Yosemite National Park (pronounced /joʊˈsɛmɨtiː/ yo-SEM-it-ee) is a national park located in the eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States...
Yosemite National Park (pronounced /joʊˈsɛmɨtiː/ yo-SEM-it-ee) is a national park located in the eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres or 1,189 square miles (3,081 km²) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Yosemite is visited by over 3.5 million people each year, many of whom only spend time in the seven square miles (18 km²) of Yosemite Valley. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness. Although not the first designated national park, Yosemite was a focal point in the development of the national park idea, largely owing to the work of people like John Muir and Galen Clark.
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These national parks are a part of American culture and beauty. We must fight to preserve such parks as this, for without em, we lose an important part of our history!
@InsideLosAngeles Its not just for our own benefit that we should do what we can to help these parks, national or state because out of all them combined they make up only 2% of what was originally In the Continental United States. Literally only 2%. The rest percentage fell to corporate greed. It is our duty to help these parks as much as possible. we wouldn't be here and neither would all of the diverse species of life that are on this planet. We haven't factually recorded aliens, you know?
@InsideLosAngeles My point is out of roughly 100 billion galaxies, all with at least 4 million stars with a more than likely chance to have planets around each star in our universe after years of looking, and not even a close enough planet to get to can or does support life as we know it.
The Yosemiters are back we went in April of this year and we are goin back in Sept........... we camp at the campgrounds there with 40 peeps in April and now we are going back for more in Sept with 35 peeps
i think they was sequoia trees but they was 3 car legnths in diameter at the base and they cut holes in them so you can drive through them but that was back in 1977 and they cut them down and it took hundreds of years to grow to be that big
its not the same as it was in 1977 sorry to say they changed the landscape or the most attractions of yosemite was those big trees that you can drive thru on those trails to the camp site i have pictures of the trails and the trees those yuppies cut down that led to the campsites
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