Echo Valley

Echo Valley may refer to;

Echo Valley (California)

Echo Valley is a valley in Yosemite National Park, at an elevation of 7,021 feet (2,140 m). It is located along Echo Creek, about 3 miles (5 km) miles west of Merced Lake, at 37°44′38″N 119°26′03″W / 37.7438°N 119.4343°W / 37.7438; -119.4343. It is bounded on the south by the Merced River.

The valley contains a mosaic of meadows that are likely related to a fire that burned through the area in the 1980s. This fire killed most of the trees, raising the water table, and creating the meadows. Debris and deadfall from burned trees are common in many of the meadow areas.

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Ekkodalen

Ekkodalen (Echo Valley) on Bornholm is Denmark's longest rift. It stretches 12 km from Vallensgård Mose through Almindingen, Flæskedal, Rivendell and Kelseådal to Saltuna on Bornholm's northeast coast.

History

Echo Valley was originally named Kodalen (Cow Valley), probably because by the royal edict of 1658 the peasants had obtained rights to free grazing for their cattle there. The first time the name Ekkodalen appears on a map was in 1746 when someone added EC before Kodalen changing it to Eckodalen. Others argue that it was Bornholm's first forester, Hans Rømer, who found the name.

The steep cliffs on one side of Ekkodalen are called Styrtebakkerne. The name was originally Stortebakkene, an old Bornholm term for a ridge with a steep, vertical rock face.

In Ekkodalen there are memorials to Bornholm philanthropist Marie Kofoed and to Hans Rømer, the forester. There is also one on the cliff face where a young scout, Johannes V. Andersen, died after a fall in 1947.

In 1809, to the dismay of the local peasants who lost their free grazing rights, Hans Rømer built an impressive stone wall around the forest which still stands today. He served as forester in the period 1800-36, creating Almindingen, Denmark's third largest forest. He established and named Hans Christian Ørsted's spring and he built Ekkodalen's half-timbered property, Rømersdal, which is still the residence of the State Forester.