Tag: birthday

  • Happy Birthday Yosemite!

    Happy Birthday Yosemite!

    In celebration of Yosemite’s 123rd Birthday even Google has gotten into the act with this awesome doodle. Today marks the 123rd birthday of Yosemite National Park. That is to say, Yosemite has been around quite some time and rumor has it, a much longer time than before people came to this part of the world.…

  • 150th Anniversary of Yosemite Grant Logo

    150th Anniversary of Yosemite Grant Logo

    In case you’ve been living in the deep woods or a cave in Yosemite (local joke), next year marks the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Yosemite Grant by Abraham Lincoln.

  • Happy 197th Birthday Galen Clark

    When people say name the most influential person in the creation of Yosemite the National Park almost certainly the first name that comes to mind is John Muir, but there’s a man that even John Muir looked up to for his stewardship of the land and belief that it needed protecting.