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Yosemite Nature Notes 21 (1942)

Skiing down Horse Ridge (from “A Winter Trip to Ostrander Lake”)

Hutchings-Muir sawmill near Lower Yosemite Falls (from article on Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings, “A Pioneer’s Daughter Returns to Yosemite”)

• YNN 21(1) (January 1942) [PDF; original courtesy of Randy Gowrie]
  • “Self-Guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite Valley,” 21(1):1-16 by M. E. Beatty and C. A. Harwell
• YNN 21(2) (February 1942) [PDF]
  • “Badger Pass Ski Area,” 21(2):cover photo
  • “Denizens of the Night” [nocturnal animals], 21(2):17-19 by Willis A. Evans
  • “Luminescent Wood or ‘Fox Fire’,” 21(2):19-20
  • “A New Location for Knobcone Pine” [Pinus attenuata near Merced Grove], 21(2):21 by Emil F. Ernst
  • “Bird Observations,” 21(2):22-24 by J. Dan Webster
  • “Reptile Observations on High Sierra Field Trip,” 21(2):24 by Iver Madsen
• YNN 21(3) (March 1942) [PDF]
  • “Skiing down from Horse Ridge,” 21(3):cover photo
  • “A Winter Trip to Ostrander Lake,” 21(3):25-27 by C. Frank Brockman
  • “The Oyster Shell Scale Infestation of the Quaking Aspen at Swamp Lake Meadow” [Lepidosaphes ulmi infesting Populus tremuloides], 21(3):27 by Sherman Hansen and Iver Madsen
  • “Mammals of Puppy Dome,” 21(3):28-29 by M. D. Bryant
  • “Field School Cancelled” [due to the war], 21(3):30 by M. E. Beatty
  • “Wood Ducks—a New Nesting Record for Yosemite” [Aix sponsa], 21(3):31-32 by Enid Michael
  • “Special Numbers Yosemite Nature Notes” [reprints], 21(3):32
• YNN 21(4) (April 1942) [PDF]
  • “Eastern Sunrise Service at Mirror Lake,” 21(4):cover photo
  • “Vacationing in the High Sierra” [excerpt from a radio address about High Sierra Camps], 21(4):33-36 by Frank A. Kittredge
  • “Mounds in Miguel Meadow,” 21(4):36 by Howard H. Cofer
  • “A Pioneer’s Daughter Returns to Yosemite” [Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills donates manzanita armchair and recollects Hutchings Hotel, sawmill, John Muir, “One-eyed Dick,” and meets Maggie Howard, Tabuce], 21(4):37-40 by Elizabeth H. Godfrey
• YNN 21(5) (May 1942) [PDF]
  • tree, 21(5):cover photo
  • “Songs of the Season” [song birds], 21(5):41-43 by Enid Michael
  • “Seedlings” [white fir and Sequoia], 21(5):43 by Arthur Carthew
  • “Yosemite Trees: Some Tree Topics” [of Yosemite trees], 21(5):44-48 by Harry C. Parker
  • “Mountain Lion Observed near Wawona Tunnel,” 21(5):48 by Lloyd P. Parratt
• YNN 21(6) (June 1942) [PDF]
  • Nevada Fall, 21(6):cover photo
  • “A Porcupine Miscalculates” [killed by a coyote], 21(6):49-50 by C. Frank Brockman
  • “New Records of the Mount Lyell Salamander” [at Glacier Point and Gunsight of Cathedral Rocks], 21(6):50 by Willis A. Evans
  • “A Cub Bear Sticks Its ‘in’ Too Far” [head stuck in milk can], 21(6):51-52 by Elizabeth H. Godfrey
  • “May Mornings in the Museum Garden,” 21(6):52-53 by Enid Michael
  • “The Ant-Lion,” 21(6):53-54 by Sherman Hansen
  • “Nature Notelets” [large Douglas-fir trees in Tenaya Canyon; pine drops on Lost Arrow trail], 21(6):54 by James R. Sweeney
  • “Book Notes; Some Books on Trees,” 21(6):55-56 by Harry C. Parker
  • “Yosemite in the Spring” [poem reprinted from The Wheel (1940)] 21(6):56 by Grace Hunnewell
• YNN 21(7) (July 1942) [PDF]
  • Doe and fawns, 21(7):cover photo by C. A. Harwell
  • “Strange Inconsistencies in Life Zones,” 21(7):57-58 by Enid Michael
  • “Book Notes: a Yosemite Pocket Bird Book” [notebook], 21(7):59-60 by Harry C. Parker
  • “Woodpeckers” [California woodpecker], 21(7):60-61 by Enid Michael
  • “Obsidian Arrowheads” [and how to make them, demonstrated by Chris Brown “Chief Le-mee”], 21(7):61-63 by William Bennett
  • “The Ice Cave of Tenaya Canyon” [seasonal], 21(7):63 by Willis A. Evans
  • “Down the Pohono Trail,” 21(7):64 by Willis A. Evans
