[Libloather]

Over 850 old park trees were destroyed for Hussein's flak tower and basketball emporium. Even the locals didn't want it.

[PTBAA]

Why not sell plots in the volcanic caldera to the Chinese?

[Hoboto]

This is stupid. Even if it’s a short 1/4 road.

I remember being annoyed by all of the giant RVs clogging the roads at the Grand Canyon years ago. Parks need to have that crap outside the park or at least limited to certain areas. If people want to see the sites up close, Parks should have families rent a golf cart to see the sites.

I paying for these Parks. I don’t want to sit behind a Prevost on a 2-lane road going 10mph with the left blinker on and having no idea where to go.

[marktwain]

Exchange of federal land for private land the government wants elsewhere is not new.

It is often done and usually makes the federal boundaries smoother.

83 acres is not much. The article does not say how much the federal government gets in the exchange. It might be two or three times as many acres.

[frank ballenger]

To distract from the project to develop a certain big tourist attraction in Arizona as
The Trump Grand Canyon: A Barron Trump Development Zone.

[Carry_Okie]

The new road would give the land exceptionally rare private access to a park that is otherwise almost entirely buffered threatened by national forests.

Fixed. Getting roads to sequoia stands will help us get out the white fir that has invaded them because of over a century of fire suppression. Fire in that fir would kill not a few of those ancient trees.

It only takes a cambium temperature of 140 degrees F for ten minutes or so to kill a tree. THAT is the reason for the thick bark on Sequoiadendron giganteum. Unlike coast redwood, sequoias do not sprout epicormic buds after fire and are therefore much more subject to injury pursuant to a crown fire.

[Kleon]

As opposed to loudly working on it? Give me a break. He could give the whole park away and nobody would care.

[chickenlips]

I’m surprised he hasn’t turned El Capitan into the “Donald J. Trump Bungee Jumping, Zip Line and Water Park”.

[IYAS9YAS]

83 acres. The park is 1,187 square miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile.

[drypowder]

Unless you are that person who wants to buy that land or President Trump himself, there is nobody that’s going to like that idea of Trump selling off some of Yosemite Nation Park. That will be a legacy burner.

[SuperLuminal]

I’d vote NO...
Bad...Bad...Bad optics...

[TornadoAlley3]

Put data centers on federal land.