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They haven’t been homeless long enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She blames the lack of affordable housing and jobs in the region. When her team can’t help they often point homeless people to Matt Mellon with Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church in Oakhurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon runs a ministry that employs homeless people for $10 an hour, for up to 12 hours a week. He says homeless people are attracted to Oakhurst because of the ease of life here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear of people who have been on the street down in Bakersfield or Fresno and they come here because they feel like they don’t have to worry as much about getting in fights or having somebody attack them in the middle of the night,” says Mellon. “The drawback is that we have fewer resources to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people the church hires for the Jubilee Ministry answer calls, clean the church and keep the acreage around the church fire-ready. Mellon says he is beginning to see families become affected by the lack of affordable housing. He says one family lost their home when the owner sold it and it was converted it into a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were evicted and now they have nowhere to go,” says Mellon. “They were living in a tent trailer for a while. Now they have to move off that property. They have a little girl who is 6 years old. She’s in first grade right now. They’re trying to [figure out] how do I be homeless with a first-grader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon is in a bind himself. He can’t find a rental in Oakhurst, so he commutes from Fresno. Justin Bales just began his first week back at the Jubilee Ministry. He moved back to Oakhurst after spending time in jail and a period of being homeless in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZGVcAyZvxyAKxZG2NMSr9aRKHr8kbSj2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is like a little slice of heaven, I’ll be honest to you,” says Bales. “I’ve been all around California -- Sacramento, L.A., Fresno. In Bakersfield I was in the mission, and it was as ghetto as can be. People shooting up drugs right outside the gate. You don’t see that right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bales isn’t couch surfing, he’s living on the streets. He’s looking for a more permanent job, and even though work is scarce, he says he wanted to move home near family. He says the community needs more services for the homeless population, such as a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get out on the streets and you’re like, OK, even if I’m not a drug user you end up using drugs because you’re going to be cold at night. But if you’re using drugs you’re going to be warm at night,” says Bales. “I really wish Madera County would open up some kind of shelter for people that tried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. He recently landed back in Oakhurst and is couch surfing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. He recently landed back in Oakhurst and is couch surfing. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So is the homeless problem getting worse because of the short-term rentals? It's hard to get a definitive answer, but there is a long-term rental shortage in the area. Everyone I spoke with says they’ve noticed new homeless faces in the area, but the actual number hasn’t officially grown. In 2016, 43 homeless people were counted in the Oakhurst area, but that number dropped to around 35 in this year’s count. Officials say the number is low because there weren’t many volunteers this year for the 2017 count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Tom Nicolulis with Manna House -- a food pantry, free thrift shop and job training facility in Oakhurst -- doesn’t think the homeless problem is large enough in the area for a shelter. Even though his ministry served over 35,000 families last year, he doesn’t think rental issues are creating widespread homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"R7O54hm5VDr8dHcP8oWCpKWZ5Z6NUnKQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to be ignorant to the fact that it could generate some homelessness because I’ve already seen it happen,” Nicolulis says. “As long as we have humanity on Earth we are going to have a homeless population. Every town across the nation has a homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not the homeless situation in the region is growing, life is still not easy for people on the streets. For example, people like Michael Clay. We met at the New Community Unitarian Methodist Church of Oakhurst for a dinner serving the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay isn’t sure if the homeless population is growing in the area, but he says that in his seven months of being homeless, this time around he’s noticed new homeless people in the area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She blames the lack of affordable housing and jobs in the region. When her team can’t help they often point homeless people to Matt Mellon with Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church in Oakhurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon runs a ministry that employs homeless people for $10 an hour, for up to 12 hours a week. He says homeless people are attracted to Oakhurst because of the ease of life here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear of people who have been on the street down in Bakersfield or Fresno and they come here because they feel like they don’t have to worry as much about getting in fights or having somebody attack them in the middle of the night,” says Mellon. “The drawback is that we have fewer resources to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/MattMellon-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Mellon runs the Jubilee Ministry in Oakhurst. They hire homeless people for up to 12 hours a week at $10 an hour. