YOSEMITE Rules and Regulations 1920

LIVING IN THE YOSEMITE.

Naturally the Yosemite Valley is the tourist center. It is there that the roads converge. There is located a hotel and the two large public camps. There will be found the comfortable river-side grounds, whose private camps are within the delivery routes from the village stores.

From the valley automobile lines go to the Mariposa Grove, to Glacier Point, and over the Tioga Road to the public camp at Lake Tenaya. From the valley radiate the trails which horseback riders and hikers travel to every part of the park. The Yosemite Valley is the northern terminus of the John Muir trail, which California has built southward along the crest of the Sierra in honor of her famous man of letters.

Living in the Yosemite is extremely comfortable. The camps are fitted with good beds. The board is good. The camps have swimming pools. There are evening entertainments for those who want them. One can hear lectures. One can dance. One can play tennis, even at night by electric light. And one can spend unforgetable days wandering on the floor of the wonderful valley.

Outside of the valley there is also comfortable provision for living. Upon Glacier Point, 3,000 feet above the valley floor—on one of the world's supremely scenic spots—is a hotel of beauty and great comfort, and at outlying points reached by trail and sometimes by road are public camps equipped even with hot and cold shower baths.

FREE NATURE GUIDE SERVICE.

In order to make the natural history of the Yosemite National Park better known to visitors and in order that vacationists may better enjoy their stay in the park because of a knowledge of the living things about them, the National Park Service in cooperation with the California State Game and Fishing Commission, will provide this coming summer a free nature guide service. Two well-known naturalists of the State, Dr. H. C. Bryant, of the University of California, and Dr. Loye Holmes Miller, of the southern branch of the University of California, will deliver illustrated lectures at the various camps and will conduct trips afield which will be designed to bring to each participant the ability to recognize and name the various birds, plants, trees, and other wild things encountered along the trail. In other words, vacationists will be taught to read a road side as they read a book. Special excursions for children will be arranged. Parties planning week-end or longer trips will also be able to secure a nature guide by making application to the office of the superintendent. The resident naturalists with regularly established office hours, will be at the service of the public to answer questions and to instruct people regarding the wonders of the out-of-doors.

THE LE CONTE MEMORIAL LECTURES.

The Le Conte memorial lectures instituted in the summer of 1919 by the University of California, through its university extension division, in honor of Joseph Le Conte, the celebrated scientist and naturalist who was professor of geology and natural history at the University of California from 1869 to 1901, will be continued during the summer of 1920.

Specialists in biology, zoology, botany, geology, folklore, and other scientific subjects exemplified in Yosemite will deliver lectures in popular language.

Admission to the lecutres will be free. They will be under the personal direction of a member of the university extension staff of the University of California, who will be in the park throughout the course. Lists of speakers, subjects, and dates can be obtained from the superintendent of the park, or from the extension division, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.