On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act of Congress ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the state of California. As a member of the board of ...
which was established during the closing days of the first session of the present Congress, has an area of more than a million acres, and completely surrounds the old reservation of the Yosemite ...
A proposal to transform the land between Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon ... The decision to establish a National Monument can be an act of Congress, which is considered unlikely with the ...