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Galen Clark
Galen Clark
Born(1814-03-28)March 28, 1814
Shiptoon, Lower Canada
DiedMarch 24, 1910(1910-03-24) (aged 95)
Oakland, California
Resting placeYosemite Cemetery
Children
  • Elvira Missouri Clark (1840-1912)
  • Joseph Locke Clark (1842-1862)
  • Mary Ann Clark (1844-1919)
  • Calen Alonzo Clark (1847-1873)
  • Solon McCoy Clark (1848-1857)
Galen Clark in the Big Tree Grove, photo by Carleton E. Watkins, c. 1865-66

Galen Clark (March 28, 1814 – March 24, 1910) was a British North America-born American conservationist and writer. He is known as the first European American to discover the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees, and is notable for his role in gaining legislation to protect it and the Yosemite area, and for 24 years serving as Guardian of Yosemite National Park.

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Galen Clark

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Galen Clark (March 28, 1814 – March 24, 1910) was a British North America-born American conservationist and writer. He is known as the first European...

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Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite was critical to the development of the concept of national parks. Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately...

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Mariposa Grove

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world. The Mariposa Grove was first visited by non-natives in 1857 when Galen Clark and Milton Mann found it. They named the grove after Mariposa County...

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Guardian of the Wilderness

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titled Mountain Man) directed by David O'Malley about the true story of Galen Clark, an explorer who successfully campaigned to have the Yosemite area set...

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Little Rope

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album's drum parts; Death Cab for Cutie's Dave Depper; and Outer Orbit's Galen Clark. The idea of another Sleater-Kinney album was initially "up in the air"...

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Denver Pyle

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in a theatrical film entitled Guardian of the Wilderness (1976) about Galen Clark, the true story of an explorer who persuaded Abraham Lincoln to have...

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Yosemite Valley

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Valley and started a movement to preserve it. Influential figures such as Galen Clark, clergyman Thomas Starr King and leading landscape architect Frederick...

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George Fiske

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Galen Clark, The Yosemite Valley (1910) has more photographs by Fiske. Fiske provided the photographs to his good friend Clark as a favor, as Clark desperately...

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El Capitan

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July 3, 2017. Robbins, Royal (1995) [1973]. "The North America Wall". In Galen Rowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...

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Free Solo

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Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather Galen Clark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...

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Yosemite Falls

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U.S. National Park Service. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-21. Clark, Galen (1904). "Chapter One: Early History". Indians of the Yosemite Valley...

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Grizzly Giant

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Hutchinson, Elizabeth (2004). "They Might Be Giants: Carleton Watkins, Galen Clark, and the Big Tree". October. 109: 47–63. doi:10.1162/0162287041886476...

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Ken Berry

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with Denver Pyle in 1976's Guardian of the Wilderness, the story of Galen Clark, the man who created Yosemite National Park. Berry also earned broader...

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The Dawn Wall

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Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather Galen Clark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...

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History of the Yosemite area

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trees were transferred from federal to state ownership. Yosemite pioneer Galen Clark became the park's first white guardian. Conditions in Yosemite Valley...

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Wawona Covered Bridge

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by Galen Clark, the steward of what was then called the Yosemite Grant, in 1868, without its cladding. The open bridge was a component of Clark's proposed...

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List of 1970s films based on actual events

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Guardian of the Wilderness (1976) – drama film about the true story of Galen Clark, an explorer who successfully campaigned to have the Yosemite area set...

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Washburn Fire

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relative humidity around the Grizzly Giant and the wrapping of the historic Galen Clark cabin. Fire preparation measures, including fuel reduction over the past...

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Buffalo Soldier

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The 39th and 40th were reorganized as the 24th, with headquarters at Fort Clark, Texas, in April 1869. The two black infantry regiments represented 10 percent...

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Vernal Fall

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Tenaya

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Galen Norris

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Galen Clark Norris (November 7, 1915 – August 10, 2001) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative...

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Tioga Pass

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Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather Galen Clark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...

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Half Dome

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1973 First "clean ascent" of NW face by Dennis Hennek, Doug Robinson, and Galen Rowell, Hennek is on the cover of June 1974 National Geographic leading...

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