[Geysers] National Park quarters

[Bruce Jensen]

John Warnock's assertion is correct.  Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Giant Sequoia Grove was deeded by the Federal Government to the State of CA in the early 1860's under Lincoln's administration to be kept by the State as a public "parkland".  The entire area (sans Valley) did not achieve national park status until 1890, however, and the Valley was added in the 1900's.

Despite its obvious glamour and popularity, since Yosemite has already been commemorated on the initial 50-state quarter release, it is somewhat likely that another park (Maybe Sequoia NP, the second NP, 1890, or another much later park) would be chosen for California instead.  We have quite a few...King's Canyon, Lassen Volcanic, Channel Islands, Redwood, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and a bunch of NMs, historic sites, NRAs and Seashores that could be used.  Point Reyes NS would be a fine choice, IMHO.

Bruce Jensen
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--- On Tue, 7/28/09, JOHN WARNOCK <johnwarnock at msn.com> wrote:

> From: JOHN WARNOCK <johnwarnock at msn.com>
> Subject: RE: [Geysers] National Park quarters
> To: "geyser observation reports" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:36 AM
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> Greetings Geyserlings:
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> Just my thoughts on the quarters...Yosemite has often laid
> claim as the first land set apart as a "national
> site" (roughly 10 years prior to Yellowstone) so that
> it could well be the first site.  The language in
> the bill was very carefully worded, otherwise it would
> have said "National Park".  The concern
> over Grand Teton is another real issue, and it would be
> much later in issue.   That's it for now.
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> John Warnock (the Emperor)
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> From: Anglgrlsnt at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:09:00 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: [Geysers] National Park quarters
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
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> From: Geyser8
> To: Geyser8, Anglgrlsnt
> Sent: 7/26/2009 4:59:23 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time
> Subj: Re: [Geysers] National Park quarters
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> It must be YNP as the statement from the mint states
> "the law requires the United States Mint to design,
> mint and issue the new quarters in the order in which each
> site was first established as a national site." See
> below.  I believe that would eliminate any alternative
> to
> YNP.          
> Rich
> Glasser             (Scott
> is however correct in that each state gets ONE choice so
> Grand Teton could be outvoted so doubt could still
> remain)
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> In a message dated 7/26/2009 4:42:56 P.M. Mountain
> Daylight Time, Anglgrlsnt writes:
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> From: TSBryan at aol.com
> Reply-to: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Sent: 7/26/2009 4:36:06 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time
> Subj: [Geysers] National Park quarters
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> At some point while I was in Yellowstone I mentioned
> to somebody that the national parks are to be the subjects
> of the next series of U.S. quarters. Nobody else seemed to
> have heard about the program. It's sorta hard to imagine
> that YNP won't be #1, but that ain't necessarily so.
> Easy enough to get info from the US Mint website, but
> here's the intro page.
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> Scott Bryan
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> America's Beautiful National Parks
> Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 
> Beginning in 2010, the United States Mint will issue coins
> featuring national parks and other national sites with new
> quarter-dollars minted and issued in accordance with the
> "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar
> Coin Act of 2008" (Act). Thanks to this innovative
> multi-year program, approximately every 10 weeks you will
> see a new design emblematic of a national site depicted on
> the reverse of the quarter. The sites selected for this
> series of quarters will come from each of 56 host
> jurisdictions comprising the 50 States, the District of
> Columbia and each U.S. territory (the Commonwealth of Puerto
> Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the
> Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). A portrait of
> George Washington will remain on the obverse of all of the
> quarters. 
> 
> The Act, signed into law as Public Law 110-456 on December
> 23, 2008, requires that within 270 days of enactment (about
> Sept. 19, 2009), the Secretary of the Treasury must select
> the national park or national site to be honored with a coin
> in each of the 56 host jurisdictions. Under the provisions
> of the site
> selection process, the Secretary will consult with the
> Secretary of the Interior and the governor or other chief
> executive of each host jurisdiction. After a site list has
> been approved, the law requires the United States Mint to
> design, mint and issue the new quarters in the order in
> which each site was first established as a national site. 
> 
> The proposed design
> selection process and site
> and design selection criteria closely emulate the
> processes that the United States Mint successfully used to
> develop and select designs for the 50 State Quarters® and
> 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters
> Programs. 
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> Please check here regularly for updates on the
> "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar
> Coin Act of 2008" coins as the site and design
> selection processes unfold this year. 
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