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  aneta1107 27.4.2010 (18:21)

  History of Yosemite Valley has been home for centuries, and Pajutów Miwok Indians who lived there in peace until the outbreak of the gold rush in California. Yosemite name derives from an Indian word for grizzly bear, which is a tribal totem native inhabitants of these lands.It is believed that the first white men saw Yosemite Valley from the top, not entering it, they were trappers, led by Joseph Walker Reddeforda. That was in 1833. Probably they saw from the top of Yosemite Falls. The year 1851 is considered the year in which the Yosemite Valley for the first time he put his foot white man. Soon this place became famous, attracting painters and nature lovers. In 1864, following pressure from conservationists that time, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law providing protection constitute the Yosemite Valley and the giant redwood forests, south of it. A little later, in 1890, the American commitment to naturalist John Muir have ultimately led to notice the second turn of Yosemite National Park in the United States (after Yellowstone). The park, which implies that the person Galen Clark, who is considered one of the discoverers of the giant forest located in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
  Geology Yosemite Valley is the most classic example of the U-shaped glacial valley, and its contemporary appearance is the result of tectonic movements, water erosion and crushing ice forces.
  * Creation of the Sierra Nevada mountains
  * water erosion leads to a shallow river beds
  * flowing glaciers deepen the trough (1 million - 30 thousand. Years ago) Natural Sierra canyons in the ice age have been deepened and widened by glaciers. Huge weight of ice and easily crumbled granite, the rock cracks weakened, leaving intact the wall of a stronger construction. Glacier posuwający the pipe wall Merced left untouched, with the water falling down Nevada and Vernal Falls. Yosemite Canyon creek is a typical "hanging valley". Glacier, which it is carved, was much smaller than the Merced Glacier, which cut lying 600 meters below the valley. Yosemite Stream flows, therefore, hanging valley, where the falls in Yosemite valley, a beautiful waterfall trójkaskadowym with the same name as the valley (photo), a height of 740 m, making it the sixth in the world. As a result of ice, which left intact the shape of the hardest parts, created: Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan (1095 m) and Half Dome. The formation of hanging valleys contributed to the many waterfalls.
  flora in the south of the park is famous Mariposa Grove of giant mamutowców, popularly known as sekwojami. The most famous specimen is in Yosemite Sequoia "Grizzly Giant", numbering 2,700 years. It is 65 meters tall and its diameter at the base consists of 9 meters. The park is eight pine species, including yellow pine
  * * * Jeffrey pine pine pine western Lambert
  * and other trees, which are worth mentioning:
  * * Calocedrus California black oak
  Fauna
  baribal
  * * * puma
  * coyote mulak
  * Squirrel Owl
  * Canadian sheep (in the upper parts of the mountains)
  * 200 species of birds, among others: the Steller's Jay by four species of falcon (peregrine falcon) with a golden eagle

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