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This 15-minute video provides an orientation to visiting Yosemite National Park.
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 42 seconds
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¡Bienvenidos a Yosemite! A special welcome video for the Hispanic community living within a day's drive of Yosemite. (7:30)
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 29 seconds
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Is working for Yosemite your dream job? Watch this movie for information about the variety of National Park Service jobs in Yosemite.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 11 seconds
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Yosemite's bears are adept at finding your food! This short, subtitled (no audio) video provides an overview of how you can protect bears while visiting Yosemite. (4 minutes, no audio)
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 16 seconds
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Have your ever jumped in your car and headed for the mountains to escape the summer heat? The Tioga Road has provided an escape route to Yosemite's breathtaking high country for more than one hundred years. We celebrate a century of road trips on this cherished travel route, and look forward to another one hundred years of scenic high country adventures.
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 13 seconds
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Did you know that early Chinese immigrants played an important role in shaping the Yosemite that we know today? Join Park Ranger Yenyen Chan on an exploration of this impressive and surprising history.
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 32 seconds
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Every spring, both visitors and locals look forward to the opening of the Tioga Road, a high-elevation pass that crosses Yosemite National Park. Get a glimpse of what it takes to clear snow and ice from a section of the highway known for dangerous avalanches.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 35 seconds
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The Blue Jay Fire started on July 24th, 2020 and burned into winter. It was a natural ignition lightning fire that the park managed for resource objectives under a confine and contain strategy. In this video, Battalion Chief Russell Mitchell, who was the Incident Command for a long duration of this fire, explains the importance of fire on the landscape in Yosemite Wilderness ecosystems and the meaning of a confine and contain strategy.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 10 seconds
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The 2013 Rim Fire was the largest forest fire in California history, and the largest fire in Yosemite history. Burning 400 square miles, the speed and size of the fire was unprecedented. As these unnaturally large fires become more commonplace due to previous fire suppression and climate change, Yosemite National Park is seeing the benefits of carefully allowing smaller, controlled fires on the landscape.
- Duration:
- 9 minutes, 55 seconds
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Who would have thought that giant sequoia groves need to be burned in order to be saved? Learn how early park managers discovered the importance of fire the hard way, and see how today's managers carefully manage fire in Yosemite. (26:00)
- Duration:
- 26 minutes, 22 seconds
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Local American Indians, park fire managers, and blackberry weeders team up to save a meadow in danger of losing its unique native plants.
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 24 seconds
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In the spring of 2006, a rockslide buried a section of Highway 140 just outside of Yosemite National Park. The slide remained highly active for many days, allowing rare views of a rockslide in motion. The rockslide has been bypassed with temporary bridges, allowing Highway 140 to remain open. This footage was shot after the main rockslide, but while movement was still occurring.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 45 seconds
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Floods in Yosemite Valley aren't uncommon during spring, when the Merced River swells with melted snow. The largest, least common floods occur during winter—most recently in January 1997. See what the Valley looked like during floods in May 1996 and January 1997.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 53 seconds
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Can we save the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog from extinction? Human introduced non-native species (fish and fungus) have been causing the frog to go from the most abundant amphibian in the Sierra Nevada to critically endangered. However, habitat restoration efforts in Yosemite are showing promising signs for the frog's recovery and long-term survival.
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 27 seconds
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