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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  ACR 143
          Author:   Bigelow (R), et al.
          Amended:  As introduced
          Vote:     21

           
           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-0, 6/12/14 (Consent) - See last page for  
            vote


           SUBJECT  :    Buffalo Soldiers:  Yosemite National Park

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This resolution recognizes the legacy of the Buffalo  
          Soldiers and honors the important role they played in the  
          history of our national parks.

           ANALYSIS  :    This resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings:

          1.African American army regiments that had been dispatched  
            westward fought in the Indian Wars and these soldiers were  
            eventually given the name Buffalo Soldiers by the Cheyenne and  
            other Plains Indians.  Although historians have recorded the  
            service of these Buffalo Soldiers on the western frontier,  
            their service in some national parks has been nearly  
            forgotten.

          2.The U.S. Army served as the official administrator of Yosemite  
            and Sequoia National Parks between 1891 and 1913.  In that  
            capacity, it helped create a model for park management as we  
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            know it today.

          3.Buffalo Soldiers were among the first park rangers and  
            backcountry rangers patrolling parts of the west.

          4.Approximately 500 Buffalo Soldiers, mainly from the 24th  
            Infantry and 9th Cavalry, served in Yosemite National Park and  
            Sequoia National Park.  Their duties ranged from evicting  
            poachers and timber thieves to extinguishing forest fires.   
            They also oversaw the construction of roads, trails, and other  
            infrastructure.

          5.Commanding officers of the U.S. Army became acting military  
            superintendents for these national parks with two troops of  
            cavalry assigned to each park.  Each troop would be made up of  
            approximately 60 men.

          6.The presence of these troops invigorated the local economy and  
            the soldiers acting as official stewards of park lands brought  
            a sense of law and order to the mountain wilderness.

          7.Among their many accomplishments, the troops assigned to  
            Yosemite National Park oversaw the building of an arboretum  
            near the south fork of the Merced River in 1904.  One scholar  
            considered the area to contain the first marked nature trail  
            in the U.S.' national park system.

          This resolution recognizes the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers  
          and honors the important role they played in the history of our  
          national parks.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Fiscal Com.:  No


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-0, 6/12/14
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,  
            Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian  
            Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,  
            Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,  
            Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,  
            Gray, Grove, Hagman, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones,  
            Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,  
            Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,  
            Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.  







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            Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,  
            Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,  
            Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Gorell, Hall, Harkey, Vacancy


          RM:k  6/17/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED

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