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popularity
1,797,012
283
mega influencer
@yosemitenps is a mega influencer with 1,797,012 followers.
content
2,012
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820 chars
3
Oct 12
+ daily
@yosemitenps is incredibly active, publishing several times a day, with a poor use of captions but great use of hashtags
community engagement
18,356 / 1.02%
50%
96 / 0.00005%
41%
@yosemitenps's community is poorly engaged and very inconsistent. Watch out for an abuse of promotions or spammy hashtags
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History
30 days
90 days
all
date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Oct 13
164
1,797,012
283
2,012
1.02%
18,356
96
Oct 12
3,454
1,796,848
283
2,011
1.03%
18,442
87
Oct 04
1,809
1,793,394
283
2,002
0.86%
15,469
98
Sep 30
1,552
1,791,585
283
1,999
0.83%
14,832
112
Sep 26
390
1,790,033
283
1,994
1.28%
22,945
309
Sep 24
373
1,789,643
283
1,993
1.22%
21,900
306
Sep 23
1,311
1,789,270
283
1,991
1.31%
23,454
312
Sep 20
498
1,787,959
283
1,988
1.42%
25,448
334
Sep 19
779
1,787,461
283
1,987
1.6%
28,620
361
Sep 18
662
1,786,682
283
1,987
1.48%
26,457
297
Sep 17
473
1,786,020
283
1,985
1.44%
25,709
231
Sep 16
511
1,785,547
283
1,984
1.48%
26,337
230
Sep 15
1,852
1,785,036
283
1,983
1.49%
26,642
232
Sep 12
561
1,783,184
283
1,980
1.18%
20,976
164
Sep 11
824
1,782,623
283
1,979
1.11%
19,850
156
Sep 10
938
1,781,799
283
1,979
1.01%
17,992
133
date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Sep 09
952
1,780,861
283
1,978
0.98%
17,370
137
Sep 08
1,107
1,779,909
283
1,977
1.02%
18,193
153
Sep 07
761
1,778,802
283
1,976
0.91%
16,236
124
Sep 06
773
1,778,041
283
1,974
0.9%
16,042
145
Sep 05
542
1,777,268
283
1,973
0.87%
15,535
146
Sep 04
526
1,776,726
283
1,972
0.82%
14,559
142
Sep 03
538
1,776,200
283
1,972
0.76%
13,487
133
Sep 02
613
1,775,662
283
1,971
0.77%
13,732
230
Sep 01
648
1,775,049
283
1,970
0.74%
13,140
232
Aug 31
670
1,774,401
283
1,969
0.78%
13,846
220
Aug 30
410
1,773,731
283
1,967
0.82%
14,561
223
Aug 29
472
1,773,321
283
1,966
0.88%
15,670
233
Aug 28
607
1,772,849
283
1,963
0.8%
14,166
192
Aug 27
742
1,772,242
283
1,962
0.86%
15,206
194
followers vs
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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In 2020, we are celebrating 50 years of the National Park Service’s prescribed fire program in Yosemite.
Prior to European American contact, native people used fire to maintain meadows and riparian areas, improve hunting, enhance growth and productivity of human and animal food sources, control pests, and protect villages. With the arrival of early settlers, fire became seen as destructive and damaging and was aggressively suppressed. By the 1960s, it became clear that forest health was declining, making them vulnerable to severe, destructive fires and other threats.
In 1970, the NPS began to intentionally return fires to Yosemite, recognizing the traditional use of fire on the landscape and its important ecological role. Since 1970, fire managers have used fire to restore thousands of acres of forest, and continue to plan for future prescribed fires throughout large portions of the park.
Fire management and forest health are complex issues, and Yosemite employs many strategies (including fuel reduction projects and research and monitoring programs) to protect the park’s fire-adapted ecosystems alongside community health and safety. More information and audio-described video at go.nps.gov/links (link in bio).
This aspen tree tells a story! Black bears are expert climbers, seeking safety and food resources high in the treetops. In spring, adults emerging from hibernation and young cubs often scramble up aspens to gobble down nutritious catkins (spikes of wind-pollinated flowers).
