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Preserving natural habitats and healthy ecosystems for flora, fauna and future generations.

Yosemite’s nearly 750,000 acres harbor diverse terrain, from low-elevation meadows and woodlands, to alpine lakes and talus slopes. Your support can fund projects to restore habitats, so natural processes and native species can thrive in healthy ecosystems.

Current Projects

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Puppy Dome Meadow Restoration
Ecologically restore the meadow at Puppy Dome in Tuolumne to repair ruts, which alter natural hydrology and cause hikers to create new paths.
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Restoring Fire in Black Oak Groves
Reintroduce traditional fire-tending practices in El Capitan grove to provide learning and cultural exchanges between fire staff and cultural fire practitioners.
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Tuolumne Meadows Preservation
Remove encroaching trees from Tuolumne Meadows to preserve the views, cultural landscape, and overall experience and health of the meadows.
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Keep It Wild
Work with Tribal and youth crews to minimize modern human impacts on wilderness ecosystems, including by removing inappropriately located backcountry campsites, informal trails, and non-native plants.
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Ackerson Meadow: Implementation
Complete a suite of actions necessary for the restoration of Ackerson Meadow, including volunteer and Tribal stewardship, and continued revegetation of the largest single wetland restoration project in Yosemite’s history.
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You’ll see signs of healthy habitat restored through donor-funded projects almost anywhere you go in Yosemite. Milkweed blooming in Yosemite Valley meadows. Rare plants flourishing in the soaked “spray zone” beside Vernal Fall. Giant sequoia seedlings stretching out of healthy soil, 300 feet below the crowns of their mature relatives. Wetland rebounding in Lyell Canyon, as vegetation takes root in the former footprint of a relocated trail.

Our habitat restoration projects have rehabilitated and protected ecosystems in popular parts of the park, such as Mariposa Grove and Tuolumne Meadows, and in the far reaches of the Yosemite Wilderness, where “Keep It Wild” crews carefully repair areas impacted by backcountry camping. Want to learn more? Take a look at our iconic and past projects.

Areas of Focus

Thanks to supporters, we’ve provided over $152 million to Yosemite for more than 800 completed projects. Donor gifts help improve trails, restore habitat, protect wildlife, inspire the next generation of nature-lovers and more. Explore our funding areas to see current and past projects.