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A Quest to 'Unite the Parks'

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You might be heading up to the mountains over the holidays -- to play or ski in some long-awaited winter weather. Remember that stuff called snow? Besides ski resorts, some of the most popular spots for visitors in the Sierra are, of course, Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks. Reporter Alice Daniel bring us the story of one woman on an ambitious quest to unite those parks -- by turning the vast stretch of forest between them into a new national monument. It would be twice as big as Yosemite.

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