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Evening Programs at the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center | Sierra Club
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The Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center is located in Yosemite Valley. Parking is extremely limited; use shuttle stop 12.Repeating Event
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Programs presented by Sierra Club at the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center in Yosemite Valley (shuttle stop 12.) Programs are free; no registration required.
Friday, May 10: Ukulele Sing Along Night (Families welcome!)
Presented By: Elaine Gorman, Julie TenBrink, & Linda McFelter. Please join Elaine, Julie, and Linda for an old-fashioned, campfirestyle sing-along. Bring your enthusiastic voices!
Saturday, May 11: Climbing Yosemite Bigwalls
Presented by Sarah Sugarman, Yosemite ranger, educator, and climber. For some, climbing can be a practice that strengthens the way we interact with the most challenging parts of ourselves. Sarah will be sharing stories of overnight bigwall climbing in Yosemite that have changed her perspective on fear, and how those experiences have helped her better understand who she is and who she wants to be.
Friday, May 17: Jaguars and Monarchs: Mexico’s Conservation Model
Join Wildlife Biologist Sergio Avila as he shares stories and experiences from his research with jaguars and ocelots, advocacy for Monarch butterflies, and life in remote areas of the Sierra Madre range. This presentation will describe Mexico’s conservation model and successes,
highlighting work by local communities, organizations and government to protect the country’s megadiversity.
Saturday, May 18: Beyond the Valley: The Lakes of Yosemite
Presented by Mike Mullen, Backpacker and Photographer. Since 2016, Mike has spent over 80 days hiking and backpacking in Yosemite in the first known attempt to photograph each of the 167 named lakes in Yosemite. His talk will cover the background and development of his
first-of-its-kind project, as we explore the lakes of Yosemite together.
Friday, May 31: Becoming Treewise and Sequoical: John Muir and Giant Sequoia
Presented by Mike Wurtz, Curator of Muir’s archival collections at the University of the Pacific.
Naturalist John Muir may have come to California in 1868 to see the Giant Sequoia - the most massive trees in the world. At first, he reveled among the groves, then he studied them scientifically, and lastly, he fought to preserve “the noblest of the noble race.”
Saturday, June 1: John Muir’s Grand Yosemite: Musings and Sketches
Presented by Mike Wurtz, Curator of Muir’s archival collections at the University of the Pacific.
Nineteenth-century naturalist John Muir made hundreds of drawings of Yosemite between 1869 and his death in 1914. Find out where Muir drew them and hear some stories about him and Yosemite from the Muir drawings guidebook author and curator of Muir’s largest archival collection.
Friday, June 7: The Life of a Gibbon
Presented by Ken Yager, Yosemite Climbing Association Founder and President. From Camp 4 Dirtbag to Yosemite Ambassador - Half a Century of Yosemite Climbing.
Saturday, June 8: Smokejumping in the West
Presented by Deanne Shulman, first female smokejumper. Hear about the life of a smokejumper responding to wildfires throughout the Western US.
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