Yosemite National Park gets new superintendent in Trump shuffle

The acting director of the National Park Service was shuffled out of his job Wednesday, reassigned to head Yosemite National Park while being replaced with a retired parks official who was once accused of skirting environmental law but is believed to be more sympathetic to President Trump’s direction for the park system.

Yosemite’s incoming chief, Michael T. Reynolds, is a third-generation Park Service employee with a 31-year career that included a previous three-year stint at California’s premier park and culminated with his promotion to the Park Service’s top job last January after former Director Jonathan Jarvis stepped down.