A word to the wise: Just because bears do it doesn't make it cool. Carving initials into trees in the park is tacky, disrespectful, and a federal crime. Why not try picking up litter for your special someone? That's a lot less trashy 😇
Do you know what watershed supplies your water?
Yosemite protects two different watersheds. The Merced River forms from the confluence of streams high in the mountains in the southern part of the park, thundering over Nevada and Vernal Falls before meandering through Yosemite Valley and leaving the park to provide water for communities and agriculture far into California's central valley. The Tuolumne River is born of frigid snowmelt and glacial runoff from northern areas of the park, pausing in the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir on its 160-mile journey to the San Francisco Bay Area.
When hiking in Yosemite, you may notice that regulations prohibit soap in rivers and require disposal of human waste far from water. These principles help protect pristine water not just for park ecosystems, but for all who live downstream. Whether you are backpacking, picnicking, or just passing through, each traveler in Yosemite shares the responsibility of safeguarding these vast watersheds.
"I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pictured: Opening seedpod of showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Autumn is a time of great...chemistry??
No, really! As days become shorter and less sunlight is available, production of green chlorophyll (the molecule that creates sugar from sunlight) slows. Remaining chlorophyll in leaves is broken down, revealing pigments hidden beneath—and repainting the landscape in warmer hues.
We owe these colors to two different chemical families: carotenoids and flavonoids. Both are present in Yosemite's yellow maples and pink dogwoods (you've probably also encountered bright carotenoids on your dinner plate: these same compounds help make carrots orange, egg yolks yellow, and tomatoes red). Darker hues of red and purple signal the presence of a type of flavonoid called anthocyanins, produced in leaves that remain in the sun (that's one reason you sometimes see leaves with sections of different colors). Over time, all these pigments slowly break down, leaving behind the wintery brown of tannins.
What colors is your autumn?
Clockwise from top left: mountain dogwood, bigleaf maple, creek dogwood, black oak.
Congratulations to this year's Barry Hance Memorial Award winner, Ansley Singer!
The Barry Hance Memorial Award is Yosemite's highest recognition, named in honor of a long-time employee of Yosemite National Park who died in an avalanche while plowing Tioga Road in 1995. Recipients are employees who exemplify his qualities, including teamwork, a positive attitude, concern for the public and fellow employees, public service, and a deep love for Yosemite.
Ansley is the management assistant for the Visitor and Resource Protection division, and a former park dispatcher. According to nominations from her coworkers, "Ansley’s love for Yosemite and her peers can be felt every time she walks in the room,” she "works wholeheartedly for Yosemite—as a park, a place, and a people,” and she "spent over a decade literally caring for her co-workers and the park—tracking their whereabouts, the status of fires and sharing alerts for all."
Thank you for your service, Ansley!
Photo: Acting Superintendent Cicely Muldoon (right) presents Ansley with the 2019 Barry Hance Memorial Award.
Projecting like the prow of a ship above the valley floor 3,500 feet below, Taft Point is one of Yosemite's most stomach-clenching viewpoints.
A mile-long moderate hike north from Glacier Point Road brings you to the point itself. Shortly before reaching the cliff, the trail passes The Fissures, which are deep vertical cracks in the rock. The cracks, or joints, formed millions of years ago during the uplift of the Sierra Nevada. Rock fell away at similar joints to form the vertical faces of Sentinel Rock, Half Dome, and many other features in Yosemite.
Great catch, mama bear!
Yosemite's black bears are hard at work celebrating alongside their cousins at @KatmaiNPS! Consumed by the thousands, the annual run of wild acorns...erm...abundant acorn crop helps bears pile on the pounds for the long winter ahead.
Joking aside, black oak trees in fall and a river full of spawning salmon have something in common—they concentrate crucial food resources in one place, forcing normally-solitary animals to gather. On one day last week, 20 different bears were spotted in a single area!
