India, Aug. 29 -- US President Donald Trump's administration is facing mounting criticism after a report revealed the National Park Service has spent more than a year quietly working to hand a strip of Yosemite National Park to a private real estate developer, in a deal environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers say would set a dangerous precedent for America's protected wilderness.

According to a report published Friday by the political news outlet NOTUS, National Park Service staff in California and Washington have been trying to arrange a land exchange with a Nevada-based company tied to real estate developer and investment firm Kingsbarn Realty Capital, citing four people familiar with the discussions and internal agency documents...