The National Park Service announced plans today to conduct a prescribed fire in the Wawona area of Yosemite National Park. This burn is scheduled to begin April 9, 2008, and to continue for approximately two weeks, weather and air quality conditions permitting. The total area of the burn is about …
Read More »Historic Tunnel View Overlook Rehabilitation to Begin as First Centennial Project in Yosemite National Park
The historic Tunnel View Overlook will receive a much-needed makeover thanks to the National Park Service Centennial Initiative and partnership with The Yosemite Fund. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/tview0408.htm
Read More »Yosemite National Park to Begin Fall Prescribed Fire Program
The National Park Service is planning to begin fall prescribed fire activities in the Yosemite Valley area. Weather and air quality permitting, YV-15 will begin around September 16 th, while YV-4 is slated for the following week. Each unit will only take a day to complete, once begun. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/fallrxfire08.htm
Read More »Glacier Point Road Rehabilitation Project to Begin in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park will be reconstructing part of the Glacier Point Road beginning this Monday, June 22, 2009. Work will consist of the rehabilitation, restoration, and resurfacing of the road, including repaving and drainage improvements to include 5.1 miles of the road from the Chinquapin intersection to Badger Pass Ski …
Read More »Repairs to Wawona Tunnel to begin in Yosemite National Park
Repairs to the Wawona Tunnel in Yosemite National Park, located along the Wawona Road/Hwy 41, are scheduled to begin on Sunday, September 8, 2013. Most of the construction will occur inside the tunnel and incremental traffic delays will be instituted during the construction period, which begins September 8 through December …
Read More »Repairs to Big Oak Flat Tunnels to begin in Yosemite National Park
Repairs to the Big Oak Flat Tunnels in Yosemite National Park, located along the Big Oak Flat Road/Hwy 120, are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. The historic tunnels, completed in 1937, consist of three tunnels along the Big Oak Flat Road. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/repairs-to-big-oak-flat-tunnels-to-begin-in-yosemite-national-park.htm
Read More »Yosemite National Park Announces Winter Operations in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to Begin on Friday, November 30, 2018
Yosemite National Park Announces winter operations in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to begin on Friday, November 30, 2018. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-announces-winter-operations-in-the-mariposa-grove-of-giant-sequoias-to-begin-on-friday-november-30-2018.htm
Read More »‘Back To Some Normal Way Of Life’: Mojave Communities Begin Recovery After Damaging Earthquakes
When the first big earthquake hit, a magnitude-6.4 on Thursday morning, Ridgecrest resident Heather Martin said so many of her belongings fell in front of her bedroom door that all she could do was crouch in a corner and wait for the shaking to stop. When the magnitude-7.1 quake struck …
Read More »Why Has Fresno Yet To Begin Its New Rental Housing Inspection Program?
Temperatures in the Central Valley are dropping as fall gives way to winter. But for many families that also means enduring another winter in substandard housing, a problem that the City of Fresno says it has been working to fix since the passage of a new rental inspection ordinance in …
Read More »Trump is said to begin repeal of Obama power plant emission cuts
The Trump administration will propose repealing former President Barack Obama’s signature plan for combating climate change by asserting that its expansive approach to addressing carbon emissions exceeds legal limits, according … Click to Continue »
Read More »Hearings Begin Over Kern County Ordinance That Allows 70,000 New Oil And Gas Wells
A series of hearings began today in Kern County in a lawsuit over an ordinance that could allow up to 70,000 new oil and gas wells there over the next two decades. All those wells could create 78 million pounds of air pollution a year says Catherine Garoupa White with …
Read More »Repairs begin to Atwater area damaged by tanker fire
Crews worked Wednesday to assess the damage and begin repairs on Bell Lane in Atwater after a gas tanker overturned and burst into flames on Tuesday, killing the 57-year-old truck driver from Hughson. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Truck driver killed in crash identified; cleanup and repairs begin on Bell Lane
The driver killed Tuesday in a fiery tanker-truck explosion was a 57-year-old Hughson man, the Merced County Coroner’s Office confirmed. Kamkyo Ramon Gnotsavath, 57, was headed to the Arco gas … Click to Continue »
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