Yesterday I stumbled upon these amazing time lapse videos of one of my favorite places in the whole world: Yosemite National Park. These make me want to get back there so bad. This semester we have had zero time to make our way out to the park (or the cabin, for that matter), so I missed ANOTHER Yosemite winter. Good thing I have the rest of my life, right?!
It looks like the NPS and a special interest group are currently debating tearing down the stone bridge that spans the Merced River in the park. They're also thinking about banning bicyle rentals and tearing out the winter ice rink. I don't mind the possibility of the ice rink being torn down, but restricting bicycle use is just silly. Why promote more fossil fuels in the park through the use of cars? The bridge is supposedly causing erosion, but I do love that bridge. I'm 50/50 on that issue. I do hope that the part of the plan to include more campsites and parking spots does happen, because it's very hard to get a campsite in Yosemite. Who knows what the future will have in store for this park - it seems that it's always under fire from someone!
One quote that I really like -
An article follow up to yesterday's public forum on the issue can be found HERE (where I got the above quote)
Anyone who has an opinion on the matter should submit to the open forum through April 18th - at this link.
You can find the above video HERE
You can find the above video HERE
Kels
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