John Muir National Historic Site News

John Muir and his family are buried in a small cemetery alongside Alhambra Creek tucked at the rear of a pear orchard his father-in-law planted in the 1800s.

Budget cuts related to the federal sequester are impacting some National Park Service sites in the East Bay, which could lead to less public access.

The East Bay's four national park sites will suffer budget cuts due to the sequestration that triggered across-the-board cuts throughout the country.

Dressed as the Bag Monster, Nick Vega, 17, of Martinez, above, wears about 500 plastic bags -- the number a person uses in a year -- as he walks through the crowd at the John Muir Birthday-Earth Day Celebration on April 20, at the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez.

Visitors to the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site and Tao House will see changes in operation hours and services as a result of sequestration, a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts.