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Related: About this forumCoyotes, 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 valleys empty roads and walkways.
Tourists arent allowed in Californias 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 valleys empty roads and walkways.
Tourists arent allowed in Californias 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
BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)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.