Tag Archives: yosemite

Environmental Assessment (EA) will be released on July 16, 2007 https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/hodgdonea.htm

An orchid so elusive, 70 years elapsed after George Henry Grinnell collected the first specimens in 1923 before a new generation of botanists rediscovered its location in 1993. But the plant’s identity remained a challenge to taxonomists. Now, two U.S. Geological Survey botanists and a colleague at the New York …

The Tuolumne Planning Workbook, a compilation of all work completed to date for both the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan (Tuolumne River Plan) and the Tuolumne Meadows Plan, is available to the public for comment as of July 11, 2007 https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/trpworkbook.htm

The National Park Service welcomes those interested to attend an Open House in Yosemite Valley on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm in the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Auditorium. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/open0725.htm

Kathie Orr, a Yosemite volunteer and former Yosemite Association board member, died of natural causes in her trailer at North Pines Campground on July 23, 2007. She was 72. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/kathie.htm

A large-scale search is underway in Yosemite National Park for Ottorrina “Terrina” Bonaventura, 80, from Schererville, Indiana. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/bonaventura1.htm

The search continues today for a missing backpacker in the wilderness area east of Merced Lake in Yosemite National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/bonaventura2.htm

The search continues today for a missing backpacker in the wilderness area east of Merced Lake in Yosemite National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/bonaventura3.htm

Tomoko Tamagawa, 23, and Kelley Sterle, 22, are spending three months in Yosemite National Park as interns this summer, teaching visitors about the history of transportation in Yosemite and the use of alternative technology in transportation as well as about the natural, cultural, and historical resources in Yosemite National Park. …

Yosemite National Park experienced widespread precipitation and snow accumulation recently. The closure of the fire season occurs when there is a season ending precipitation event totaling two inches or more. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-declares-end-of-fire-season-2023.htm

On Monday, August 13, 2007, Yosemite National Park Rangers located and seized 7,428 mature marijuana plants from three gardens in the park related to the same growing operation. The value of the marijuana plants is estimated at about $ 22 million. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/marijuana2007.htm

The search for a missing woman in Yosemite National Park ended on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 when her body was located in the Echo Creek drainage, a rugged wilderness area southwest of Tuolumne Meadows. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/bonaventura6.htm

The Bald and Babcock Fires are the largest and most active of the several lightning-caused fires currently burning in Yosemite National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/baldfire.htm