Last year, the Trump administration launched a sweeping campaign to censor American history and science in the National Park Service. A crowdsourced project aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the government removes them 🧵
Aug 7, 2026 at 5:06 PM
‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
National Park Service: Public Use of the National Park System (1872-2000): Chapter 9
The first part of this section reviews basic ideas for dispersing visitors outside the System. While merit is seen in some of these ideas, the conclusion is reached that at best they can make only a limited contribution to regulating mounting park travel because there is no substitute for a visit to a national park. The second part of this section then reviews concepts and methods for regulating public use inside the parks through park developments, land classification, including wilderness area designations, and vehicular controls, including new transportation systems.
Guide to the Ronald F. Lee Papers (U.S. National Park Service)
Guide to the Ronald F. Lee Papers
Ocean Park: Libraries roiled by ‘no rainbow’ fight
OCEAN PARK — Timberland Regional Library (TRL) Board President Brian Mittge listened to nearly three hours of public comment in Ocean Park Wednesday, June 24, from his fellow board members […]
State of Conservation Technology | WILDLABS
Explore insights from the first community-sourced assessment of the State of Conservation Technology
Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance scientific research. We present contributory citizen science as a valuable method to scientists and practitioners within the environmental and ecological sciences, focusing on the full life cycle of citizen science practice, from design to implementation, evaluation and data management. We highlight key issues in citizen science and how to address them, such as participant engagement and retention, data quality assurance and bias correction, as well as ethical considerations regarding data sharing. We also provide a range of examples to illustrate the diversity of applications, from biodiversity research and land cover assessment to forest health monitoring and marine pollution. The aspects of reproducibility and data sharing are considered, placing citizen science within an encompassing open science perspective. Finally, we discuss its limitations and challenges and present an outlook for the application of citizen science in multiple science domains.
Ivan Illich and Silence as a Commons | David Bollier
Scott Silver, executive director of Wild Wilderness, calls it the “corporate takeover of nature and the Disneyfication of the wild.” He’s referring the American Recreation Coalition, an industry trade association, and its new “Scenic Byways” website that proposes inserting “tonal patterns” into roadways as a new form of “innovative communication” (i.e., advertising). Kym Murphy, the former v.p. for environmental policy at the Walt Disney Company, explains:
Nate on Twitter / X
OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026
Science: A New Golden Age
President Trump seeks to lay the foundations for a new Golden Age of American Innovation. The Trump administration is working to revitalize the national science enterprise, to secure U.S. leadership in emerging technologies against foreign rivals, and to ensure that all of America’s citizens will benefit from new scientific breakthroughs and technological transformations. The President understands the American story as one of ambition, discovery, and invention, of pioneers who forever seek new frontiers for exploration, particularly now in science and technology.
Science: A New Golden Age
President Trump seeks to lay the foundations for a new Golden Age of American Innovation. The Trump administration is working to revitalize the national science enterprise, to secure U.S. leadership in emerging technologies against foreign rivals, and to ensure that all of America’s citizens will benefit from new scientific breakthroughs and technological transformations. The President understands the American story as one of ambition, discovery, and invention, of pioneers who forever seek new frontiers for exploration, particularly now in science and technology.
Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions
Free and independent tracker documenting Trump-related actions using verified news sources. Statements & plans mapped to authoritarianism domains.
Building Digital Public Parks with Deepti Doshi
Designed for trust and connection, not ad clicks and outrage
Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It
Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Socie…
Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals
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