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  • The Bears Return to Tuolumne Meadows

    With spring comes the return of the wildlife. Tracey and Bruce, the Rangers who wintered in Tuolumne Meadows are reporting the bears as well as marmots and goshawks, are already returning to Tuolumne Meadows. Tracey and Bruce Tuolumne Meadows Winter Rangers: “We saw at least a half a dozen Black Bear tracks last week ranging…

  • Spring Plowing Has Begun on the Tioga and Glacier Point Roads

    Plowing has begun on the Tioga Road and the Glacier Point Road. The snow pack is quite a bit deeper this year than in subsequent years making for slow going as evidenced by the photos at right. Don’t expect either road to open anytime soon, though. Late season snow storms are keeping the crews busy…

  • Martinez Honors Yosemite Conservationist John Muir at Earth Day Event

    Martinez, the city where conservationist John Muir last made his home with his family and is buried, will celebrate his life at this years Earth Day event. Tri-Valley Herald: Contra Costa Countys first Earth Day event after a three-year hiatus will celebrate the birth of naturalist John Muir with a festival Saturday at his Martinez…

  • Smoky Half Dome

    Smoky Half Dome Originally uploaded by pmeidinger. An awesome picture from over at Flickr of Half Dome with a small fire that was started along the western base in late July of 2002. The photo is great at full size. The detail in Half Dome and the surrounding topography is fabulous. You can even see…

  • EPA Gets Reprieve On Yosemite Smog…Temporarily

  • Taking Time To Smell The Flowers

    Spring is one of the best times to visit Yosemite Valley but if you get tired of all the crowds mashing around trying to get pictures of the waterfalls take some time out and go wild flower hunting. Though you may be hard pressed to find wild flowers in Yosemite Valley itself, you need look…

  • The Famous Yosemite Firefall Lives On In Memory

    Yosemite Firefall: “At 9:00 each evening in Camp Curry, the crowd which had gathered for the nightly campfire program, would fall silent. A man would call out to the top of Glacier Point ‘Let the Fire Fall!’, and a faint reply could be heard from the top of the mountain. Then a great bonfire of…

  • Yosemite’s Tuolumne River One of the Country’s Most Endangered

    The Tuolumne is a beautiful river that begins in Yosemite and passes through much of park but often goes unseen by visitors. Now, plans to divert more river water from the Hetch Hetchy Dam to the city of San Francisco have left environmental groups concerned. SFGate.com: “Two California rivers will be listed among the nation’s…

  • Gas Prices Continuing to Climb

    Sierra Star: “At a gas station in El Portal near the northern entrance of Yosemite National Park, cost of a regular unleaded gallon of gas is $3.09. In at least two gas stations in California, one in San Francisco and one closer to home, in El Portal near the northern entrance of Yosemite National Park,…

  • Yosemite Then and Now

    ScienceMatters @ Berkeley: A plaque in UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is engraved with a prophetic quote from founding director Joseph Grinnell. In 1910, Grinnell said “the value of the museum will not be realized until the lapse of many years, possibly a century.” Only after such a long time passed could researchers benefit…