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people the church hires for the Jubilee Ministry answer calls, clean the church and keep the acreage around the church fire-ready. Mellon says he is beginning to see families become affected by the lack of affordable housing. He says one family lost their home when the owner sold it and it was converted it into a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were evicted and now they have nowhere to go,” says Mellon. “They were living in a tent trailer for a while. Now they have to move off that property. They have a little girl who is 6 years old. She’s in first grade right now. They’re trying to [figure out] how do I be homeless with a first-grader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon is in a bind himself. He can’t find a rental in Oakhurst, so he commutes from Fresno. Justin Bales just began his first week back at the Jubilee Ministry. He moved back to Oakhurst after spending time in jail and a period of being homeless in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is like a little slice of heaven, I’ll be honest to you,” says Bales. “I’ve been all around California -- Sacramento, L.A., Fresno. In Bakersfield I was in the mission, and it was as ghetto as can be. People shooting up drugs right outside the gate. You don’t see that right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bales isn’t couch surfing, he’s living on the streets. He’s looking for a more permanent job, and even though work is scarce, he says he wanted to move home near family. He says the community needs more services for the homeless population, such as a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get out on the streets and you’re like, OK, even if I’m not a drug user you end up using drugs because you’re going to be cold at night. But if you’re using drugs you’re going to be warm at night,” says Bales. “I really wish Madera County would open up some kind of shelter for people that tried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. He recently landed back in Oakhurst and is couch surfing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JBales-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Bales has been homeless off and on for about a decade. 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This spring Ron Borne, with the maintenance division of the park, was on track to hire a full custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of 30 seasonal custodial workers that we had positions, with funds, we were only able to fill 17 of those positions,” say Borne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He couldn't fill 10 percent of his workforce of about 300 people -- custodians, trail crews, maintenance crews -- when they chose to not work in the park because of the lack of rentals in the area. One of his employees was recently in the process of trying to rent a house in Mariposa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were negotiating and the owner came back and said, ‘No, I’m sorry. I can’t rent to you because I can make my mortgage as an Airbnb. So, I’m sorry, I cannot do a long-term rental agreement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Borne himself commutes from Merced to Yosemite. After he sold his home in the area, he wasn’t able to find a long-term rental close to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gap in hires left the park vulnerable and a bit dirty this summer. During busy months thousands use the restrooms daily at Lower Yosemite Falls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing that it’s dirty,” says Yosemite National Public Information Officer Scott Gediman as he shows me one of the busiest restrooms in the park. “There's some litter I see. Somebody left some gloves and there's toilet paper. We would like the public to see a cleaner restroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lower Yosemite Falls restrooms have multiple stalls and sinks. Gediman says one tour bus full of visitors can make it look like no one's cleaned it in days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"b7iL6tKPY1tIojKk8DpfO1c6UnAMJhVr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the summer we’ll get 50 to 60 tour buses a day,” Gediman says. “With the staffing shortages that we experienced this summer there were times when I walked in personally and it would just be a lot messier than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman says potential employees can’t find places to live because so many long-term rentals are being converted to vacation rentals, like Airbnb and VRBO, in the communities that lead into the park. In Madera County there are more than 300 short-term rentals and over 600 in Mariposa County. Both counties have established guidelines for short-term rentals, but aren’t discouraging them because they stand to make a lot of money from taxes they bring in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year Madera County has collected over $3 million in taxes from hotel and short-term rental visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'After a while it takes a toll on a person'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Patty Radanovich-Sousa is a property manager in the gold rush town of Mariposa. She gets calls daily from people looking for long-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been turning away people since the first of the year consistently,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “We have had one or two homes come up and surprisingly they were large expensive homes and they surprisingly rented within a month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's almost easier to buy a home in the mountains near Yosemite than it is to rent a spot. Radanovich-Sousa says there’s a long waiting list for rentals here and she wishes she could rent to more park employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You also then have an opportunity as a business person to weed through your applicants a little bit more,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “You can get good applicants, which means long-term applicants. The other thing is park service people are one of our best customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626887\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-375x280.