Friends of Camp Mather

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Our mission is to promote, enhance, protect, and support the traditional, recreational, social, environmental, and historic aspects of #CampMather.
Official sitehttps://www.campmather.org
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SF Rec & Parkshttps://sfrecpark.org/443/Camp-Mather
A Friends of #CampMather member recently acquired a copy of a historical 1954 #map of the northern portion of #Yosemite National Park. We made a web page to feature it! https://www.campmather.org/yosemite-north-country-historical-map-clark-1954.html
This boxcar has been parked on the siding off of Highway 120 at Chinese Camp on the way to #CampMather for a few years now. https://pixelfed.social/p/brentsleeper/831351232290744222
Brent Sleeper (@[email protected])

Sierra railroad. #Train #Trainspotting #Railroad #SierraRailroad #SierraRailway #GhostTown #GoldRush #GoldCountry #GoldMountain #金山 #ChineseCamp #TuolumneCounty #SierraNevada

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#SierraNevada “rivers are expected to hit their spring peak flows in the coming days. The #MercedRiver at Pohono Bridge and the #TuolumneRiver at #HetchHetchy, both in #Yosemite National Park, are forecast to reach maximum flow on Sunday.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/snow-melt-california-yosemite-rivers-waterfalls-20313621.php

National Park Service lands have been considered off-limits to new mining efforts for decades — until now.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/trump-awakens-long-dead-fight-to-mine-on-national-park-land-3366563/

Trump awakens long-dead fight to mine on national park land

Rare earth minerals in the California desert have caught the attention of Trump officials.

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Hand-painted cottages at Emerald Pioneer Camp, a Soviet children's camp outside of Prypiat. It was used for lodging remediation teams after the Chernobyl disaster.

More at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/emerald-camp-chernobyl-ukraine

Chornobyl's Abandoned Emerald Pioneer Camp

Chornobyl's enchanting Emerald Pioneer Camp was full of charming paintings and echoes of its heyday before the nuclear disaster

#CampMather is tucked against the very edge of #Yosemite, and many Mather campers take day trips and hikes into the park. Yosemite is precious to our community, and we support our friends who are #NPS rangers and naturalist educators.