Trump administration faces backlash over Yosemite park giveaway

US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering giving away a section of the renowned Yosemite National Park to a private developer. An investigation published on Friday by NOTUS, a news outlet, said the government had spent over a year quietly working to transfer a roughly 400-metre (0.25-mile) strip of the

The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.

The potential deal has alarmed conservationists and former federal officials, who say that Yosemite, the crown jewel of the nation’s park system, should be off-limits to development.