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For the past year, the National Park Service (NPS) has been in talks with a private corporation to negotiate a possible land deal, providing the company with a stretch of land located within Yosemite National Park.

The proposed deal, first reported by NOTUS, would benefit Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a real estate investment company, which owns 83 acres of land adjacent to the park. According to sources with knowledge of the proposal, Kingsbarn would be given the land to allow it to develop a road from its property to one of the more popular destinations in the park, a large grove of ancient sequoia trees just five miles away, to which the property doesn’t currently have easy road access.

Per the report, the Trump administration “has been looking into ways it could cede a roughly quarter-mile strip of land inside Yosemite.” The proposal also has the “full weight” of the Interior Department’s backing, which is causing friction with park staff.

“The political pressure being brought to bear is very unusual,” one source told NOTUS.

The proposal has been in the works since the spring of 2025. Notably, Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum promised lawmakers during his........

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