This 10-year-old female was tagged by wildlife biologists in 2015 after spending time near developed areas, but has not become conditioned to human food. Please keep her and her two cubs wild by always staying at least 50 yards (think four bus-lengths) away from any bear in Yosemite, and always storing your food and trash properly.
What window is this? 🧐
Peaks along the Sierra crest are visible through the window of an abandoned silver mine, one of several established in the eastern Sierra during the late 1800s. Although Yosemite's granite backbone lacks precious metals, hikers on the far eastern edge of the park may notice the stark transition from well-defined granite peaks to a crumbling landscape of brown and red metamorphic rock, which lured early European American settlers with promises of fabulous mineral fortune.
This site, the Great Sierra Mine, broke ground around 800 feet south of a reputedly rich silver vein known as the Sheepherder Lode. Miners labored from 1881 until 1884, at which point the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company went under. During those four years, two 100-foot vertical shafts and a 1,784-foot tunnel were excavated to the tune of over $300,000 (around $8 million today). Work briefly resumed in 1933, before halting again. Ultimately, no silver was ever found.
(Mountain) lions, tiger (lilies) and (American black) bears, oh my! Did you know that Yosemite also has a unicorn? Unicorn Peak, that is.
This distinctive feature is an example of a nunatak, also known as a "glacial island". As ancient glaciers carved their way through the High Sierra, some mountains were tall enough that they remained above the flowing bodies of ice, leaving behind jagged, rocky peaks. Other well-known nunataks include Cathedral Peak and the Cockscomb.
Yosemite's characteristic glacially-carved landscape was shaped over the past 2–3 million years, as repeated glaciations scoured a rough granite landscape into polished domes and smooth canyons. Today, small glaciers and glacial remnants continue to shape Yosemite, providing a vital, year-round water supply to alpine and subalpine ecosystems throughout their watershed. Long after they vanish, the solitary nunataks will continue bearing witness to the past.
"Hmmm...let's see, very earthy. Hints of tannin, accenting a subtle early-autumn palette and a fibrous, cellulose finish..."
Tasting notes matter when you eat all your food twice! When browsing on vegetation, mule deer store the undigested leaves in a chamber of their stomach known as the rumen, returning it to their mouth later to chew and break down. (Deer, cows, and other herbivores that do this are known as "ruminants.")
Mule deer are the only ruminants in Yosemite, and they are entering their breeding season when bucks (males) are often seen sparring with their antlers. If you see them while visiting Yosemite, please give them plenty of space: despite their peaceful appearance, they can be dangerous and unpredictable.
"More details magically appear the longer I sit with a landscape..."
–Yosemite ranger
Do you keep a sketchbook or journal? Take photographs? Write poetry or music? Art can open up new perspectives, changing the way we experience our surroundings. Share your creative reflections of Yosemite in the comments!
Projecting like the prow of a ship above the valley floor 3,500 feet below, Taft Point is one of Yosemite's most stomach-clenching viewpoints.
A mile-long moderate hike north from Glacier Point Road brings you to the point itself. Shortly before reaching the cliff, the trail passes The Fissures, which are deep vertical cracks in the rock. The cracks, or joints, formed millions of years ago during the uplift of the Sierra Nevada. Rock fell away at similar joints to form the vertical faces of Sentinel Rock, Half Dome, and many other features in Yosemite.
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#YosemiteRocks
#Geology
#DontTakeItForGranite
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This post got
184% more likes
compared to @yosemitenps's average. It uses
the average amount of hashtags
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caption is 31% shorter
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Oct 05 2020 GMT00:21
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What window is this? 🧐
Peaks along the Sierra crest are visible through the window of an abandoned silver mine, one of several established in the eastern Sierra during the late 1800s. Although Yosemite's granite backbone lacks precious metals, hikers on the far eastern edge of the park may notice the stark transition from well-defined granite peaks to a crumbling landscape of brown and red metamorphic rock, which lured early European American settlers with promises of fabulous mineral fortune.
