February is one of the busiest times of the year in the Yosemite National Park thanks to 'Firefall', a natural phenomenon that ensures that a glowing water ribbon looks like melted lava that looks down along the ponytail of El Capitan.
Travelers come all over the world to witness the event in the Granite Monolith, famous for its almost vertical walls, some booking input tickets and the reservation of parking spaces a year in advance.
But this year's visitors were more witness than Firefall on 22 February. They also saw an upside down American flag, who reportedly hung Yosemite employees on the side of El Capitan to protest initiatives.
Traditionally, it is an emergency call from the American flag hanging upside down.
Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance engineer with Yosemite, spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday and said he supplied the flag and helped him hang.
“We draw attention to what happens to the parks that are the characteristics of every American. It is super important that we take care of them, and we lose people here, and it is not sustainable if we want to keep the parks open. “
In 2023, Yosemite was the sixth busiest national park in the country, with 3.89 million visitors.
The park is located in the Sierra Nevada -Berg chain in California and is a habitat for the endangered Californian condor and the home of gigantic Sequoias, the largest trees in the world.
Park officials throughout the country have expressed their concern about how the abrupt federal fired the National Park Service will influence.
One of the affected employees, Iowa Park Ranger Brian Gibbs, said he discovered his recent termination when he was locked up from his e -mail.
He wrote a public Facebook message about his feelings of 'absolutely deeply sad and completely destroyed', which has been shared more than 200,000 times.
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