White House moves to parcel off part of Yosemite

On "The Final 5 with Jim Lokay," NOTUS reporter Anna Kramer discussed her reporting on a National Park Service proposal to swap roughly a quarter-mile strip of land inside Yosemite National Park to a private developer for use as a road connecting an outside development to one of the park's central roads, a plan still in its early appraisal stage but notable because it breaks with precedent — a nearly identical request was rejected by both the Bush and Obama administrations, upheld in court after the developer sued, and again denied by the Biden administration, while Kramer's sources describe the idea as unpopular within the Park Service itself even as political appointees at the Interior Department push to speed it along.