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The 750,000-acre national park can welcome many more visitors than it does today without restricting access. All that is missing is a visitor-friendly attitude by Yosemite Park management and a willingness to be a good neighbor to the gateway communities and businesses that depend on tourism. With the new administration and a search for a new park superintendent, perhaps that hour can finally come.
Rep. McClintock Column Yosemite Valley With No Reservations
YOSEMITE VALLEY WITH NO RESERVATIONS
By Congressman Tom McClintock
What is the actual number of layoffs at Yosemite National Park that will bring this beautiful Valley to rack and ruin? Ten. Ten probationary employees. Ten out of nearly 500 full-time winter employees. Twenty-five if you include early retirements. And no fire fighters.
Rep. McClintock Column Yosemite Belongs to the People
(Related: House Floor Remarks)
YOSEMITE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE
By Congressman Tom McClintock
Washington, D.C. â Legislation to honor Corporal Michael D. Anderson Jr. passed the United States House of Representatives today.
The bill, H.R. 1555, introduced by Rep. McClintock (CA-05), will designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2300 Sylvan Avenue in Modesto, California, as the "Corporal Michael D. Anderson Jr. Post Office Buildingâ.
Washington, D.C. – The Proven Forest Management Act, H.R. 188, has passed the House Natural Resources Committee and will next go to the House Floor.
H.R. 188 expands throughout the entire National Forest System the categorical exclusion for forest management projects that was secured for the Tahoe Basin in the 2016 WINN Act.
"Excess timber comes out of the forest in only two ways – it is either carried out or it burns out. For most of the 20th Century, we carried it out," McClintock said.