Bipartisan pushback to Yosemite land swap grows as McClintock declares it doomed
Bipartisan opposition to a proposed Yosemite National Park land exchange now includes 61 of 118 of the California State Legislature’s current members, while the Mother Lode’s Republican congressman is declaring the proposal dead.
“Rep. McClintock on the proposed swap: Ain’t. Gonna. Happen,” staff for U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, told The Union Democrat on Thursday.
But conservationists and park advocates, who have been keeping track of the unfolding controversy since the news agency NOTUS broke the story last week, say that nothing has come from President Donald J. Trump’s Interior Department suggesting that the so-far secretive land swap has been cancelled.
State Sen. Alvarado-Gil, R-Jackson, told KQED earlier this week she will “keep pressing the Department (of the Interior) for a clear answer that this exchange will not proceed.”
At the center of the debate is a Las Vegas…