At the very least, any entrance quotas to Yosemite should be restricted to the valley. Of course, that doesn’t deal with the fact that quotas would basically DESTROY Yosemite by essentially defunding it. It’s admittedly one of those things where you are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. You can add quotas to reduce crowding. But that comes as GREAT expense. If you make the outdoor experience difficult and inconvenient to attain, People will lose interest in the outdoors, move onto other things, and see the environment less and less as something to care about.

On the other hand, allowing Yosemite Valley to be hyper crowded DOES have its benefits. Like it or hate it, having a place in the mountains like Yosemite Valley for people to crowd to means that there are plenty of other places (both inside and outside Yosemite) where people can find more solitude and unspoiled wilderness. And THAT may be the best way of all to reduce crowding.

Last edited by StorminMatt; 08/16/20 03:36 PM.