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"content": "\u003cp>As visitors arrived at the entrance to Muir Woods National Monument on Wednesday morning, they were greeted by a sign: “Closed due to a lapse in appropriations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777\">federal government had shut down\u003c/a> at 12:01 that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A National Park Service ranger greeted people by the closed gate, explaining the closure and recommending alternatives such as \u003ca href=\"https://parks.marincounty.gov/parkspreserves/preserves/roys-redwoods\">Roy’s Redwoods Preserve\u003c/a>, about 45 minutes north, and hikes around \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mt. Tamalpais\u003c/a> — a California state park that remains open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown has left Bay Area parks in mixed states. Muir Woods is fully closed. Alcatraz Island is slated to stay open. Other sites like Point Reyes National Seashore and Fort Point have partial closures, with some parking lots blocked or bathrooms locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even park staff said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">didn’t learn the plan\u003c/a> until Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One NPS superintendent, who was on a call with parks leadership on Tuesday, spoke to KQED on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and losing their job, said this didn’t take place until 3 p.m. that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-03-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-03-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-03-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-03-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor takes a photos of a sign indicating that Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, CA is closed as a consequence of the government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The NPS had submitted a closure plan last week, but staff didn’t get direction from the Department of the Interior until the last minute. KQED has reached out to NPS and DOI for comment, and has not yet received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent told KQED they were told to report on Wednesday and submit their closure plan, which included making a formal request for any essential employees they believed needed to continue working — and to then instruct everyone else to set out-of-office notifications on their emails and phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, “I’ll finalize any time sheets and lock the doors,” they said on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Muir Woods, tourists like Amelia Lei Cabatit expressed confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was being clever when I Googled and it said yesterday night that parks would remain open,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabatit came to California all the way from Hong Kong. Muir Woods was at the top of her list, she said, along with Yosemite, where she has reservations next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm\">Yosemite remains partially open\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mariposagazette.com/articles/yosemite-remains-open-but-with-limited-visitor-services/\">reports of reduced staffing\u003c/a>, but Cabatit fears it’s unlikely the shutdown will be resolved in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I’m heartbroken,” she said. “I’ve been everywhere from Africa to the Galapagos to Costa Rica. I tell you, there’s nothing as beautiful as California parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The impact on visitors — and the land\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Running national parks on a “skeleton crew” is going to be an issue for visitors, the superintendent warned, especially considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm#:~:text=The%20National%20Park%20Service%20reported,2%25\">visitor numbers\u003c/a> continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 former superintendents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/with-a-government-shutdown-looming-heres-how-the-bay-area-could-be-affected\">signed a letter\u003c/a> to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">raising the alarm about\u003c/a> what keeping some parks open with no staff could mean for visitors and the parks’ ecology itself.[aside postID=news_12058294 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2238183191-scaled.jpg']They warned the safety of visitors is at stake, as there won’t be staff to direct them and emergency response times may be slower due to low staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people go into Yosemite and they [don’t] know where to go or what to do, they’ll be on their own,” said Don Neubacher, former park superintendent for Yosemite and Point Reyes national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsupervised visitors can also cause damage to parks, as happened at Joshua Tree National Park during the 2018–19 government shutdown, where bathrooms overflowed, pounds of trash accumulated, vehicles went off-road and iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/joshua-tree-shutdown.html\">Joshua trees were cut down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw last time required dozens of volunteers to step up and fill the gap left by lack of maintenance and lack of law enforcement,” said Kenji Haroutunian, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Joshua Tree. His group was one of those that helped maintain and clean up the park during and after the shutdown, and had urged NPS leaders to close Joshua Tree for the duration of any shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Haroutunian said, the park’s “partial opening” will once again “require some of the community to step up … to support the skeleton crew that’s likely to be in place for the foreseeable future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The longer-term picture for parks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Russell Galipeau, former superintendent of Channel Islands National Park, said focusing only on human impacts of the shutdown misses another major issue: the consequences for research across NPS land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they’re not considered “essential” under a government shutdown, staff like wildlife biologists who help manage bear populations and monitor ecosystems are just as important — and their work, too, will get shut down, Galipeau warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10898045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles.jpg\" alt=\"A breeding pair of bald eagles atop their nest in Channel Islands National Park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1121\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles-400x234.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles-800x467.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles-1180x689.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/channeleagles-960x561.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A breeding pair of bald eagles atop their nest in Channel Islands National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We forget that these parks, these natural areas, they don’t manage themselves,” he said. “Sometimes, intervention is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Channel Islands, that means 40 years of data monitoring the health of the kelp forest or local populations of pinnipeds will now have a shutdown-sized hole — along with monitoring of fish populations to help inform fishing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All those programs get shut down, and so we no longer have that canary in the coal mine that’s giving us an indicator of the health of not just the park, not just the ecosystem, but the place we live,” Galipeau said.[aside postID=news_12058137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TrumpsSignageOrder-36-BL_qed.jpg']Galipeau said he was especially worried about smaller or less-visited parks like Manzanar National Historic Site — concerns echoed by that park’s former superintendent, Bernadette Johnson. Manzanar’s remote location in the Eastern Sierra doesn’t have onsite worker housing, and the park was already only open four days a week due to lack of staffing and budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Small parks like Manzanar really can’t afford to lose any other bodies at all,” Johnson said. “It’s already been bare bones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that it’s not just the parks that will lose income, including entrance fees, during the shutdown: Bookstores, coffee shops, and even nearby towns will all lose out on dollars while parks are closed. 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As a professor of atmospheric sciences at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he researches the physics of dust storms for a living. He’d traveled to the Imperial Valley in mid-May to study the storm’s activity. Even still, he was nervous. “The visibility was so bad,” Evan recalled in an interview with KPBS later that week. “I’m like, ‘Oh man … I might just have to stop and wait a couple hours.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight major dust storms have erupted in the Imperial Valley and the neighboring Coachella Valley since the turn of the century, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.weather.gov/media/sgx/documents/weatherhistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Half of those storms have taken place in just the last five years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911415/federal-government-shutdown-looms-large-ahead-of-midnight-deadline\">The federal government shut down\u003c/a> at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, after Congress failed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">pass stop-gap government funding\u003c/a> by Tuesday’s deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with hours to go, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-parks-service\">National Park Service\u003c/a> shared a last-minute contingency plan that would keep many park sites open but without full staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an internal NPS memo obtained by KQED, national park sites that \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be made physically inaccessible to the public will be closed off. But all other NPS sites, including those with roads and trails that are accessible to the public, will now remain open according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#national-park-closures-bay-area\">What national parks will be closed in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-09/doi-nps-lapse-plan2025930508.pdf\">An expanded version of the NPS plan\u003c/a> was posted online later Tuesday, with an estimate that over 9,000 staff nationwide — out of a total NPS workforce of 14,500 — are expected to be furloughed in the event of a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown will see federal workers around the country — including NPS staff — go without pay, with those employees deemed “essential” required to work through the period regardless. Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-09/doi-nps-lapse-plan2025930508.pdf\">the NPS shutdown plan posted online\u003c/a>, just over 5,000 NPS staff would be categorized as essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for America’s national parks have expressed alarm at the last-minute nature of this planning for park closures. Superintendents were only informed during a meeting late Tuesday afternoon about which sites would remain open — followed by the email memo shortly after — according to Jesse Chakrin, executive director of the Fund for People in Parks, an advocacy group that works with small or lesser-known parks in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrin said this is the tightest turnaround for shutdown planning he’s seen by a large margin. “They’re asking for each park unit to make a plan, including staffing numbers and associated costs for a shutdown, which is happening in hours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer for the National Park Service welcomes visitors at the Exploration Center in Yosemite Valley, at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This would have been something that would have taken at least all hands, weeks to prepare for in any other administration,” Chakrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"national-park-closures-bay-area\">\u003c/a>National park closures in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which manages many of the Bay Area’s national park sites, has released a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">which parks are closed as of Wednesday and which will remain open.\u003c/a> They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Muir Woods National Monument: Closed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcatraz Island: Temporarily closed on Wednesday, but “reopening for its regular schedule on October 2 with all facilities OPEN”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fort Point: Interior, parking lot and Long Avenue and Marine Drive closed, with restrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>China Beach: Closed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ocean Beach: Sloat Blvd parking lot closed, with bathrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stinson Beach: Parking lot closed, with bathrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muir Beach and Muir Beach Overlook: Parking lot closed, with bathrooms open.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore is open, but with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">certain bathroom closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Presidio, which is financially independent from NPS, said that site would remain fully open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Morale is already rock bottom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The NPS’s email memo to staff “sounds to me like it will be a mixture of open and closed with as much open as possible,” Chakrin said. But he expressed concern about the “haphazard” nature of the planning and confusing language contained in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a lot of this was cut and pasted from different plans,” he said, calling the memo “not very well thought out.” KQED has contacted NPS to request comment on its shutdown planning.[aside postID=news_12057777 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GETTYIMAGES-2236770685-KQED_1.jpg']The memo states that parks that collect entrance fees will be staying open to do what they can to collect those fees and use them to run the park during the shutdown, Chakrin explained. Those that don’t collect fees may be able to pull from those same pots of cash to keep extremely limited services going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While peak summer tourism season is over, fall is still a busy time for parks in the Bay Area and across the country. NPS \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm#:~:text=The%20National%20Park%20Service%20reported,2%25\">data\u003c/a> shows nearly 30 million people visited parks in October of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As federal staff, NPS employees will have to wait for backpay after a shutdown ends, while some will be required to work unpaid through the period as “essential” staff. Parks staff have grown increasingly worried, however, that they will be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/white-house-firings-shutdown-00579909\">target of firings Trump has proposed\u003c/a> — on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">reported 24% reduction in staff \u003c/a>that parks have already seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Reyes National Seashore. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Morale is already rock bottom with park staff,” said Don Neubacher, former park superintendent for Yosemite and Point Reyes national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks advocates warn that keeping parks open with such skeletal resources is a bad idea for both the parks and the people who visit them. Late last week, a group of more than 40 former park superintendents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/with-a-government-shutdown-looming-heres-how-the-bay-area-could-be-affected\">signed a letter\u003c/a> calling on the administration to close parks to avoid damage to fragile ecosystems and harm to visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last government shutdown over the winter of 2018–19 lasted 35 days, and resulted in vandalism, garbage and long-term damage by visitors to California’s Joshua Tree National Park while most of its park rangers were furloughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of both open and closed type of situation is really confusing,” Chakrin said. “It’s confusing for the folks that are trying to manage parks responsibly and for the public trying to visit them responsibly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is going to be chaos,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for America’s national parks have expressed alarm at the last-minute nature of this planning for park closures. Superintendents were only informed during a meeting late Tuesday afternoon about which sites would remain open — followed by the email memo shortly after — according to Jesse Chakrin, executive director of the Fund for People in Parks, an advocacy group that works with small or lesser-known parks in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrin said this is the tightest turnaround for shutdown planning he’s seen by a large margin. “They’re asking for each park unit to make a plan, including staffing numbers and associated costs for a shutdown, which is happening in hours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer for the National Park Service welcomes visitors at the Exploration Center in Yosemite Valley, at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This would have been something that would have taken at least all hands, weeks to prepare for in any other administration,” Chakrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"national-park-closures-bay-area\">\u003c/a>National park closures in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which manages many of the Bay Area’s national park sites, has released a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">which parks are closed as of Wednesday and which will remain open.\u003c/a> They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Muir Woods National Monument: Closed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcatraz Island: Temporarily closed on Wednesday, but “reopening for its regular schedule on October 2 with all facilities OPEN”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fort Point: Interior, parking lot and Long Avenue and Marine Drive closed, with restrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>China Beach: Closed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ocean Beach: Sloat Blvd parking lot closed, with bathrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stinson Beach: Parking lot closed, with bathrooms open\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muir Beach and Muir Beach Overlook: Parking lot closed, with bathrooms open.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore is open, but with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">certain bathroom closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Presidio, which is financially independent from NPS, said that site would remain fully open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Morale is already rock bottom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The NPS’s email memo to staff “sounds to me like it will be a mixture of open and closed with as much open as possible,” Chakrin said. But he expressed concern about the “haphazard” nature of the planning and confusing language contained in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a lot of this was cut and pasted from different plans,” he said, calling the memo “not very well thought out.” KQED has contacted NPS to request comment on its shutdown planning.