From 1899 to 1931 The Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company
logged over 30,000 acres in the immediate area, sawing almost a billion-and-a-half board feet of lumber. Wood-burning Shay locomotives hauled the logs from the woods over a large network of . . . — — Map (db m148547) HM
Near Mariposa Grove Road, 2.1 miles east of Wawona Road (California Route 41).
Creating an Experience to Match the Dignity of the Trees People have revered this Grove and its mighty trees for thousands of years. Through ecological restoration, the health and resilience of these giants will be protected and all visitors . . . — — Map (db m160409) HM
Near Mariposa Grove Road, 2.1 miles east of Wawona Road (California Route 41).
Trees Worthy of a Nation's Protection, June 30,1864 In the midst of the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act. This established Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove as the first federally protected wild places in . . . — — Map (db m160408) HM
Near Mariposa Grove Road, 2.8 miles east of Wawona Road (State Route 41).
Standing relatively short at 209 ft. (63.7 m), the Grizzly Giant measures 96 ft. (29 m) in circumference and 28 ft. (8.5 m) in diameter at the base. What do you notice first about this big tree? Is it the blackened fire scars at the base of the . . . — — Map (db m159099) HM
Near Mariposa Grove Road, 2.1 miles east of Wawona Road (California Route 41).
”You can save a place, but it’s never really safe. It always takes people caring. It always takes vigilance. It always takes effort to keep those forces at bay that want to crowd in, want to change it, want to over-commercialize it. Once it’s . . . — — Map (db m160410) HM
Walk through this living tree and look for evidence of it healing itself. Bark of this sequoia is growing inward in an attempt to close over its wound — the large tunnel carved in 1895. Thought to have served as a lower elevation winter . . . — — Map (db m84231) HM
