Yosemite
The Embattled Wilderness
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V. Urban Distractions and Influence
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44. For unsuspecting animals, encountering civilization in Yosemite often ends tragically. Rangers work to free a bear who stuck his head in a milk can, 1957. Courtesy of the National Park Service.

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45. Park Service biologists kill a bear by lethal injection, having deemed the animal a potential risk to visitor safety. Courtesy of Resources Management, Yosemite National Park

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46. How visitors really die: sign placed at entrance stations and in Yosemite Valley, September 1947, by Superintendent Frank A. Kittredge. Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.


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