Yosemite > Library > Yosemite Nature Notes > volume 2 (1923) >

CalHotels.US Lowest Hotel Rates Guaranteed. Click Here For Yours! Hotel photos, maps, reviews, & discount rates. U.S. Hotels in California (Yosemite, L. A., San Francisco ), AL, AK, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, FM, GA, GU, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OK, NV, MH, MP, NM, NC, ND, OH, OR, PA, PR, PW, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, VI WA, WV, WI, WY

Next: volume 3 (1924) • Yosemite Nature Notes • Previous: volume 1 (1922)

Yosemite Nature Notes 2 (1923)

Rubber stamp masthead used for some issues of Yosemite Nature Notes in 1922 and 1923

• YNN 2(1) (June 12, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Serving the Yosemite Visitor,” 2(1):1
  • “Nature Guide Service Begins Fourth Season,” 2(1):1
  • “Water Ouzel Rebuilds Nest of Last Year,” 2(1):2
  • “Gray Squirrels Still Absent,” 2(1):2
  • “High Mountain Birds Seen by Hikers,” 2(1):2
  • “Yosemite Artist Donates Indian Baskets to Museum,” [Chris Jorgensen] 2(1):2
  • “Robin Returns to Its Old Home,” 2(1):3
  • “Strawberries Are Ripe,” 2(1):3
  • “See the Baby Elk,” 2(1):3
• YNN 2(2) (June 19, 1923) [PDF]
  • “The Origin of Yosemite Valley” [Francois E. Matthis geology work], 2(2):1
  • “Yosemite’s Flowering Season,” 2(2):1-2
  • “Band-Tailed Pigeon’s Nest Found,” 2(2):2
  • “See the Yosemite Relief Model” [built by Ansel F. Hall], 2(2):2
  • “Northern Vilot Green Swallow Nesting in Leidig Meadow,” 2(2):2
  • “Porcupines in Yosemite Valley,” 2(2):3
  • “The Shooting Star,” 2(2):3
  • “Sierra Grouse Found Nesting at Inspiration Point,” 2(2):3
  • “The ‘Coperhead’” [golden-mantled ground squirrel], 2(2):3
  • “Pacific Rattler on Exhibition at Museum” [Pacific rattlesnake], 2(2):4
  • “The Indian Pink” [Silene californica], 2(2):4
  • “White-Headed Woodpecker Nests at Glacier Point,” 2(2):4
• YNN 2(3) (June 26, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Visit the Yosemite Swamps,” 2(3):1
  • “Live Reptiles Attract Museum Visitors,” 2(3):1
  • “Traill Flycatcher Rebuilds near Old Nest,” 2(3):1
  • “The Large Brown Animal of Half Dome” [marmots], 2(3):2
  • “Poisonous Mushrooms Found” [Amanita phalloides], 2(3):2
  • “Baby Birds,” 2(3):2
  • “Hen and Chickens” [stonecrop family, a cactus], 2(3):2
  • “The Mountain Weasel,” 2(3):3
  • “Red-Shafted Flicker Bears Brood near Sentinel Bridge,” 2(3):3
  • “Camp Robbers” [California ground squirrel], 2(3):3
  • “The Blue Racer” [snake], 2(3):3
  • “The Yosemite Mole,” 2(3):3
• YNN 2(4) (July 3, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Geology Lecturers at the Yosemite Museum,” 2(4):1
  • “22-Inch Loch Leven Trout Taken in Merced River,” 2(4):1
  • “Mountain Tops and Springtime,” 2(4):2
  • “Indian Artifacts yet to be Found,” 2(4):2
  • “Useful Beetles” [lady bird beetles [ladybug]], 2(4):2
  • “Another Camp Robber” [California ground squirrel, Citellus beechey], 2(4):2
  • “Snake Eggs on Exhibition” [blue racer], 2(4):3
  • “An Insect Carpenter” [carpenter bee], 2(4):3
  • “Gooseberry Bush Grows out of Oak Tree,” 2(4):3
  • “Daddy Long Legs in Evidence” [crane-flies], 2(4):3
• YNN 2(5) (July 10, 1923) [PDF]
  • “A Nutcracker of the Sierras” [Clarke’s Crow or Clarke’s Nutracker], 2(5):1
  • “Primitive Rodent Lives in Sierras” [mountain beaver], 2(5):1
  • “A New Flower for the Yosemite National Park” [White-heart, Dicentra pauciflora], 2(5):1
  • “Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Takes a Bath,” 2(5):2
  • “The Digger Pine” [gray pine or foothill pine Pinus sabiniana], 2(5):2
  • “Pigeon’s Family Life Observed” [Band Tailed Pigeon], 2(5):2
  • “Yosemite’s “Water Snakes’” [garter snake, Thamnophis sp.] 2(5):2
  • “California Nutmeg” [Torreya californica], 2(5):3
