Scott Socha, whose company sued to claim trademark rights to Yosemite name, criticized by conservation groups<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha \u2013 whose company once sued to claim trademark rights<\/a> to the name \u201cYosemite National Park\u201d \u2013 to lead the National Park Service.<\/p>\n The nomination of an outsider with business ties to the agency he\u2019d oversee comes at a pivotal moment for the service, which lost a quarter<\/a> of its staff under Doge\u2019s civil sector purge and which has been the subject of the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive efforts to erase mention of historical events<\/a> from NPS sites that portray Americans in an unfavorable light, such as slavery.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott Socha, whose company sued to claim trademark rights to Yosemite name, criticized by conservation groups Donald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha \u2013 whose company once sued to claim trademark rights to the name \u201cYosemite National Park\u201d \u2013 to lead the National Park Service. The nomination of an outsider with business ties … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}