Timeline: NPS Sign Removals

Five climate signs and podcast episodes removed, including "Climate Change Affects National Parks," "Blame It on the Grain," and the Headwaters podcast. Brochures showing glaciers retreating and a video about glacier disappearance also pulled.

Annotations covering Indigenous history, women in conservation, and eugenics history removed from "Saving Muir Woods" display. A separate climate sign, "Are We Protecting Redwoods?", was also removed.

Passages about settlers exploiting land for mining while pushing tribes off removed from visitor center materials. References to cattle ranchers "carelessly overgrazing" and entrepreneurs profiting excessively also removed.

Signs at Cadillac Mountain and Great Meadow, including "Is There Refuge From A Changing Climate?" removed from park displays.

Sign at Senator Newlands Memorial addressing the white supremacist legacy of the senator who created the park was removed during the government shutdown.

All interpretive panels about slavery and America's founding removed from Independence NHP in Philadelphia.

"Climate Change" exhibit at pier and "Bottle Filling Station" climate sign removed from this historic site.

Sign at Craig Thomas Discovery Center asking "How do we acknowledge the good and bad of a historic figure?" — about explorer Gustavus Doane's role in the Piegan Blackfeet massacre — confirmed removed.

Display at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge removed for referencing slavery, Japanese internment camps, and conflicts with Native Americans.

Four slavery-related signs at Annaberg Plantation removed, including the story of Carl Francis and the 1733 Akwamu slave rebellion. Signs had been installed in 2023 after extensive community engagement.