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Cattledog

(5,910 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:33 PM Apr 2020

Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Yosemite Village is normally a crush of humanity and traffic congestion. On Saturday, it was peaceful like few times before — the only sounds coming from the wind and the few local residents.
A young bobcat ambled by the nearly abandoned administrative buildings, while ravens prattled and danced in the empty parking lots, and coyotes trotted along the valley’s empty roads and walkways.

Tourists aren’t allowed in California’s most popular national park, but if they could visit, they might feel as if they had been transported to another time. Either to a previous era, before millions of people started motoring into the valley every year, or to a possible future one, where the artifacts of civilization remain, with fewer humans in the mix.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Yosemite Village is normally a crush of humanity and traffic congestion. On Saturday, it was peaceful like few times before — the only sounds coming from the wind and the few local residents.
A young bobcat ambled by the nearly abandoned administrative buildings, while ravens prattled and danced in the empty parking lots, and coyotes trotted along the valley’s empty roads and walkways.

Tourists aren’t allowed in California’s most popular national park, but if they could visit, they might feel as if they had been transported to another time. Either to a previous era, before millions of people started motoring into the valley every year, or to a possible future one, where the artifacts of civilization remain, with fewer humans in the mix.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-13/yosemite-national-park-closed-wildlife-waterfalls-muir?fbclid=IwAR1NJb-0zF20dNWsvKccwDlQMtQGDbKL1aT8MaktPX06FkCLTYwrAHJSpxY

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Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park (Original Post) Cattledog Apr 2020 OP
Aww, in a way it's nice, but it's not going to last-- BusyBeingBest Apr 2020 #1
It sounds like paradise. Mickju Apr 2020 #2
But are they raking the forest floors? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 #3

BusyBeingBest

(8,052 posts)
1. Aww, in a way it's nice, but it's not going to last--
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:39 PM
Apr 2020

and then there will be the inevitable spike in encounters with the idiot public who can't maintain a safe distance or respect the habitat.

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