Well, good: I might want to know the distance to the summit, but not forced to endure a left-wing civics lesson along the way

““Americans [should] want the true and full picture of the history of our country and how climate change is impacting our national parks and our communities, [and if they don’t we’re gonna tell ‘em anyway — power to the People, right on!]”

Educational (sic) signs pulled from Acadia after Trump orders

An internal database anonymously uploaded Monday shows hundreds of educational placards that have been flagged for removal at Acadia and other national parks because of President Donald Trump’s efforts to politically control information available to park visitors.

The database is believed to have been publicly posted online by disgruntled park service employees.

The entries by Acadia park staffers include displays about climate change and indigenous history. 

Trump’s March 2025 order instructed the park service to pull displays that “disparage Americans past or living” and distract from the “grandeur of the American landscape.” 

At least some of the displays have already been taken down, according to Todd Martin, a regional official for the National Parks Conservation Association, which recently  joined a coalition of scientists and historians suing the Department of Interior for the administration’s attempts to “erase history and censor science at America’s national parks.” 

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“Americans want the true and full picture of the history of our country and how climate change is impacting our national parks and our communities,” Martin said. [Not this American, thank you — ED] “We can handle the truth. We don’t want to see science and history sanitized or whitewashed. Americans deserve to learn those histories and those stories when they visit our national parks.”

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Cedar tri-pod signs — 30 in total — were  removed from the summit of Cadillac Mountain and the Great Meadow last September, about a month before they are usually placed in winter storage. 

The signs detailed the mountain’s importance to the Wabanaki nations and the impacts of climate change.

Those signs are not expected to return by Memorial Day, as has historically been the case, Martin said.