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The memo states that parks that collect entrance fees will be staying open to do what they can to collect those fees and use them to run the park during the shutdown, Chakrin explained. Those that don’t collect fees may be able to pull from those same pots of cash to keep extremely limited services going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While peak summer tourism season is over, fall is still a busy time for parks in the Bay Area and across the country. NPS \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm#:~:text=The%20National%20Park%20Service%20reported,2%25\">data\u003c/a> shows nearly 30 million people visited parks in October of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As federal staff, NPS employees will have to wait for backpay after a shutdown ends, while some will be required to work unpaid through the period as “essential” staff. Parks staff have grown increasingly worried, however, that they will be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/white-house-firings-shutdown-00579909\">target of firings Trump has proposed\u003c/a> — on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">reported 24% reduction in staff \u003c/a>that parks have already seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Reyes National Seashore. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Morale is already rock bottom with park staff,” said Don Neubacher, former park superintendent for Yosemite and Point Reyes national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks advocates warn that keeping parks open with such skeletal resources is a bad idea for both the parks and the people who visit them. Late last week, a group of more than 40 former park superintendents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/with-a-government-shutdown-looming-heres-how-the-bay-area-could-be-affected\">signed a letter\u003c/a> calling on the administration to close parks to avoid damage to fragile ecosystems and harm to visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last government shutdown over the winter of 2018–19 lasted 35 days, and resulted in vandalism, garbage and long-term damage by visitors to California’s Joshua Tree National Park while most of its park rangers were furloughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of both open and closed type of situation is really confusing,” Chakrin said. “It’s confusing for the folks that are trying to manage parks responsibly and for the public trying to visit them responsibly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is going to be chaos,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Jared Huffman, D-Marin, has condemned President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">ongoing efforts to force national parks to remove historical material from public display\u003c/a> as censorship and “pure propaganda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman, who serves as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee,\u003ca href=\"https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=418384\"> used his opening remarks at Thursday’s committee hearing\u003c/a> to criticize the Trump administration’s attempts to “whitewash” national parks through a March executive order: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This directive instructs staff working at all National Park Service locations to review any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living,” and to submit them to the federal government for potential removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is trying to censor the history told in our national parks and historic sites,” Huffman told the committee. “Now we find ourselves deeper and deeper into this ‘cancel culture’ dystopia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman also derided his Republican colleagues in Congress for not speaking out about the order, saying they “just looked the other way.” They are “completely complicit in what is happening right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors leave Muir Woods National Monument on July 24, 2025, in Muir Woods National Monument, California. Under a directive from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Trump administration, the National Park Service has removed an exhibit at Muir Woods National Monument that aimed to tell a more comprehensive history of the site. 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Signs like this one were part of the Trump Administration’s removal order. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NPS/Jace Ritchey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Removing these exhibits from places that teach and interpret our history is not patriotic,” Huffman said. “It is pure propaganda. 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"content": "\u003cp>A 2025 proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration would open up nearly 4 million acres of land in California to logging and road construction — by rescinding the so-called “Roadless Rule” law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">the deadline for giving public comment\u003c/a> on Friday, advocates for protecting public lands are urging members of the public to speak up in defense of these wilderness places. But what’s really at stake — and why is the Trump administration going after roadless lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We break down the Roadless Rule, the debate around these lands and what a change in the law might mean for public lands in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhydoestheTrump\">Why does the Trump administration want to open up these areas to roads?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatpubliclands\">What public lands are at stake?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isthisreallygoing\">Is this really going to help with wildfire mitigation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whathappensnext\">What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhydoestheTrump\">\u003c/a>What is the Trump administration proposing and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a quarter of a century ago, the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule identified nearly 45 million acres of U.S. National Forest land where the construction of roads would be prohibited — effectively making timber logging and harvesting impossible in these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Jan_5_151122_2001.html\">2001 rule was first instituted by former President Bill Clinton\u003c/a>, with the intent of not only preserving national forests but also protecting vital ecosystems and watersheds throughout the country. By bisecting wilderness areas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/clas/ctip/wildlife_crossing_structures/ch_2.aspx#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20today%20many,may%20be%20blocked%20or%20altered.\">roads are known to be harmful to ecosystems\u003c/a> by separating wildlife, rerouting water and introducing humans and machinery to a landscape that isn’t used to these interruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Trinity Alps in northern California on June 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, submitted a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">notice of intent\u003c/a>” to rescind the Roadless Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, the administration claims, is to help prevent wildfires — both by opening up access for firefighters in these densely forested areas and also to perform forest management, like forest thinning, to help reduce the fire risk in these forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatpubliclands\">\u003c/a>If the Roadless Rule is rescinded, what lands might be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California alone, 4 million acres would potentially be opened up to roadbuilding. Not all Forest Service land is roadless, but in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">roadless lands constitute 21% of Forest Service land, and 4% of the whole state overall. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes lands surrounding Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and other parts of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Foothills. Farther north, areas like Mendocino, the Trinity Alps and Castle Crags could be opened up with new roads. The law also covers parts of the Big Sur and the San Gabriel Mountains to the south.[aside postID=news_12046147 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/452872414_qed.jpg']An analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association found that 30% of the affected lands are within 30 miles of national parks, including along the Pacific Crest Trail in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/2025/scrapping-the-roadless-rule-will-harm-the-pct-96600/\">Pacific Crest Trail Association said around 9% of the trail\u003c/a>, which stretches from Canada to Mexico through some of the West Coast’s most rugged lands, \u003ca href=\"https://pcta.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=39ee0c9dd291447a843a1f9a14d20541\">would be affected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/secretary-rollins-rescinds-roadless-rule-eliminating-impediment-responsible-forest-management\">the Trump administration argues\u003c/a> building roads and strategically logging forests could reduce wildfire risks in these areas, public lands advocates like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outdooralliance.org/roadless\">Outdoor Alliance\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/10409-hands-off-public-lands-parks-group-decries-proposed-rollback-of-roadless\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/08/trump-administration-attempt-repeal-roadless-rule-met-widespread-opposition\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> say the wildfire argument is a red herring for the administration’s real goal: to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">open up more public lands for extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Summary%20NFS%20roads%20fire%20paper%20-%202025.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> that show \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificbio.org/publications/wildfire_studies/Roads_And_Wildfires_2007.pdf\">fires are much more likely to start in areas with roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who cares for America’s national parks and public lands should be deeply alarmed about attempts to dismantle the roadless rule,” wrote Beau Kiklis, associate director of energy and landscape conservation for the NPCA, in a statement to KQED. “This is nothing short of another brazen attempt to sell off America’s public lands, by opening up these forest lands for industrial logging, roadbuilding and other development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates also worry that these lands being opened to roads and logging may affect sources of clean water — like freshwater rivers across California — that millions of people rely on for their drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isthisreallygoing\">\u003c/a>What do wildfire and forestry experts say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Trump’s proposal say that while \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prevent-wildfire/\">humans start 95% of wildfires in California and worldwide\u003c/a> — and roads undoubtedly allow people to travel \u003cem>into \u003c/em>the wilderness — roads can also play a part in wildfire mitigation and firefighting. Fires need to be accessed to be fought, and the roadways themselves can often serve as firebreaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/its-time-common-sense-roadless-reform\">Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said,\u003c/a> saying 8 million acres of roadless areas have burned since 2001. Some experts even say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/29/nx-s1-5521379/trump-administration-forest-roads-roadless-rule-firefighters-wildfire#:~:text=While%20the%20Roadless%20Rule%20prohibits,the%20area%20would%20normally%20have.\">a “surgical” approach\u003c/a> to building new roads could be beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hotshot Wakeup, a podcast and blog run by wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/forest-service-chief-applauds-usda\">spoke out in defense of maintaining \u003cem>existing \u003c/em>roads\u003c/a>, saying unmaintained wilderness roads often set back firefighters — but did not weigh in on whether the Roadless Rule should be rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plane drops fire retardant on the Garnet Fire on Aug. 26, 2025, in Fresno County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the potential repeal say the rule already allows roads to be constructed if one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">“needed to protect health and safety in cases of imminent danger, such as wildfire\u003c/a>.” And \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">one former Forest Service chief told NPR\u003c/a> that the rule also includes exceptions for small-scale logging in the case of habitat protection or to reduce wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/06/roadless-rule-repeal-california-forests/#:~:text=The%20roadless%20rule%20already%20allows,the%20risk%20of%20severe%20wildfires.\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> analysis found\u003c/a> that the California Forestry Association, while in support of the Trump administration’s proposed repeal, doesn’t see the Roadless Rule as a “significant impediment” to fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whathappensnext\">\u003c/a>What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the public process under the National Environmental Policy Act, the rescission is subject to a public comment period, which ends on Friday, Sept. 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">Public comments can be submitted via the Federal Register, the federal government’s journal.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_12055659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-15-BL-KQED.jpg']Once public comments are in, the Forest Service must prepare an environmental impact statement, which the agency said \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-0001\">it aims to do by March 2026\u003c/a>. That, too, will be subject to public comment before the administration can fully end the rule by late 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public comment is part of the NEPA process, and environmental reviews can slow down implementation of a policy so much that it never gets implemented, but the comments themselves can’t directly block a proposal like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-0001\">But past challenges to the rule have succeeded in the courts\u003c/a>, and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">Earthjustice have vowed to continue their fight to maintain the rule. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the rule has faced legal challenges since its inception in 2001, including pushback by former President George W. Bush’s administration and the first Trump administration, and multiple legal challenges from individual states, which sought to establish their own rules. So far, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not weighed in on this attempt to rescind the rule or whether California would protect its roadless wilderness in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhydoestheTrump\">Why does the Trump administration want to open up these areas to roads?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatpubliclands\">What public lands are at stake?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isthisreallygoing\">Is this really going to help with wildfire mitigation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whathappensnext\">What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhydoestheTrump\">\u003c/a>What is the Trump administration proposing and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a quarter of a century ago, the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule identified nearly 45 million acres of U.S. National Forest land where the construction of roads would be prohibited — effectively making timber logging and harvesting impossible in these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Jan_5_151122_2001.html\">2001 rule was first instituted by former President Bill Clinton\u003c/a>, with the intent of not only preserving national forests but also protecting vital ecosystems and watersheds throughout the country. By bisecting wilderness areas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/clas/ctip/wildlife_crossing_structures/ch_2.aspx#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20today%20many,may%20be%20blocked%20or%20altered.\">roads are known to be harmful to ecosystems\u003c/a> by separating wildlife, rerouting water and introducing humans and machinery to a landscape that isn’t used to these interruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Trinity Alps in northern California on June 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, submitted a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">notice of intent\u003c/a>” to rescind the Roadless Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, the administration claims, is to help prevent wildfires — both by opening up access for firefighters in these densely forested areas and also to perform forest management, like forest thinning, to help reduce the fire risk in these forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatpubliclands\">\u003c/a>If the Roadless Rule is rescinded, what lands might be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California alone, 4 million acres would potentially be opened up to roadbuilding. Not all Forest Service land is roadless, but in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">roadless lands constitute 21% of Forest Service land, and 4% of the whole state overall. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes lands surrounding Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and other parts of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Foothills. Farther north, areas like Mendocino, the Trinity Alps and Castle Crags could be opened up with new roads. The law also covers parts of the Big Sur and the San Gabriel Mountains to the south.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association found that 30% of the affected lands are within 30 miles of national parks, including along the Pacific Crest Trail in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/2025/scrapping-the-roadless-rule-will-harm-the-pct-96600/\">Pacific Crest Trail Association said around 9% of the trail\u003c/a>, which stretches from Canada to Mexico through some of the West Coast’s most rugged lands, \u003ca href=\"https://pcta.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=39ee0c9dd291447a843a1f9a14d20541\">would be affected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/secretary-rollins-rescinds-roadless-rule-eliminating-impediment-responsible-forest-management\">the Trump administration argues\u003c/a> building roads and strategically logging forests could reduce wildfire risks in these areas, public lands advocates like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outdooralliance.org/roadless\">Outdoor Alliance\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/10409-hands-off-public-lands-parks-group-decries-proposed-rollback-of-roadless\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/08/trump-administration-attempt-repeal-roadless-rule-met-widespread-opposition\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> say the wildfire argument is a red herring for the administration’s real goal: to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">open up more public lands for extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Summary%20NFS%20roads%20fire%20paper%20-%202025.