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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Yosemite"”.
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Bolting the Landscape: An Ethnography of Yosemite as a Significant Climbing Destination
<p>Yosemite Valley is a transformative landscape that helps to shape climbers’ identities and fosters a unique sense of community, which continually reinforces its status as a renowned and evolving climbing destination. The historical influence of Yosemite Valley on rock climbing began in the 1950s …
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
For many visitors, Yosemite's park boundaries symbolize a division between nature and civilization. On a busy day in Yosemite Valley, however, that divide seems nonexistent. Cars slither by, glinting in the sun. The valley echoes with camera clicks. Tourists stream into grocery stores and souvenir …
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Connecting Youth to Public Lands Through the Social Change Model of Leadership Development: The Yosemite Leadership Program
… study explored the success and outcome of the Yosemite Leadership Program (YLP) through its foundation in the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. There are research studies of collegiate programming and the Social Change Model (SCM); however, a literature review uncovered the limited …
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Peaks and Valleys: The Life and Legacy of Carleton Watkins
… to prominence after the photographs he took of Yosemite Valley in the Summer of 1861. Throughout this story, Carleton battles his inner demons and greedy competitors to prove himself as one of the greatest artists of his time. Unfortunately, the impact of Watkins has been forgotten about. Not …
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Mineral-Scale Sr Isotopic Study of Plagioclase in the Mafic Dikes of the North American Wall and the Diorite of the Rockslides, Yosemite Valley, California.
… mafic complex in the intrusive suite of Yosemite Valley show evidence of mixing with their host granites as well as with earlier components. Whole rock major element variation diagrams indicate the mafic rocks mixed with a more silicic component, but extrapolating to the silica end member …
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Salvaging salmon: Shasta Dam and the conservation movement
… the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley within Yosemite National Park to build a reservoir to supply water to San Francisco, but in 1956, after a hard fight with the Sierra Club, Congress decided not to build Echo Park Dam in Dinosaur National Monument. Constructed between 1938 and 1945, Shasta …
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Investigation Of The Use And Application Of Passive Sampling Methods For Understanding Potential Sources Of Mercury To Western United States
… CA; Chews Ridge, CA; Lick Observatory, CA; Yosemite National Park, CA; Hetch Hetchy Reservior, CA; Sequoia National Park, CA; and Great Basin National Park, NV. Ancillary data (ozone, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation and solar radiation) was available …
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The educational program in the national parks with particular reference to those in the western states
… Rainier, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, and Kings Canyon . In 1935 I visited the Olympic Peninsula, and have been in the region which is now the Olympic National Park.</p> <p>A great deal of the material has been gathered by interviews with the naturalists in the various …
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Wildfires for resilience in California’s Sierra Nevada: fine-scale assessment at regional scales with airborne lidar
… a partially-restored active-fire landscape in Yosemite National Park. I found that key structural features (e.g., tall trees and small tree clumps) demonstrated high resistance during drought and wildfire, stressing the importance of reestablishing active-fire conditions to increase dry forest …