Yosemite Radio Updates
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Those Were the Days My Friend: Flora-Bama Lounge Owner Pat McClellan Dies
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So you may agree with me that social media sux in many ways. But it is good for a thing or two, like finding out when someone dies. It has come to my attention, thanks to Facebook, that my old friend and…
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Yosemite’s Bears Are Paying the Price for the Park’s Record Crowds
Staff Report – Black bears in Yosemite Valley are eating birthday cake off picnic tables and dying under the wheels of speeding cars, and the two problems share a single root cause. SFGATE reports that the park’s bears are absorbing the impact of a visitation surge that followed the end of Yosemite’s reservation system, with wildlife…
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Trump Administration Used Keyword Screening to Kill Billions in Federal Research Grants
Staff Report – The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion in research grants to University of California professors, and their legal team says it has proof that those terminations were unconstitutional. Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine…
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Federal Judge Agrees with States that White House Misused Policy to Revoke Grant Funding
By Mayah Nachman – Maryland Matters – A federal district judge ruled that the Trump administration misused a federal provision to improperly revoke billions of dollars in grant funding from organizations and state agencies across the country. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts ruled Friday that federal agencies cannot revoke federal grants after they’ve…
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Two Men Charged in Kidnapping of Forest Service Workers Near Mt. Shasta
Staff Report – The bizarre and terrifying hostage situation that unfolded in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest last week resulted in federal charges. Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and his son Phoenix Henrichsen, 23, were arrested Monday and charged with kidnapping federal employees, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000…
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NASA Study Confirms Controlled Burns Save Giant Sequoias From Megafires
Staff Report – The best defense for the largest trees on Earth turns out to be a little fire before the big one arrives. A new NASA-funded study found that giant sequoias were nearly four times more likely to survive extreme wildfires in forests that had been managed with prescribed burns. NASA Science published the…
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Yosemite Hiker Suffers Heat Exhaustion: Helicopter Ride Out Results in $70,000 Bill?
Staff Report – If you are going to go hiking in a crowded national park on a weekend in the heat of the summer, federal officials urge people to start early, carry more water than you think you need and know your limits before taking to the trail. A woman recently hiking with a large…
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Let’s Party: Seven Artists on Display in the First Month
We Will Celebrate With Another Art Opening Party Friday, June 31 – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – It’s been one month to the day since we opened the groundbreaking new Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center with a blockbuster, conversation changing party in this historic Gold Rush era town, and we already have shows…
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Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center: Original Gold Rush Art
By Glynn Wilson – The California gold rush from 1848 to 1855 began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people from the rest of the United States and abroad to California, which had recently been conquered from Mexico. The sudden influx of gold…
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New Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center Features Famous Art as Well as Local Artists
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The new Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center in Coulterville, California specializes in featuring the qualified work of local artists and crafts makers. But it also strives to feature more prominent art and artists as well. One of the first famous paintings on…
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The Legend of Tissayack, the Woman’s Face in the Rock Mountain Called Half Dome in Yosemite
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Even before John Muir discovered Yosemite and wrote about the faces in the rock mountains, even before the native Miwoks inhabited the land, the Mono Lake Paiute people had their stories and legends about the place. These days you might hear different…
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Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center Artist Interview Series One: Tom Rogers
By Glynn Wilson – News Director – Yosemite Radio, in partnership with the Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center in Coulterville, California, is conducting a series of interviews with local artists showing their work in the new center. We start with Tom Rogers, who produces Rustic Metal Artworks from common everyday metal items given up by…