After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired Feb. 14, staff have banded together to signal “dire distress” by hanging the American flag upside down off Yosemite’s El Capitan.

One post stated, "Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ...

Photos taken by a former employee show an American flag hung upside ... There is a lot at stake here." The flag has since been removed, but many are hoping the workers that were laid off will ...

Laid-off employees who hung a U.S. flag upside down ... parks and forests have left workers bewildered and worried not only for themselves but for the future of America's public lands, and they ...

By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American ... that the flag, measuring 30 feet by 50 feet, was displayed by a group of frustrated Park Service workers, some of ...

Workers at Yosemite National Park staged a ... The park staffers hung an upside-down American flag — a sign of distress — on the side of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan cliff.