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Yosemite Nature Notes 2 (1923)

Rubber stamp masthead used for some issues of Yosemite Nature Notes in 1922 and 1923

• YNN 2(1) (June 12, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Serving the Yosemite Visitor,” 2(1):1
  • “Nature Guide Service Begins Fourth Season,” 2(1):1
  • “Water Ouzel Rebuilds Nest of Last Year,” 2(1):2
  • “Gray Squirrels Still Absent,” 2(1):2
  • “High Mountain Birds Seen by Hikers,” 2(1):2
  • “Yosemite Artist Donates Indian Baskets to Museum,” [Chris Jorgensen] 2(1):2
  • “Robin Returns to Its Old Home,” 2(1):3
  • “Strawberries Are Ripe,” 2(1):3
  • “See the Baby Elk,” 2(1):3
• YNN 2(2) (June 19, 1923) [PDF]
  • “The Origin of Yosemite Valley” [Francois E. Matthis geology work], 2(2):1
  • “Yosemite’s Flowering Season,” 2(2):1-2
  • “Band-Tailed Pigeon’s Nest Found,” 2(2):2
  • “See the Yosemite Relief Model” [built by Ansel F. Hall], 2(2):2
  • “Northern Vilot Green Swallow Nesting in Leidig Meadow,” 2(2):2
  • “Porcupines in Yosemite Valley,” 2(2):3
  • “The Shooting Star,” 2(2):3
  • “Sierra Grouse Found Nesting at Inspiration Point,” 2(2):3
  • “The ‘Coperhead’” [golden-mantled ground squirrel], 2(2):3
  • “Pacific Rattler on Exhibition at Museum” [Pacific rattlesnake], 2(2):4
  • “The Indian Pink” [Silene californica], 2(2):4
  • “White-Headed Woodpecker Nests at Glacier Point,” 2(2):4
• YNN 2(3) (June 26, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Visit the Yosemite Swamps,” 2(3):1
  • “Live Reptiles Attract Museum Visitors,” 2(3):1
  • “Traill Flycatcher Rebuilds near Old Nest,” 2(3):1
  • “The Large Brown Animal of Half Dome” [marmots], 2(3):2
  • “Poisonous Mushrooms Found” [Amanita phalloides], 2(3):2
  • “Baby Birds,” 2(3):2
  • “Hen and Chickens” [stonecrop family, a cactus], 2(3):2
  • “The Mountain Weasel,” 2(3):3
  • “Red-Shafted Flicker Bears Brood near Sentinel Bridge,” 2(3):3
  • “Camp Robbers” [California ground squirrel], 2(3):3
  • “The Blue Racer” [snake], 2(3):3
  • “The Yosemite Mole,” 2(3):3
• YNN 2(4) (July 3, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Geology Lecturers at the Yosemite Museum,” 2(4):1
  • “22-Inch Loch Leven Trout Taken in Merced River,” 2(4):1
  • “Mountain Tops and Springtime,” 2(4):2
  • “Indian Artifacts yet to be Found,” 2(4):2
  • “Useful Beetles” [lady bird beetles [ladybug]], 2(4):2
  • “Another Camp Robber” [California ground squirrel, Citellus beechey], 2(4):2
  • “Snake Eggs on Exhibition” [blue racer], 2(4):3
  • “An Insect Carpenter” [carpenter bee], 2(4):3
  • “Gooseberry Bush Grows out of Oak Tree,” 2(4):3
  • “Daddy Long Legs in Evidence” [crane-flies], 2(4):3
• YNN 2(5) (July 10, 1923) [PDF]
  • “A Nutcracker of the Sierras” [Clarke’s Crow or Clarke’s Nutracker], 2(5):1
  • “Primitive Rodent Lives in Sierras” [mountain beaver], 2(5):1
  • “A New Flower for the Yosemite National Park” [White-heart, Dicentra pauciflora], 2(5):1
  • “Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Takes a Bath,” 2(5):2
  • “The Digger Pine” [gray pine or foothill pine Pinus sabiniana], 2(5):2
  • “Pigeon’s Family Life Observed” [Band Tailed Pigeon], 2(5):2
  • “Yosemite’s “Water Snakes’” [garter snake, Thamnophis sp.] 2(5):2
  • “California Nutmeg” [Torreya californica], 2(5):3
  • “A Beauty from Europe Has Come to Yosemite” [fleabane daisy or ox-eye daisy], 2(5):3
  • “Many Young Birds Seen,” 2(5):3
• YNN 2(6) (July 17, 1923) [PDF]
