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  • Check Your Mail, Be A Juror or Go To Jail

    Life in a small, rural town is different and sometimes an adventure. Take for instance, Laura Skelton who thought she was going to the post office to pick up mail, but instead was shanghaied by Mariposa County Court Bailiffs and forced into jury duty under a little used law. Skelton wasn’t alone though, 49 other…

  • Happy Birthday Yosemite Blog! 5 Years Old!

    Five years ago I started Yosemite Blog on the advice of Dane (yosemiter.com) and it’s been growing ever since. Every month over 22,000 people visit the site to catch up with news, photos, video and information about the park. I’d just like to take a moment to thank everyone of you for your support, emails,…

  • Ranger Shelton Johnson to be Honored

    Ranger Shelton Johnson shaking hands with President Obama after a screening of the Ken Burns special. You may know Shelton Johnson as the Buffalo Soldier from Yosemite in the recent Ken Burns special, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Now Johnson is being honored for his work in bringing to light the life of the…

  • 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…

  • Here Comes Fall

    If you were in the park (or Northern California for that matter) today you may have noticed it was a little on the nipply side as a low pressure brought with it cooler temperatures, wind and some showers. The low pressure is expected to hang around this week bringing cooler temperatures to the Sierra through…

  • 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…

  • Photo of the Day: Tufa Cathedral by Kirk Howard

    It’s been a while since I’ve done a Photo of the Day so I felt it perfectly fitting that this beautiful shot of the tufa at Mono Lake from Kirk Howard should herald the return of the Photo of the Day. I used to have a large photo print on my wall of a seascape…

  • Commemorating the Event

    Kirk Howard was on Twitter with us Sunday night for the premier of the Ken Burns special on PBS and got so excited by the special he just had to go and post this awesome photo on Flickr to commemorate the experience. Beautiful shot, Kirk. Photo by Kirk Howard.

  • 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…

  • 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…