The American flag was hanging upside down in El Pitan in Yosemite National Park on Saturday after nearly 1,000 National Park Service employees were fired by the Trump administration.
The flag was covered in 3,000 feet of thin granite hanging over the valley and El Capitan, one of the park’s most popular attractions. Photographer Brittany Holt captured the moment the group dropped the flag on a granite giant.
A Yosemite employee fired by the Trump administration recently said he was worried that it would affect the experience and wildlife welfare of thriving visitors at a popular holiday destination in Sierra Nevada, California.
The Trump administration last week saw around 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees educate visitors, educate visitors and perform other functions as part of a broader effort to reduce government. The member was fired.
Faced with protests, the administration is set to recover at least 50 jobs across the park. Park Services also said in a new memo it would hire more seasonal workers than usual. Park Service has approximately 20,000 employees.
At least dozens of people who lost their jobs in Yosemite were working.
The flag displayed upside down is intended to be a signal of “die distress in examples of extreme danger to life and property,” according to the American Legion’s flag law.
It is unclear whether the person who displayed the flag was a visitor or a park employee.
Hundreds of visitors gather at Yosemite Valley during this time of year to see the equestrian falling in El Pitan. Shining waterfalls, a phenomenon created by the sunset, usually appear only in the second half of February.
