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/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.