This site, the Great Sierra Mine, broke ground around 800 feet south of a reputedly rich silver vein known as the Sheepherder Lode. Miners labored from 1881 until 1884, at which point the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company went under. During those four years, two 100-foot vertical shafts and a 1,784-foot tunnel were excavated to the tune of over $300,000 (around $8 million today). Work briefly resumed in 1933, before halting again. Ultimately, no silver was ever found.
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#Yosemite
#NationalPark
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This post got
98% more likes
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33% less hashtags
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caption is 21% longer
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Oct 03 2020 GMT00:00
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"Hmmm...let's see, very earthy. Hints of tannin, accenting a subtle early-autumn palette and a fibrous, cellulose finish..."
Tasting notes matter when you eat all your food twice! When browsing on vegetation, mule deer store the undigested leaves in a chamber of their stomach known as the rumen, returning it to their mouth later to chew and break down. (Deer, cows, and other herbivores that do this are known as "ruminants.")
Mule deer are the only ruminants in Yosemite, and they are entering their breeding season when bucks (males) are often seen sparring with their antlers. If you see them while visiting Yosemite, please give them plenty of space: despite their peaceful appearance, they can be dangerous and unpredictable.
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#Yosemite
#NationalPark
#MuleDeer
#Ruminants
#TastingNotes
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This post got
16% more likes
compared to @yosemitenps's average. It uses
67% more hashtags
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caption is 10% shorter
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Oct 06 2020 GMT23:40
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Projecting like the prow of a ship above the valley floor 3,500 feet below, Taft Point is one of Yosemite's most stomach-clenching viewpoints.
A mile-long moderate hike north from Glacier Point Road brings you to the point itself. Shortly before reaching the cliff, the trail passes The Fissures, which are deep vertical cracks in the rock. The cracks, or joints, formed millions of years ago during the uplift of the Sierra Nevada. Rock fell away at similar joints to form the vertical faces of Sentinel Rock, Half Dome, and many other features in Yosemite.
hashtags
#YosemiteRocks
#Geology
#DontTakeItForGranite
analysis
This post got
243% more likes
compared to @yosemitenps's average. It uses
the average amount of hashtags
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caption is 31% shorter
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Oct 12 2020 GMT16:33
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In 2020, we are celebrating 50 years of the National Park Service’s prescribed fire program in Yosemite.
Prior to European American contact, native people used fire to maintain meadows and riparian areas, improve hunting, enhance growth and productivity of human and animal food sources, control pests, and protect villages. With the arrival of early settlers, fire became seen as destructive and damaging and was aggressively suppressed. By the 1960s, it became clear that forest health was declining, making them vulnerable to severe, destructive fires and other threats.
In 1970, the NPS began to intentionally return fires to Yosemite, recognizing the traditional use of fire on the landscape and its important ecological role. Since 1970, fire managers have used fire to restore thousands of acres of forest, and continue to plan for future prescribed fires throughout large portions of the park.
Fire management and forest health are complex issues, and Yosemite employs many strategies (including fuel reduction projects and research and monitoring programs) to protect the park’s fire-adapted ecosystems alongside community health and safety. More information and audio-described video at go.nps.gov/links (link in bio).
hashtags
#Yosemite
#NationalPark
#PrecribedFire
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This post got
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compared to @yosemitenps's average. It uses
the average amount of hashtags
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Oct 05 2020 GMT00:21
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What window is this? 🧐
Peaks along the Sierra crest are visible through the window of an abandoned silver mine, one of several established in the eastern Sierra during the late 1800s. Although Yosemite's granite backbone lacks precious metals, hikers on the far eastern edge of the park may notice the stark transition from well-defined granite peaks to a crumbling landscape of brown and red metamorphic rock, which lured early European American settlers with promises of fabulous mineral fortune.
This site, the Great Sierra Mine, broke ground around 800 feet south of a reputedly rich silver vein known as the Sheepherder Lode. Miners labored from 1881 until 1884, at which point the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company went under. During those four years, two 100-foot vertical shafts and a 1,784-foot tunnel were excavated to the tune of over $300,000 (around $8 million today). Work briefly resumed in 1933, before halting again. Ultimately, no silver was ever found.