Yosemite National Park will begin a second round of civic engagement to address improving visitor experience and access to the busy park during peak season. The park is seeking input on several key concepts to address improving visitors’ access to and experience of the park’s most significant resources and features …
Read More »Yosemite National Park seeks public input for visitor access planning
Yosemite National Park is initiating a public comment period for a Visitor Access Management Plan today. The park will seek input on how visitors can plan future visits to one of the most popular sites in the National Park System. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-seeks-public-input-for-visitor-access-planning.htm
Read More »Yosemite National Park Seeks Witnesses of Reported Assault
If you were at Happy Isles, near the start of the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park, yesterday, August 4, around 7 pm, we may need your help. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-seeks-information-about-reported-assault.htm
Read More »Yosemite Conservancy Seeks $1.3 Million To Fund Life Changing Youth Programs in Yosemite
To cultivate thousands of future environmental stewards, young people will learn about wildlife, experience their first wilderness overnight trip, or become accomplished in trail repair by participating in one of 11 Youth in Yosemite programs to be funded with $ 1.3 million by Yosemite Conservancy. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/ycyouth2011.htm
Read More »National Parks Institute Seeks Solutions for a New Generation
More than two dozen executives from around the world who are responsible for conservation of some of the most treasured places on earth are coming to California for help in making sure there’s a future for national parks. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/npi2012.htm
Read More »Yosemite National Park Seeks Short Stories to Help Commemorate the Park’s Upcoming Anniversaries
Stories to be Published in Book Designed to Honor Yosemite Grant’s 150 th Anniversary. Yosemite National Park is seeking amateur and professional writers to submit short stories that describe their memories and experiences at Yosemite National Park. One hundred and fifty of the stories will be chosen to be published …
Read More »Care4All Campaign Seeks to Address Health Care Costs And Accountability
Before we look ahead to the midterm elections, we’re taking a quick look back at some health care legislation passed at the end of the legislative session in September: Specifically, a campaign known as Care4All, aimed at universal health coverage that’s more affordable and accountable . Of around two dozen …
Read More »Valley Air District Seeks Public Comment On Plan To Improve Air Quality
A much-anticipated plan to reduce particulate matter in the San Joaquin Valley is now up for public comment. After years of revisions, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is seeking public comment on its latest plan to reduce PM2.5 , a harmful pollutant that causes respiratory problems and …
Read More »Eight Months After Las Vegas Shooting, A Community Still Seeks Healing
The tragic shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last October in Las Vegas has largely faded from the headlines and Twitter timelines in recent months. But the story of the worst mass shooting in modern American history – a tragedy which left 58 dead – didn’t end when the …
Read More »Project Seeks To Preserve Delano’s History
Many communities across the valley have rich histories. The challenge in many cases is preserving those stories, memories, photos and artifacts for future generations. In one Kern County community, a new effort is underway to do just that. We recently spoke with history professor Oliver Rosales about the Digital Delano …
Read More »EPA abandons fuel mileage goals and seeks to revoke California’s ability to set its own standard
Setting up its most aggressive clash yet with California over environmental standards, the Trump administration signaled Monday it may revoke the state’s ability under the Clean Air Act to impose … Click to Continue »
Read More »Bill Seeks To Ban “Willful Defiance” Suspensions In California Schools
A new bill in the California Senate would ban so-called “willful defiance” suspensions in k-12 schools throughout the state. The legislation (SB 607) comes amid a recent push from social justice organizations for schools to adopt “restorative justice” or PBIS approaches to school discipline issues, as well as a looming …
Read More »Stanislaus Coroner’s Office seeks relatives of Los Banos woman
The Stanislaus County Coroner’s Office is seeking family members of a longtime Los Banos resident who died recently in Modesto. Vanda Dague, 77, died Feb. 11 at Modesto Post Acute … Click to Continue »
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