ABSTRACT
Tourist growth and road building in Yosemite National Park prompted park offi cials to seek restoration of disturbed landscapes as early as the 1930s. These restoration efforts brought famed American ecologist Frederic E. Clements and spouse Edith Schwartz Clements to the park. They had recently taken up residency in Santa Barbara, putting them in close proximity to Yosemite, located in California’s central Sierra. Not only was the restoration of native vegetation along roadsides among their concerns, but they also focused on how the park’s Museum Gardens might be designed for representing the local native wildfl owers, especially the fl owers of the Museum’s site in Yosemite Valley.
