NFL owner’s ax man gets nat’l parks gig

AN EX-NATIONAL Park Service official — once accused of helping Washington football team owner Dan Snyder cut down more than 100 trees for a better view from his mansion — will now have a top job at the agency, according to reports.

Daniel Smith will be named deputy director and then acting director of the park service as early as Monday, according to an internal memo obtained by the National Parks Traveler and The Washington Post.

Smith retired from the park service in 2014, but a decade earlier he got into hot water as special assistant to the agency’s director.

He reportedly acted as the middleman when Snyder wanted 130 trees removed at Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park so he could have a better view of the Potomac River from his Maryland mansion.