  • “A Beauty from Europe Has Come to Yosemite” [fleabane daisy or ox-eye daisy], 2(5):3
  • “Many Young Birds Seen,” 2(5):3
• YNN 2(6) (July 17, 1923) [PDF]
  • “The High Sierra Opened to Hikers” [High Sierra Camps], 2(6):1
  • “The Glaciers of Yosemite,” 2(6):1-2
  • “Pohono Trail” [overnight guided trip], 2(6):2
  • “Violet-Green Swallow Nests in Cliff,” 2(6):2
  • “The Washington Lily,” 2(6):2
  • “The Little Leopard Lily,” 2(6):2
  • “How a Rattle Snake Feeds,” 2(6):3
  • “The Cardinal Monkey-Flower,” [Mimulus cardinalis], 2(6):3
  • “The Gnarled Dwarfs of Yosemite’s Rim” [juniper] 2(6):3
• YNN 2(7) (July 24, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Nature Guide Accompanies Sierra Club,” 2(7):1
  • “The Level Floor of Yosemite Valley” [glacial lake], 2(7):1
  • “The Two Day Nature Trip” [Pohono Trail guided trip report], 2(7):1-2
  • “Birds That Feed in the Air” [violet-green swallow and white-throated swifts], 2(7):2
  • “Interesting House-Builders in the Stream” [caddis worms] 2(7):2
  • “Beneficial Hawks” [sparrow hawk], 2(7):2
  • “Ability of Trout to Recover from Wounds,” 2(7):2-3
  • “Migration of Audubon Warblers,” 2(7):3
  • “Ants That Make Sawdust” [carpenter ants], 2(7):3
  • “Yosemite Violets” [blue violet and white violet], 2(7):3
  • “The Pacific Tree-Toad,” 2(7):3
• YNN 2(8) (July 31, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Many Instructed by Nature Guide Service,” 2(8):1
  • “Nature Study in High Sierra” [4-day guided trip report to High Sierra Camps], 2(8):1-2
  • “Raspberries Are Ripe,” 2(8):2
  • “First Post Nesting Season Migrants Seen” [birds], 2(8):2
  • “Goldfinches” [green-backed goldfinch], 2(8):2
  • “Two Miles of Flowers” [off of Four Mile Trail], 2(8):2
  • “Indian Mortar Rocks,” 2(8):2-3
  • “A Feathered Angler” [great blue heron], 2(8):3
  • “Ladybird Beetles Swarming” [ladybug], 2(8):3
  • “An Egyptian Diety among Us” [Stream orchids or Helleborine, Serapias gigantea], 2(8):3
  • “The Swifts” [white-throated swift], 2(8):3
• YNN 2(9) (August 7, 1923) [PDF]
  • “An Extinct Waterfall of Yosemite” [Eagle Peak Falls, the old channel for Yosemite Falls], 2(9):1
  • “Pearl Islands in the Merced River” [water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis] 2(9):1
  • “California’s Bluebirds” [western bluebird and mountain or arctic bluebird], 2(9):2
  • “Sneezeweed” [Henlenium biglowii], 2(9):9
  • “Color Camouflage in Birds” [evening grosbeak],
  • “A Visitor from the ‘Rim’” [olive-sided flycatcher], 2(9):2
  • “Late Blooming Flowers,” 2(9):3
  • “The Great Blue Heron,” 2(9):3
  • “A Teachers Training School” [Nature Guide Service], 2(9):3
  • “Sea Gulls” [California gull], 2(9):3
• YNN 2(10) (August 14, 1923) [PDF]
  • “High Country Hikes” [guided hikes using High Sierra camps], 2(10):1
  • “Bear Tracks on Tree Trunks,” 2(10):1
  • “Rock Gardens of Tenaya Gorge” [flower gardens], 2(10):2
  • “Respect the Flowers,” 2(10):2
  • “Owls” [spotted owl, great horned owl, and pigmy owl], 2(10):2-3
  • “Trout,” 2(10):3
  • “[Townsend] Solitaire,” 2(10):3
  • “Deer Abundant” [attracted by apple orchards], 2(10):3
  • “Beautiful Monkey-Flowers” [Lewis mimulus and Mimulus implexus], 2(10):4
  • “The Canyon Wren,” 2(10):4
  • “The ‘Picket Pin’ [Belding ground squirrel], 2(10):4
  • “A Too Friendly Grosbeak” [black-headed grosbeak], 2(10):4
• YNN 2(11) (August 21, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Baby Brown Bears Steal Apples” [black bear cubs], 2(11):1
  • “Free Lunch for Birds” [feeding table], 2(11):1-2
  • “The Rocks of Yosemite” [granite components]
  • “Mistletoe,” 2(11):2
  • “The Sierra Chickaree” [Douglas squirrel], 2(11):3
  • “Rare Trees Found by Yosemite Botanist” [red fir in Yosemite Valley], 2(11):3
  • “Trees of Yosemite Valley,” 2(11):3
