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Yosemite National Park

Founded 1 October 1890, a Wednesday.

Yosemite National Park was established on October 1, 1890, giving it 11 energy, Tiger energy, and Libra influence. The modern preservation story began earlier on June 30, 1864, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant protecting Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove for public use. The 1890 act dramatically expanded that protected landscape and created Yosemite National Park.

The strongest relationship comes through John Muir, born April 21, 1838 under Dog energy. Dog is one of Tiger’s strongest friendly signs, and the National Park Service credits Muir’s writing and activism as instrumental in the campaign that produced Yosemite National Park in 1890. The person most closely associated with protecting Yosemite therefore carried energy naturally friendly to the park itself.

The pattern repeated in 1906, a Horse year, Tiger’s other major friendly sign. That year Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove were finally returned to federal control and joined with the surrounding national park, bringing the major protected lands together under one system.

CUE: Yosemite carries an unusually clean preservation pattern. Its 11 and Tiger identity was championed by John Muir, a friendly Dog, while a later Horse year completed the reunification of the lands that form the Yosemite recognized today. The 1864 Grant planted the preservation idea, 1890 created the national park, and friendly timing appears around the people and events that helped complete its protection.

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