Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Frontispiece: Yosemite Valley] One Hundred Years in Yosemite _The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends_ BY CARL PARCHER RUSSELL CHIEF NATURALIST, UNITED STATES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE _With a Foreword by Newton B. Drury_ [Illustration: Looking at the valley] UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS _Berkeley and Los Angeles · 1947_ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND COPYRIGHT, 1932 COPYRIGHT, 1947, BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON BARTLETT LEWIS 1884-1930 AND CHARLES GOFF THOMSON 1883-1937 FOREWORD [Illustration: Decorative border] _The National Park Service is primarily a custodian of and trustee for lands—lands with unique and special qualities, so distinctive as to make their care a concern of the entire nation; lands, therefore, held under a distinctive pattern and policy, administered according to the national park concept._ _Yosemite National Park comprises such lands. It is, so to speak, a type locality for the national park idea. While Yellowstone, established in 1872, was the first real national park, Yosemite Valley, in 1864, under an act signed by President Lincoln, was transferred to the State of California to be protected according to park principles, later to be re-ceded to the Federal Government. Here in Yosemite many of the national park policies and techniques of protection, administration, and interpretation have evolved and are still evolving, within the framework of the basic act of 1916, with its injunction to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”_