{"id":25526,"date":"2018-11-01T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25526"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:34:51","slug":"yosemite-jessie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/yosemite-jessie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman’s Role in Helping Save Yosemite Mariposa Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a new educational display honoring some who helped save the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias<\/a>. The exhibit at the entrance of the newly-reopened Grove honors President Lincoln and says the Yosemite Grant Act of 1864, which preserved the Grove and Yosemite Valley, was “inspired by advocates such as U.S. Senator John Conness and writer Jessie Benton Fremont.”<\/p>\n

At the re-opening celebration, Park Superintendent Michael Reynolds proclaimed: “These trees sowed the seeds of the National Park idea,” yet few today realize the significant role Jessie played in preserving the Grove (and Valley). Read the full story…<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new educational display honoring some who helped save the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. The exhibit at the entrance of the newly-reopened Grove honors President Lincoln and says the Yosemite Grant Act of 1864, which preserved the Grove and Yosemite Valley, was “inspired by advocates such as U.S. Senator John Conness and writer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25527,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526\/revisions\/25527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}