  • “The High Sierra Opened to Hikers” [High Sierra Camps], 2(6):1
  • “The Glaciers of Yosemite,” 2(6):1-2
  • “Pohono Trail” [overnight guided trip], 2(6):2
  • “Violet-Green Swallow Nests in Cliff,” 2(6):2
  • “The Washington Lily,” 2(6):2
  • “The Little Leopard Lily,” 2(6):2
  • “How a Rattle Snake Feeds,” 2(6):3
  • “The Cardinal Monkey-Flower,” [Mimulus cardinalis], 2(6):3
  • “The Gnarled Dwarfs of Yosemite’s Rim” [juniper] 2(6):3
• YNN 2(7) (July 24, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Nature Guide Accompanies Sierra Club,” 2(7):1
  • “The Level Floor of Yosemite Valley” [glacial lake], 2(7):1
  • “The Two Day Nature Trip” [Pohono Trail guided trip report], 2(7):1-2
  • “Birds That Feed in the Air” [violet-green swallow and white-throated swifts], 2(7):2
  • “Interesting House-Builders in the Stream” [caddis worms] 2(7):2
  • “Beneficial Hawks” [sparrow hawk], 2(7):2
  • “Ability of Trout to Recover from Wounds,” 2(7):2-3
  • “Migration of Audubon Warblers,” 2(7):3
  • “Ants That Make Sawdust” [carpenter ants], 2(7):3
  • “Yosemite Violets” [blue violet and white violet], 2(7):3
  • “The Pacific Tree-Toad,” 2(7):3
• YNN 2(8) (July 31, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Many Instructed by Nature Guide Service,” 2(8):1
  • “Nature Study in High Sierra” [4-day guided trip report to High Sierra Camps], 2(8):1-2
  • “Raspberries Are Ripe,” 2(8):2
  • “First Post Nesting Season Migrants Seen” [birds], 2(8):2
  • “Goldfinches” [green-backed goldfinch], 2(8):2
  • “Two Miles of Flowers” [off of Four Mile Trail], 2(8):2
  • “Indian Mortar Rocks,” 2(8):2-3
  • “A Feathered Angler” [great blue heron], 2(8):3
  • “Ladybird Beetles Swarming” [ladybug], 2(8):3
  • “An Egyptian Diety among Us” [Stream orchids or Helleborine, Serapias gigantea], 2(8):3
  • “The Swifts” [white-throated swift], 2(8):3
• YNN 2(9) (August 7, 1923) [PDF]
  • “An Extinct Waterfall of Yosemite” [Eagle Peak Falls, the old channel for Yosemite Falls], 2(9):1
  • “Pearl Islands in the Merced River” [water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis] 2(9):1
  • “California’s Bluebirds” [western bluebird and mountain or arctic bluebird], 2(9):2
  • “Sneezeweed” [Henlenium biglowii], 2(9):9
  • “Color Camouflage in Birds” [evening grosbeak],
  • “A Visitor from the ‘Rim’” [olive-sided flycatcher], 2(9):2
  • “Late Blooming Flowers,” 2(9):3
  • “The Great Blue Heron,” 2(9):3
  • “A Teachers Training School” [Nature Guide Service], 2(9):3
  • “Sea Gulls” [California gull], 2(9):3
• YNN 2(10) (August 14, 1923) [PDF]
  • “High Country Hikes” [guided hikes using High Sierra camps], 2(10):1
  • “Bear Tracks on Tree Trunks,” 2(10):1
  • “Rock Gardens of Tenaya Gorge” [flower gardens], 2(10):2
  • “Respect the Flowers,” 2(10):2
  • “Owls” [spotted owl, great horned owl, and pigmy owl], 2(10):2-3
  • “Trout,” 2(10):3
  • “[Townsend] Solitaire,” 2(10):3
  • “Deer Abundant” [attracted by apple orchards], 2(10):3
  • “Beautiful Monkey-Flowers” [Lewis mimulus and Mimulus implexus], 2(10):4
  • “The Canyon Wren,” 2(10):4
  • “The ‘Picket Pin’ [Belding ground squirrel], 2(10):4
  • “A Too Friendly Grosbeak” [black-headed grosbeak], 2(10):4
• YNN 2(11) (August 21, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Baby Brown Bears Steal Apples” [black bear cubs], 2(11):1
  • “Free Lunch for Birds” [feeding table], 2(11):1-2
  • “The Rocks of Yosemite” [granite components]
  • “Mistletoe,” 2(11):2
  • “The Sierra Chickaree” [Douglas squirrel], 2(11):3
