Pine Trees, Barnacles and Everything	1
George Anderson, First Up the Dome	3
Long Live Lost Lake	7
Who Ate That Cone?	9
Astronomical Seeing Conditions at Glacier Point	13
Reflections on an Unusually Cool First Week of August, 1976	15
A World Within	19
Mirror Lake: A Tale of Fulfillment	23
Enid Michael	25
Lightning and The Landscape	29
The Mystery of Hydromantes	31
The Washington Burn	33
Where Water Flowed “Uphill” on Pothole Dome	35
The Illuminated Valley	41
Placing the Geologic and Human History of Yosemite in Perspective	45
Lady Ranger?	47
Yosemite as a Process	49
Reflections in Tuolumne Meadow	53
Rights for Natural Objects	55
“Say, Ranger, What’s the Weather Going to Be?”	59
Marmot Point	63
Managing the Resources	65
Corn Lily or False Hellebore	67
The Effect of Introduced Fish on the Amphibian Life in Westfall Meadow	69
Drosera Rotundifolia: A Reflection on the Unexpected	71
The Influence of Shade on Yosemite’s Forests	73
Value of Impromptu Interpretive Walks	75
Dr. Carl W. “Zeke” Sharsmith	77