[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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  RECOGNIZING THE CHEVRON CORPORATION AND THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 
                           VOLUNTEER PROJECT

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 25, 2000

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, today I recognize the outstanding work 
of the Yosemite National Park Volunteer Project. The project is 
celebrating a decade of effort by the Yosemite Fund and volunteers from 
Chevron Corporation to restore and preserve one of the crown jewels of 
our National Park System. Yosemite's 4 million yearly visitors will 
bear witness to the fruits of this effort: More than 60 acres of 
meadows, lake area and woodlands have been restored. Nearly 3,000 
volunteers donated 27,500 hours to collect and plant 10,000 oak 
seedlings, remove 1,000 feet of roadway, build 4,000 feet of split rail 
fence, install 1,500 feet of boardwalk, remove 600,000 pounds of 
asphalt, plant 100 black oak trees and improve one mile of trails.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not glamorous work. To the contrary, splitting 
rails, digging up asphalt and laying boardwalk to protect meadows is 
hard, physical labor. The Chevron volunteers did it happily, putting to 
superb use the $1.3 million in contributions provided by Chevron. The 
Yosemite Fund, the National Park Service and Chevron have created a 
partnership that invigorates natural conditions in Yosemite which still 
might be in danger of permanent degradation if it were not for this 
timely volunteer and financial assistance. This cooperative effort is a 
model public/private partnership that has made a lasting difference in 
one of this nation's most beautiful and most important natural 
settings.

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