Kenneth Gosting, Yosemite activist, dies
Kenneth A. Gosting, a community activist in the foothill region near Yosemite and a correspondent for a number of California newspapers, was found dead in a creek near his home in Mariposa County on Sunday.
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Mr. Gosting was 63. He had served as an aide to Gov. Jerry Brown, but resigned after 20 months in 1976 in a dispute in the administration over Mr. Gosting’s opposition to an emergency services bill then pending in the Legislature.
He then became a correspondent for a number of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Merced Sun-Star, the San Francisco Examiner and The Chronicle.
Mr. Gosting was particularly interested in local government and transportation and environmental issues in Yosemite National Park.
At various times, he served on advisory groups for the Sierra Club and at the time of his death was executive director of Transportation Involves Everyone, an advocacy group.
“I never ran into anybody who knew so much about so many things,” said Leroy Radanovich, a former Mariposa County supervisor. “He was also a great help to me when I was tourism director for the county.”
One of Mr. Gosting’s friends found his house empty, the door ajar and a note inside on Sunday and called the sheriff’s office, and deputies found Mr. Gosting’s body in a nearby creek.
He is survived by his mother and a sister in Southern California, the sheriff’s office said.
E-mail Carl Nolte at cnolte@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page C – 5 of the San Francisco Chronicle