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> that show \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificbio.org/publications/wildfire_studies/Roads_And_Wildfires_2007.pdf\">fires are much more likely to start in areas with roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who cares for America’s national parks and public lands should be deeply alarmed about attempts to dismantle the roadless rule,” wrote Beau Kiklis, associate director of energy and landscape conservation for the NPCA, in a statement to KQED. “This is nothing short of another brazen attempt to sell off America’s public lands, by opening up these forest lands for industrial logging, roadbuilding and other development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates also worry that these lands being opened to roads and logging may affect sources of clean water — like freshwater rivers across California — that millions of people rely on for their drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isthisreallygoing\">\u003c/a>What do wildfire and forestry experts say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Trump’s proposal say that while \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prevent-wildfire/\">humans start 95% of wildfires in California and worldwide\u003c/a> — and roads undoubtedly allow people to travel \u003cem>into \u003c/em>the wilderness — roads can also play a part in wildfire mitigation and firefighting. Fires need to be accessed to be fought, and the roadways themselves can often serve as firebreaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/its-time-common-sense-roadless-reform\">Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said,\u003c/a> saying 8 million acres of roadless areas have burned since 2001. Some experts even say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/29/nx-s1-5521379/trump-administration-forest-roads-roadless-rule-firefighters-wildfire#:~:text=While%20the%20Roadless%20Rule%20prohibits,the%20area%20would%20normally%20have.\">a “surgical” approach\u003c/a> to building new roads could be beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hotshot Wakeup, a podcast and blog run by wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/forest-service-chief-applauds-usda\">spoke out in defense of maintaining \u003cem>existing \u003c/em>roads\u003c/a>, saying unmaintained wilderness roads often set back firefighters — but did not weigh in on whether the Roadless Rule should be rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plane drops fire retardant on the Garnet Fire on Aug. 26, 2025, in Fresno County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the potential repeal say the rule already allows roads to be constructed if one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">“needed to protect health and safety in cases of imminent danger, such as wildfire\u003c/a>.” And \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">one former Forest Service chief told NPR\u003c/a> that the rule also includes exceptions for small-scale logging in the case of habitat protection or to reduce wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/06/roadless-rule-repeal-california-forests/#:~:text=The%20roadless%20rule%20already%20allows,the%20risk%20of%20severe%20wildfires.\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> analysis found\u003c/a> that the California Forestry Association, while in support of the Trump administration’s proposed repeal, doesn’t see the Roadless Rule as a “significant impediment” to fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whathappensnext\">\u003c/a>What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the public process under the National Environmental Policy Act, the rescission is subject to a public comment period, which ends on Friday, Sept. 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">Public comments can be submitted via the Federal Register, the federal government’s journal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"e-91036-text encore-text-body-medium\" data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cspan data-slate-node=\"text\">\u003cspan class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Earlier this Spring, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order telling U.S. National Park Service staff, including those in California, to scrub parks of any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Advocates and park workers say following through has been confusing and chaotic, and many worry that a true record of California’s history is at stake. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4323114838&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">As Trump Targets National Parks that ‘Disparage Americans,’ Advocates Warn California History Is At Stake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">What’s Going on With the Muir Woods Exhibit Removal?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"e-91036-text encore-text-body-medium\" data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\" data-slate-fragment=\"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\">\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Ever since January, the president’s inauguration, there has been wave after wave of issues within national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:17] Sarah Wright covers the outdoors for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:02:22] It kind of started with the February mass firing of National Parks employees. Many of those employees were reinstated to their positions, but many chose to leave and take other opportunities because they weren’t sure about the future of their work and many others retired early. So just to start off the year, staffing kind of plummeted by 25%, according to some estimates. After that, Trump started discussing budget cuts, and then he also started to come out with this series of executive orders. And the orders attempt to change what’s going on inside national parks. And one of the main ways he’s trying to do this is by changing the stories that they tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:10] I want to step back just a little bit, Sarah, and go back to March when Trump first issued this executive order that we’re talking about today. What is it exactly, and what did it do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] So in March, President Trump issued an executive order called Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. And the idea was that parks everywhere across the nation had to flag anything that might be critical of U.S. History or Americans past or living. The rationale was to focus on what he calls the beauty and grandeur of America. So he’s trying to shape this narrative that What we should focus on in these celebratory places, which many parks are, is how great the US is. And that’s in line with a lot of Trump’s rhetoric, Trump’s policies, is to emphasize the good and not put too much weight or spend too much time talking about the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] So after this executive order, how did it actually play out in practice? Like what were park staff told to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] First staff were told to post these signs with QR codes on them. That was to solicit feedback from the public about how the park is doing, anything they like or dislike, but mostly to ask them to identify anything about the park that disparages Americans. After that, over the summer, parks were told to basically document every single piece of content in the parks, maybe a wayside sign that you see on the road. That’s maybe a sign when you’re entering an exhibit. That could be a brochure you get. Even books in the bookstores and films that are shown in parks were part of this. And submit basically a big Excel sheet to their higher ups. And so that took a couple of weeks. They had a deadline to submit that over the summer and then they were told to wait. What happened next is a few parks got information back saying, thank you for flagging this. You need to come up with a plan to remove it. So they’re having to make these decisions kind of on their own with no real guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] Which is awkward in so many ways, including the fact that probably many of the people who are being asked to remove these things are the same people who worked really hard to put them together or put them up so that the public could understand and know about these histories of these parks, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Yeah, in fact, that could be exactly what happened here in California at Muir Woods. There was an exhibit put up in 2021 in response to a lot of the conversations around Black Lives Matter. And staff worked really hard to create this exhibit that showed we used to have this sign, it didn’t have enough context on the history of this park. And so they added sticky notes and other information to sort of annotate the sign. To let visitors know all of this is true on this sign, but it’s not the complete story. So let’s add the contributions of women to creating this park, the contributions to the indigenous people, and some of the context around the founder’s often racist past. And so that was an effort that the whole park supported, that the park was excited about. And this year when Muir Woods staff were asked to take down those sticky notes, we don’t know if those are the exact same staff who put them up, but there was a lot of confusion, surprise, and even anger about this directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Chris Lehnertz is the president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. It’s the nonprofit that partners with the Golden gate National Recreation Area. That group manages Muir Woods. It manages lots of other parks here in the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] You know, I can tell you that it’s a very big lift for parks. There are some parks that have 500 interpretive signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] Chris told me that when she found out that the signage was changed at Muir Woods, it was shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] I don’t think that the histories told in parks are a threat to America. They share multiple human experiences. So I hope that in the coming weeks what we see come out of Washington, D.C. Is an embrace of that multifaceted history, not a judgment of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:06] I know you actually talked to National Park Service workers directly about how these Trump directives are sort of playing out on the ground. But many of them only spoke with you anonymously. Why was that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] Yeah, so it’s a really fearful time inside of parks. Speaking with the parks superintendents who I did, they were really careful not to say anything in our interview that might be specific to their park site and they’re worried about retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:46] What did they tell you, what did you hear from them about what it’s been like on the ground to follow these executive orders from the Trump administration? And it sounds like these are really confusing orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] That was kind of the main theme of a lot of our conversations was like chaos and confusion. One superintendent told me every single week it felt like, and even every single day we were getting new directives. And we weren’t really sure which ones to act on first or how to act on them. And when we would ask follow up questions, we wouldn’t get answers. And that’s what I experienced as well in reporting this story. I asked the National Park Service to clarify a couple of points, including, who is reviewing the signage up in the national office somewhere, and I didn’t get a response to that. It’s been kind of a cloud of uncertainty, and that’s not even to mention the lack of staffing in parks right now, the fear for the future of budget cuts, and the uncertainty about whether or not parks will have the capacity to carry out their mission even next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:55] What did other rangers or park staff that you talked to say about their worries around all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Yeah, so a lot of people were worried here in California about the narratives around our Indigenous history. There was a major effort to get those stories into parks. So those histories are the types of histories that sometimes discuss how genocide occurred here in California against Indigenous people, or in the case of Manzanar, how incarceration of hundred thousand people occurred here in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] It’s dangerous because the false narratives lead to great harm to communities of color in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] I also spoke to Bruce Embrey. He co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who is incarcerated there, co-founded in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] The site was created by the Paiute and Shoshoni people whose land Manzanar sits on and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated there during World War II. It took decades of work to create that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] He and other Manzanar advocates have been among the most vocal against the Trump administration because they’re worried that this attempt to cover up or erase history might in fact cause it to be repeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] Our story is a cautionary tale, one that shows the dangers to our country when the constitution is torn up and tossed aside. I think the Trump administration and its allies want nothing more than to erase anything from our history that will show how what they’re doing is dangerous to our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Over in the South, they’re worried about the conversations around slavery. And in fact, the Washington Post reported this week that the Trump administration did direct some national park sites in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to start taking down signs. So it’s all of those stories are kind of what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] I mean, I’m even thinking about myself and maybe how I might’ve taken for granted seeing some of those, these signs or these histories that are just, that were just present. When do you think it might become obvious for people like me or visitors that these changes are happening, or will they notice you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:12:30] That is a huge question. A lot of people told me they’re worried that people won’t notice because they won’t know what they’re missing in a park. They won’t know the stories that aren’t being told. 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Even books in the bookstores and films that are shown in parks were part of this. And submit basically a big Excel sheet to their higher ups. And so that took a couple of weeks. They had a deadline to submit that over the summer and then they were told to wait. What happened next is a few parks got information back saying, thank you for flagging this. You need to come up with a plan to remove it. 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To let visitors know all of this is true on this sign, but it’s not the complete story. So let’s add the contributions of women to creating this park, the contributions to the indigenous people, and some of the context around the founder’s often racist past. And so that was an effort that the whole park supported, that the park was excited about. And this year when Muir Woods staff were asked to take down those sticky notes, we don’t know if those are the exact same staff who put them up, but there was a lot of confusion, surprise, and even anger about this directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Chris Lehnertz is the president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. It’s the nonprofit that partners with the Golden gate National Recreation Area. That group manages Muir Woods. It manages lots of other parks here in the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] You know, I can tell you that it’s a very big lift for parks. There are some parks that have 500 interpretive signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] Chris told me that when she found out that the signage was changed at Muir Woods, it was shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] I don’t think that the histories told in parks are a threat to America. They share multiple human experiences. So I hope that in the coming weeks what we see come out of Washington, D.C. Is an embrace of that multifaceted history, not a judgment of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:06] I know you actually talked to National Park Service workers directly about how these Trump directives are sort of playing out on the ground. 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And we weren’t really sure which ones to act on first or how to act on them. And when we would ask follow up questions, we wouldn’t get answers. And that’s what I experienced as well in reporting this story. I asked the National Park Service to clarify a couple of points, including, who is reviewing the signage up in the national office somewhere, and I didn’t get a response to that. 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"title": "As Trump Targets National Parks that 'Disparage Americans,’ Advocates Warn California History Is At Stake",
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"content": "\u003cp>When U.S. National Park Service staff found out this spring that they were being instructed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">scrub entire parks of any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living”\u003c/a> reactions among workers ranged from disbelief to anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’m raging. Sometimes I’m in denial,” said one park superintendent, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and losing their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had already been a chaotic year for national parks under President Donald Trump’s second administration. First came the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030343/layoffs-have-hit-the-beloved-national-park-service-how-will-it-affect-your-visit\">attempt to fire thousands of employees\u003c/a> of the National Park Service and impose a hiring freeze — followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-funding-cuts-to-national-parks-may-harm-the-communities-around-them\">threats to cut billions in funding\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">sell off federal lands\u003c/a>, including some less popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-plan-could-offload-hundreds-of-national-park-sites-to-states/\">national parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in March, Trump issued an executive order called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u003c/a>.” It ordered staff working at all National Park Service locations to remove any content that casts Americans in a negative light from parks, monuments and memorials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s thrown staff into further chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer for the National Park Service welcomes visitors at the Exploration Center in Yosemite Valley, at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Things that would normally take us years to do, like exhibit development, we’re trying to figure out how to wholesale make changes that many of us are morally opposed to in weeks,” the anonymous superintendent said. “It’s kind of wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parks staffers are wary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">speaking up\u003c/a> on the record. “There’s worry and fear that telling the truth can get them in trouble,” said Neal Desai, Pacific regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, from Yosemite National Park in California to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., staff are now grappling with what the anonymous superintendent called a “Herculean” task: Inspect, document and potentially change or cover up thousands of signs ahead of a looming September deadline from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> reported that the Trump administration has already ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/\">the removal of exhibits related to slavery at multiple parks\u003c/a>, including at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia and the President’s House Site in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff and advocates at California’s iconic national parks say they’re especially worried about the potential threat to the state’s cultural memory — and that the very nature of historical truth is now at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#contact-author\">Want to contact this story’s author?