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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ft.) ; the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River a 

 mighty gorge, twenty-two miles in length, with cliffs 

 rising from four to five thousand feet sheer on either 

 hand, and with a magnificent succession of waterfalls 

 and cascades throughout its entire extent; the region 

 about Mt. Dana and Mono Pass ; the Mariposa, Tuolumne, 

 and Merced groves of Sequoias; Mt. Hoffman and 

 Tenaya Lake; Benson, Rogers, and Tilden Lakes in the 

 northern portion of the park; Hetch Hetchy Valley 

 alas! its glory is departed, these are some of the "un- 

 familiar" features of Yosemite Park which will some day 

 be appreciated at their full value. 



up Conness Creek to Mt. Conness and possibly as far 

 as Rogers Lake, down the Tuolumne Canyon at least 

 as far as the Waterwheel Falls, and finally returning to 

 Yosemite Valley via the Tioga Road and the trail lead- 

 ing down by the side of Yosemite Falls. Having made 

 this trip once, you will not be satisfied until you have 

 made it again and yet again, and then you will realize 

 that you have seen only a small portion of Yosemite Park. 

 But California is not yet satisfied. It has still two 

 more parks on its "waiting list" which it wishes to dedi- 

 cate to "the benefit and the enjoyment of the people." One 

 of these is the Redwoods National Park, in the northern 



Photograph by Pillsbury 



THE GATES OF THE YOSEMITE 



The entrance to this wonderful Park in California gives the visitor an appreciation of the magnificent scenic effects which will 

 meet his eye when he is in the Park. To the left is seen the majesty of El Capitan, and to the right the heights of Cathedral 

 Rocks and the sheer beauty of Bridal Veil Falls, while the Merced River flows in the foreground. 



To arrive at a reasonable familiarity with Yosemite 

 Park one should plan an excursion for at least a month's 

 duration. First, devote several days to Yosemite Valley 

 and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Then follow the 

 Sunrise Trail past Merced Canyon and Cathedral Peak 

 to the Tuolumne Meadows, making headquarters at Soda 

 Springs for two or three weeks. From this point make 

 separate trips as convenient to Dog Lake and Delaney 

 Meadows, up Lyell Fork to Mt. Lyell, up the Tioga 

 Road to Mt. Dana, over Mono Pass and down Bloody 

 Canyon to Mono Lake and return via Leevining Canyon, 



portion of the state, designed to conserve the last remain- 

 ing forest of the noble Coast Redwood (Sequoia semper- 

 vircns), and the other is the Roosevelt National Park, 

 in southern California, proposed as a fitting memorial to 

 the late ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. The last- 

 named park will include the present Sequoia Park and 

 in addition over one thousand square miles of mountain- 

 ous country lying along the crest and the western slope 

 of the Sierra Nevada, culminating in Mt. Whitney 

 (14,501 ft.), the highest mountain in the United States 

 outside Alaska. A marvelous high-mountain trail, named 



