Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite National Park is in California .Yosemite Valley is world famous for its amazing meadows, cliffs, waterfalls and its rock formation. A glacier point is overlooking a pretty view of Yosemite Valley. The Native Americans used to live there but in the 1800's the white settlers came. The white settlers found Yosemite and made the Native Americans move out. Also, the settlers destroyed the land and the animals. Later, Yosemite was made a national park to protect it so that more animals would live there. John Muir was a writer and naturalist and he helped make Yosemite a national park. In 1890 Yosemite became a national park. Some of the plant life is Giant Sequoia trees. These trees are the largest living things in the world. Some of the trees are around 3,000 years old. They can be 300 feet tall and 35 feet around. The biggest sequoia in Yosemite is named Giant Grizzly. It is 200 feet tall and 31 feet around. The Grizzly Giant is 2,700 years old. There's lots of wildlife in Yosemite. There are great gray owls, red tailed hawks, grizzly bears, black bears, brown squirrels, coyotes, snakes, frogs, fish, big horned sheep, yellow bellied sapsuckers, and lizards. The park protects all of these animals. If you are 8-12 you can go and be a Yosemite junior ranger .You can earn an official junior ranger patch. You can go to a 1 hour class in Yosemite National Park. Click on the apple to return to Orchard School's
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