Trump nominates hospitality executive to lead National Park Service

Scott Socha, whose company sued to claim trademark rights to Yosemite name, criticized by conservation groupsDonald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha – whose company once sued to to the name “Yosemite National Park” – to lead the National Park Service.The nomination of an outsider with business ties to the agency he’d oversee comes at a pivotal moment for the service, of its staff under Doge’s civil sector purge and which has been the subject of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to from NPS sites that portray Americans in an unfavorable light, such as slavery.