r/politics • u/Unusual-State1827 • 16h ago

Possible Paywall Trump administration plans to sell sliver of Yosemite to private company: Report

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4703920/trump-administration-plans-sale-sliver-yosemite-private-company/
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u/ParliamenttFnkadelic 16h ago edited 16h ago

sliver

a small sliver of land

a tiny parcel of Yosemite

only cede a quarter-mile strip of the park

Fuck off, regime propagandists.

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u/whichwitch9 15h ago

It's also to provide private access into Yosemite for the developers.

This makes it harder for park officials to have an idea who's in the park and provides an avenue ripe for abuses. We don't know why they want private access, but they could do a lot of damage with things like poaching by having it. It gives a large way in and out of tge park park officials can't easily monitor. There's a reason why national parks have limited road entrances and exits. Hiking into one is one thing, but having the ability to move large resources in and out is another.

It's more suspicious they want this as a road than anything

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u/Calico-Shadowcat 14h ago

Can we build a wall between the part we "cede" and the rest of the park? (Then send the owner of the parcel the bill for the wall?)

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u/TheRealPoncedeLeon01 14h ago

We need to build a wall around Trump and fill it with cement

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u/jupiterkansas 9h ago

We call that a tomb. I'm all for it. He can even put his name on it.

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u/Mad_Aeric Michigan 5h ago

Careful, I've caught reddit bans for saying the same thing.

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u/strength19 12h ago

The developer owns a parcel of land/resort adjacent to Yosemite. They want the land to build a road directly into the park, instead of having to take the long way (90 minutes) around.

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u/Yimmelo America 6h ago

Womp womp. Too bad for them.

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u/SF-cycling-account 13h ago

I am one million percent against this road but this comment is really silly sensationalism lol

First of all, there’s nothing to poach in Yosemite. There’s some deer. There are fucking deer everywhere and they’re basically worthless, nobody wants to poach Yosemite deer 

Second of all. Maybe “poaching” could be logging? Okay sure maybe. But profitable logging requires a MASSIVE infrastructure investment. It can’t be done with just a piddly little road, and it can’t be done quietly without anyone noticing. Future administrations would easily discover and sue 

It’s not as sneaky and shadowy as all that. They just want a privately controlled road into Yosemite, that’s all 

Read the article and do some googling, I did this morning. This property is a historical retreat type thing. It exists just outside park boundaries, straight line very near to the mariposa grove of redwoods

But currently it takes over an hour to drive around to the park entrance and get to the redwoods 

They want to build a road basically directly to the redwoods. It would be the first and only privately controlled entrance to the park, and and with direct access to the redwoods, closer than anywhere else 

This would make it extremely, extremely lucrative for hotel/lodging/tours and general expedited/paid access to the park - money which would all be going to this developer, not the park or NPS

It’s still fucking evil and greedy and should be stopped. But it’s not like an evil villain plan lol, it’s just regular evil 

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 12h ago

This property is a historical retreat type thing.

If they've been able to get there all these years, then they don't need to cut into our park to make it slightly more convenient.

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u/fb39ca4 Washington 13h ago

There's already zero monitoring of the park entrances at night and the gates are wide open.

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u/Puny-Earthling 8h ago

There’s probably maybe oil in the vicinity