1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Congress must act to stop Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's systematic removal of science, history, and Indigenous perspectives from National Park Service websites, visitor centers, and physical signs. A small group of Interior Department employees has been quietly reviewing NPS's 180,000 websites since February, stripping content under Trump's 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History' directive. That's not restoring truth — it's erasing it. The examples are damning. A Tribal group's article for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail had references to Sally Hemings removed before it could be posted. A sign at Grand Teton acknowledging the massacre of at least 173 Piegan Blackfeet was pulled. Signs at Muir Woods crediting Indigenous people and women were taken down. Sanitizing this history doesn't make it less true — it makes it easier to justify weakening the protections that exist because of it. With 77% of national parks already highly vulnerable to climate change, erasing climate science from public lands is not a neutral act. Require public land agencies to post only comprehensive, science-based, well-researched information — on websites, signs, maps, and in visitor centers. Park-based staff, in consultation with Tribes and local communities, should lead those decisions, as they did before February. Congress has the authority to mandate this. Use it.