Category: News
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Yosemite Rangers Aid in Marijuana Bust
National Park Service Law Enforcement car in Yosemite. Photo by Rennett Stowe. Yosemite rangers have been aiding other National Park Service personnel at the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in Shasta county to combat the ever increasing cultivation of marijuana on public lands by Mexican drug cartels. Law enforcement rangers at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area have…
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Fisherman Pulls Piranha-Like Fish From Lake Outside Yosemite
Bridge over Lake Don Pedro just outside Yosemite National Park. Photo by Brad Fults. Jason Earlywine and a buddy got the shock of a lifetime when a night fishing trip netted the two fishermen what they thought were piranha’s Don Pedro Reservoir just outside Yosemite. Unions Democrat: Earlywine, who works at Rawhide Meat Processing in…
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Tsunami Slams Into National Park on Samoan Island
Ofu beach part of National Park of American Samoa. Photo courtesy of National Park Service. Shortly before 7 a.m. yesterday morning, an earthquake with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3 struck 120 miles from American Samoa, a U. S. territory with a population of approximately 65,000 people. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami that…
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Winter Closings
Crane Flat store will close for the 2009 season after business on Sunday, October 4, 2009. DNC is performing a construction project which involves updating the Crane Flat facility to ADA standards. Exterior and interior work will impact store operations and public access. The store will re-open by March 26, 2010. Fuel services will not…
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More Falling Rocks in Yosemite
Looks like there was another rock slide this morning, this time behind the new housing just west of Curry Village between 5 and 7 a.m. No injuries or damage were reported. Merced Sun Star: Campers and staff at Yosemite National Park woke to the rumblings of a small rock fall this morning in the Curry…
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Planning on coming to Symbiosis next year? Leave Drugs at Home
The recently held Symbiosis event (think Burning Man in the mountains) held at Camp Mather turned out to not be fun for everyone as rangers busted 23 event participants for drugs and even tazered one. NPS Morning Report: “Over the six-day period from September 17th to September 22nd, there was a significant increase in drug-related…
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Free Entry to Yosemite 9/26 for Public Lands Day
n celebration of National Public Lands Day, Yosemite National Park, and all other National Park sites, will offer free admission this Saturday, September 26, 2009. National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. This annual event seeks to educate Americans about the environment and…
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Ranger Shelton Johnson Meets President Obama at Ken Burns Screening
Ranger Shelton Johnson, who portrays a Buffalo Soldier in Yosemite National Park and appears in several episodes of the new Ken Burn’s documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”, got to meet President Obama during a screening of the documentary which airs this weekend. NPS Digest: “They’d included the clip from the film where I…
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Son Saves Fathers Life
Emerald Pool just above Vernal Fall in Yosemite. Photo by John Bennett. Emerald Pool at the top of Vernal Fall is a cool, inviting haven on a hot summer day. Many hikers don’t realize the eminent danger they put themselves in when they plunge into the pool after the long, hot hike to the top…
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Dave Uberuaga Talks About the Big Meadow Fire
MyMotherLode.com got an interview with Dave Uberuaga the acting Superintendent of Yosemite National Park and asked him the questions on everyone’s mind, “why now?” Question: Why would you start a prescribed burn given the heat and the fact that California is now in the third year of a drought? Answer: “The drought in California was…