Natural History Wanderings

The Rural Blog reported

National Park staffing reductions have left Yosemite’s increasing number of visitors to their own devices. Park guests “were far less supervised than they normally were, which had led to the wrong kind of wildness — littering, cliff jumping, drone-flying,” reports Soumya Karlamangla of The New York Times. Since 2025, the National Park Service staff has shrunk by 25%

Read more at With too few employees and rangers, Yosemite National Park hosts visitors with the ‘wrong kind of wildness