El Portal (Yosemite) - important articles

[rightstar76]

I just read these articles. It made me sick to my stomach. Why are they doing this to long time park workers?

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 87354.html
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 78219.html

Overview:
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 14914.html

[Lumbergh21]

I just read these articles. It made me sick to my stomach. Why are they doing this to long time park workers?

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 87354.html
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 78219.html

Overview:
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 14914.html

Because they can, and it gets someone in control what they want with less effort than would otherwise be required. I was going to post a link to these articles as well. You're right it is sickening. The NPS is nothing more than a slum lord. Taking money and not maintaining the property then evicting everyone because they have failed - by their own account - to properly maintain the property. What's worse is that because it is a federal agency, the law apparently does not apply, and there is no recourse as there would be against a private individual or corporation doing the same.

[rightstar76]

National Park Service acknowledges changing its story over evictions near Yosemite
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 27494.html

Also, from park planning:

El Portal Trailer Park Temporary Employee Housing Relocation
https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHom ... ctID=24618

I went into document list and downloaded the file. The park had over a decade to figure out what to do. What is disturbing is that the money from recent legislation was spent on a nearby power line (from the newspaper article above):

Yosemite has been receiving an influx of funds from the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act to update infrastructure. Yosemite used some of that money to install a major new power line between El Portal and Yosemite Valley with PG&E that reportedly didn’t include work in the El Portal Trailer Park.

The question is why the park chose not to use the money from Congress to update the infrastructure in the trailer park. Could it be because of the much larger tax revenues from gift shops and tourist lodging than trailer park rent? So the Great American Outdoors Act which I am speculating the park workers living in the trailer park supported was never used to support them? Even worse, the park got the homes the workers owned without paying a cent.