Overview

• On August 12, Acting Deputy Superintendent Danika Globokar dismissed park ranger SJ Joslin for taking part in the May flag demonstration, citing a failure to demonstrate acceptable conduct.
• The day after the display, the National Park Service issued a rule banning large flags in wilderness areas and Yosemite backdated an update to its Superintendent’s Compendium to enforce the prohibition.
• A Yosemite spokesperson confirmed that the National Park Service is pursuing administrative action against multiple employees for alleged regulatory violations in the incident.
• Joslin plans to seek legal counsel to contest the termination, invoking President Trump’s executive order on federal speech protections.
• Climbers and staff point to decades of flag-hanging on El Capitan — from upside-down U.S. flags to ‘Stop the genocide’ banners — to argue that enforcement of the new rule has been selective.