Trump administration faces pushback after looking to privatize land on Yosemite National Park

Trump administration faces pushback after looking to privatize land on Yosemite National Park  CNN

The Trump administration is considering a Yosemite land exchange that could give a developer more direct park access.

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

Officials may be working with a private Nevada-based company to exchange roughly a quarter-mile strip of Yosemite for an undetermined parcel of California private land, the report said.

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.

Trump administration reportedly pressured NPS to give Kingsbarn Realty a Yosemite land parcel, raising concerns over a proposed road to its nearby resort.

Nevada-based Kingsbarn Realty Capital seeks to acquire land to construct private road to development outside park The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to give a parcel of land inside Yosemite, the country’s first national park and one of its most popular, to a Nevada-based private developer. Staff with the Na

President Trump wants to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer. NOTUS reports that the Trump administration is trying to give a parcel of the park, about 0.25 miles long, to Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a real estate developer in Nevada. The government’s proposal has the National Park Service either g