Yosemite National Park is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest.
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22 Facts About Yosemite National Park
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Geology of the Yosemite National Park area is characterized by granite rocks and remnants of older rock.
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Indigenous natives of Yosemite National Park called themselves the Ahwahneechee, meaning "dwellers" in Ahwahnee.
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The conflict in Yosemite National Park is known as the Mariposa War, it started in December 1850 when California funded a state militia to drive Native people from contested territory, known as Indigenous traditional and sacred homelands; the goal was to suppress Native American resistance to American expansion.
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The quest for justice and sovereignty by Yosemite National Park Natives has been ongoing for well over a hundred years.
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Hutchings and Ayres were responsible for much of the earliest publicity about Yosemite National Park, writing articles and special magazine issues about the Valley.
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Muir was one of the first to theorize that the major landforms in Yosemite National Park Valley were created by large alpine glaciers, bucking established scientists such as Josiah Whitney, who regarded Muir as an amateur.
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The Yosemite National Park Museum was founded in 1926 through the efforts of Ansel Franklin Hall.
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The Yosemite National Park Service has reduced artificial inducements to visit the park, such as the Firefall, in which red-hot embers were pushed off a cliff near Glacier Point at night.
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Yosemite National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada of California.
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Almost all of the landforms in the Yosemite National Park area are cut from the granitic rock of the Sierra Nevada Batholith .
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El Capitan, a prominent granite cliff that looms over Yosemite National Park Valley, is one of the most popular rock climbing destinations in the world because of its diverse range of climbing routes in addition to its year-round accessibility.
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High country of Yosemite National Park contains beautiful areas such as Tuolumne Meadows, Dana Meadows, the Clark Range, the Cathedral Range, and the Kuna Crest.
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The Lyell Glacier is the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park and is one of the few remaining in the Sierra Nevada today.
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Yosemite National Park has three groves of ancient giant sequoia trees; the Mariposa Grove, the Tuolumne Grove, and the Merced Grove .
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Wetlands in Yosemite occur in valley bottoms throughout the park, and are often hydrologically linked to nearby lakes and rivers through seasonal flooding and groundwater movement.
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Yosemite National Park is famous for its high concentration of waterfalls in a small area.
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None of the Yosemite National Park glaciers are a remnant of the Ice Age alpine glaciers responsible for sculpting the Yosemite National Park landscape.
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Yosemite National Park has a Mediterranean climate, meaning most precipitation falls during the mild winter, and the other seasons are nearly dry .
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Black bears of Yosemite were once famous for breaking into parked cars to steal food.
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Yosemite National Park has documented more than 130 non-native plant species within park boundaries.
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In 2010, Yosemite National Park was honored with its own quarter under the America the Beautiful Quarters program.
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