One hundred and fifty years ago this month, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, making Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove the first parkland ever set aside by the federal government for preservation and public use. That act laid the groundwork for the national park system. We look back on the history of Yosemite and the artists, conservationists and leaders who were inspired by the dramatic landscape that Frederick Law Olmsted called “the greatest glory of nature… the union of the deepest sublimity with the deepest beauty.”
"Yosemite HD": An Awe-Inspiring Time-Lapse Video:
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