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National Geographic : 1974 Jun
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wears a girdleof clouds. Three-spiredCathedralRocks, at right, overlook the valley's nave. looking into a monorail system and aerial tramways. Yosemite serves as a testing ground for all manner of things. One study that intrigued me had to do with the comings and goings of mice, voles, and shrews in Ahwahnee Mead ow, under the shadow of Half Dome. College students catch the little animals in live traps, then mark and release them to see how far they wander. Another survey has to do with the wary bighorn sheep. "Yosemite had bighorns in Indian times," park research biologist Dr. Jan van Wagten donk told me. He showed me a skull with huge curving horns. "This probably belonged to one of a band that survived until fairly recently in the wild country on our northeast boundary. Are they still there? We don't know for sure. "If they're not, should we reintroduce the species? That probably depends upon wheth er their winter range, which is outside the park, is still available for their use." The Other Yosemite
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