  • “Rare Trees Found by Yosemite Botanist” [red fir in Yosemite Valley], 2(11):3
  • “Trees of Yosemite Valley,” 2(11):3
  • “Mule Deer in Death Combat” [death from interlocked antlers] 2(11):3
• YNN 2(12) (August 28, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Yosemite Nature Guide Service,” 2(12):1
  • “Sierra Nevada Range a Single Mountain,” 2(12):1
  • “A Humming Bird’s Private Garden” [hummingbird], 2(12):2
  • “Snake Room at Museum Popular,” 2(12):2
  • “The Nuttall Woodpecker,” 2(12):2
  • “Nutmegs in Full Fruit” [California nutmeg] 2(12):2
  • “Season’s Last High Sierra Field Trip,” 2(12):3
  • “The Lincoln Sparrow,” 2(12):3
  • “Bears More Numerous This Year,” 2(12):3
  • “Mountain Quail,” 2(12):3
  • “Warblers of Yosemite,” 2(12):3
• YNN 2(13) (September 1923) [PDF]
  • “Educational Work in Yosemite,” 2(13):1-2
  • “Chief Naturalist in Europe” [Ansel F. Hall], 2(13):2
  • “Gray Squirrels Observed in Yosemite,” 2(13):2
  • “Pot Holes in the Granite,” 2(13):2
  • “Freezing” [immobile deer hiding], 2(13):2-3
  • “Yosemite’s Flat Floor” [ancient glacial lake], 2(13):3
  • “Sierra Nevada Rosy Finch,” 2(13):3-4
  • “Books on California Natural History” [list available from MVZ] 2(13):4
• YNN 2(14) (October 1923) [PDF]
  • “How Lakes Build Ramparts” [ice], 2(14):1-2
  • “Yosemiet Flowers in October,” 2(14):2
  • “The Pine Siskin,” 2(14):2
  • “The Bear Inasion” [several bears in Valley], 2(14):2-3
  • “The Lewis Woodpecker,” 2(14):3 by Enid Michael
  • “A Surprise in Oaks,” 2(14):3-4
  • “The California Woodpecker and the Acorn Crop,” 2(14):4 by Enid Michael
  • “A Woodpecker That Does Not Peck” [Northern White-Headed Woodpecker], 2(14):4
• YNN 2(15) (November 1923) [PDF]
  • “Bluebirds in the Yosemite Valley” [western bluebirds and mountain bluebirds], 2(15):1-2
  • “Lessingia and Buckwheat” [Lessingia leptocalda and Eriogonum virgatum], 2(15):2 by Enid Michael
  • “Glacial Polish,” 2(15):2-3
  • “The Owls and the Mice of the Yosemite,” 2(15):3 by Enid Michael
  • “Alders Unresponsive to Frost” [white alder], 2(15):3-4
  • “Mallards in Yosemite,” 2(15):4
  • “The Slender-Billed Nuthatch,” 2(15):4
  • “A Crow Visis the Yosemite Twice Each Year” [western crow], 2(15):4-5
  • “Stretching Their Pelts” [trapping and killing coyotes in Yosemite National Parkto preserve other animals], 2(15):5
  • “Salamanders of the Mountains” [Pacific newt or “waterdogs”], 2(15):5-6
• YNN 2(16) (December 1923) [PDF]
  • “Across the Park Boundary” [black bears exiting the park were hunted], 2(16):1
  • “Mistletoe in Yosemite,” 4(16):2 by Enid Michael
  • “Zoo Bear Prefers Captivity” [“Brownie” ordered released from Yosemite Zoo, but refused to leave on his own], 2(16):2
  • “Kinglets in the Yosemite Valley” [golden crowned kinglets], 2(16):3 by Enid Michael
  • “Mountain Dogwood, the ‘Horny’ Wood” [Cornus Nuttallii], 2(16):4
  • “Cracked Granite” [vertically-jointed granite], 2(16):4

Bibliographical Information

Ansel F. Hall, editor. Yosemite Nature Notes 2 (1923) (Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1923). Mimeographed, 28 cm. Weekly June - August, and monthly, September - December, 16 issues. LCCN 54040211. Library of Congress call number QH1.Y6. U. S. Government Document Call Number: I 29.119

Digitized by Dan Anderson, May 2007, from a copy at Young Research Library (UCLA).
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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