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Yosemite
Land management of the Yosemite region dates back centuries to indigenous knowledge of flora and fauna and use of controlled burning. Frederick Law Olmsted moved to the Sierra Nevada foothills to manage the Mariposa Mining Estate in 1863. After passage of an 1864 Act of Congress, he was appointed as a commissioner by the governor of California to create a plan fostering conservation and public recreational use of the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree grove under state and federal auspices. The plan was precursor to the establishment of Yosemite National Park in 1890. |