Entries by Scott Gelfand

Summer 2016 Begins!

Echo Lake Family Camp began last Saturday and is off and running with 80 degree sunshine and amazingly beautiful days! This year’s staff is AMAZING! A great balance of long time staff leaders and some great, new people just starting their staff experience – and everyone is having a blast together. They carry the Camp […]

The Recap of Camp Tuolumne Night at The Freight!

Hi Campers and Friends… last Monday night we hosted our 3rd annual Camp Update Night at The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, and we are so grateful to the Freight for hosting us! Our efforts, as always, are to continue to bring the Camp Community as much up to date information, involvement and participation […]

Campers and Staff Plant Trees!

Hi campers, staff and friends! We thought you’d like to know that there were 2 weekends of tree planting in February and March with former staff and campers going up with friends and having a blast! The Tuolumne River Trust and the USFS coordinated the tools, trees, and volunteers. They have planted over 35,000 trees […]

Nov Update: The Rim Fire DEIS is now available!

  Hi Campers! Happy Thanksgiving and we hope this finds you well! The Rim Fire Reforestation Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) is now available. The DEIS describes a proposal for about 48,000 acres of treatments on National Forest System lands within the 2013 Rim Fire including:  deer habitat enhancement; natural regeneration; noxious weed eradication; reforestation; […]