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The Yosemite Firefall was a summertime event that began in 1872 and continued for almost a century, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to the valley 3,000 feet (900 m) below. From a distance it appeared as a glowing waterfall.
The cause of the fire was referred to as a "human-start". [4] The fire caused evacuations of Wawona and impacted tourism and air quality in the Sierra National Forest and surrounding communities. The fire was fully contained and was put out on August 1 and burned a total area of 4,886 acres (1,977 ha). [1]
The Rim Fire was a massive wildfire that started in a remote canyon in the Stanislaus National Forest in California's Tuolumne County.The fire ignited on August 17, 2013, amid the 2013 California wildfire season, and burned 257,314 acres (402 sq mi; 104,131 ha; 1,041 km 2) in largely remote areas of the Sierra Nevada, including a large portion of Yosemite National Park.
The wildfire has been burning since July 7 near Mariposa Grove.
Between 1872 and 1968, people would stoke a large fire atop Yosemite's Glacier Point late in the day then push the red-hot embers from the fire off a cliffside after nightfall to the amazement of ...
For a rare, if not lucky, few days a year, Yosemite National Park’s famed El Capitan granite cliff converts into what looks like an active volcano jutting 3,000 feet above the valley floor.
Humans may have lived in the Yosemite area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. [1] Habitation of the Yosemite Valley proper can be traced to about 3,000 years ago, when vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today; the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada had acorns, deer, and salmon, while the eastern Sierra had pinyon nuts and obsidian. [2]
Wildfire burning in an area of park first protected by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.