Photograph of the week: Yosemite National Park, Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Yosemite National Park is many things to many people. For climbers, it is revered as the birthplace of rock climbing as a sport, and home to the holy grail of that sport: the Dawn Wall, El Capitan. For photo enthusiasts, it is well-known as muse to famed black-and-white photographer Ansel Adams. For snow-seekers it is home to California’s oldest ski resort, Badger Pass. And for outdoorsmen and conservationists, it is known as the home of America’s very first park guardian, Galen Clark, who is believed to have been the very first person to count and record the giant sequoia trees found in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove.

More important than the man who counted them, though, are the trees themselves. Within the 1125 square miles (2914 square kilometres) of Yosemite National Park, you will find 35 species of tree, with conifers (cone-bearing trees or evergreens), like the aforementioned sequoias, being most prevalent. Along with these massive (and…