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The Daily Republican Newspaper, Fresno Edition

Archival Record

November 25, 1997

Clinton Orders Yosemite Cars Out

By Amy Williams, Fresno Daily Republican Newspaper

WASHINGTON DESK - The Clinton administration has announced details of an ongoing plan for removing passenger cars and buildings from portions of U.S. national parks and replacing them with a natural environment free of buildings and cars.

The plan consists of a project involving the use of vast parking areas outside Yosemite National Park and the intensive use of non-polluting shuttle buses transporting visitors to the interior of Yosemite National Park in California.

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, detailing the plan alongside Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, said 'An increasing number of our national parks are fast becoming as crowded with cars as some of our most congested highways.'

Slater said the Clinton administration guidelines '...develop transportation alternatives that preserve the beauty and enjoyment of these treasures for generations to come.'

He and Babbitt said they would work together to develop similar plans for other national parks.

Officials said, in the Yosemite Valley, Rangers plan to implement removal of private authomobiles and require mandatory public transit. To accomplish Clinton's Order many Yosemite roadways and buildings are to be removed from the East end of the Valley in the viciniy of the Ahwahnee Hotel. The hotel will remain open, however. That portion of the Valley floor will be restored to its natural condition as it is thought to have appeared 200 years ago.

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