Slept in 'till noon!...and finally stirred up to walk over to the Village....Blue Jays were scolding Hawk in the Oaks near the Library...tried for pic but only a glimpse of Hawk flying through the branches off to another tree...Bluebirds were still about..and they're not Mountain Bluebirds...but rather...lemeget the new little book...brb...Yosemite Pocket Guide by Douglas H. Hubbard... but rather Western Bluebirds.....I'm going to have to make a blog to correct the errors!...found another with the little books help....the squirrel I've been calling a Golden Mantle Squirrel looks to be a Douglas' Squirrel or Sierra Chickaree...which I haven't seen for a long while....and I found another thing...the call hanq hanq hanq belongs to Red-breasted Nuthatch...I think!....well..the correction blog will have the addendas too!...it's really hard to drill back down into the old posts and make edits...I do do them as I find them...the Guide is really a nice little book...and it's small size belies it's volume of info!!...a must have for walkabouts in the Valley...for the second time I checked out from the library Tree Adventures in Yosemite Valley by Rod Haulenbeck....it has tree finding guided walkabouts for the Valley...very cool...and I want to find a copy for my library...I need to make a blog too for the Valley related books I read!...reviews and comments and such...anyway...came back from the Village through Cook's..over to Lower Falls..and to Last Chance for late lunch....it was a quiet walk!...and then out to Creek's End...still quiet...and I want to get the moon rising over Half Dome pic...but it was cloudy...heard Owl around four twenty...but just a couple of who whoos...then after sundown the Owls started up...the same two...one low hoooos...one high hoooos answering...I heard before...are they mates!...stumbled about with my eyes on the darkening tree tops and finally spotted one of them off on the branch end...see clip....Owl flew from there to the Ponderosa right above my head and perched just like last night...I manged to get the minidigiscope aimed and focused on Owl...but the video mode of the 3x was just dark when I started clip...apparently the 3x cant shoot video in the low low light like the 12x...did some clips with the 12x but they're blurry...it has trouble focusing in such low light...the object of clips like these is to capture the mood...or sense...of the scene...same with the moon pic and clip!...got that going over to Last Chance and just happening to look to my left through the pines...at one point the moving clouds dimmed the moon just right...but I wasn't set up right...hmmph!...still...clip is kinda neat...and the pic is handheld...which reiterates that the technology of these little cameras is doing the work!...cool partly cloudy and not very many tourists or auto noise about...brb...
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SS Clearwater—a screw steamer built in 1894 by Wigham Richardson & Co. at Newcastle, England—was acquired by the War Department sometime during the latter half of 1899 and renamed Ingalls. She was used by the Army as a transport until 23 December 1910 when she was transferred to the Navy. Renamed Yosemite, she was placed in commission, in reserve, on 11 November 1911 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Ens. Alfred H. Miles in command.
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on a whim I googled up November 11, 1911, Yosemite...actually!...I should have googled up that year of the last hour, last day, last month, of WW1...11-11-11...brb....
search brought this up...from article I've quoted before..
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Anyone who has been visiting Yosemite for almost 82 years is likely to brag about it, and I do incessantly. I started going to Yosemite in 1918.
Brower on the Yosemite Valley Plan
David R. Brower
Monday, November 20, 0
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/20/ED122370.DTL
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and this:
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Yosemite National Park has had 11 winter floods since 1916 that have caused substantial damage to property. All of these floods took place between November 1 and January 30. The largest floods occurred in 1937, 1950, 1955, and 1997 and were in the range of 22,000 to 25,000 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Pohono Bridge gauging station in Yosemite Valley.
http://digital-desert.com/yosemite/water.html
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while on Chapel Bridge was looking at the metal sign with the old floods marked...and was pleased they included the 1937 level!...
brb...there's more in this search!
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In mid-August 1918, fire destroyed the new Foresta dining room. Horace and George Meyer and the park’s civilian rangers managed to contain the blaze. Davis, beginning to run out of development money by the fall of 1918, dropped his association with Foresta in the summer of 1919. Simoneau & Company of Los Angeles took over from the Foresta Land Company. It stressed the idea of mutual interests and exclusivity for the area, noting that several professors on the faculty of the University of California owned Foresta property as well as such notable members of the Foresta Assembly as John Muir, Jack London, and George Wharton James. Despite these efforts, this company’s selling campaign also lacked success. Davis sold his remaining holdings to his daughters shortly before his death in 1922, and they organized the Yosemite Valley Land Company to continue property sales.
Foresta History 1916 to 1930
http://foresta.tv/content/foresta-history-1916-1930
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That's of interest...Foresta...and the Big Meadow...are a possible relocation sight for a lot of Valley facilities...maybe everything, I'd say!
brb...there might be more...oh..I learned the home owners in Foresta rent out their homes!....a curio!...
brb...
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Bird life in the fall season is very far from being evenly distributed over
the valley.
