I'd post a response, but I refuse to get a Facebook account. I remember when this paper used to use Topix.
Letter of the Day: Stop these tragedies
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110728/OPINION/110729452/1042/sitemaps04
I suppose they didn't edit it for bad place name usage, but I never heard of "upper Vernal Falls". I thought it was just one drop. Also - why would the U.S. Forest Service have any authority to put up a sign in Yosemite like the letter writer suggests.