National parks in turmoil: why rangers hung an upside-down American flag at Yosemite

Get the Full StoryThe distress flag a sign that something is desperately wrong was flown Saturday after Elon Musk s DOGE fired more than 1,000 National Park Service employees.

On Saturday evening, a group of Yosemite National Park employees hung an upside-down American flag 3,000 feet in the air, at the top of El Capitan summit. The display was absolutely not missed. It happened in the midst of this year s Firefall at Horsetail Fall, a popular event at the Mariposa County, California, national park, when between mid- to late February, the waterfall begins to light up 5 to 15 minutes before sunset, looking almost like molten lava.

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