SF News Despicable New York Woman Defaces Yosemite, Other Parks With Her Art A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound
SF News Cal Fire Airtanker Crashes While Fighting Wildfire In Yosemite The pilot of a Cal Fire airtanker was killed Tuesday when his plane crashed near Arch Rock while battling the fast-moving Dog Rock Fire, which broke out Tuesday afternoon near one of the
SF News Two New Wildfires Sparked Near Yosemite And Oregon Border Among the 12 major wildfires currently burning across the state, two fresh ones were sparked in the last two days: the Courtney Fire, burning not far from the recent Junction Fire near Oakhurst
SF News Experienced Rock Climber Falls To His Death In Yosemite Free Climb After Proposing To Girlfriend A very sad story came out of Yosemite over the weekend when veteran rock climber Brad Parker of Sebastopol fell to his death while attempting to climb Matthes Crest Traverse. Most tragically, just
SF News Another Yosemite Wildfire, The Junction Fire, Grows To 1,200 Acres This fire season is proving, predictably, to be a doozy. Yet another wildfire has grown out of control in Madera County near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park and the town of
SF News Yosemite Fire Grows to 2,700 Acres, Threatens Giant Sequoias This year's sure-to-be-dramatic fire season rages on with our next main event, the El Portal Fire at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest. It began Saturday and
Arts & Entertainment Gorgeous Yosemite Time-Lapse Video Reminds Us We Are Tiny, Insignificant On weeks like this, when the Internet echo chamber rattles way too much and everyone on the planet seems to be up in arms over a couple people who all acted like goons
SF News The Rim Fire Is Still Burning, Will Cost City $30 Million You may have wanted to forget about it as containment news last week sounded promising, but the massive Rim Fire over at Yosemite is still burning and smoldering, with about 20 percent of
SF News Hunter's Campfire Caused Rim Fire Well, it seems a lone man is responsible for the Rim Fire that has (so far) burned 370 square miles of Northern California forest, and it's all because of an illegal campfire. The
SF News Rim Fire Now 75 Percent Contained There were dire warnings all last week that we could be looking at a two- or three-week containment process for the enormous Rim Fire to our east, and though that may be true
SF News Video: Gorgeous, Harrowing Rim Fire Time Lapse This time lapse of the Rim Fire now in progress, shot from the Crane Flate helicopter base from Glacier Point, was posted by the National Park Service. It shows the effects, both disastrous
SF News Rim Fire Update: 300 Square Miles, 30% Contained Here's the requisite update on the blazing inferno that has engulfed half of Northern California's forests (not exactly) and continues to make headway into Yosemite National Park. Overnight, the growing legion of firefighters
SF News Rim Fire Update: 280 Square Miles, 20% Contained The Rim Fire grew further overnight, covering another 30,000 acres since yesterday morning, with a total of 180,000 acres now burning or burned (or 280 square miles). The blaze has now
SF News Photo: The California Rim Fire, Seen From Space Monday afternoon, the orbit of the International Space Station crossed directly over the 150,000-acre wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park. NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg snapped this photo from over 200 miles above
SF News Rim Fire At 234 Square Miles And Counting; SF Power And Water Supplies Threatened The wildfire burning in the remote woods north of Yosemite National Park in California has grown rapidly since Friday to become one of the biggest fires in the state's history. Crispy dry conditions
SF News Gov. Brown Issues State Of Emergency For San Francisco Due To Rim Fire Due to the effects of the "Rim Fire" raging in Tuolumne County, Governor Jerry Brown announced late Friday a state of emergency for the city and county of San Francisco. Why? Well, according
SF News Photos Of Rim Fire, Now Burning Over 105,000 Acres Currently the fourth largest wildfire burning in the nation, coming this afternoon at 105,620 acres, the Rim Fire in the Sierra Nevadas continues to grow. As of Friday, the small towns of
SF News Rim Fire Grows Near Yosemite The Rim Fire, burning up in the Sierra Nevadas south of Reno, is now the fourth largest wildfire burning in the nation, clocking in at 64,000 acres. It is only 1% contained.
Arts & Entertainment Watch As Double Rainbow Guy Taunts Yosemite Forest Fire While wind-swept forest fires burned near Yosemite National Park earlier this week, Paul "Bear" Vasquez — also known as the Internet's Double Rainbow guy — happened to be there, attempting to document the fury of
SF News California Deer Experiencing Troublesome Hair Loss Problem In California, the local deer population is experiencing a problem most commonly associated with kindergartners: a mysterious scourge of exotic lice from Europe and Asia have been found on deer and elk from
SF News Yosemite Is America's Most Intoxicated National Park In the scenic vistas of Yosemite Valley, park rangers see more drug arrests per 100,000 visitors than any of the country's most-visited national parks. In the past year, 855 people were busted
SF News Little Girl Takes Sticks From Yosemite National Park, Mails Them Back Along With Adorable Letter Of Apology A little girl and Yosemite Junior Ranger named Evie apparently remorseful after removing a pair of sticks from one of the country's most iconic national parks. Park rules, as any Junior Ranger worth
SF News Yosemite Officials Warn 1700 Recent Visitors May Be at Risk for Rare Rodent-Borne Disease Officials from Yosemite National Park are reaching out to an estimated 1,700 past visitors for fear they have been exposed to a rare rodent-borne disease. In the wake of the recent diagnosis
SF News Yosemite Wildfire Rages after Motor Home Fire Forces Evacuations Approximately 70 homes and two campgrounds outside Yosemite National Park were evacuated this weekend following a motor home blaze that began Thursday. The "Motor Fire", as they're calling it, has torched 4,700
