YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
Living In Yosemite
Lynn Wilson
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in German and Japanese.
ISBN 0-939365-58-8 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-93-6 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-94-4 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95

Our Yosemite Pocket Portfolio^© Book provides in-depth information on the human and natural histories of the Park as well as spectacular color photography of waterfalls, giant sequoias, wildflowers, wildlife, and granite domes.

I live, work, and play in Yosemite National Park. Through the years I’ve watched shadows lengthen on pine trees and widen on stately oaks. I observe where last winter’s fallen limbs have left jagged amputation scars, and I mourn the uprooting of a familiar evergreen. I feel a relationship with each tree, each rock, and each flower I pass on my 5 A.M. drive to work. As the seasons unfold, my excitement grows, for there are always new and exciting events in this natural world.

Nature, here, is the master architect and she is relentless in redefining her landscape. She fingers her way into the heart of rocks, sends down massive slides, and transforms, yet again, her stony facades. She blows hot breath and causes wildfires to ignite, destroying plants, animals, and the works of man. Yet, that same destruction replenishes the earth with vital minerals and nutrients, and, like the phoenix, a future forest arises from the ashes of the past. Ground-shaking, loam-rolling earthquakes shake out unstable rocks and toss them effortlessly aside. And great floods, like the One Hundred Year Flood of 1997, scour away the old and reveal the new. I’ve seen Yosemite change a great deal in my time here, and there is only one thing I know to be true: the free spirit of nature cannot be controlled, for she alone knows how to reevaluate, reorganize, and rebuild...

In 1851, Major James D. Savage and the 200 members of the Mariposa Battalion looked down into a valley in Northern California that had been home to American Indians for more than 1,000 years. The Mariposa Battalion came upon the valley as they searched for a band of Southern Miwok people who called themselves the Ahwahneechee, after the Ahwahnee, or “deep grassy valley,” in which they lived spring through fall. Within a year of the European discovery of the valley, the Ahwahneechee were forced out and their former homeland was renamed Yo-Semite, or “grizzly bear.”

—From “Living In Yosemite” by Lynn Wilson

Living In Yosemite
Lynn Wilson
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in German and Japanese.
ISBN 0-939365-58-8 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-93-6 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-94-4 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95

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