Yosemite Centennial Symposium Proceedings, Natural Areas and Yosemite: Prospects for the Future
The Yosemite Fund. 1990. Yosemite Centennial Symposium Proceedings, Natural Areas and Yosemite: Prospects for the Future. Oct. 13 - 20, 1990
This extensive document covers numerous topics vital to Yosemite National Park and its survival. The report begins with an historical overview of the park but is dealing with resource management issues by page 101. Topics that follow and are specific to Yosemite include: the concept of ecosystem management, global climate change, fire ecology, sequoia grove ecology of the Mariposa Grove, wildlife of the area, mountain beavers, bighorn sheep, Swamp Lake environments, Yosemite's stream system, and geology of Yosemite including late Pleistocene glaciation of the area. Each one of these topics is represented by a complete paper that delves into the subject in detail.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding
- Date of Issue
- 1990
- Units
- HIST , YOSE
- Keywords
- Animals, Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis), Ecosystems, ehistory, Fire Ecology, Geology, Glaciation, Global Climate Change, History, Management, mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa), Natural Resource Management, Rivers & Streams, Sequoia Groves, Swamp Lake