Posted on 02/23/2025 9:59:09 AM PST by DFG
A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American flag Saturday thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
The 3,000-foot granite cliff looms above Yosemite Valley, and thousands of eyes were on it Saturday evening for the dramatic stunt: It’s the last weekend of the annual firefall spectacle, which brings scores of onlookers to Yosemite.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of large telephoto cameras set up by visitors Saturday in a viewing area on the valley floor were trained high on El Capitan to capture the ephemeral moments when the day’s last light illuminates Horsetail Fall as if it were a cascade of lava pouring over the cliff.
The upside-down flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — was strung near the falls and clearly visible.
“We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,” Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and disabled military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it Saturday, told the Chronicle. “It’s super important we take care of them, and we’re losing people here, and it’s not sustainable if we want to keep the parks open.”
Eleven of Yosemite’s full-time staff members, including the park’s sole locksmith, a biologist, an HVAC specialist and others, received a termination email on Feb. 14 — along with thousands of federal lands workers across the country, some of whom have spoken out about the pain and dejection they feel being summarily dismissed from jobs they love. Yosemite staffers typically live in employer-provided housing in the park, so a termination can carry the added burden for many of losing their residence.
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Yawn. A year from now, nobody will even notice the difference.
Fire the staff
PLENTY of NPS people would love that assignment.
Cut more. I don’t want national monuments used this way.
Sounds like an insurrection to me.
They may be the fired staff as many from the NPS just got pink slips.
They are already fired.
Yosemite staffers typically live in employer-provided housing in the park, so a termination can carry the added burden for many of losing their residence.
Cause everyone I know has an American flag that big...
Agreed fire & blacklist the staff till they are lucky to get a job shoveling shit in a feed lot !
losing their residence.
Great, more housing available for tourists!
The administration cited 1000 park employees. There are450+_ national parks or 2 employees per park.
I fail to find the issue.
Find out who did that and fire them.
Typical National Park staffers can’t climb up the face of el Capitan. More likely some liberal climbers did it if indeed it is really there.
I hope the perps will list them on their mandatory activities sheet when they fill it out.
😴😴😴😴😴😴
Fire those responsible
They need to be fired. The park is not their personal property.
There are very few things that the federal government does that I like. Maintaining our national parks is one of them. They are a real national treasure.
The nature was always there. It existed for thousands of centuries before NPS ever existed. It will continue to exist.
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