Ways to help

Four fronts. Pick yours.

The fight over park history is happening in Congress, in federal courtrooms, on trails and in visitor centers, and online. Each one has a job for you. Not sure where things stand? Read the status report first.

In Congress

Cut off the money

Congress funds the Interior Department. A line in the FY2027 bill can bar any dollar from implementing Secretary's Order 3431. Fifty-three House members and two senators have already asked for it.

Enter your ZIP and we draft the letter to your members. Edit it, copy it, or text it with Resistbot.
Ask them to cosponsor the Truth in National Parks Act (H.R. 8539).
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.

In the courts

Back the people suing

The nationwide case is on appeal; Philadelphia's is nearly out of road. Litigation is slow and expensive, and these groups are carrying it.

NPCA and Democracy Forward, lead plaintiff and counsel in NPCA v. Interior.
PEER and the Sierra Club, suing for the records that show what was removed and why.
Lambda Legal, which won the Stonewall flag settlement.

Donate to NPCA's Park Protection Fund

In the parks

Document what is there

The government's own list of removals is "unlikely to capture every removal," an official admitted in court. Volunteers' photographs are the record.

Photograph every sign at a park Save Our Signs lists as under-covered. More than 14,700 photos from 412 sites so far; the gaps are mapped.
See a blank wall or a replacement panel? Report it to Erasure in Action and tell us so the map stays right.
Join the volunteer monitor network.

Find a park that needs photos

Online

Make it impossible to do quietly

Removals depend on nobody noticing. Every share, embed and subscriber raises the cost of the next one.

Embed the map on your site, newsletter or class page. It is free.
Share a park page when the news hits that park.
Use NPCA's social toolkit for ready-made posts.

Get the Weekly Watch

How much time do you have?

Of 35,700 people who answered the Park Service's own comment signs, about one in a thousand wanted the history removed. The rest of us just need to show up. Pick the tier that fits today.

2minutes

From your phone, right now.

Get the Weekly Watch

One email every Monday: what changed in the parks this week, and one thing you can do about it.

Sign NPCA's petition to Congress

The lead plaintiff in the nationwide case is collecting names against the erasure of park history.

Sign

Share the map

Send a park page to someone who has stood in front of one of these signs.

Open the map

10minutes

Congress can defund this order. They need to hear from you.

Write to your representatives

We find your members of Congress and draft a letter asking them to bar funds for SO 3431 and back H.R. 8539. Edit it, copy it, or send by text with Resistbot (text RESIST to 50409).

Start the letter

Write a letter to the editor

Local papers still move members of Congress. NPCA's guide covers length, hooks and how to submit.

Read the guide

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Go to a park. Bring a camera.

Save Our Signs

Photograph signs before they disappear

Shoot every panel, readable, no people in frame, and upload. Their map shows which parks still have gaps.

Find a park

Become a volunteer monitor

Trained stewards check parks, monuments and refuges for content that has been removed or altered and report it for the public record. We share your email only with the Sierra Club, which coordinates the monitors.

Report an empty case or a new panel

Photograph it and send it to Save Our Signs' Erasure in Action tracker, and to info@missingparkhistory.org.

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Keep this map online

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