Today, Yosemite National Park is 120 years old. Thanks in large part to that wonderful explorer and naturalist, John Muir. According to the John Muir National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) :
The “Father of the National Park Service”
John Muir was many things, inventor, immigrant, botanist, glaciologist, writer, co-founder of the Sierra Club, fruit rancher. But it was John Muir’s love of nature, and the preservation of it, that we can thank him for today. Muir convinced President Teddy Roosevelt to protect Yosemite (including Yosemite Valley), Sequoia, Grand Canyon and Mt. Rainier as National Parks.
That said, here are a few pictures in honor of that wonderful place called Yosemite.