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Chaos and confusion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Trump’s order\u003c/a> addressed what it called a “distorted narrative” about American history — one the White House claimed was permeating the country’s national parks, monuments and other federal institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In demanding the signage review, Trump instructed parks staff to “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people” and “the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape.”[aside postID=news_12049405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png']“Interpretive materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures, without acknowledging broader context or national progress, can unintentionally distort understanding rather than enrich it,” the National Park Service told KQED in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dismay and disbelief among park staff were instantaneous. “This is the fascist playbook,” said one park ranger, who also wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “You silence the voices that are inconvenient to you, and you control history, you control the narratives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum\u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history\"> doubled down on Trump’s order in May\u003c/a>, further instructing parks to report on any statues or monuments that had been \u003cem>removed \u003c/em>since 2020 at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, including Confederate monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waysigns, interpretive signs, exhibits, brochures, films screened within park buildings, even merchandise sold in park kiosks and bookstores — according to the orders, all of it had to be entered into a federal database for the government’s review. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs\">Staff were also ordered to post new signs around parks land\u003c/a> urging the public to submit feedback online about parks and their signage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this country,” California Rep. Jared Huffman, who serves on the House Committee on Natural Resources, told KQED. In August, Huffman \u003ca href=\"https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/FINAL_Format_Opposition%20to%20Censorship%20at%20NPS.pdf\">co-authored a letter\u003c/a> in response to the White House’s orders, requesting the rationale for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056560/north-bay-lawmaker-calls-out-trump-for-whitewashing-national-parks\">“ongoing efforts to rewrite history,”\u003c/a> and asking for more information about \u003cem>who \u003c/em>within the federal government would ultimately decide what can or can’t go in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspiration Point overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025, looks out over the Bay and Alcatraz. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a state with as many parks resources and visitorship as California, the orders required a particularly enormous undertaking. The state has nine major national parks — the most of any state across the country — including Yosemite and Joshua Tree, each of which regularly receives 3 to 4 million visitors annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to mention \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm?s=CA&ps=21\">the dozens of smaller national historic landmarks, smaller parks, monuments and historic trails\u003c/a> on a scale matched only by Washington, D.C., including Alcatraz, the Presidio and Fort Point just in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unknown judges, unclear timeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Who exactly within the federal government would make the final decisions on thousands of signs — covering hundreds of years of history — remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said he has yet to receive any response to the Committee on Natural Resources’ queries. And the NPS did not respond to KQED’s query on who is evaluating submissions, saying only that they are done “manually.”[aside postID=news_12030343 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg']As first \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/climate/national-parks-trump-americans-censorship.html\">reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the federal government originally told parks they’d know which exhibits were slated for removal by Wednesday. The anonymous superintendent said staff were initially told that a panel of subject matter experts would issue a memo on what should ultimately be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in mid-August, they were told they’d instead only “receive an email that identified which submissions were in conflict, but not tell us what exactly was considered problematic or why,” the superintendent said. And when the emails came, they didn’t make clear exactly \u003cem>when \u003c/em>staff should pull down any material that had been, in the government’s words, “found to be out of conformance.” (The NPS did not respond to KQED’s questions about the timeline for removals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the confusing rollout has put the onus on parks staff to “determine what someone thought was in conflict” with the order, the superintendent said, and then decide themselves how to move forward in a way they think the federal government wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is really frustrating,” they said. “Do we change a word in a sentence, or do we take down a whole exhibit? Or somewhere in between?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the first high-profile examples of such removal has already happened here in California — offering insight into the kind of history that’s being targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change already comes for California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With its towering redwoods, Muir Woods National Monument is one of California’s most popular parks, with annual visitorship of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/planyourvisit/reservations.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20last%20decade%20Muir,thereby%20improving%20the%20visitor%20experience.\">more than a million people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Muir Woods park rangers developed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">an exhibit called “History Under Construction,”\u003c/a> which took the form of sticky notes placed on a permanent sign. The sticky notes represented an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. The park is home to some of the last remaining stands of old-growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Part of our duty in the National Park Service is to tell the full story” of Muir Woods’ stewardship, the exhibit read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in mid-July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Muir Woods staff removed the sticky note exhibit altogether\u003c/a>, with a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area confirming its removal was prompted by Trump’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swiftness of the Muir Woods removal was jarring to some observers. “We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly,” said Chris Lehnertz, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/\">Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy\u003c/a>, the nonprofit partner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>, which manages Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Muir Woods removal was ordered by a higher-up outside of the park, according to Lehnertz and an anonymous source with knowledge of the exhibit’s development. The National Park Service did not reply to KQED’s request for confirmation of the directive’s source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has yet to make widespread directives to parks staff to enact removals. Yet preemptive changes within other national parks have already been witnessed — with apparent anxiety over landing in the White House’s crosshairs even pre-dating the “Restoring Truth and Sanity” executive order.[aside postID=news_12049014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose1_ENLARGED.jpg']As \u003ca href=\"https://www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-uncensored\">documented by the Resistance Rangers advocacy group\u003c/a>, the website for New York’s \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250526052358/20250604180857/https:/www.nps.gov/ston/learn/historyculture.htm\">Stonewall National Monument\u003c/a> was altered in February to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48923/stonewall-monument-transgender-park-service\">remove references to transgender people\u003c/a>. Language on other national park websites was removed in February and then restored, including information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/national-park-service-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-dei.html\">abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman\u003c/a> on an NPS webpage about the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">as reported by \u003cem>Richmondside,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> a handful of staff members at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm\">Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park\u003c/a> briefly removed an exhibit focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region right after Trump’s inauguration in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an anxious time to be a superintendent,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Graves, an independent historian who helped develop the Rosie the Riveter Park back in 2000, said Rosie is the kind of national park site where “inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits in the visitor center, the handouts, the films that are shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks staff found themselves in a quandary, said Graves, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053628/richmond-rally-national-parks-trump-white-house-rosie-the-riveter-world-war-ii-homefront\">who organized a rally against the order in August\u003c/a>. Should employees submit every piece of content in the park for federal review, “seeing it as sort of flooding the zone”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Others took the stance of, ‘Well, we’re not ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">\u003cem>inappropriately’\u003c/em>\u003c/a> disparaging anybody. We think what we’re doing is appropriate,’” Graves said. “So they did not report any content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hard history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea of taking a second look at history isn’t actually new for the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz said when Jonathan Jarvis was parks director from 2009 to 2017, he made a sweeping effort to broaden the narratives on display, shifting from a previous focus on military and political history to including individuals’ stories, expanding the timeline to before the country’s founding and “opening up the story” of American history, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Jarvis sits outside of his home in Pinole on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis, she said, “helped us understand that the preamble to the Constitution — ‘We, the people’ — means ‘We, \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the people; we, \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the stories.’ And that means hard history sometimes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the Trump administration’s approach to revisiting history “isn’t an honest exercise,” argued National Parks Conservation Association’s Desai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s premeditated — there’s a goal in mind at the end,” Desai said. “They’re not really looking at all these things in a critical way or in a scholarly way. It’s about: ‘We want to erase certain parts of history, and clamp down on the Park Service from providing Americans with a full picture.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis — who lives in Contra Costa County after retiring from NPS — agreed. Had he still been at the helm of national parks, Jarvis said, he’d have “gone upstairs and told them this was a really stupid idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the task of it in of itself is completely daunting,” he said. “To think that there’s going to be somebody back there with either the intelligence — or the capacity — to somehow give a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a sign that is in some visitor center in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm\">Dinosaur National Monument\u003c/a> that talks about evolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Going backwards’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s orders are forcing national parks around the country to review hundreds of years of history — events that often sharply illustrate the human cost of that state’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states including \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pennsylvania\u003c/span>, Florida, Tennessee and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">staff have been asked to flag mentions of slavery\u003c/a> for possible removal.[aside postID=news_12054083 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1020x681.jpg']In California, where the arrival of white settlers in the 1840s and the subsequent Gold Rush sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/articles/native-american-genocide-california-apology\">a decades-long genocide of Native Americans\u003c/a> that killed tens of thousands of people, parks staffers must decide how to deal with this state’s painful history around its Indigenous communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sharaya Souza, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/\">American Indian Cultural District in San Francisco\u003c/a> who previously served on the \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/\">California Native American Heritage Commission\u003c/a>, first heard about the changes National Park Service staff had made to their own Muir Woods “History Under Construction” exhibit, she said she was “sad but not surprised.” (Souza spoke to KQED on her own behalf and not for the organizations she works with.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza, who is Taos Pueblo, Ute and Kiowa — in addition to being of both Spanish and Brazilian heritage — also pointed out just how small the additions acknowledging Indigenous history on the NPS sign had been. “That’s all [Native people] got: Post-it notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza has worked to elevate Indigenous history across the Bay Area — including a \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/indigenizesf\">current partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, which, via an effort known as placekeeping, aims to identify and reimagine statues, monuments and street names in the city that honor people who contributed to the genocide of Native Americans. This kind of work is “letting people know the full history of what happened here,” Souza said. “And yes, some of it was a hard history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826151/how-do-we-heal-toppling-the-myth-of-junipero-serra\">The state’s history of violence toward its Native communities\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-7/tribal-affairs-indigenous-educators-fight-for-an-accurate-history-of-california-missions/\">long gone ignored in California\u003c/a>, but in recent years, many national parks across California have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/yosemite-museum.htm\">begun to acknowledge\u003c/a> that brutal history in their programming or signage — even though Souza said there’s still a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tribes’ relationships with the parks haven’t always been smooth either, advocate Morning Star Gali said. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indigenousjustice.org/\">Indigenous Justice\u003c/a>, Gali is also the California Tribal and Community Liaison for the International Indian Treaty Council, coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iitc.org/2024-indigenous-peoples-day-alcatraz-sunrise-gathering/\">annual Sunrise Gathering for Alcatraz Island\u003c/a>. She has been driving work to \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2022/id/2571917\">remove racist place names\u003c/a> and add signage, particularly to NPS sites like Alcatraz, that acknowledge its Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali said that while staff and leadership at some parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30927\">supported their efforts\u003c/a>, many are limited in the changes they can make — and others have dragged their feet in allowing tribes to access and use their sacred land or have scrutinized their practices and religious expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali stands in front of Wahpepah’s Kitchen at Fruitvale Station in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Where do we go when we’re shut out of our sacred places?” she said. “Where do we go when we’re no longer allowed into both state and federal sites?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza agreed: “We’ve kind of become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard\">the Indian in the Cupboard\u003c/a>,” she said. “You take them out when you want to play with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you put them back in the cupboard when it comes to actually elevating that truth-telling, and it’s out of some sort of fear that it’s going to increase ‘a sense of national shame,’” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">referencing the language used in Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little afraid of the direction that we are going,” Souza said. “That we’re going backwards from all the progress that we’ve made over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A white nationalist effort’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another aspect of California history that many worry could be erased: the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These events are commemorated at the National Park Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm\">Manzanar National Historic Site\u003c/a> in the Eastern Sierra, where around 11,000 people were incarcerated. Around the country, well over \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/japanese-american-incarceration-during-ww2/asian-americans-video/\">100,000 people were imprisoned\u003c/a> this way.[aside postID=news_12047124 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-2000x1276.jpg']Survivors of Japanese American incarceration have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">among the most vocal\u003c/a> against the Trump administration’s detainment and deportation of immigrants, after the president used the same law deployed against them in the 1940s — the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5369579/supreme-court-block-deportations-venezuelans\">to attempt to deport Venezuelans being held at a Texas detention center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates are worried the history they’ve fought so hard to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.mammothtimes.com/news/never-again-is-now-day-of-action-held-in-defense-of-national-parks-history/article_3de956aa-c1ca-4e9d-b0ea-2ebc99f6031d.html\">will be at risk once again\u003c/a>. The story told at Manzanar is “a cautionary tale,” said Bruce Embrey, who co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who was incarcerated at Manzanar, co-founded in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Embrey, the signage review at parks like Manzanar is “a white nationalist effort to erase our history,” he said — and he believes that “if they cannot rewrite the narrative of the Smithsonian or Manzanar or the various sites around this country, they will close them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz said it’s stories like those on display at Manzanar that are most needed in parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg\" alt=\"A reconstructed barrack at the Manzanar National Historic Site, west of Death Valley.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-400x241.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-800x483.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1440x869.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1400x844.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1180x712.