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Governor declares emergency over wildfire near Yosemite
The Oak Fire started Friday afternoon southwest of the park near the town of Midpines. By Saturday, it had rapidly grown to 10.2 square miles.
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A Starbucks is coming to Yosemite National Park, but thousands want to stop it
An online petition to stop a Starbucks from being added to Yosemite National Park is rapidly gaining steam, with thousands of people supporting efforts to stop the international coffee chain from entering the protected land.
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Yosemite announces biggest expansion in 70 years, adding new meadows and forestland
In its biggest expansion in decades, Yosemite National Park on Wednesday broadened its western boundary by adding 400 acres of lush meadowlands edged with cedars and ponderosa pines that provide habitat for some of California’s most threatened wildlife. The nonprofit Trust for Public Land purchased Ackerson Meadow from private owners for $2.3 million this year and donated it Wednesday to the National Park Service, marking Yosemite National Park’s largest addition of untrammeled wilderness in seven decades. Yosemite now stands at roughly 750,000 acres.
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The Legend of Dope Lake
It seemed too good to be true: a smuggler’s plane stuck in one of Yosemite’s frozen lakes, with three tons of primo weed there for the taking. By Greg Nichols.
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'The Mountains Are Calling and I Must Go'
The naturalist John Muir on Yosemite, as President Obama visits the park to celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service.
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The Valley Below: San Francisco is keeping Yosemite Valley’s lost twin under water
Over an unseasonably warm weekend this past October, Spreck Rosekrans, the executive director of Restore Hetch Hetchy, led his board members on a hike through a rarely visited corner of Yosemite National Park. The air was hot and breathless, and all around Yosemite, the drought was on full display: where waterfalls still fell, they had thinned from ribbons to threads. Reservoirs in the surrounding foothills had dried up, revealing acres of cracked earth.
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Q&A: Alex Honnold, Simply "Psyched".
Alex Honnold competes in a sport more commonly covered by National Geographic than ESPN. Yet he's likely garnered more media attention than any other climber before him, for an obvious reason: He climbs giant, sheer walls (such as Half Dome and El Capitan) without using ropes or protection. It's called "free-solo," and it's the most dangerous kind of climbing.
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Alex Honnold on Expertise, Night Swimming, and What Worries Him the Most
By now everyone knows that Alex Honnold is the best free-solo climber in the world. We know he scaled Yosemite’s Half Dome (VI 5.12b) alone and without a rope. We’ve seen him on the cover of National Geographic, Outside, on 60 Minutes, and in a Citibank commercial that ran way too many times.
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Watercolor Sketchbook Journaling | Yosemite Conservancy
Create a beautiful watercolor journal of your experience in Yosemite and beyond
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Yosemite HD II
A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months.
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Yosemite HD
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Key Section of Famed Half Dome Route Falls Off
A large rockfall has removed a key section of the most popular route on Half Dome.
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