The Proposed Yosemite National Park-- 
 treasures and features, 1890  
 historical reprint from VistaBooks 
  by John Muir 








The Proposed Yosemite National Park--treasures & features, 1890.vist0003 frontcover

The Proposed Yosemite National Park--treasures & features, 1890.

by John Muir.John Muir portrait

Perhaps the most important writing Muir ever did, for here he proposed a national park, which was soon established. He and his editor had hatched the scheme around a Tuolumne Meadows campfire, and so Muir became known as the "Father of Yosemite National Park." The writing is mostly descriptive, in Muir's magnificent style, covering the grand scenes, waterfall explorations, storm flooding, sequoias, glaciers, Hetch Hetchy Valley, and more. An included map shows Muir's proposed park boundaries, larger than today's, as one might imagine, for there was controversy about taking too much mineral land from potential production. Also shown is the watershed of the Yosemite Valley, as a major purpose of the new park was to protect the waterfalls of Yosemite Valley from upstream lumbering and sheep-grazing. At that time, Yosemite Valley was under state operation and the new park would not affect that; later, however, the valley was returned to federal management and the present park achieved its wholeness. Foreword by former Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William Jones.

Reprinted from 1890, with period engravings. 32 pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-003-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-003-4. Order #:VIST0003 paper$4.95.

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