  • “Mule Deer in Death Combat” [death from interlocked antlers] 2(11):3
• YNN 2(12) (August 28, 1923) [PDF]
  • “Yosemite Nature Guide Service,” 2(12):1
  • “Sierra Nevada Range a Single Mountain,” 2(12):1
  • “A Humming Bird’s Private Garden” [hummingbird], 2(12):2
  • “Snake Room at Museum Popular,” 2(12):2
  • “The Nuttall Woodpecker,” 2(12):2
  • “Nutmegs in Full Fruit” [California nutmeg] 2(12):2
  • “Season’s Last High Sierra Field Trip,” 2(12):3
  • “The Lincoln Sparrow,” 2(12):3
  • “Bears More Numerous This Year,” 2(12):3
  • “Mountain Quail,” 2(12):3
  • “Warblers of Yosemite,” 2(12):3
• YNN 2(13) (September 1923) [PDF]
  • “Educational Work in Yosemite,” 2(13):1-2
  • “Chief Naturalist in Europe” [Ansel F. Hall], 2(13):2
  • “Gray Squirrels Observed in Yosemite,” 2(13):2
  • “Pot Holes in the Granite,” 2(13):2
  • “Freezing” [immobile deer hiding], 2(13):2-3
  • “Yosemite’s Flat Floor” [ancient glacial lake], 2(13):3
  • “Sierra Nevada Rosy Finch,” 2(13):3-4
  • “Books on California Natural History” [list available from MVZ] 2(13):4
• YNN 2(14) (October 1923) [PDF]
  • “How Lakes Build Ramparts” [ice], 2(14):1-2
  • “Yosemiet Flowers in October,” 2(14):2
  • “The Pine Siskin,” 2(14):2
  • “The Bear Inasion” [several bears in Valley], 2(14):2-3
  • “The Lewis Woodpecker,” 2(14):3 by Enid Michael
  • “A Surprise in Oaks,” 2(14):3-4
  • “The California Woodpecker and the Acorn Crop,” 2(14):4 by Enid Michael
  • “A Woodpecker That Does Not Peck” [Northern White-Headed Woodpecker], 2(14):4
• YNN 2(15) (November 1923) [PDF]
  • “Bluebirds in the Yosemite Valley” [western bluebirds and mountain bluebirds], 2(15):1-2
  • “Lessingia and Buckwheat” [Lessingia leptocalda and Eriogonum virgatum], 2(15):2 by Enid Michael
  • “Glacial Polish,” 2(15):2-3
  • “The Owls and the Mice of the Yosemite,” 2(15):3 by Enid Michael
  • “Alders Unresponsive to Frost” [white alder], 2(15):3-4
  • “Mallards in Yosemite,” 2(15):4
  • “The Slender-Billed Nuthatch,” 2(15):4
  • “A Crow Visis the Yosemite Twice Each Year” [western crow], 2(15):4-5
  • “Stretching Their Pelts” [trapping and killing coyotes in Yosemite National Parkto preserve other animals], 2(15):5
  • “Salamanders of the Mountains” [Pacific newt or “waterdogs”], 2(15):5-6
• YNN 2(16) (December 1923) [PDF]
  • “Across the Park Boundary” [black bears exiting the park were hunted], 2(16):1
  • “Mistletoe in Yosemite,” 4(16):2 by Enid Michael
  • “Zoo Bear Prefers Captivity” [“Brownie” ordered released from Yosemite Zoo, but refused to leave on his own], 2(16):2
  • “Kinglets in the Yosemite Valley” [golden crowned kinglets], 2(16):3 by Enid Michael
  • “Mountain Dogwood, the ‘Horny’ Wood” [Cornus Nuttallii], 2(16):4
  • “Cracked Granite” [vertically-jointed granite], 2(16):4

Bibliographical Information

Ansel F. Hall, editor. Yosemite Nature Notes 2 (1923) (Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1923). Mimeographed, 28 cm. Weekly June - August, and monthly, September - December, 16 issues. LCCN 54040211. Library of Congress call number QH1.Y6. U. S. Government Document Call Number: I 29.119

Digitized by Dan Anderson, May 2007, from a copy at Young Research Library (UCLA).
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

Next: volume 3 (1924) • Yosemite Nature Notes • Previous: volume 1 (1922)

CalHotels.US Lowest Hotel Rates Guaranteed. Click Here For Yours! Hotel photos, maps, reviews, & discount rates. U.S. Hotels in California (Yosemite, L. A., San Francisco ), AL, AK, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, FM, GA, GU, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OK, NV, MH, MP, NM, NC, ND, OH, OR, PA, PR, PW, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, VI WA, WV, WI, WY

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_nature_notes/2/