The Friends of Yosemite Valley (FOYV), Mariposans for the Environment and Responsible Government (MERG), and the Department of the Interior /National Park Service (NPS), Yosemite National Park jointly announce the completion of a formal Settlement Agreement in the lawsuits concerning the Merced Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP). …
Read More »Sharing Traditions Exhibit in Yosemite Showcases 80 Years of Native Basketry Demonstrators and Art
A 36 inch-wide basket that took three years to hand weave, restored film footage of American Indian history in the 1920s and an oral history of native cultural demonstrators are among the items showcased in Sharing Traditions, a new exhibit at the Yosemite Museum celebrating the 80-year history of Yosemite …
Read More »paintings, prints, artifacts, and ephemera from Yosemite’s early years
Yosemite National Park unveils a new exhibit entitled Yosemite, the Grand Experiment which opens to the public on Tuesday, June 3. It will run through Saturday, October 18, 2014. The exhibit is located in the Yosemite Valley Museum (adjacent to the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center) and features paintings, prints, artifacts, …
Read More »Six years in, dairy producers and conservation groups together are protecting endangered blackbirds
The tricolored blackbird, native almost exclusively to Central California, gained protection under the state’s Endangered Species Act in 2018. Since then, the most at-risk colonies have successfully been protected, thanks in large part to San Joaquin Valley dairies. Sporting distinctive red and white shoulder patches, tricolored blackbirds have a nasal …
Read More »This Chowchilla chap knows how to read a horse. He’s trained them for more than 50 years.
If there’s one thing Leland Decker will teach you, it’s this. People who love to be around horses, they really love to be around horses. There’s no gray area. “My work is horses, my spare time is horses, my hobby is horses,” he says. His vacation is horses. “I don’t …
Read More »Why Air Quality Was So Oppressive During Last Year’s Wildfire Season
California’s 2020 wildfire season was indisputably historic: Fires burned a record-high 4.3 million acres in the state, and five of the blazes went down among the 10 largest in our recorded history. Many were touched off by widespread lightning sieges, which hadn’t occurred at such a high rate since 2008. …
Read More »This Veteran And His Wife Have Been Married 70 Years – They Tackle Challenges With Love And Laughter
Wednesday was Veterans Day. In honor of the holiday, FM89’s news director Alice Daniel spoke with a couple who live at the Fresno Veterans Home and have been married for 70 years. They’ve had their share of challenges during the pandemic, including living apart for three months. But as you’ll …
Read More »After Dropping Early In Pandemic, Fresno County Suicides In June Rose To Highest In Years
In June, 17 people in Fresno County died by suicide, a number that the Fresno County Behavioral Health Department revealed is the highest of any month since at least 2017. It’s made all the more stark by the fact that early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, suicides had dropped significantly. …
Read More »A Fresno Woman Born One Hundred Years Ago Says ‘We’ll Get Through This’
These days, do you ever find yourself looking out the window of your house or apartment and wondering ‘how are my neighbors doing during this pandemic?’ I was thinking a lot about my neighbor Dorothy Jones so I reached out to her. She turns 100 this year and she still …
Read More »Fresno’s Reel Pride Film Festival: 30 years of LGBTQ Films, A Sanger Native’s Debut Film
This year, the Reel Pride Film Festival is celebrating its 30th year in Fresno. It’s the sixth largest and sixth longest running LGBTQ film festival in the country. “Year 30 is extremely important because it shows the perseverance and persistence of our community,” said Kathleen Arambula Reyna, the director and …
Read More »Louisiana Man Revisits Fresno, Where His Family Assembled Before Being Interned 78 Years Ago
A Japanese-American man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana visited Fresno for the first time in 78 years Tuesday to see where he and his parents had to report in 1942 after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Walter Imahara was 4-years-old at the time. What is now the Fresno …
Read More »He worked his way up in the Merced Police Department for 21 years. Now he’s chief
Merced’s newest police chief has been serving and protecting the city for more than 20 years. Merced Police Capt. Chris Goodwin, 48, will officially become the city’s top cop next … Click to Continue »
Read More »Africa’s baobab trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but the oldest are dying
The oldest and biggest angiosperm trees in the world, the African baobabs, are dying or already dead, an international team of scientists has found. The scientists said the spate of … Click to Continue »
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