Federal camping fees way up in California

According to the Sacramento Bee, Some camping fees at national forest campgrounds are going up 70%. The new fees will be felt the most in Sequoia National Forest. Camp fees in some Eldorado National Forest and Mendocino National Forest campgrounds went up in January.
Some of these camp fees seem small to city dwellers with jobs, but these campgrounds are often used by retirees who have lots of time to stay but little dough. A two week stay will cost an extra $98.

Update - WWII Airman's remains identified

This is an update to an August 2007 story we posted here on Biggest Room. The airman found in the high Sierras in August by an amateur investigator/writer has turned out to be Ernest "Glenn" Munn of Ohio. His remains will be flown back to Ohio. The service will be held at Holly Memorial Gardens, Pleasant Grove, Belmont County, Ohio on May 17. He is survived by three sisters, Frances Pyle, Lois Shriver and Sarah Zeyer.

Munn died on November 18, 1942 on a flight of an AT-7 training aircraft out of Mather field in Sacramento, California. It is thought that the flight was far off course and crashed into the mountains around 11k feet in the Southern Sierras in Kings Canyon National Park.

You can find a Google placemark of the crash site here.

In 2005, another airman from the same crash was thought to be Munn. Several items in his pocket, as well as his hair color matched. His relatives were interviewed by CNN. DNA tests later proved that the mummified remains were those of Leo Mustonen, another cadet on the flight. This find was notable because the remains were extremely well preserved.

It is not really known what kind of shape the remains of Munn were in when they were found. A photograph of the area where his body was found is here. A ring was found, and his sweater seemed to be somewhat intact. The author who found them is not sharing much information as he's working on a book about the flight. There are however many pictures of the wreck area on his web site.

Nearly-extinct mammal found alive in California

A U.S. Forest Service's remote camera took this photo of a wolverine north of Lake Tahoe, CA. The wolverine was thought to be long gone from the northern Sierra Nevada. The UPI says that the last time a Sierra Nevada wolverine was seen was after it was shot in 1922.

Katie Moriarty, a researcher with the U.S. Forest Service, set up a motion detecting digital camera in the woods between Truckee and Sierraville in an attempt to photograph weasels known as martens. In the morning of Feb 28, this photograph above was taken by the equipment.

We spend a lot of time driving between these two towns and it is indeed remote out there.

There have been a few notable Bigfoot sightings in this spot, including one from a local sherriff.

UPDATE
A DNA sample taken from the site shows that this is not a California wolverine after all but one from the Northern Rockies.