All posts tagged "Yosemite National Park"

President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.

Trump has cut national park staff across the country and steered fee revenue toward his projects in D.C., including the botched Reflecting Pool repairs and covering statues on the National Mall in gold, the New York Times reported Saturday.

Longtime park officials fear the losses will be hard to reverse....

The wildfire threatening Yosemite National Park is spreading further into the US tourist landmark, officials said as they battled to stop it clouding a holiday weekend.

Nearly 200 square miles of California is on fire Saturday, with smoke from the Stanislaus National Forest wafting as far as San Francisco, 200 miles west.

A huge wildfire raged unchecked near California's famous Yosemite National Park, threatening thousands of homes as officials declared a state of emergency.

A 28-year-old Londoner died in a rock climbing accident in California's Yosemite National Park, US officials said, the second fatality in two days in the world-famous natural wonder.