Yosemite National Park (Agency : U.S.)
Yosemite National Park; western Sierra Nevada of Central California; managed by the U.S. National Park Service; covers 747,956 acres; central to the development of the national park idea, Galen Clark lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, 1864; "Yosemite" (meaning "killer" in Miwok) originally referred to the name of a renegade tribe which was driven out of the area by the Mariposa Battalion
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Name Entry: Yosemite National Park (Agency : U.S.)
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Name Entry: Yosemite National Park
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Name Entry: Parc national de Yosemite
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