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A reconstructed barrack at the Manzanar National Historic Site, west of Death Valley. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The United States does not put its history into secret boxes,” she said. “It shares its history openly, and that’s what makes America great, is our willingness to sometimes disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And our willingness to commit resources to a rigorous understanding of history, even when it disagrees with our family’s experience of history,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the federal government’s final decisions, many staffers are worried about the degrading effect that any hasty revision of information will have on the parks — and on visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, the anonymous superintendent said, they would work with historians, biologists and other subject matter experts to help develop park signage.[aside postID=news_12053628 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg']Signs also have to be accessible — often featuring braille or sitting at wheelchair height — and parks staff will often consult with tribal communities or descendants of the historical figure they’re writing about. Parks advocates have even argued the changes demanded by the executive order violate their \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cultural-and-natural-resource-consultation.htm\">legal obligation to consult with tribes\u003c/a> before making significant changes to parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking millions of dollars here in terms of process and years of work to do a full exhibit, and the signage, and all the interpretive materials that go with,” former NPS leader Jarvis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of those funds, covered-up signs will likely become a familiar sight to visitors, said Jesse Chakrin, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.peopleinparks.org/index.html\">Fund for People in Parks\u003c/a>. Chakrin’s group works with small or lesser-known parks in the West on elements like signage that aren’t typically funded by federal dollars — “a long and slow process,” which can cost up to $5,000 for a single sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an era of reduced staffing, Chakrin said, these signs “may be the only way that a visitor actually better understands the park location that they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chakrin’s biggest concern is that even if no more sign removal orders ever materialize, the order is so broad — and the penalties so nebulous — that parks staff will simply self-censor out of fear of retribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the monument protects one of the last old-growth coast redwood forests in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People will stop telling full and complete stories,” he said. “People will start to think about the ways that they can be careful so as to not offend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This puts parks staff in a moral quandary, Jarvis said, with many feeling the order runs counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Visitors speak up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid all this turmoil, staff and advocates say that visitors have yet to see the biggest effects of the orders. Nonprofit partners like “friends” groups have been backfilling a lot of public-facing roles, as have seasonal staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors aren’t really seeing the full impact because of this veneer, this facade, of keeping parks ‘open and accessible’,” the superintendent said — referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3426-ensuring-national-parks-are-open-and-accessible\">another secretarial order\u003c/a> that mandates parks keep functioning even amid \u003ca href=\"https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/02/what-the-hiring-freeze-means-for-the-national-park-service-as-it-was-just-about-to-start-finding-seasonal-employees/\">severe staffing shortages\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12053078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/YosemiteTransFlagGetty.jpg']“Meanwhile, everything on the back end is falling apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that might give parks staff solace: Across California, the federally mandated signs urging the public to join the review of parks signage have so far not borne much fruit for the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a copy of the public submissions received by California parks and provided to KQED by the National Parks Conservation Association, out of around 300 entries across the state’s national parks sites from June and July of this year, just four were elevated for review — all of which critiqued the Muir Woods “History Under Construction” exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of others alerted parks staff to infrastructure issues with bathrooms or fading signs that need replacing. But nearly all of the rest of the submissions were either in praise of rangers and parks staff or offering complimentary views of existing signage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hundreds of public comments were submitted specifically in protest of the signage order — commending displays at parks that highlighted Indigenous history and climate change. Manzanar, especially, wrote one visitor, “is an example that the beauty and grandeur of our constitution can never be taken for granted,” making reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">the language of Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>. Another comment about Yosemite urged parks staff to “continue to educate people about the Native Americans who were displaced in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks advocates said the results of the public submissions give them hope that, amid everything, park visitors see the value in telling the whole story of American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History aims to improve the nation by learning the lessons of the past,” Lehnertz said. “And the openness of any individual American to learning that, in my experience, has been 99% to 1%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as Graves put it: “They’ve said over and over — ‘We want to know the whole truth. Don’t dumb down our history.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"contact-author\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Reporter Sarah Wright can be securely reached on Signal: @sarahfbw.153\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Interpretive materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures, without acknowledging broader context or national progress, can unintentionally distort understanding rather than enrich it,” the National Park Service told KQED in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dismay and disbelief among park staff were instantaneous. “This is the fascist playbook,” said one park ranger, who also wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “You silence the voices that are inconvenient to you, and you control history, you control the narratives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum\u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history\"> doubled down on Trump’s order in May\u003c/a>, further instructing parks to report on any statues or monuments that had been \u003cem>removed \u003c/em>since 2020 at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, including Confederate monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waysigns, interpretive signs, exhibits, brochures, films screened within park buildings, even merchandise sold in park kiosks and bookstores — according to the orders, all of it had to be entered into a federal database for the government’s review. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs\">Staff were also ordered to post new signs around parks land\u003c/a> urging the public to submit feedback online about parks and their signage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this country,” California Rep. Jared Huffman, who serves on the House Committee on Natural Resources, told KQED. In August, Huffman \u003ca href=\"https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/FINAL_Format_Opposition%20to%20Censorship%20at%20NPS.pdf\">co-authored a letter\u003c/a> in response to the White House’s orders, requesting the rationale for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056560/north-bay-lawmaker-calls-out-trump-for-whitewashing-national-parks\">“ongoing efforts to rewrite history,”\u003c/a> and asking for more information about \u003cem>who \u003c/em>within the federal government would ultimately decide what can or can’t go in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspiration Point overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025, looks out over the Bay and Alcatraz. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a state with as many parks resources and visitorship as California, the orders required a particularly enormous undertaking. The state has nine major national parks — the most of any state across the country — including Yosemite and Joshua Tree, each of which regularly receives 3 to 4 million visitors annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to mention \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm?s=CA&ps=21\">the dozens of smaller national historic landmarks, smaller parks, monuments and historic trails\u003c/a> on a scale matched only by Washington, D.C., including Alcatraz, the Presidio and Fort Point just in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unknown judges, unclear timeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Who exactly within the federal government would make the final decisions on thousands of signs — covering hundreds of years of history — remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said he has yet to receive any response to the Committee on Natural Resources’ queries. And the NPS did not respond to KQED’s query on who is evaluating submissions, saying only that they are done “manually.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As first \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/climate/national-parks-trump-americans-censorship.html\">reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the federal government originally told parks they’d know which exhibits were slated for removal by Wednesday. The anonymous superintendent said staff were initially told that a panel of subject matter experts would issue a memo on what should ultimately be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in mid-August, they were told they’d instead only “receive an email that identified which submissions were in conflict, but not tell us what exactly was considered problematic or why,” the superintendent said. And when the emails came, they didn’t make clear exactly \u003cem>when \u003c/em>staff should pull down any material that had been, in the government’s words, “found to be out of conformance.” (The NPS did not respond to KQED’s questions about the timeline for removals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the confusing rollout has put the onus on parks staff to “determine what someone thought was in conflict” with the order, the superintendent said, and then decide themselves how to move forward in a way they think the federal government wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is really frustrating,” they said. “Do we change a word in a sentence, or do we take down a whole exhibit? Or somewhere in between?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the first high-profile examples of such removal has already happened here in California — offering insight into the kind of history that’s being targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change already comes for California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With its towering redwoods, Muir Woods National Monument is one of California’s most popular parks, with annual visitorship of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/planyourvisit/reservations.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20last%20decade%20Muir,thereby%20improving%20the%20visitor%20experience.\">more than a million people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Muir Woods park rangers developed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">an exhibit called “History Under Construction,”\u003c/a> which took the form of sticky notes placed on a permanent sign. The sticky notes represented an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. The park is home to some of the last remaining stands of old-growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Part of our duty in the National Park Service is to tell the full story” of Muir Woods’ stewardship, the exhibit read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in mid-July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Muir Woods staff removed the sticky note exhibit altogether\u003c/a>, with a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area confirming its removal was prompted by Trump’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swiftness of the Muir Woods removal was jarring to some observers. “We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly,” said Chris Lehnertz, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/\">Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy\u003c/a>, the nonprofit partner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>, which manages Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Muir Woods removal was ordered by a higher-up outside of the park, according to Lehnertz and an anonymous source with knowledge of the exhibit’s development. The National Park Service did not reply to KQED’s request for confirmation of the directive’s source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has yet to make widespread directives to parks staff to enact removals. Yet preemptive changes within other national parks have already been witnessed — with apparent anxiety over landing in the White House’s crosshairs even pre-dating the “Restoring Truth and Sanity” executive order.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-uncensored\">documented by the Resistance Rangers advocacy group\u003c/a>, the website for New York’s \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250526052358/20250604180857/https:/www.nps.gov/ston/learn/historyculture.htm\">Stonewall National Monument\u003c/a> was altered in February to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48923/stonewall-monument-transgender-park-service\">remove references to transgender people\u003c/a>. Language on other national park websites was removed in February and then restored, including information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/national-park-service-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-dei.html\">abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman\u003c/a> on an NPS webpage about the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">as reported by \u003cem>Richmondside,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> a handful of staff members at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm\">Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park\u003c/a> briefly removed an exhibit focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region right after Trump’s inauguration in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an anxious time to be a superintendent,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Graves, an independent historian who helped develop the Rosie the Riveter Park back in 2000, said Rosie is the kind of national park site where “inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits in the visitor center, the handouts, the films that are shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks staff found themselves in a quandary, said Graves, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053628/richmond-rally-national-parks-trump-white-house-rosie-the-riveter-world-war-ii-homefront\">who organized a rally against the order in August\u003c/a>. Should employees submit every piece of content in the park for federal review, “seeing it as sort of flooding the zone”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Others took the stance of, ‘Well, we’re not ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">\u003cem>inappropriately’\u003c/em>\u003c/a> disparaging anybody. We think what we’re doing is appropriate,’” Graves said. “So they did not report any content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hard history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea of taking a second look at history isn’t actually new for the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz said when Jonathan Jarvis was parks director from 2009 to 2017, he made a sweeping effort to broaden the narratives on display, shifting from a previous focus on military and political history to including individuals’ stories, expanding the timeline to before the country’s founding and “opening up the story” of American history, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNAGE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Jarvis sits outside of his home in Pinole on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis, she said, “helped us understand that the preamble to the Constitution — ‘We, the people’ — means ‘We, \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the people; we, \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the stories.’ And that means hard history sometimes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the Trump administration’s approach to revisiting history “isn’t an honest exercise,” argued National Parks Conservation Association’s Desai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s premeditated — there’s a goal in mind at the end,” Desai said. “They’re not really looking at all these things in a critical way or in a scholarly way. It’s about: ‘We want to erase certain parts of history, and clamp down on the Park Service from providing Americans with a full picture.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis — who lives in Contra Costa County after retiring from NPS — agreed. Had he still been at the helm of national parks, Jarvis said, he’d have “gone upstairs and told them this was a really stupid idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the task of it in of itself is completely daunting,” he said. “To think that there’s going to be somebody back there with either the intelligence — or the capacity — to somehow give a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a sign that is in some visitor center in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm\">Dinosaur National Monument\u003c/a> that talks about evolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Going backwards’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s orders are forcing national parks around the country to review hundreds of years of history — events that often sharply illustrate the human cost of that state’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states including \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pennsylvania\u003c/span>, Florida, Tennessee and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">staff have been asked to flag mentions of slavery\u003c/a> for possible removal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In California, where the arrival of white settlers in the 1840s and the subsequent Gold Rush sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/articles/native-american-genocide-california-apology\">a decades-long genocide of Native Americans\u003c/a> that killed tens of thousands of people, parks staffers must decide how to deal with this state’s painful history around its Indigenous communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sharaya Souza, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/\">American Indian Cultural District in San Francisco\u003c/a> who previously served on the \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/\">California Native American Heritage Commission\u003c/a>, first heard about the changes National Park Service staff had made to their own Muir Woods “History Under Construction” exhibit, she said she was “sad but not surprised.” (Souza spoke to KQED on her own behalf and not for the organizations she works with.