It's implied. They gave the PCTA agency powers. If the government did not agree with this bit of stupidity, it would have told them to rescind it.
It may be inferred, but it is expressly wrong:
"I spoke to two PCTA staff people and they indicated the Whitney changes were made on their own, to take pressure off the Whitney trail." Steve Cosner in the OP.
In any case no one who has a stake cares, and its no loss. I posted the question on the PCT FB page a while back, asking if anyone had used the WZ permit and if it will be missed. Onw woman had exited maybe Horseshoe (she wasn't sure) picked up a permit in Lone Pine and reentered Whitney Portal said she might do it again. Others said no way to a Whitney resup. Very few responses so not a statistically significant sample, but I take the non response as meaning so few people ever used the permit that it doesn't matter whether it was cancelled or not.
