10 .00 1680 Y.A. T-shirt Adult Small long sleeve $10 .00 Subtotal: Yosemite Association Decal $ 1 .00 Less 15% Member 's Discount: Yosemite Association Patch $ 150 Subtotal A: Subtotal B: Ordered by: Merchandise Total (Subtotals A + B) Name: 6% Sales Tax (CA customers only) Address: Shipping charge $ 1 .5c City: State : Zip : Membership Number : Total enclosed Yosemite Association, P.O . Box 230, El Portal . CA 95318 . : --E ASSOCIATION, SUMMER 1986 PAGE FIFTEEN Brian Kinney 1946—1986 sustained in an automobile acci- Andrews of North Cascades Na- dent on Highway 41 south of the tional Park; his parents, Betsie and park on the night of May 6. Jon Herb Kinney of New York; a was returning home from Fresno grandmother, Ethel Kinney of when his car collided with a vehi- Massachusetts; and a sister, Katie, interpretive programs cle that had overturned moments now working in Great Smoky -.ed. and enriched the lives of earlier. He succumbed without Mountains National Park. _:ands of visitors to Yosemite. regaining consciousness . He At his family's request the eagerly shared his ideals and was 39. Yosemite Association has estab- _ssion for Yosemite, evoking About 160 people attended a lished the Jon Kinney Memorial o.iincipants a sense of place memorial service at Wawona Fund . Gifts to this fund will bene- : abturing their commitment Point in the upper Mariposa fit the Yosemite Research Library, care for it. He sparked Grove May 14 . Held in the Soci an appropriate beneficiary in cnse of wonder and kin- ety of Friends tradition, the view of Jon's love of books. _-eir imagination; his style gathering was a moving and Donors may send contributions .ed and his wit delighted eloquent tribute to Jon's life. to Jon Kinney Memorial Fund, he exposed to Yosemite 's A native of Massachusetts, Jon Box 545, Yosemite, CA 95389. native attributes and spiritual had worked for the National Park Jon's death leaves a significant :zes. Engaging life zestfully. Service since 1972 . Besides Yo- void in the Yosemite family. The .'ored his own park experi- semite, his assignments included indelible dimension he added to and invited others to share North Cascades, Denali, Glacier visitors' experiences, the emo- xrsonal bond he felt for the Bay, Grand Canyon, Indiana tions he stirred, the insight he values embodied in na- Dunes and Bandelier. He also per- provoked, the perceptions he im- .s. narks. He was committed formed brief stints in parks in printed, the vigor he personified, erpretation, and he relished England, Scotland, New Zealand, the love he conveyed, his drive, nities to practice and Australia and Canada . At the time his spirit—those were his trade- . ..ow it. of his death he was a subdistrict mark; they are, as well, his legacy. •e i known for the enthu- interpreter in the Wawona Dis- . sense of humor and trict, responsible for supervising :anon he displayed in his summer interpretive operations --erive activities, National at Glacier Point and winter activi- evice Interpreter Jon Kin- ties at Badger Pass. . ed May 11 of injuries he Jon is survived by his wife, Jeri

Fiebert, J Wesley Fry, Diana Gan- Pierce, Carol Platt, Pat Polhemus, Stanley Parker, John Poimiroo, Brad Members semer, M L Miller & George Serra, Re- Hugh & Betty Power, Lisa Price, Len & Becky Praun, Bob & Betty Renier, becca Giles, Joy Gillies, Mary F Gi- Radys, Rick Raffo, Ron Rector, Angela Ritzel, Patricia Romeiro, Don venter. Jacqueline Gold, Dr Jack Donald Reeves, Helen Reist, Jed L & Susan Russel, Esther & Marvin snuid like to welcome to the Goldsmith, Carol Goodall, Lester & Richardson, Mr & Mrs Carl Robbert, Smith, Irma VanRiesen, Mr & Mrs _.e Association the following Ruth Goodman, Mildred Gore ; Aileen Dr Margaret Rodriquez, Paul B Rose, Dan B Wright, Gary & Jan Zeigler sons who became members Gosslin, Kenneth Greene, Dr Alfred Mr & Mrs William Sain, Donna & a- :he past three months . Your Greenquist, Alice Greenwald, Frank John Sanders, Kathy & Owen San- Contributing Members r s greatly appreciated. Greenway, Glenn Grissom, Paul J dusky,. Susan Sanford, Pauline E . Sav- Hall, Peggy Hannawell, William age, Peter M Sawyer, Larry Schechter, William Alsup, David Andrea, Mr & Members Harley, Mr & Mrs John Hartman, Pete Robert Schiffman, Tina Sehutten- Mrs Larry Bodiford, Joseph Breen, Hayes, Patricia Hein, Mike & Terry helm, Jacqui Semple, Terry Senne, Herman Bressler, Joan Clappier, Anderson, Laurel Ander- Henderson, Mr & Mrs Willliam Hetts, C Jane Shipman, Edward & Adele Natalie Cobby, Dr & Mrs Marshall =Yrb Andrews, Peter B Arnold, Jerry Hill, Susan Ho, N King Huber, Shoop, Max Short, David & Mary Denenberg, Suzanne Fife, N H Cow- Marie Azevedo, Mr & Mrs Robert Huber,. Marilyn Hull, Mrs Geri Anne Showers, Mrs Frances Smith, ing Jr, Leon & Mary Jackson, Mary _a:fod, Keith Barnett, Cristine Humphsy Steve Jacobs, Richard H Gary Smith, Denise Star, Steven & Staykow & John McClelland, Jane & Rodney A Beaty,, John Jensen, Herff Jerry. Cynthia Schuetz Ellen Stavish, Naomi Steedruan, Charles Lombard, Morris & Doris =:_.-sley Cameron Bell, Mr & & Jim Perkins, Anderson Joan, Bruce Richard Stumm, Andrew Sutherland, Martin, Sylvia McLaughlin, Barbara . r Bell, Barbara Berggreen, O Jones, Don L. Kaastrup, R O Kel- Effie Barbara Swaney. Susan Swan- Piffero, Bob & Barbara Reiter, Caren Harriet Bigelow, Phillip & son, Vicki Kopinski, Harvey Kuhl, son, Susan Terry, Shary Thomas, Jean & Dan Rickhoff, Louise Schaeffer, ..es. Janina Rago & Hill Horn, Alan & Rita LaFace, Cheryl Lagorio, Thompson, Joanne Trueblood, John Jean Shortal, Dr & Mrs Elliott Shubin 3ranson, Shirley Brey,. Ron Barbara & Frederick Lambert, Jennifer & Beth Miley, Fred & Hellen Unter- Sustaining Members shard Briscoe, Ada & Sidney Lambkin, Kathleen Newlin Larson, leitner, Mr & Mrs Richard Walbert, Elizabeth Buist, Daniel Roy & Mayumi Laubscher, Tim Lud- William Walsh, Patricia Ward, Vicki L. Mrs J J Bartee, Carolyn Beverstock, & Mrs George Capelle, ington, David & Ginger Ludwick, Warner-Huggins, Philip & Jessica War- Charles & Carol Cardarelli, Robert tarot, Michael & Sherry Frawley Lynch, Robert & Barbara ring; Graeme & Roselyn Watson, Wild & Claire Nemeth, Mr & Mrs Sid- .'.lei Chin, George Caldwell Madvig, Richard Magoteaux, Robert Gloria Weems, Anna K Weisz, Adele ney Frankel, Tony Hernandez, Irwin • Dunham, Don & Mary C Marshall, Phyllis Mattson, Joseph Williams, Susan Wilson, Evelyn & Carol Kanode, Paul Page, John & & Mrs Michael Cogley, Matuscak, Donald McKinney Jr, Irma Wright, Paul Wyman Margaret Rash. Cognata, Dan Condron, McKinnon, Arthur & Donna McRae, Ellsworth Conner, Mrs Cindy Melin, David B . Menist, Joan Supporting Members as. Janice Costella, Roberta Metzger, Hank Miller, Joel & Judith arolyn & Pete Courture, Miller, John & Carole Mitchell, Mari- Alice & Joseph Abbott, William & Life Members sand. Gerald J. D'Onofrio, lyn Monson, Daryl & Rita Morgan, Nancy Bittner Michael Blair, Thomas --:as & Darleen Spencer, Richard A Morgan, Marcia Martens- Cardina, Rick Castelanelli, Cheryl Mr & Mrs Don Pimental Si F atl Dato, Paula Davis, Joe son, Elise Wyleen Mullin, Howard Dupre, Doug Broten & Eve Sproule, _. Mr & Mrs Robert Dillon, Mussel], David Mustart, Charles Nel- Milton Genes, Dr & Mrs Hubert Hud- a_vo, Arleen & Harvey son, Patricia Nordskog, Jack Oliver dleson, Christopher Ishida, Mark & Participating Leine Dunkelman, Alice & Olney. Paul & Jean Ostroth, Rick Susan Jacobs, Katherine Mather Lit- - ::ert. Rob & Julie Edwards, Needham & Pam Young, Hankyu tell, Laurence Lynn, Louis Mackey, L J Life Members -anuels, Max & Carol Park, Larry Pearson, Richard & Judy Maher, Mike & Denise Masica, gan Enright, Siran Diane Pelouze, Sally Olson & Peter Kiel, Mr Robert & Joanne Meuser, Kay Mills, Erwin & Alberta Samuelson, tit Fancett, Marty & Mrs Robert Pex, Mr & Mrs Bemard Walter & Martha Nakano, Joanne & Christopher and Brenda Black

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