• YNN 21(8) (August 1942) [PDF]
  • Photomontage of guided nature walks, 21(8):cover photo
  • “An Invitation to the High Country” [High Sierra Camp guided ranger-naturalist loop; poem], 21(8):65-67 by Elizabeth H. Godfrey
  • “Yosemite Animals: 1939 Bear Population of the Glacier Point Area” [and garbage pit], 21(8):68-71 by Arthur Carthew
  • “Nature Notelet” [junco nest raided by garter snake], 21(8):71 by H. Asmussen
  • “A Wildlife Pageant” [observation], 21(8):72 by Lloyd P. Parratt
• YNN 21(9) (September 1942) [PDF]
  • Mule deer in Ahwahnee Meadow with Half Dome in background, 21(9):cover photo
  • “A Day on the Trails” [Happy Isles to Little Yosemite Valley], 21(9):73-75 by Enid Michael
  • “Comments regarding Nature Notes Solicited,” 21(9):75 by C. Frank Brockman
  • “Yosemite Animals: Survival of the Fittest” [skinned and disembowled porcupines], 21(9):76 by Bob W. Prudhomme
  • “Wrens,” 21(9):77-79 by Enid Michael
  • “Rattlesnakes Battle over Dead Mouse” [in Yosemite Museum], 21(9):79-80 by Lloyd P. Parratt
  • “Food Plants Utilized by the Deer in the Mariposa Grove,” 21(9):80 by Arthur Carthew
• YNN 21(10) (October 1942) [PDF]
  • Sentinel Dome Jeffrey Pine, 21(10):cover photo
  • “Practical Aspects of Park Museum Problems in Time of War” [and National Parks in general], 21(10):81-84 by Carl P. Russell [presented before American Association of Museums, 1942]
  • “A Blessed Event near the Museum” [taking a movie of doe birthing twin fawns], 21(10):85-86 by C. Frank Brockman
  • “Snowplant Seeks Cover of a Tent” [Sarcodes sanguinea in Mariposa Grove Campground], 21(10):86 by Russel Lewis
  • “A Little Life in Ghost Town Bodie” [Cain family’s private museum in Bodie], 21(10):87-88 by Russel L. Lewis
  • “Highlighting Yosemite’s History” [article on Walker party’s alleged discovery of Yosemite in 1833 by Francis P. Farquhar in Sierra Club Bulletin 27(4) (August 1942)],
• YNN 21(11) (November 1942) [PDF]
  • “Dana Glacier,” 21(11):cover photo
  • “Little Change in Yosemite’s Glaciers” [Lyell, Maclure, Dana, and Conness glaciers unchanged in past 2 years], 21(11):89-91 by C. Frank Brockman
  • “Flying Squirrel” [Sierra Nevada flying squirrel], 21(11):91 by H. F. Cofer
  • “Bats” [California bat, Myotis californicus californicus], 21(11):91 by H. F. Cofer
  • “Yosemite Trees: Unusual Bark Thickness on Giant Sequoias,” 21(11):92-94 by Russel Lewis
  • “Snails of Yosemite Valley,” 21(11):94 by Lloyd P. Parratt
  • “Indian Mortar Rocks” [found at Miguel Meadow], 21(11):95-96 by William Bennett
• YNN 21(12) (December 1942) [PDF]
  • Half Dome from Glaicer Point, 21(12):cover photo
  • “Into the Back Country” [May Lake], 21(12):97-99 by Bob W. Prudhomme
  • “Skink Kills Beetle” [Western Skink, Eumeces skiltonianus kills Spined Pine Borer beetle, Ergates spiculatus], 21(12):99 by H. F. Cofer
  • “Museum Notes: Good Luck to Assistant Park Naturalist Harry C. Parker” [married then drafted into Army], 21(12):100 by Elizabeth H. Godfrey
  • “Museum Notelet” [Chris Brown “Chief Le-mee” drafted into Army], 21(12):100
  • “Government Employees of Yosemite Join Colors” [list of Yosemite NPS employees who joined the armed forces], 21(12):101 by Ralph Anderson
  • “Beasts that Pass in the Night,” 21(12):101-103 by Enid Michael
  • “The California Badger at Work” [Taxidea taxus neglecta], 21(12):103-104 by Helen K. Sharsmith
  • “Chickaree,” 21(12):104 by H. F. Cofer

Bibliographical Information

Yosemite Nature Notes 21 (1942) (Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1942). 24 cm. Ill. LCCN 54040211. Library of Congress call number QH1.Y6. U. S. Government Document Call Number: I 29.119

Digitized by Dan Anderson, July 2007, from copies provided by Randy Gowrie and Young Research Library (UCLA).
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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