Yosemite Valley Campers Coalition

Click Here for the Petition to Save Yosemite Valley Campgrounds

Tools

Below are links to handouts, bulletin board posters and our bumper sticker to Save North Pines Campground, which are available to help get the message out that campers are rallying to Save North Pines, and return the other campgrounds that were not restored after the flood with money allocated by congress for just that purpose.

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  New Bulletin Board Poster to Save North Pines Campground, as is planned for elimination as part of the current Yosemite Valley Plan, with references to park documents. Downloadable. On your computer, select Print Preview to size it for your printer before printing.
   

• Bulletin Board Poster to Save North Pines         Campground, as is planned for elimination as part of the current Yosemite Valley Plan. Downloadable.  On your computer, select Print Preview to size it for your printer before printing.

• Save North Pines Handout: This handout has a list of Yosemite National Park Service's references, documenting their intentions to remove this campground. This is a one-page handout that you can give to people who would like more information regarding this issue. Be sure to select Print Preview on your computer to size it for your printer before printing.

• Save North Pines Bumper Sticker: To order this bumper sticker, just click on this image of the bumper sticker below which will take you to Pay Pal, where you can pay via credit card or your Pay Pal account for each bumper sticker at a cost of $1.00 each.   

   

• Hand out to Restore All Campgrounds: This is a page that can be printed  on your home computer and passed out, or posted to a bulletin board.  Downloadable. On your computer, select Print Preview to size it for your printer before printing.

• Bulletin Board Poster to Restore All Campgrounds: This is a poster with pull off tabs that need to be trimmed prior to pinning to a bulletin board. Downloadable.  On your computer, select Print Preview to size it for your printer before printing.

"As a Tuolumne County Supervisor I have communicated directly to the NPS my belief that they are in violation of Federal law in their plans to eliminate these  campgrounds. They have a moral and ethical obligation to have properly informed and justified to the American people why they chose to violate Congress' and the President's intent to have these campgrounds reinstated after the 1997 flood event.

   If not stopped, the NPS will eventually eliminate most auto based, family friendly camping in Yosemite. Congress must take action, and you, by signing this petition, can help initiate that action to save America's National Parks for America's families."

Thank you.

Mark Thornton, Tuolumne County Supervisor 

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  "Camping brings the visitor into a closer relationship with park resources, reduces dependence on developed lodgings and dining facilities, and focuses the attention of the visitor away from developed recreational facilities...and more towards the park's natural resources.

   "By reducing visitors' reliance on developed facilities, camping helps fulfill the basic goals of the GMP to reduce development in the Valley, reclaim priceless natural beauty, and promote visitor understanding and enjoyment of park resources."

Click Here for the Petition to

Save Yosemite Valley Campgrounds

Painting of Half Dome by Artist Jocelyn Audette                                  Petition signer # 160