Charles F. Adair was born on October 19, 1874, to Irish immigrant parents in Bear Valley, California. His father immigrated to the United States in 1833 and in 1860 moved west into Mariposa County as part of a company of men with John Fremont.[1] Charles was one of the families six children all of whom lived in Mariposa county. Early in life Charles worked as a miner in California and later Arizona until 1914 when he became one of the first park rangers in Yosemite National Park.[2][3] In 1929 he was made acting Park Forester for a year where he planted two giant sequoia trees near the ranger housing in Yosemite Valley. He is responsible for introducing golden trout into Adair lake in Yosemite which was named after him for doing this.[4]
^"THE ADAIR FAMILY- PIONEERS OF MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA". www.mariposaresearch.net. 24 September 2004. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
^Fiske, George (1915), Yosemite's first rangers, retrieved 2022-06-27
^"Thirty-Six Years with Syd Ledson" (PDF). Yosemite Sentinel. 14 August 1953. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^Bingaman, John (1961). Guardians of the Yosemite A Story of the First Rangers. Desert Printers. LCCN 61-019697.
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