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IV. Wildlife Management and Ecology
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28. Its reputation as one of the
largest national parks aside, Yosemite failed to provide adequate refuge
for many wildlife species, especially those competing with human motives
and pursuits. The bighorn sheep, for example, were long since extinct in
Yosemite when Assistant Park Naturalist Ed Beatty posed with an
ice-preserved carcass, thawed from Lyell Glacier, October 1933. Bighorn
sheep were reintroduced to Yosemite in 1986. Courtesy of the Yosemite
National Park Research Library.
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29. Early efforts to protect giant
sequoias from soil compaction and vandalism focused on the Grizzly
Giant, estimated to be 2,700 years old. Superintendent Washington B.
Lewis and the Baron Rothschild Party encircle the tree, June 4, 1922.
The fence apparently was meant to discourage only unofficial access.
Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.
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30. Lewis's successor, Colonel Charles
Goff Thomson, borrowed from his field experience in World War I and
replaced the fence with a barbed-wire entanglement, photographed on
August 5, 1934. Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research
Library.
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