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American flag hung upside down in Yosemite National Park in protest over layoffs
Yosemite National Park staffers hung an American flag upside down from the park's El Capitan summit over the weekend to protest recent layoffs by the Trump administration.
Workers hung upside-down US flag from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
A photograph accurately shows a U.S. "distress" flag hung upside down from the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park by a group of employees. Rating: True (About this rating?) In February 2025,
Upside-down U.S flag hung at Yosemite National Park by workers protesting job cuts
A group of workers at California's Yosemite National Park positioned the U.S. flag on Saturday near the Horsetail Fall​ where crowds gather to witness Yosemite's annual firefall​.
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Flag hung upside down in Yosemite National Park following layoffs
Yosemite National Park staff members hung a U.S. flag upside down to protest the layoffs at the park by the Trump administration. Credit: Anand K Sankaran via Storyful
Upside-down U.S flag hung at Yosemite National Park to protest employee cuts
Nature lovers flock to Yosemite National Park every February to witness the majestic "firefall" event, but this year’s crowds were met a different spectacle: an upside-down American flag hung on a summit to protest the Trump administration’s cuts of national park service employees.
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The Trump administration has laid off around 1,000 National Park Service employees, including custodians, wildlife specialists, and seasonal workers.
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Andria Townsend led a team of biologists in search of one of the West’s most elusive creatures: the Pacific fisher. Then the axe fell. The 36-year-old supervisory scientist at Yosemite National Park was among the many National Park Service employees abruptly fired from their job – and her efforts to find and ultimately protect the endangered fisher were abandoned.
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