Connecting The Silver City Service Club To Its Home Owners and Community
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Road Schedule update as of June 16, 2025
Schedule summary June 16 - July 13
Mon - Thurs: Flagging with 30-min delays 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Fri: Flagging with 30-min delays 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sat/Sun: No closures or delays
Community Calendar
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In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, a law proposed by Senate Bill 867, to fund water, climate, wildfire, and natural resource projects across the state of California. Proposition 4, among other things, will allocate $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention, including reducing community wildfire risk and restoring the health and resilience of forests and landscapes. (Pub. Resources Code, section 91500, et seq.) Of this amount, $185 million was made available to CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants as follows: “for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase home or community hardening.”
In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, a law proposed by Senate Bill 867, to fund water, climate, wildfire, and natural resource projects across the state of California. Proposition 4, among other things, will allocate $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention, including reducing community wildfire risk and restoring the health and resilience of forests and landscapes. (Pub. Resources Code, section 91500, et seq.) Of this amount, $185 million was made available to CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants as follows: “for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase home or community hardening.”
In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, a law proposed by Senate Bill 867, to fund water, climate, wildfire, and natural resource projects across the state of California. Proposition 4, among other things, will allocate $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention, including reducing community wildfire risk and restoring the health and resilience of forests and landscapes. (Pub. Resources Code, section 91500, et seq.) Of this amount, $185 million was made available to CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants as follows: “for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase home or community hardening.”
Cal Fire Wildfire Prevention Grant
Announced June 25, 2025
Application Deadline, August 6, 2025
The Tulare County Resource Conservation District
is in the Process of Applying for
the "Silver City Fuel Break"
Wildfire Prevention Grant
CAL FIRE’s WP Grants Program provides funding for wildfire prevention projects and activities in and near wildfire-threatened communities that focus on increasing the protection of people, structures, and communities. Funded activities include Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Wildfire Prevention Planning, and Wildfire Prevention Education with an emphasis on improving public health and safety while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Mineral King Road construction closures and delays in place through 2027: This work does not impact the majority of visitors to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, a law proposed by Senate Bill 867, to fund water, climate, wildfire, and natural resource projects across the state of California. Proposition 4, among other things, will allocate $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention, including reducing community wildfire risk and restoring the health and resilience of forests and landscapes. (Pub. Resources Code, section 91500, et seq.) Of this amount, $185 million was made available to CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants as follows: “for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase home or community hardening.”
In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, a law proposed by Senate Bill 867, to fund water, climate, wildfire, and natural resource projects across the state of California. Proposition 4, among other things, will allocate $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention, including reducing community wildfire risk and restoring the health and resilience of forests and landscapes. (Pub. Resources Code, section 91500, et seq.) Of this amount, $185 million was made available to CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants as follows: “for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase home or community hardening.”
This narrow, curvy mountain road has needed repair and improvements for decades. The National Park Service was finally able to secure funding for this major construction project in 2023. The work includes re-paving the roadway within its existing width, stabilizing and reinforcing slopes and the outside edge of the roadway, and replacing and enlarging over 200 culverts. Roadwork will shift within the 12-mile section of road depending on access, weather and work needs. There will always be two closure points, one on each end of the current work site.
-NPS- About Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
These two parks, which lie-side-by-side in the southern Sierra Nevada in Central California, serve as a prime example of nature’s size, beauty, and diversity. Nearly two million visitors from across the U.S. and the world visit these parks for the world’s largest trees (by volume), grand mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, the highest point in the lower 48 states, and more.
Learn more at http://www.nps.gov/seki. ###
Attached photo: Road construction crews use an excavator and backhoe to remove old culverts and break rock for installation of new culverts along Mineral King Road. Full roadway closures for this work are required for safety on this narrow, curvy mountain road. Photo courtesy of Central Federal Lands Highway Division.
Atwell Mill Campground Open May 21, 2025.
Mineral King History KQED/NPR Radio Publication October, 2024
Mineral King History KQED/NPR Radio Publication October, 2024
Mineral King History KQED/NPR Radio Publication October, 2024
Uncovering Women Miners' Forgotten Legacy in the 'Swiss Alps' of Sequoia National Park
Listen as Laile Di Silvestro is interviewed by Sasha Khokha
of KQED/NPR Radio
in Mineral King.
Board Members April 2, 2025
Mineral King History KQED/NPR Radio Publication October, 2024
Mineral King History KQED/NPR Radio Publication October, 2024
David Hopper President
Esther Zurcher Vice President
Trisha Ekema Secretary
Steve Bratcher Treasurer
Jeff Davis
Photo Contributions
SILVER CITY, MARCH 2025
Mineral King Preservation Society Spring Newsletter
Download PDFVideo Library
Disney's Cancelled Ski Resort
Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
Take a silent journey to Mt. Whitney through California's National Parks.
A Geological Road to Mineral King
Instructional and Other Links of Interest
Zoll AED Plus CPR/AED Training
https://youtu.be/B5JCwD7K3Yk?si=xqp2z8zgNBD9GxT_
Fire Spotlight: Team Fire Hose Training 2 Person
https://youtu.be/RaiXRy68qXU?si=Lfsgu5ASpDXKk8Gs
What To Do When Encountering a Mountain Lion
https://youtu.be/lBqHQEJLaCM?si=_eXW1u6h_2NmC1xh
How To Use A Fire Extinguisher
https://youtu.be/GVBamXXVD30?si=WUUt85U6NnZsfAL7
Special Note of Thanks to...
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREW MEMBERS WHO
ARE WORKING LONG HOURS EACH DAY ON MINERAL KING ROAD.
YOU ARE APPRECIATED!!!!
THANK YOU!!
Ongoing thanks and gratitude to Jim Wadsworth for being the "Water Master" of Silver City.
We are forever grateful for all you have done.
In Memory of...
In memory of all our neighbors
who are no longer with us.
SILVER CITY SERVICE CLUB, 2025