During the gold rush, thousands of miners came to the sierra nevada foothills. In 18 64, president abraham lincoln turned the yosemite valley and the mariposa grove of giant sequoia trees over to california. The legislation was meant to protect the land from commercial use and settlement in an era of continuing expansion. With the growing support of us legislators, the conservationist movement accelerated during the middle part of the nineteenth century.

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