Canadian-born American conservationist and writer (1814-1910)
Galen Clark
Galen Clark
Born
(1814-03-28)March 28, 1814
Shiptoon, Lower Canada
Died
March 24, 1910(1910-03-24) (aged 95)
Oakland, California
Resting place
Yosemite 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 (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.
GalenClark (March 28, 1814 – March 24, 1910) was a British North America-born American conservationist and writer. He is known as the first European...
Yosemite was critical to the development of the concept of national parks. GalenClark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately...
world. The Mariposa Grove was first visited by non-natives in 1857 when GalenClark and Milton Mann found it. They named the grove after Mariposa County...
titled Mountain Man) directed by David O'Malley about the true story of GalenClark, an explorer who successfully campaigned to have the Yosemite area set...
album's drum parts; Death Cab for Cutie's Dave Depper; and Outer Orbit's GalenClark. The idea of another Sleater-Kinney album was initially "up in the air"...
in a theatrical film entitled Guardian of the Wilderness (1976) about GalenClark, the true story of an explorer who persuaded Abraham Lincoln to have...
Valley and started a movement to preserve it. Influential figures such as GalenClark, clergyman Thomas Starr King and leading landscape architect Frederick...
GalenClark, The Yosemite Valley (1910) has more photographs by Fiske. Fiske provided the photographs to his good friend Clark as a favor, as Clark desperately...
July 3, 2017. Robbins, Royal (1995) [1973]. "The North America Wall". In Galen Rowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...
Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather GalenClark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...
U.S. National Park Service. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-21. Clark, Galen (1904). "Chapter One: Early History". Indians of the Yosemite Valley...
Hutchinson, Elizabeth (2004). "They Might Be Giants: Carleton Watkins, GalenClark, and the Big Tree". October. 109: 47–63. doi:10.1162/0162287041886476...
with Denver Pyle in 1976's Guardian of the Wilderness, the story of GalenClark, the man who created Yosemite National Park. Berry also earned broader...
Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather GalenClark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...
trees were transferred from federal to state ownership. Yosemite pioneer GalenClark became the park's first white guardian. Conditions in Yosemite Valley...
by GalenClark, 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...
Guardian of the Wilderness (1976) – drama film about the true story of GalenClark, an explorer who successfully campaigned to have the Yosemite area set...
relative humidity around the Grizzly Giant and the wrapping of the historic GalenClark cabin. Fire preparation measures, including fuel reduction over the past...
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...
Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather GalenClark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...
Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather GalenClark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...
GalenClark Norris (November 7, 1915 – August 10, 2001) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative...
Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather GalenClark Shelton Johnson Buffalo Soldiers Chief Tenaya Ahwahnechee people Lodging...
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...