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  • An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze.
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  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
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  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
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  • Starting this summer, you might find less junk food on the menu the next time you visit a national park.
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  • Evie, the Yosemite junior park ranger who sent an apology letter when she inadvertently took home two sticks, got the chance to return the sticks to the park over the weekend.
  • The young girl who inadvertently took home two sticks from Yosemite National Park has made amends with Mother Nature.
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  • I am a ranger in Yosemite National Park and receive many letters from visitors. This is my favorite.
  • A little girl felt so bad about accidentally taking sticks home from Yosemite that she wrote an apology letter and sent them back.
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  • Evie, the Yosemite junior park ranger who sent an apology letter when she inadvertently took home two sticks, got the chance to return the sticks to the park over the weekend.
  • Evie, the Yosemite junior park ranger who sent an apology letter when she inadvertently took home two sticks, got the chance to return the sticks to the park over the weekend.
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  • San Jose teen Alec Smith, 16, is shown with a 9-year-old he saved after the child fell into Yosemites Merced River.
  • A San Jose teen, who's being hailed as a hero, is sharing his story of the dramatic rescue of a boy swept away by the Merced River.
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  • San Jose teen Alec Smith, 16, is shown with a 9-year-old he saved after the child fell into Yosemites Merced River.
  • A San Jose teen, who's being hailed as a hero, is sharing his story of the dramatic rescue of a boy swept away by the Merced River.
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  • Alec Smith of San Jose
  • A teenager from San Jose is being hailed as a hero for saving the life of a boy who faced certain death after being swept into a river in Yosemite.
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  • bottled  water
  • An environmental coalition wants the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park to ditch bottled water.
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  • bottled 
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  • An environmental coalition wants the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park to ditch bottled water.
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  • Yosemite waterfall
  • Due to this week's warm weather the waterfalls have swelled in Yosemite National Park.
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  • The national park system is bracing for a possible hit from the automatic spending cuts that are supposed to take effect March 1.
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  • The waterfalls are flowing once again in Yosemite National Park.
  • The waterfalls are flowing once again in Yosemite National Park.
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  • UCSF lab tracks viral outbreaks around the world
  • A Bay Area lab has become an epicenter in the struggle to keep one step ahead of dangerous bugs.
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UCSF, medical research, yosemite, china, europe, africa, west nile virus, health, carolyn johnson
  • UCSF lab tracks viral outbreaks around the world
  • A Bay Area lab has become an epicenter in the struggle to keep one step ahead of dangerous bugs.
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  • Jessica Garcia spent four days stranded in Yosemite after falling during a walk.
  • Jessica Garcia spent four days stranded in Yosemite after falling during a walk.
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  • The Sierra Club is spending $625,000 to defeat a Republican lawmaker who has championed one of the environmental organization's most cherished goals  draining the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
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  • ABC7 News Anchor Dan Ashley at Friends of Camp Concord golf tournament
  • On Monday the 16th annual Dan Ashley Friends of Camp Concord golf tournament helped raise money to send kids to camp.
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  • ABC7 News Anchor Dan Ashley at Friends of Camp Concord golf tournament
  • On Monday the 16th annual Dan Ashley Friends of Camp Concord golf tournament helped raise money to send kids to camp.
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  • A hantavirus warning
  • The Hantavirus scare at Yosemite National park is growing.
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  • Yosemite National Parks Curry Village
  • Yosemite officials have extended their initial hanta virus warning beyond Curry Village.
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  • In this undated photo provided by DNC Parks and Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., is the interior of a signature tent cabin at Yosemite National Park in California.
  • The hantavirus warning has hit Yosemite National Park hard Labor Day weekend.
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  • Thousands call Yosemite hotline to ask about virus
  • Yosemite rangers staffed phones as visitors frightened about a growing outbreak of a deadly virus flooded lines seeking answers.
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  • In this undated photo provided by DNC Parks and Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., is the interior of a signature tent cabin at Yosemite National Park in California.
  • Yosemite rangers staffed phones as visitors frightened about a growing outbreak of a deadly virus flooded lines seeking answers.
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  • Yosemite officials have indefinitely closed 91 cabins at the center of a probe into the deaths of two people from the hantavirus.
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  • California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.
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  • A hantavirus warning
  • Yosemite officials are telling 1,700 past visitors they may have been exposed to rodent-borne disease.
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  • Yosemite officials are telling 1,700 past visitors they may have been exposed to rodent-borne disease.
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  • A second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting Yosemite National Park earlier this summer.
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  • Marmot
  • A critter who found itself a long way from home is safe this morning, thanks to San Jose city workers.
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  • Yosemite National Park officials say one boy is dead and another is missing after they were swept away in the Merced River.
  • The search continues for the body of a 6-year-old boy swept away in a rough stretch of the Merced River.
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  • A man died after contracting a rare rodent-borne disease that might have been linked to their stay at a lodging area in Yosemite.
  • A man died after contracting a rare rodent-borne disease that might have been linked to their stay at a lodging area in Yosemite.
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  • Yosemite National Park officials say one boy is dead and another is missing after they were swept away in the Merced River.
  • Yosemite National Park officials say one boy is dead and another is missing after they were swept away in the Merced River.
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  • Yosemite
  • It seems every part of the state is suffering from the heat this summer, including Yosemite Valley.
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  • Voters will decide the fate of San Franciscos Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
  • Voters will decide the fate of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
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  • Voters will decide the fate of San Franciscos Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
  • Voters will decide the fate of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
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  • Yosemite
  • Falling boulders are the single biggest force shaping Yosemite Valley.
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  • Half Dome and Yosemite Valley
  • Supporters of a plan to drain Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy reservoir began gathering signatures.
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  • John Field
  • A UC Santa Cruz student who went missing during a student camping trip in Yosemite has been found safe and is in good condition.
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  • Five-mile tunnel being mined under SF Bay
  • The tunnel is part of a massive civil engineering project designed to protect the Bay Area's water supply during an earthquake.
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  • Five-mile tunnel being mined under SF Bay
  • The tunnel is part of a massive civil engineering project designed to protect the Bay Area's water supply during an earthquake.
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  • Yosemite
  • Many people waiting to ski and snowboard after the first snowfall of the year finally got to enjoy it.
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  • Yosemite has no snow this winter
  • Tourists traveling to Yosemite this time of year are seeing it like it hasn't been seen in decades.
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  • Mish Kameter walked a tightrope 3,000 feet in the air at Yosemite National Park.
  • Mish Kameter walked a tightrope 3,000 feet in the air at Yosemite National Park.
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  • A Vacaville woman is dead after an accident at an outdoor youth camp near Yosemite.
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  • California tourism predicted to jump 3 percent this year
  • Environmental groups are eyeing a flurry of new gold claims near Yosemite that they fear could poison the park's animals, plants and water.
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  • Yosemite park fire
  • For the first time in nearly a week, the main road leading into Yosemite National Park has just reopened.
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  • Yosemite fire burns almost 3,000 acres
  • A brush fire near Yosemite National Park has burned nearly 3,000 acres, but has not yet spread into the park.
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