Want to escape the crowds of Yosemite this summer? One campground just outside the park offers uncrowded serenity on the shores of an idyllic lake.

The project calls for logging and burning 4,400 acres (about 7 square miles) of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the Soapstone Basin area about 20 miles southeast of Kamas.

At Inyo National Forest, where 26,000 people visit the tallest peak in the contiguous United States each year via the Mount Whitney trail, a 75 percent reduction in staff would result in less ...