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SUMMARY: On a clear night in Yosemite, only a few times each year, the full moon hits a misty spray of the highest waterfall in the park, creating a nighttime rainbow that is visible only through a camera lens. But this year, Yosemite Falls, which normally flows until August, will be dry by June, making more moonbow sightings uncertain. Special correspondent Sandra Hughes reports.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Now a look at some of the wonders of the country’s first wilderness preserve.
Special correspondent Sandra Hughes reports from the Western Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
SANDRA HUGHES (NewsHour): In its 125th year as a national park, Yosemite remains as beautiful as it is popular. On most weekends, just getting inside the park takes patience.
But the 1,100-square-mile natural wonder in Northern California is worth the wait for the 4 million visitors who travel here every year from all over the world.
CHILD: Yosemite.
GARY HART, Photographer: I think it’s the most beautiful place in the world. This time of year in particular is kind of — I call it — spring kind of the postcard Yosemite.
SANDRA HUGHES: Gary Hart understands Yosemite’s draw. A nature photographer who has shot every corner of this park…
GARY HART: I got it.
SANDRA HUGHES: … Hart leads photography expeditions for students out to capture Yosemite’s famous and lesser known wonders.
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