In a few limited areas a number of individuals may be seen in a
short while, yet there are vast spaces where a person might wander around for
a long time without seeing a single bird, and only hearing an occasional dis-
tant note. That is to say, this is the case at the time of year concerned in this
article, from mid-August to October 1. Judging from the stories of people
who have spent some time in the valley, and have taken a passing interest in
its bird life, there must be many more birds in evidence in the nesting season.
In fact old nests were found in places that were absolutely without bird life in
the autumn time. Even then there must be large spaces in the forest that have
few avian visitors, and for some unknown reason this seems to be the rule all
along the Sierras, though it would seem proper to assume that where there are
plenty of trees there must be plenty of insects, and that certain of the insecti-
vorous birds would keep pace with the food supply. On occasions, the writer
has wandered along through the woods and meadows for as much as an hour
and a half at a time, covering say three miles of territory,
even in the early
morning on beautiful days, before catching sight of a single bird, and hearing
during that time but little other than the distant call of a woodpecker.
EARLY ADTUMN,BIRDS
IN YOSEMITE
VALLEY
By JOSEPH MAILLIARD
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:miF4FrAzrfkJ:elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v020n01/p0011-p0019.pdf+yosemite+november+11,+1918&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=26&gl=us
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That's of interest!...especially the comment of how things can be very quiet on a walkabout...then..and now!! Mailliard was about for six weeks and thought to make a determined effort to record the birds he saw...I think the article is from a magazine or something called Condor...a dogear hear to study it out!
to continue...brb...oh...found a postcard from 1918 of the cabin in the Mariposa grove...on ebay...brb...
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"We didn't set out to study the effects of climate change, but to see what has changed and why" since the last full scale survey in Yosemite in 1918, said study leader Craig Moritz, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and director of the campus's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. "But the most dramatic finding in the Yosemite transect was the upward elevational shift of species. When we asked ourselves, "What changed?" it hit us between the eyes: the climate."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081009144057.htm
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a study in 1918??...have to study that out too!...another dogear...
brb...
wiki page has pic of cows grazing in the Valley in 1918...
brb...
book Protecting Paradise has a 1918 map of Valley...I think I have that book!
brb..
well...I watched on youtube the YV railroad...eight minutes...from Merced to El Portal...sigh...the allure of the modelrailroad!
brb...
oh...search yosemite 1918 survey brought up collection of usgs pics...brb in awhile!!...
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?free_form=matthes;search_mode=noPunct;start=150
well...no Creek pics..hmmph...
brb...but they might be somewhere here...a place for browsing...a bit like the cows...
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_mode=noPunct&free_form=yosemite&free_form=&free_form=&free_form=
brb...I think the survey of 1918 referred to is this:
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/grinnell/
which I've referenced before!...the chapter on bird species...each species having anecdotal tales from the Valley...is very good!!
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/grinnell/birds.htm
that whole page is a temptation to copy and paste here!....insomuch it links each species to Grinnell's account!
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AMERICAN EARED GREBE. Colymbus nigricollis californicus (Heermann)
Occurrence.—Common on Mono Lake during the summer and autumn months; seen on Gem Lake, September 13, 1915. Reported on Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley, August 21, 1917 (Mailliard, 1918, pp. 16, 18).
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That's cool...I was just reading Malliard's story of the Grebe...kids were tossing rocks at it in Mirror Lake!!
brb....
Grinnell's effort to make the Valley a wildlife sanctuary....
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/runte2/chap9.htm
brb...
a dogear
Trophic cascades involving cougar, mule deer, and black oaks in Yosemite National Park
William J. Ripple, a, and Robert L. Beschta
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5X-4S7HWND-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=88ca8566d52741d48d3c3ca45ce123f7
brb...
a dogear!
79.7.17 Records of Yosemite National Park, CA
History: Established by an act of October 1, 1890 (26 Stat. 650).
Textual Records (in San Francisco): Records of the superintendent, 1910-53.
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/079.html#79.7.17
in a box somewhere, I imagine!!
brb...
Grinnell, J. & Storer, T.I. ANIMAL LIFE IN THE YOSEMITE: An Account of the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in a Cross-Section of the Sierra Nevada. Pp. 752, 60 plts -- 12 clr plts, 2 clr maps, 65 text-figs. Gilt-decorated early half leather with five raised bands, over marbled boards, with matching marbled endpapers, t.e.g., 8vo. Berkeley, 1924, first edition. Some light sunning to spine, a near fine to fine copy. A beautifully-bound volume. $120.00
Hall, A.F. HANDBOOK OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. A Compendium of Articles on the Yosemite Region By the Leading Scientific Authorities. Pp. xiii, 347, 27 plates, foldout map. New York, Putnam’s, 1921, 1st edition. Near fine. $45.00
http://www.naturalhistorybooks.biz/mammal.html
well....that's enough of tonight's virtual walkabout!!
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