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza, who is Taos Pueblo, Ute and Kiowa — in addition to being of both Spanish and Brazilian heritage — also pointed out just how small the additions acknowledging Indigenous history on the NPS sign had been. “That’s all [Native people] got: Post-it notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza has worked to elevate Indigenous history across the Bay Area — including a \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/indigenizesf\">current partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, which, via an effort known as placekeeping, aims to identify and reimagine statues, monuments and street names in the city that honor people who contributed to the genocide of Native Americans. This kind of work is “letting people know the full history of what happened here,” Souza said. “And yes, some of it was a hard history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826151/how-do-we-heal-toppling-the-myth-of-junipero-serra\">The state’s history of violence toward its Native communities\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-7/tribal-affairs-indigenous-educators-fight-for-an-accurate-history-of-california-missions/\">long gone ignored in California\u003c/a>, but in recent years, many national parks across California have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/yosemite-museum.htm\">begun to acknowledge\u003c/a> that brutal history in their programming or signage — even though Souza said there’s still a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tribes’ relationships with the parks haven’t always been smooth either, advocate Morning Star Gali said. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indigenousjustice.org/\">Indigenous Justice\u003c/a>, Gali is also the California Tribal and Community Liaison for the International Indian Treaty Council, coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iitc.org/2024-indigenous-peoples-day-alcatraz-sunrise-gathering/\">annual Sunrise Gathering for Alcatraz Island\u003c/a>. She has been driving work to \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2022/id/2571917\">remove racist place names\u003c/a> and add signage, particularly to NPS sites like Alcatraz, that acknowledge its Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali said that while staff and leadership at some parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30927\">supported their efforts\u003c/a>, many are limited in the changes they can make — and others have dragged their feet in allowing tribes to access and use their sacred land or have scrutinized their practices and religious expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMP-PARK-SIGNS-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali stands in front of Wahpepah’s Kitchen at Fruitvale Station in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Where do we go when we’re shut out of our sacred places?” she said. “Where do we go when we’re no longer allowed into both state and federal sites?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Souza agreed: “We’ve kind of become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard\">the Indian in the Cupboard\u003c/a>,” she said. “You take them out when you want to play with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you put them back in the cupboard when it comes to actually elevating that truth-telling, and it’s out of some sort of fear that it’s going to increase ‘a sense of national shame,’” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">referencing the language used in Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little afraid of the direction that we are going,” Souza said. “That we’re going backwards from all the progress that we’ve made over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A white nationalist effort’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another aspect of California history that many worry could be erased: the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These events are commemorated at the National Park Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm\">Manzanar National Historic Site\u003c/a> in the Eastern Sierra, where around 11,000 people were incarcerated. Around the country, well over \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/japanese-american-incarceration-during-ww2/asian-americans-video/\">100,000 people were imprisoned\u003c/a> this way.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Survivors of Japanese American incarceration have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">among the most vocal\u003c/a> against the Trump administration’s detainment and deportation of immigrants, after the president used the same law deployed against them in the 1940s — the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5369579/supreme-court-block-deportations-venezuelans\">to attempt to deport Venezuelans being held at a Texas detention center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates are worried the history they’ve fought so hard to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.mammothtimes.com/news/never-again-is-now-day-of-action-held-in-defense-of-national-parks-history/article_3de956aa-c1ca-4e9d-b0ea-2ebc99f6031d.html\">will be at risk once again\u003c/a>. The story told at Manzanar is “a cautionary tale,” said Bruce Embrey, who co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who was incarcerated at Manzanar, co-founded in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Embrey, the signage review at parks like Manzanar is “a white nationalist effort to erase our history,” he said — and he believes that “if they cannot rewrite the narrative of the Smithsonian or Manzanar or the various sites around this country, they will close them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz said it’s stories like those on display at Manzanar that are most needed in parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg\" alt=\"A reconstructed barrack at the Manzanar National Historic Site, west of Death Valley.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-400x241.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-800x483.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1440x869.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1400x844.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-1180x712.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Barracks-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A reconstructed barrack at the Manzanar National Historic Site, west of Death Valley. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The United States does not put its history into secret boxes,” she said. “It shares its history openly, and that’s what makes America great, is our willingness to sometimes disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And our willingness to commit resources to a rigorous understanding of history, even when it disagrees with our family’s experience of history,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the federal government’s final decisions, many staffers are worried about the degrading effect that any hasty revision of information will have on the parks — and on visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, the anonymous superintendent said, they would work with historians, biologists and other subject matter experts to help develop park signage.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Signs also have to be accessible — often featuring braille or sitting at wheelchair height — and parks staff will often consult with tribal communities or descendants of the historical figure they’re writing about. Parks advocates have even argued the changes demanded by the executive order violate their \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cultural-and-natural-resource-consultation.htm\">legal obligation to consult with tribes\u003c/a> before making significant changes to parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking millions of dollars here in terms of process and years of work to do a full exhibit, and the signage, and all the interpretive materials that go with,” former NPS leader Jarvis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of those funds, covered-up signs will likely become a familiar sight to visitors, said Jesse Chakrin, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.peopleinparks.org/index.html\">Fund for People in Parks\u003c/a>. Chakrin’s group works with small or lesser-known parks in the West on elements like signage that aren’t typically funded by federal dollars — “a long and slow process,” which can cost up to $5,000 for a single sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an era of reduced staffing, Chakrin said, these signs “may be the only way that a visitor actually better understands the park location that they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chakrin’s biggest concern is that even if no more sign removal orders ever materialize, the order is so broad — and the penalties so nebulous — that parks staff will simply self-censor out of fear of retribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-42-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the monument protects one of the last old-growth coast redwood forests in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People will stop telling full and complete stories,” he said. “People will start to think about the ways that they can be careful so as to not offend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This puts parks staff in a moral quandary, Jarvis said, with many feeling the order runs counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Visitors speak up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid all this turmoil, staff and advocates say that visitors have yet to see the biggest effects of the orders. Nonprofit partners like “friends” groups have been backfilling a lot of public-facing roles, as have seasonal staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors aren’t really seeing the full impact because of this veneer, this facade, of keeping parks ‘open and accessible’,” the superintendent said — referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3426-ensuring-national-parks-are-open-and-accessible\">another secretarial order\u003c/a> that mandates parks keep functioning even amid \u003ca href=\"https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/02/what-the-hiring-freeze-means-for-the-national-park-service-as-it-was-just-about-to-start-finding-seasonal-employees/\">severe staffing shortages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Meanwhile, everything on the back end is falling apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that might give parks staff solace: Across California, the federally mandated signs urging the public to join the review of parks signage have so far not borne much fruit for the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a copy of the public submissions received by California parks and provided to KQED by the National Parks Conservation Association, out of around 300 entries across the state’s national parks sites from June and July of this year, just four were elevated for review — all of which critiqued the Muir Woods “History Under Construction” exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of others alerted parks staff to infrastructure issues with bathrooms or fading signs that need replacing. But nearly all of the rest of the submissions were either in praise of rangers and parks staff or offering complimentary views of existing signage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hundreds of public comments were submitted specifically in protest of the signage order — commending displays at parks that highlighted Indigenous history and climate change. Manzanar, especially, wrote one visitor, “is an example that the beauty and grandeur of our constitution can never be taken for granted,” making reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">the language of Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>. Another comment about Yosemite urged parks staff to “continue to educate people about the Native Americans who were displaced in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks advocates said the results of the public submissions give them hope that, amid everything, park visitors see the value in telling the whole story of American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History aims to improve the nation by learning the lessons of the past,” Lehnertz said. “And the openness of any individual American to learning that, in my experience, has been 99% to 1%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as Graves put it: “They’ve said over and over — ‘We want to know the whole truth. Don’t dumb down our history.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"contact-author\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Reporter Sarah Wright can be securely reached on Signal: @sarahfbw.153\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 600 staff across Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks have unionized after results of a summer election were \u003ca href=\"https://nffe.org/press-release/workers-at-yosemite-sequoia-kings-canyon-national-parks-organize-a-union-under-nffe/\">certified this week.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union that represents employees of the federal government, 97% of employees voted to elect NFFE as their union representative. The voting lasted from July 22 to Aug. 19, and included both permanent and seasonal employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFFE already represents workers at a number of national parks across the country, including Yellowstone and Cuyahoga Valley National Parks. At the two California parks, all National Park Service employees — from park rangers to researchers to first responders — will be eligible for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one park ranger who was part of the parks’ unionizing effort, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the move was largely driven by the White House’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">mass layoff of parks workers\u003c/a> in February — many of whom were reinstated as the legality of the firings is being \u003ca href=\"https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2025/08/courts-ready-to-hear-arguments-on-fired-probationary-feds-cases/\">debated in court. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These firings kind of tipped over the scale,” the ranger said. “We need to have some protections, and I wish that we had had them before February, but better late than never.” (KQED has reached out to NPS for comment on the unionization.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Someone on our side’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, National Park Service staff have found themselves increasingly under fire. In addition to the February layoffs and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/08/nx-s1-5424547/trumps-efforts-to-cut-national-parks-budget-faces-bipartisan-pushback\">proposal to slash the National Park Service’s budget\u003c/a>, Trump issued an executive order in March directing parks staff — and visitors — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">flag any content on display within national parks that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living”\u003c/a> for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">Permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24% \u003c/a>since Trump took office, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to contract negotiations, National President of the NFFE Randy Erwin said the union also hopes to address longstanding issues facing national parks workers like low pay and what he called “deplorable” housing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re tired of their agencies and the work that they do being threatened,” he said, “and they understand that through a union, they can protect themselves and solve a lot of the problems that they’re dealing with right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park ranger who spoke to KQED echoed Erwin’s concerns about housing and other workplace safety issues, noting that while this year has brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053628/richmond-rally-national-parks-trump-white-house-rosie-the-riveter-world-war-ii-homefront\">unprecedented challenges to their workforce\u003c/a>, workers have long been calling for better working conditions.[aside postID=news_12053078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/YosemiteTransFlagGetty.jpg']Park staff’s requests have included hazard pay for working outside amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\">dangerous levels of wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and employer-provided housing that’s safe from contaminants like hantavirus — a disease \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/national-parks/death-yosemite-story-behind-last-summers-hantavirus-outbreak/?scope=anon\">that has long posed a health problem at Yosemite\u003c/a>. That’s on top of their concerns that rising rent costs at the employer-provided housing are outpacing their pay increases, the ranger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our employer is not just responsible for our salary and workplace, but also they’re our landlord,” the ranger said. “So they control our rent, they control our housing quality … and so it just makes sense that there should be a contract that goes the other direction as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erwin said the union may face obstacles in negotiating with the federal government, as NFFE has been “\u003ca href=\"https://nffe.org/press-release/nffe-urges-house-members-to-sign-discharge-petition-to-force-vote-on-restoring-collective-bargaining-rights-for-federal-workers/\">getting all kinds of pushback from this administration in collective bargaining\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the near term, the ranger told KQED that park workers will have access to something new: legal representation should they get fired or be subject to any illegal practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The union can hold [the administration] to some level of accountability, to do their diligence,” he said. “That would go a long ways in all of this — to feel like there’s someone on our side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday morning, a large crowd gathered on the Richmond waterfront outside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm\">Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park\u003c/a> visitor center — the same day that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNyKve1XM4T/\">National Park Service turned 109 \u003c/a>years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people assembled were there for a day of action called “Protect Our Parks, Save Our Histories,” in protest at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/08/nx-s1-5424547/trumps-efforts-to-cut-national-parks-budget-faces-bipartisan-pushback\">attempts by President Donald Trump’s second administration to defund national parks\u003c/a> — and what organizers called the White House’s effort to “erase inclusive narratives from public interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many held signs in support of the park service and its staff, while a chain of people held placards that spelled out “PROTECT OUR PARKS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For independent historian Donna Graves, who led the development of the Rosie the Riveter site a quarter of a century ago and organized Monday’s day of action outside the museum, the choice of this date was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rosie the Riveter is celebrating its 25th anniversary,” she said. “Ironically, as it hits that milestone, it is doing so in an atmosphere that would not have allowed this park to be born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as retired National Park Service employee and event co-organizer Naomi Torres said: “National parks are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That’s not American’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rally follows seven months of actions by the Trump administration that parks leaders say have eroded staffing levels, morale and public trust in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the February \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">firing of over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan to cut federal spending\u003c/a>. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberley Rodler attends the National Park Service’s 109th birthday celebration at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,”\u003c/a> aimed at the “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">directive for parks staff — and visitors — to flag any content \u003c/a>on display within national parks that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living”. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">According to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the Trump administration said it would finalize this review on Sept. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park was established in 2000. This site focuses not just on the local community’s role in supporting the war effort, but also the stories of those fighting for their freedom at home, like incarcerated Japanese Americans, the LGBTQ+ community and Black Americans facing housing discrimination — an educational focus that Graves and other advocates fear could put this park in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flora Ninomiya (left), whose Japanese American family lost their Richmond home and business during World War II incarceration, converses with an event attendant during the National Park Service’s 109th birthday event at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Richmondside\u003c/em>, a handful of staff members at the park \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">even briefly removed an exhibit \u003c/a>focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region back in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers at Monday’s event was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835709/its-horrifying-10-bay-area-artists-speak-out-on-child-detainment-at-the-border\">Flora Ninomiya, who was incarcerated\u003c/a> during World War II alongside her family and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025052/we-really-need-to-fight-japanese-americans-who-remember-internment-vow-to-resist-trump\">thousands of other Japanese Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her story is part of the fabric of history, she said, and is at risk of being lost if funding gets cut from national parks — and if certain narratives are erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really critical, especially at this time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">when our government is taking immigrants, many of them who are legally here\u003c/a>,” Ninomiya said. “That’s not American. That is certainly not what I want my government to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dismantling an institution’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jon Jarvis, who served as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/director-jonathan-jarvis.htm\">director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016\u003c/a> and spoke at Monday’s rally, said the second Trump administration’s attacks on parks are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in my now-almost-50 years of working in conservation have I seen such a direct attempt at essentially dismantling an institution that has served the American people for well over 100 years,” Jarvis told the crowd assembled on the Richmond waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Jarvis, who served as the 18th director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016, speaks during the agency’s 109th birthday celebration and Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis told KQED that the various orders from the administration have created an air of frustration and confusion among parks staff who are dedicated to carrying out their roles as educators and stewards of history. He described Trump’s executive order as counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science — it’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis said Rosie the Riveter is among \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-plan-could-offload-hundreds-of-national-park-sites-to-states/\">the many smaller national parks sites that some Republicans have proposed offloading to state or local jurisdiction\u003c/a>. For him, this place is “a microcosm of all the issues that are facing the National Park Service,” because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldwariimonuments.org/items/show/28\">its history as a community-led park\u003c/a> — making it “in many ways the perfect place” for Monday’s rally, he said.[aside postID=news_12053078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/YosemiteTransFlagGetty.jpg']“When the administration says, ‘We want you to shut the hell up,’ they’re basically telling the community to shut up,” Jarvis said. “And they’re telling this community … that they don’t count, their history is not relevant. It’s a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This air of defiance was on display among speakers and the assembled crowd at Monday’s event, as attendees held up signs with messages like “Resist” and “History is not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our parks must remain places where the real stories of our history are told and not changed for political convenience — and you’re not going to let that happen, right?” Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia asked the crowd, who echoed “Right!” in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberley Rodler, a former National Park Service employee and San Rafael resident who was in attendance wearing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10919734/watch-a-thousand-rosie-the-riveters-set-a-world-record-in-richmond\">Rosie the Riveter’s signature red lipstick and bandana\u003c/a>, said she is driven to act in defense of national parks by exactly those kinds of stories told at the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The little things add up,” Rodler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s speakers did not include any current parks staffers, and Torres informed the assembled crowd that staff had requested that anyone visiting the museum that day did not bring their signs or placards inside with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service told KQED the request was made “to protect the historic resources within the center and to ensure the safety of all park visitors,” in light of the park not having “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">a designated First Amendment area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The good, the bad and the shameful’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next few weeks, parks are expected to get the results of any submissions they’ve received about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans”\u003c/a> — and staff may then be asked to revise, remove or cover up any public-facing materials on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure how parks are going to handle that,” Graves said. “When I think about Rosie the Riveter, that kind of inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Torres, telling the multifaceted stories of American history, “the good and the bad and the shameful,” is the only way to avoid repeating them today. “We cannot move forward as a country unless we think critically about our past and our future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves agreed, saying that for parks staff, taking down or revising history would be akin to the “moral injury” soldiers face when they have to compromise their ethics in the line of battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to tell history accurately,” Graves said. “We want to get the facts straight and the stories correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about representing so many people who are American, who did build this country and who should be included in the way we tell the American story,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For independent historian Donna Graves, who led the development of the Rosie the Riveter site a quarter of a century ago and organized Monday’s day of action outside the museum, the choice of this date was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rosie the Riveter is celebrating its 25th anniversary,” she said. “Ironically, as it hits that milestone, it is doing so in an atmosphere that would not have allowed this park to be born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as retired National Park Service employee and event co-organizer Naomi Torres said: “National parks are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That’s not American’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rally follows seven months of actions by the Trump administration that parks leaders say have eroded staffing levels, morale and public trust in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the February \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">firing of over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan to cut federal spending\u003c/a>. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberley Rodler attends the National Park Service’s 109th birthday celebration at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,”\u003c/a> aimed at the “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">directive for parks staff — and visitors — to flag any content \u003c/a>on display within national parks that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living”. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">According to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the Trump administration said it would finalize this review on Sept. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park was established in 2000. This site focuses not just on the local community’s role in supporting the war effort, but also the stories of those fighting for their freedom at home, like incarcerated Japanese Americans, the LGBTQ+ community and Black Americans facing housing discrimination — an educational focus that Graves and other advocates fear could put this park in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flora Ninomiya (left), whose Japanese American family lost their Richmond home and business during World War II incarceration, converses with an event attendant during the National Park Service’s 109th birthday event at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Richmondside\u003c/em>, a handful of staff members at the park \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">even briefly removed an exhibit \u003c/a>focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region back in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers at Monday’s event was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835709/its-horrifying-10-bay-area-artists-speak-out-on-child-detainment-at-the-border\">Flora Ninomiya, who was incarcerated\u003c/a> during World War II alongside her family and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025052/we-really-need-to-fight-japanese-americans-who-remember-internment-vow-to-resist-trump\">thousands of other Japanese Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her story is part of the fabric of history, she said, and is at risk of being lost if funding gets cut from national parks — and if certain narratives are erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really critical, especially at this time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">when our government is taking immigrants, many of them who are legally here\u003c/a>,” Ninomiya said. “That’s not American. That is certainly not what I want my government to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dismantling an institution’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jon Jarvis, who served as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/director-jonathan-jarvis.htm\">director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016\u003c/a> and spoke at Monday’s rally, said the second Trump administration’s attacks on parks are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in my now-almost-50 years of working in conservation have I seen such a direct attempt at essentially dismantling an institution that has served the American people for well over 100 years,” Jarvis told the crowd assembled on the Richmond waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Jarvis, who served as the 18th director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016, speaks during the agency’s 109th birthday celebration and Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis told KQED that the various orders from the administration have created an air of frustration and confusion among parks staff who are dedicated to carrying out their roles as educators and stewards of history. He described Trump’s executive order as counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science — it’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis said Rosie the Riveter is among \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-plan-could-offload-hundreds-of-national-park-sites-to-states/\">the many smaller national parks sites that some Republicans have proposed offloading to state or local jurisdiction\u003c/a>. For him, this place is “a microcosm of all the issues that are facing the National Park Service,” because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldwariimonuments.org/items/show/28\">its history as a community-led park\u003c/a> — making it “in many ways the perfect place” for Monday’s rally, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When the administration says, ‘We want you to shut the hell up,’ they’re basically telling the community to shut up,” Jarvis said. “And they’re telling this community … that they don’t count, their history is not relevant. It’s a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This air of defiance was on display among speakers and the assembled crowd at Monday’s event, as attendees held up signs with messages like “Resist” and “History is not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our parks must remain places where the real stories of our history are told and not changed for political convenience — and you’re not going to let that happen, right?” Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia asked the crowd, who echoed “Right!” in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberley Rodler, a former National Park Service employee and San Rafael resident who was in attendance wearing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10919734/watch-a-thousand-rosie-the-riveters-set-a-world-record-in-richmond\">Rosie the Riveter’s signature red lipstick and bandana\u003c/a>, said she is driven to act in defense of national parks by exactly those kinds of stories told at the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The little things add up,” Rodler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s speakers did not include any current parks staffers, and Torres informed the assembled crowd that staff had requested that anyone visiting the museum that day did not bring their signs or placards inside with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service told KQED the request was made “to protect the historic resources within the center and to ensure the safety of all park visitors,” in light of the park not having “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">a designated First Amendment area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The good, the bad and the shameful’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next few weeks, parks are expected to get the results of any submissions they’ve received about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans”\u003c/a> — and staff may then be asked to revise, remove or cover up any public-facing materials on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure how parks are going to handle that,” Graves said. “When I think about Rosie the Riveter, that kind of inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Torres, telling the multifaceted stories of American history, “the good and the bad and the shameful,” is the only way to avoid repeating them today. “We cannot move forward as a country unless we think critically about our past and our future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves agreed, saying that for parks staff, taking down or revising history would be akin to the “moral injury” soldiers face when they have to compromise their ethics in the line of battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to tell history accurately,” Graves said. “We want to get the facts straight and the stories correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about representing so many people who are American, who did build this country and who should be included in the way we tell the American story,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/yosemite-national-park\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> ranger was fired last week after they hung a transgender pride flag from famed climbing wall El Capitan this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJ Joslin, formerly a wildlife biologist at Yosemite, and several others lugged a 58 lb flag up the imposing wall and flew the flag on a heart-shaped feature of the rock for two hours in a celebration of their transgender identity, they said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin was not on duty at the time and was not acting on behalf of the National Parks Service, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought: What better of a place to hang a huge flag whose entire point is acceptance and celebration of a group of people — and really everyone?” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week, Joslin received their termination letter, which said they “failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Pawlitz, spokesperson for the National Park Service, would not comment on Joslin’s specific case, but confirmed NPS is “pursuing administrative action against multiple employees for failing to follow National Park Service regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947774\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of El Capitan in Yosemite, a sheer rock face with a bright blue sky behind it. An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pawlitz wrote in a statement that there have been multiple “unauthorized demonstrations involving El Capitan” and that “displaying signs, banners, and flags outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park.” Demonstrations, she added, require a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/management/upload/ep-compendium.pdf\">permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite has First Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://public-nps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nps::yosemite-national-park-designated-first-amendment-areas-open-data/about\">zones\u003c/a>, where 25 or more people can gather in permitted demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to emphasize that we take the protection of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously, and will not tolerate violations of laws and regulations that impact those resources and experiences,” Pawlitz wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said flying the flag was not a demonstration, but rather a celebration of identity, and criticized the parks service for taking action against them and not others who have similarly displayed flags on the prominent rock wall facing Yosemite Valley.[aside postID=news_12050945 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-1_qed.jpg']In fact, the park changed its flag-flying \u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite-bans-large-flags-on-el-cap-and-other-walls/\">policy \u003c/a>just one day after Joslin scaled the wall, banning large flags over 15 square feet in wilderness areas within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hanging flags on El Capitan goes back decades,” they said, referring to a recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/stop-the-genocide-banner-from-el-capitan/\">Stop the Genocide” flag\u003c/a> hung in 2024 and an upside-down\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite\"> American flag\u003c/a> flown in February of this year, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, “we are the only group of people that have been prosecuted for hanging a flag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Citron Day, \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/\">general counsel\u003c/a> at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a legal assistance group that plans to assist Joslin in pursuing reinstatement to their position, said Joslin’s firing was arbitrary and “politically motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SJ got fired for exercising their First Amendment right — period,” she said. “The message it sends is be scared and be quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates in the Bay Area condemned Joslin’s dismissal as part of the administration’s ongoing attacks on the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pattiegonia.net/\">Pattie Gonia\u003c/a>, a drag queen and environmental activist, who was also involved in hanging the flag, defended Joslin, writing in a statement that their firing “is not just an attack on SJ, but a targeted move by the Trump administration to silence and punish anyone who practices free speech and dares to stand in defiance of the erasure of trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Some visitors to many parks, monuments and public lands were frustrated with spotty service caused by the government shutdown. The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1378\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1180x847.