Yosemite National Park is facing serious issues like overflowing trash and poor food quality due to budget cuts. It's not getting the care it needs to stay beautiful and safe.
Conservation efforts in the park have stalled, meaning important projects to protect the environment aren't happening as they should be.
Visitors are experiencing long waits to enter the park, and while they can enjoy its beauty, they also see signs of neglect around them.
The day involved morning at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, afternoon at Petrified Forest National Park, and evening at the hotel with a frozen treat.
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He’ll be in California from December 7–16 and is doing a series of in-person meetups across the state in multiple cities.
Several events are confirmed with specific dates, times, and venues — Los Angeles lunch on Dec 10 (Maria’s Italian Kitchen), Santa Barbara lunch on Dec 11 (12:30 PM at the UC Santa Barbara Faculty Club), San Francisco Q&A on Dec 13 (5–7 PM at Mox), and a Berkeley dinner on Dec 15 (Steve’s Korean BBQ); some gatherings ask for RSVP or prepayment.
He’s traveling with his son, invites people to say hi if they spot them, and plans to visit Pinnacles National Park during the trip.
The site loudly claims to be a partner of the National Park Service and to have raised large sums, but it offers no evidence and the NPS does not list it.
The same promotional text and stolen photos show up across multiple nearly identical storefronts and social accounts, suggesting a coordinated, inauthentic sales operation.
Domain registrations and a GMT+8 shipping notice point to China/Hong Kong origins, so buying the shirts is unlikely to actually support U.S. national parks.