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still it's not just low-paid short-term employees that are saying it’s hard to find rentals in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our permanent workforce is making good money, but they’re not making enough to afford some of the better homes in the area,” says Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning with Yosemite National Park. “It hits everybody fairly equally. It’s not like the permanent job and the permanent salary gives you that much of a leg up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park employs around 450 long-term employees and around 600 short-term employees, but only has about 400 beds for them. At the height of the summer the park needs about 200 more, but Morse says NPS has no plans to build more at this time. Morse says many who take jobs end up having to live further and further away in places like Merced. She says hires then have to decide if the long commute and cost to travel into the park are worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H6Tzwna6AHeTHXc8mC8s0W8Z9gJxeVJ4\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a while it takes a toll on a person,” say Morse. “So we’ll have people for a while and then they’ll fall off, they’ll disappear and then they’ll quit. And then we’ll have to go through the hiring process again. So you lose efficiencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response Morse joined a new taskforce in Mariposa County to come up with ways to increase housing opportunities here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think [the county] feels like they have their arms around the problem,” says Morse. “So this committee is designed to examine the different opportunities out there. Is there a way the county can be more effective in gathering resources and directing them towards this problem?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morse anticipates the problem will get worse next year and that means she and her team are going to have come up with a solution pretty quick, but at this point, she admits, she doesn’t have one. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were negotiating and the owner came back and said, ‘No, I’m sorry. I can’t rent to you because I can make my mortgage as an Airbnb. So, I’m sorry, I cannot do a long-term rental agreement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Borne himself commutes from Merced to Yosemite. After he sold his home in the area, he wasn’t able to find a long-term rental close to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gap in hires left the park vulnerable and a bit dirty this summer. During busy months thousands use the restrooms daily at Lower Yosemite Falls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing that it’s dirty,” says Yosemite National Public Information Officer Scott Gediman as he shows me one of the busiest restrooms in the park. “There's some litter I see. Somebody left some gloves and there's toilet paper. We would like the public to see a cleaner restroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lower Yosemite Falls restrooms have multiple stalls and sinks. Gediman says one tour bus full of visitors can make it look like no one's cleaned it in days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the summer we’ll get 50 to 60 tour buses a day,” Gediman says. “With the staffing shortages that we experienced this summer there were times when I walked in personally and it would just be a lot messier than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman says potential employees can’t find places to live because so many long-term rentals are being converted to vacation rentals, like Airbnb and VRBO, in the communities that lead into the park. In Madera County there are more than 300 short-term rentals and over 600 in Mariposa County. Both counties have established guidelines for short-term rentals, but aren’t discouraging them because they stand to make a lot of money from taxes they bring in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year Madera County has collected over $3 million in taxes from hotel and short-term rental visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'After a while it takes a toll on a person'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Patty Radanovich-Sousa is a property manager in the gold rush town of Mariposa. She gets calls daily from people looking for long-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been turning away people since the first of the year consistently,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “We have had one or two homes come up and surprisingly they were large expensive homes and they surprisingly rented within a month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's almost easier to buy a home in the mountains near Yosemite than it is to rent a spot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major rockfall occurred at Yosemite National Park’s iconic El Capitan on Thursday, just a day after a massive slab dropped from the granite monolith, killing a man hiking near the base of the cliff and seriously injuring his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite officials said one person was hurt in the new incident, though the extent of their injuries was not immediately known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials identified the man who died Wednesday as Andrew Foster, 32, of Wales, and said he had been hiking with his wife near the bottom of El Capitan when the rockfall occurred. Officials did not release the wife’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Yager of the Yosemite Climbing Association told The Associated Press that Thursday’s rockfall, which prompted the closure of the Northside Drive exit from Yosemite Valley, was larger than the one Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/09/20170929tcrYosemiteRockfall2way.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RockfallDust-1920x1234.jpg\" Title=\"Another Massive Rockfall at Yosemite's El Capitan\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yager said he witnessed a large cloud of dust and heard sirens. Images show a huge plume of smoke in the wake of the rock fall. 