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.resistancerangers.org/\">Resistance Rangers\u003c/a>, an unofficial group of off-duty rangers advocating for public lands, said Joslin’s firing — along with a recently-revoked Department of Interior order that asked applicants to government jobs to answer questions about how they would help \u003ca href=\"https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/07/02/opm-backs-off-pro-trump-essay-requirement-for-job-applicants-00437027\">implement \u003c/a>Trump’s agenda — is part of a concerted effort to make what should be nonpartisan work ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Trump administration is trying to do is to make sure that those people who are on the ground in these bipartisan jobs are only supporting his agenda,” Villano said. “It seems as though what they’re slowly trying to do is weed out the people who disagree with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villano said the rules National Parks rangers must abide by while on duty are strict — they can’t so much as recommend their favorite restaurant to a visitor, for example — but those rules don’t apply when they are off-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she said, Joslin’s firing also goes against Trump’s early 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/\">order \u003c/a>that bars federal officials from infringing upon free speech, creating “a really disturbing pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you wonder what they mean when they say they want to bring back free speech,” Villano said. “To me, the harder they push back on that, the more it reminds us of how powerful it is when we speak out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said they plan to pursue legal action to try to get their job back, and that their firing indicates that “the rules only apply to certain people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that my firing is a signal to other federal workers, especially NPS workers, that if you don’t comply with the ideology or the message that this current administration wants to send, then you will be eliminated,” they said. “I really care about Yosemite National Park and I want to continue caring for it in my role as a wildlife biologist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1378\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1180x847.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.resistancerangers.org/\">Resistance Rangers\u003c/a>, an unofficial group of off-duty rangers advocating for public lands, said Joslin’s firing — along with a recently-revoked Department of Interior order that asked applicants to government jobs to answer questions about how they would help \u003ca href=\"https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/07/02/opm-backs-off-pro-trump-essay-requirement-for-job-applicants-00437027\">implement \u003c/a>Trump’s agenda — is part of a concerted effort to make what should be nonpartisan work ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Trump administration is trying to do is to make sure that those people who are on the ground in these bipartisan jobs are only supporting his agenda,” Villano said. “It seems as though what they’re slowly trying to do is weed out the people who disagree with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villano said the rules National Parks rangers must abide by while on duty are strict — they can’t so much as recommend their favorite restaurant to a visitor, for example — but those rules don’t apply when they are off-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she said, Joslin’s firing also goes against Trump’s early 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/\">order \u003c/a>that bars federal officials from infringing upon free speech, creating “a really disturbing pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you wonder what they mean when they say they want to bring back free speech,” Villano said. “To me, the harder they push back on that, the more it reminds us of how powerful it is when we speak out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said they plan to pursue legal action to try to get their job back, and that their firing indicates that “the rules only apply to certain people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that my firing is a signal to other federal workers, especially NPS workers, that if you don’t comply with the ideology or the message that this current administration wants to send, then you will be eliminated,” they said. “I really care about Yosemite National Park and I want to continue caring for it in my role as a wildlife biologist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> in Marin County have removed signage that spotlighted Indigenous history, women’s contributions to the park and instances of racism in the space’s history — following \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">an executive order from President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 27 executive order criticized materials, monuments and signage within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction — which includes national parks — that “rewrite our Nation’s history” and “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/07/public-lands-women-monuments-erasure/\">the\u003cem> 19th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">the\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>POLITICO\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/burgum-asked-park-rangers-to-flag-negative-us-history-theyre-delivering/\">\u003cem>E&E News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the White House directed national parks staff to flag any signage that could violate the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” Trump wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/8858-new-order-threatens-park-service-s-efforts-to-protect-and-explore-american\">The Trump administration\u003c/a> also instructed staff at national parks to publicly post signs with QR codes inviting visitors to themselves report any signage they found to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order then gave parks a deadline: By mid-July, they had to flag any materials for possible editing or removal, which the Trump administration said it would carry out by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">Sept. 17, according to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order stated that Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum would review materials “within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction” for “improper partisan ideology” and then take action to ensure they did not “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cultural and outdoor organizations swiftly decried the order, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/\">American Historical Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/05/sierra-club-statement-interior-attempt-erase-truth-and-history-public-lands\">Sierra Club\u003c/a>. Some visitors, too, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">used the opportunity to criticize the administration’s order\u003c/a> — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/06/30/national-parks-snitch-signs-backfiring/\">praise parks staff\u003c/a> — rather than flag parks content for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happened at Muir Woods?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. But Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Winchell said the sticky notes had been removed last week pending a review following the executive order.[aside postID=news_12049014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose1_ENLARGED.jpg']“As we implement the order, we will review all signs in the park as well as all the public input we receive about the signs,” Winchell told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">The “History Under Construction” webpage \u003c/a>at \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">nps.gov\u003c/a>, with full details of the exhibit and the additions made, is still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, a former park ranger at Muir Woods who worked on the 2021 sticky notes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php\">told SFGate\u003c/a> that to her, “the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t remove anything,” Villano said. “It just layered in what had been missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National park staff have made tremendous strides in recent decades, teaching the facts about difficult topics like slavery, racism and climate change,” NPCA’s Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If some of these proposed changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are some parks staff complying with Trump’s executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“If park staff don’t comply with this directive, they may lose their jobs,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">fired over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan \u003c/a>to cut federal spending. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers in March\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to NPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that time, the White House has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">threatened deep cuts\u003c/a> to national parks budgets, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">some staff say has created a cloud of uncertainty in the department and at parks all over the country.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies like these do not help Park Service staff protect these incredible places,” Spears said. “The administration is making their jobs harder and killing their morale, at a time when Park Service staff numbers dwindle near historic lows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other parks doing in light of the executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation reports that Muir Woods appears to be the first park to have actually changed or removed its signage ahead of the White House deadline, but employees at other parks across the country have also flagged exhibits for their “inappropriate” language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes: exhibits naming slave owners and describing violence against enslaved people at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cari/index.htm\">Cane River Creole National Historical Park\u003c/a> in Louisiana; signs discussing sea level rise and erosion at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm\">Cape Hatteras National Seashore\u003c/a> in North Carolina; and wording on the U.S. government’s removal and imprisonment of Native Americans at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm\">Castillo de San Marcos National Monument\u003c/a> in Florida, the National Parks Conservation Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate information,” Spears said. “The public can handle the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” Trump wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As we implement the order, we will review all signs in the park as well as all the public input we receive about the signs,” Winchell told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">The “History Under Construction” webpage \u003c/a>at \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">nps.gov\u003c/a>, with full details of the exhibit and the additions made, is still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, a former park ranger at Muir Woods who worked on the 2021 sticky notes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php\">told SFGate\u003c/a> that to her, “the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t remove anything,” Villano said. “It just layered in what had been missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National park staff have made tremendous strides in recent decades, teaching the facts about difficult topics like slavery, racism and climate change,” NPCA’s Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If some of these proposed changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are some parks staff complying with Trump’s executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“If park staff don’t comply with this directive, they may lose their jobs,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">fired over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan \u003c/a>to cut federal spending. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers in March\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to NPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that time, the White House has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">threatened deep cuts\u003c/a> to national parks budgets, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">some staff say has created a cloud of uncertainty in the department and at parks all over the country.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies like these do not help Park Service staff protect these incredible places,” Spears said. “The administration is making their jobs harder and killing their morale, at a time when Park Service staff numbers dwindle near historic lows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other parks doing in light of the executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation reports that Muir Woods appears to be the first park to have actually changed or removed its signage ahead of the White House deadline, but employees at other parks across the country have also flagged exhibits for their “inappropriate” language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes: exhibits naming slave owners and describing violence against enslaved people at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cari/index.htm\">Cane River Creole National Historical Park\u003c/a> in Louisiana; signs discussing sea level rise and erosion at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm\">Cape Hatteras National Seashore\u003c/a> in North Carolina; and wording on the U.S. government’s removal and imprisonment of Native Americans at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm\">Castillo de San Marcos National Monument\u003c/a> in Florida, the National Parks Conservation Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate information,” Spears said. “The public can handle the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Tuesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a giant bust of Elon Musk — accompanied by the words “Make America Wait Again: Now With Longer Lines Thanks To DOGE Cuts!” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">appeared in Utah’s Arches National Park\u003c/a>, towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Musk bust has appeared again — this time in Yosemite National Park.[aside postID='news_12047124,news_12048728,news_12045255' label='Getting Outside']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitor Greg Perkins told KQED that he spotted the sculpture, which makes reference to the Tesla CEO and former Department of Government Efficiency leader’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">attempts to reduce the staff and budgets of federal departments like the National Parks Service\u003c/a>, in Yosemite this weekend — and captured photos of the giant head passing iconic park spots like \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/upper-yosemite-falls-trail\">Yosemite Falls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/el-capitan-meadow.htm\">El Capitan\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">\u003cem>Outside\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, the head spotted in Arches was 12 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Carr, Director of Communication for Yosemite National Park, confirmed that the bust of Musk was indeed present in the park this weekend. Addressing the issue of wait times referenced by the bust’s signage, Carr told KQED by email that “Yosemite National Park is one of the busiest parks in the National Park System and while it is still early in the summer season the park is on pace to surpass last year’s visitation totals of more than 4.1 million visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait times to enter Yosemite vary daily and throughout the day,” wrote Carr, and “weekends, specifically Friday and Saturday, are the busiest days with peak traffic between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049029 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-1536x1112.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to Yosemite National Park take photos of a traveling bust of Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the National Parks Conservation Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/2675-lands-of-protest\">long been used as sites of protest\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://planning.dc.gov/publication/history-resistance-lafayette-square-and-black-lives-matter-movement-washington-dc\">2020 Black Lives Matter protests\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square opposite the White House and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788540/a-look-back-at-the-occupation-of-alcatraz-50-years-later\">Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in the 1960s\u003c/a>. In February,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/upside-us-flag-hung-yosemite-national-park-protest-employee-cuts-rcna193409\"> Yosemite staffers hung an upside-down United State flag\u003c/a> from the face of El Capitan during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860844/yosemite-firefall-week-2021\">the park’s annual “firefall” event\u003c/a> in protest of the Trump administration’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049021 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bust of Elon Musk towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s policies have taken direct aim at public lands during the president’s first six months back in office, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\">calls to cut $900 million from the NPS operations budget\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">attempts to sell U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties\u003c/a> to private buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">new signs asking visitors to federal lands to report signage\u003c/a> that includes “negative” information about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant head of former DOGE head Elon Musk travels through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">lands sale was ultimately scrapped from Republicans’ budget bill\u003c/a>, and most \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/15/national-parks-spared-deeper-budget-cuts-2026-grassroots-protests/\">parks funding may remain intact in 2026\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">top Trump officials still have their eyes on Alcatraz National Park as a future federal prison site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some national parks are also struggling not only with \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7301979/national-park-system-trump-administration/\">low morale around the uncertainty \u003c/a>of staffing shortages and underfunding, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">with reported lower visitation\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">international travel wanes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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