Yosemite National Park

by Christopher James

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Yosemite National Park

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Christopher James

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About 3.8 million people visit Yosemite each year and most spend the majority of their time in the seven square miles of Yosemite Valley and was designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Though most visitors congregate in the valley there is a thriving hiking environment in the higher terrain and the views are just as exquisite without the crowds.
As revealed by archeological finds, the Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, though humans may have first visited the area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The indigenous natives called themselves the Ahwahneechee, meaning "dwellers in Ahwahnee. They are related to the Northern Paiute and Mono tribes. Many tribes visited the area to trade, including nearby Central Sierra Miwoks, who lived along the drainage area of the Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers. A major trading route went over Mono Pass and through Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake, just to the east of the Yosemite area. Vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today; acorns were a staple to their diet, as well as other seeds and plants, salmon and deer. This image was digitized from 35mm color slide.

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July 9th, 2016

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