Pot Farmers Tilling Ground in Yosemite

Though much of the news involving national parks and marijuana plantations has been focused on Sequoia National Park, a bust the other day in Yosemite shows that that park has some pretty fertile ground for pot as well.

How Much is that Campsite--Update

As a follow-up to my post a month ago about Yosemite campsites winding up on Ebay, I've discovered that the folks in Sequoia don't allow the sale or transfer of backcountry permits.

Be Careful Out There

    We've already had a number of deadly accidents across the park system this year, the most recent involving a St. Louis man who fell 1,000 feet to his death from Angel's Landing in Zion National Park. It was an incredibly tragic accident, as the man reportedly had hiked

Some Thoughts on Park Visitation Trends

    Debate over what drives, or doesn't drive, national park visitation has been going on for years. In recent years, though, it's grown particularly alarmist, as if the parks were becoming passe, no longer the darlings of America's vacationers, in danger of withering on the vine because they weren't been overwhelmed by tourists every day of the year.
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