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evysinspirations:

Beautiful Fall Day at Þingvellir National Park, Iceland by christine zenino on Flickr.

drtuesdaygjohnson:

pbsthisdayinhistory:

October 1, 1890: Yosemite Established as National Park

On this day in 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed a bill into law creating Yosemite National Park. This law decreed that about 1,500 square miles of public land in the California Sierra Nevada would be preserved for the public trust. 

To learn more about all of America’s national parks, explore Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea collections.

Photo: Library of Congress

The federal government’s system of “preservation” meant claiming lands and outlawing, by means of the US cavalry’s force, hunting and gathering within those lands. This specifically targeted the Yosemite Indians, a conglomerate of tribes who used the land for sustenance and settlement. America’s views of the west’s wilderness as “pristine” and “untouched by man” was contradicted in light of native settlements and their relationship with land. American’s obsession with and interpretation of wilderness and preservation was ultimately used to dislocate and vilify American Indians’ way of life.

Images such as this one were essentially propaganda at the time, promoting a false reality of a pristine, uninhabited landscape, void of human settlement and exploitation—except for the occasional white visitor, there to embrace a “true” wilderness of his own.

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shinimasu:

Ófærufoss by Thierry Hennet

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tupac:

Three camels by dj_pingu

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justcallmegrace:

Dolomites, Italy

j-h-affloressence:

Morning Mediation by kunitsa on Flickr.

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awhistlingbird:

Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Se So Hung

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live-2-learn:

landscape #79

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magic-bazaar:

Fjadrargljufur, Iceland

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enchantedengland:

   Poppy field in Badbury, Oxfordshire, England (Phil Selby flickr)

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llbwwb:

A Place to Skip Rocks, Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park (by Jared Ropelato)

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landscapelifescape:

huang shan stairs, Yellow Mountain, China

(by mr.paulb)

gearheadsandmonkeywrenches:

Cameron Davidson

censu:

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