Acting Public Affairs Officer for the Forest Service, Marty Hornick, recently responded to citizen complaints about unrepaired facilities on the Forest. Hornick points to serious money shortages and the “massive amounts of funding and resources” that had to be spent on the severe tree blow down in the Reds Meadow area last year. A commenter […]
The Eastern Sierra Transit Authority continues to talk with Mammoth Mountain Ski Area about a potential bus service transition, and that issue was scheduled to come up at Friday’s meeting of the ESTA Board of Directors. For a number of months, representatives from Mammoth Mountain and ESTA have talked about the transit authority taking over […]
Inyo and Mono officials will sit down for two meetings on Friday. They will deal with local issues like the fairgrounds, economic development, transit, and Reds Meadow. The Eastern Sierra Council of Governments will meet Friday at 9am in Suite Z in Mammoth Lakes. They will first talk about their own legislative platform. Supervisor Linda […]
The Department of Interior has just released a report that shows the National Park System contributed more than $31 billion to local economies and supported 258,000 jobs in 2010. Locally, the report on Devils Postpile National Monument shows a large financial and job contribution to our communities. These reports came out as part of President […]
(The following is a press release from the Inyo National Forest) Last November 30 a ferocious wind toppled thousands of trees in the Middle Fork San Joaquin River watershed of the Inyo National Forest. The tangle of downed trees looks like a giant’s game of pick-up sticks. The forest damage occurs in patches, from Island […]
Eastern Sierra Transit Authority Director John Helm called it a “very exciting expansion for ESTA. A win-win for the region.” Helm sees the plans for transit authority expansion in Mammoth Lakes as an important public-private partnership and a move that will benefit both Mono and Inyo Counties. At Friday’s Transit Authority Board meeting, members will […]
Forest Service crews continue the major work to clean up seriously damaged forest areas from the severe wind storm at the end of November. Crews are currently working in the Reds Meadow area where scores of trees were torn down by the wind. Forest officials earlier said that the wind caused widespread damage to several […]
When Bob Tanner and others started Mule Days 42 years ago, it was 1969, the year of the huge snow, and they needed an to sustain Bishop. Mule Days grew to a major money-maker for the area only to find itself faced with panicky news this year about a deadly horse virus. Tanner called the […]
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