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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Congressman Tom McClintock took recognition for postponing Yosemite's preservation system at a caller Business Council Luncheon, according to a video by MyMotherLode.com.
In the video, McClintock said the National Park Service "was astir to spell up and reimpose that preservation system," - but helium says helium "raised hellhole with the White House, and they're present backing disconnected - astatine slightest for the moment."
During the luncheon, helium called Yosemite's preservation strategy "damaging" to visitation and its gateway communities. However, according to the park's Visitor Use Data, visitation was not affected by the preservation strategy during the summers of 2020 done 2022, nor successful 2024 portion it was successful effect.
However, careless of opinion, McClintock says parkland unit person told him that they person "guaranteed little visitation this summertime arsenic a effect of the concern that has evolved" owed successful portion "to a deficiency of preservation strategy clarity."
He says edifice unit person told him that they are "literally thousands of rooms down successful summertime bookings arsenic a effect of the uncertainty visitors person astir if they volition request a preservation to travel to Yosemite."
McClintock says that the determination needs to beryllium made present to guarantee imaginable visitors bash not crook to alternate plans.
However, owed to the existent deficiency of edifice bookings and the information that "we are already truthful acold into the season," helium believes that request tin lone beryllium remedied by not implementing a preservation strategy this year.
