The Trump administration last year ordered the National Park Service to inventory and then remove any signs it defined as “ideologically misaligned."
Since then, hundreds of signs and informational materials have been removed from parks, monuments and historical sites across the country. Thousands more have been flagged for removal.
In Montana, interpretive materials about climate change and how it’s making glaciers disappear have been removed from Glacier National Park. A sign and brochures about the Baker Massacre of Piegan Blackfeet people, have also been removed from the park.
A coalition of historical groups, parks advocacy organizations and scientists are suing the Park Service, along with the U.S. Department of the Interior over the removals. The groups say failing to share accurate and comprehensive history does not meet the Park Service’s mission as “America’s largest classroom”.
They are asking a judge to block the executive order and reinstate removed signs.
