Comments on: Sacto Bee targets McClintock over Yosemite issue

By: warren duffy

warren duffy — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:07:55 +0000

Sorry Sacto Bee. You’re wrong on this one. My news career goes back to 1957 and having a public official want to know what the topic of an interview is going to be (so he or she can do research and be informed on the subject) isn’t neither unusual nor unethical. It makes common sense. Which is exactly the opposite of the authoritarian public park czars trying to make us taxpayers feel unwelcome at Yosemite. I can only imagine the welcome we’ll all be getting in a few years at the Welcome Center. “You there. Park your polluting car over there. Don’t you know how much harm those particulant emissions are causing? By the way, I hope you brought lunch for those screaming little kids – we closed down the food stands last year. Aren’t you aware, big families are causing overuse of the resources? Oh, and don’t go looking for that old stone bridge. We tore it down last year. No telling how it might hurt the salmon as they migrate upstream just like those damn dams we’re trying to get rid of. The tram, that runs on sugar beet ethonol from Brazil will be here in four hours. Wouldn’t you rather bike around the trails we’ve so generously provided for you and your kids. Remember, there are extremely large fines if we catch you – or those ragamuffins – venturing off the trail. Have a great green adventure and don’t let the door hit you on the way out”. Smokey the Bear was never this unfriendly. The Sacto Bee should be helping the public reclaim our Yosemite instead of picking a fight with one of Yosemite’s few remaining friends in DC. You go, Tom. We love you.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:35:46 +0000

I’ve been to Yosemite twice. The first was the year before the new hiway opened up and it was a scary drive where my dad had to back up every so often when another car came down the road. There was hardly anyone there. The next year we went, the new hiway was open and it was a mad house of people. I think that was 1961. I was 6 I think and I never saw those huge granite walls like El Capitan. Kids only see as far as the flowers and the creeks. They don’t look up.
I’ve been there when there was hardly any people there, that first year I went. It was like eden for us small kids. The next year it was like a city. We can’t go back to when there were no people there because there were no roads. The PETA liberals want no more people at all on earth. To give the earth back to the animals and the fishes and the trees. Well, they can go first leaving this vale of tears by their own hand. If they want less people on earth, they should volunteer to kill themselves first.
Hondo….

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:09:48 +0000

I’ve told you people many times before…….environmentalists despise human beings. And their approach to compromise and negotiation is on a par with the North Korean government.

Nothing would make an environmentalist happier than to see the entire park sealed off with security the equal of Pelican Bay.

Ohh…..you were born in 2005, and as an eight year old never got a chance to visit and see what it looked like?

That’s tough, kid. Browse your interweb for Ansel Adams pictures. That’s the best we can do.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:15:59 +0000

“These ‘commercial ventures’ apparently offend the enviros and park rangers.”

They also increase the park rangers’ workload with all the people they attract. Get rid of the attractions, get rid of the people, and you can create a no-work job for yourself.

By: johnnyb

johnnyb — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:09:43 +0000

Why is the purchase of 1600 additional acres so important? It looks harmless enough, but I’m skeptical. Anyone else? Is there more to this story? Congressman McClintock appears to be suspicious as well. I hope Katy Grimes will look further.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:01:43 +0000

I thought I was up on most California news items but I had NO IDEA about this and was appalled to learn about it. If you are surprised and appalled too you should send this article to everyone you’ve ever met.

By: El Polacko

El Polacko — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:51:16 +0000

This is the same crowd who labored so mightily to chase the Drake’s Bay Oyster Co. out of the Point Reyes National Seashore with manipulated and outright false ‘ends justifying the means’ scientific studies.

Rather than being fired and driven from public service, Don Neubacher the former director of the PRNS was promoted to the top position at Yosemite, and his boss, Regional Director Jon Jarvis was promoted to the top position in the NPS.