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Dozens of materials, including signs, exhibits and films, were removed from national parks as part of a Trump administration effort to remove items that it says “disparage Americans.”
A new court filing reveals that dozens of objects were removed from at least 37 National Park Service (NPS) sites.
While the descriptions of what was removed are vague, the filing reveals that they include an “African American Civil War Memorial wayside” at the National Mall.
It also includes unspecified exhibits at Acadia National Park’s nature center and unspecified exhibit panels at places including Grand Teton National Park.
The Trump administration entered the filing on Wednesday after a federal judge last week ordered it to restore the displays removed by the Trump administration.
The judge also ordered the administration to produce an inventory of each item it removed.
The removals followed an executive order from President Trump directing the Interior Department to ensure that public monuments, memorials, statues and markers “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
A later memo then directed NPS units to review all public-facing content for messaging that disparages Americans or that “emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of natural features.
Critics of these policies have described them as an effort to “erase history and undermine science” at the nation’s national parks.
The list filed by the department this week may not reflect every single removal or revision made under the order, according to an affidavit from NPS associate director for cultural resources Joy Beasley.
She wrote that in some cases, materials “may have been removed, revised, or replaced, but the completion of that process has not yet been reported to the Washington office.”
Shea added that the NPS will begin restoring some of the items next week, but she also said the NPS does not believe it can restore everything by the July 3 deadline issued by the judge.
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