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Mariposa Big Tree Grove:
The famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), co-designer of New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and other shared public places, believed in bringing the beautifying benefits of the natural world into urban spaces. Between 1863 and 1865, Olmsted was superintendent of the Mariposa Company minig estate in Bear Valley, California, and a commissioner at Yosemite> A conservationist, Olmsted supported the Yosemite Grant, a bill signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to protect Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree grove of giant sequoias for public use and |