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Encore: National Parks | The Business of Nature | 1

American History Tellers

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Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove

Four months before hutchings bought his hotel, a novel proposal was introduced in washington. The bill came from john connis, california's junior senator. He proposed that 60 square miles of federal land be preserved and protected from private owner ship and development. Both yosemite and a newly discovered grove of giant sequoias near by would be given to the state of california for public use forever. Let the grant be inalienable forever.

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