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He said Thursday’s rock slide happened in the same location as the one on Wednesday at the El Capitan rock formation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BZmfE6eFG4S\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a video taken Thursday, climber Peter Zabrok said “that rockfall was a full order of magnitude bigger than the last rockfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/913545951515631616\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Longtime climbers of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan said Thursday they’ve never seen a rockslide like the one “the size of an apartment building” that plunged down the vertical face of the stunning rock formation, killing one person and injuring another at the height of the annual climbing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen smaller avalanches and smaller falls before where you would just see a tiny dust cloud. This was covering a good portion of the rock in front of us,” said John DeGrazio of YExplore Yosemite Adventures, who has led climbers scaling El Capitan for 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio had just reached the top with a group of climbers Wednesday when the massive chunk of granite peeled off El Capitan and crashed to the ground, sending a large cloud of rock dust into the air. At least 30 climbers were on the monolith when the huge hunk of rock fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more significant than anything I’ve seen before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/troycpope/status/913200070543192065\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a piece of rock, white granite the size of an apartment building, at least 100 feet (30 meters) by 100 feet (30 meters), suddenly just come peeling off the wall with no warning,” said Canadian climber Peter Zabrok, 57, who was scaling El Capitan and was above the rockfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabrok’s estimate wasn’t far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to details released by the National Park Service in a press release on Thursday, the massive slab fell as seven rockfalls occurred over a four-hour time span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A preliminary estimate for the cumulative volume of all seven rockfalls is about 16,000 cubic feet (450 cubic meters), or about 1,300 tons. The irregular “sheet” of rock that fell is estimated to be 130 feet tall, 65 feet wide, and 3-10 feet thick. The source point is about 650 feet above the base of El Capitan, or about 1,800 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley (which is at 4,000 feet in elevation).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RockFallSize-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"The East Buttress of El Capitan, with the estimated size of the largest rockfall drawn in. 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The male was found deceased and the female was flown out of the park with serious injuries. The National Park Service is working with the Consulate to notify family members. All other people in the area have been accounted for and search efforts have been concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rock appeared to fall from the popular “Waterfall Route” on the East Buttress of El Capitan, said Yosemite National Park ranger and spokesman Scott Gediman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountaineers from around the world travel to Yosemite to scale El Capitan’s sheer face. Fall is one of the peak seasons because the days are long and the weather is warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockfalls are common in Yosemite but seldom fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Yager, president and founder of the Yosemite Climbing Association, reviewed photos of the cliff face and debris field, estimating the relatively thin piece that broke off covered an area big enough to fit five houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It cratered and sent stuff mushrooming out in all directions,” said Yager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabrok said he and friends were in the middle of a six-day climb of the Waterfall route on the right side of El Capitan when they saw it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boy, I don’t know how anybody could have survived that,” he told KFSN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peering down from his perch 2,000 feet (609 meters) up on the rock, Zabrok said he saw a rescuer lowered by helicopter and “I believe he grabbed one survivor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later saw rescuers moving someone on a litter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was done at tremendous peril to the rescuers because there were three subsequent rockfalls that were all nearly as big and would have killed anybody at the base,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climber Kevin Jorgeson said he and climbing partner Tommy Caldwell witnessed a massive rockfall in the same area while they prepared for a trek that made them the first people to free-climb the El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First they heard a rumble. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 28:\u003c/strong> One of Yosemite National Park's iconic byways -- the Tioga Road, aka Highway 120 across Tioga Pass -- will reopen Thursday after crews cleared it of monumental volumes of snow and ice left over from one of the snowiest California winters in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/tioga-road-open-to-all-vehicular-traffic-june-29-2017.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yosemite officials say\u003c/a> the high-country road will be open to pedestrians and all vehicular traffic, including bicycles, at 8 a.m. Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the opening comes with a long series of caveats. 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