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’m a huge fan of the magazine and a professional travel director. In particular I enjoy both the accuracy of your articles and your ability to accept when you might have made a mistake. In this case, from Mike Coppock’s February 2020 article “Before There Were Park Rangers,” it’s stated that the Yosemite Grant was the first tract of land set aside by the government for public use and preservation. Not so. On April 20, 1832, the federal government set

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