Sierra Nature Notes
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it.
He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it.
He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk. – N. Scott Momaday
In the 1920s and continuing into the mid-60s, the Yosemite Association published Yosemite Nature Notes which was sent to park visitors who, after they returned home, still wanted to keep informed about the natural history of Yosemite and the Sierra. Not an intimidating peer-review scientific journal, contributors to Yosemite Nature Notes were nonetheless often leading scientists and historians doing work in Yosemite. The goal was to bring their discoveries and observations, often otherwise hidden away in journals, to the public. That is the hope of their electronic revival: Sierra Nature Notes.
