Posted on 07/23/2025 1:54:53 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit at Muir Woods National Monument that aimed to tell a more complete history of the site, SFGATE has learned from a former park ranger who helped to develop the exhibit. It’s the first confirmed removal of what the Donald Trump administration has referred to as “improper ideology” under a directive from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued earlier this year.
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Where he probably ran into the chief ugenicists Margret Sanger who went on to found Planned Parenthood
GOOD!
And Mussolini got the trains running on time.
Brevity is the soul of effective communication.
Every single lefty I worked with in the NPS was fully indoctrinated with John Muir, and for good reason. He’s deeply embedded in the entire mission. He’s not going anywhere, no matter how “racist” he is suddenly now perceived to be.
Fake News.
The exhibit listed men as racist against asians and supporters of eugenics.
Their viewpoints had absolutely nothing to do with the Muir Woods National Park.
It was just a way to denigrate them for their contributions.
How many people travel to National Monuments and National Parks with pre-printed "yellow stickies" that were run off on a computer? "Stickies" carefully and precisely cut out with headline sections?
These people are beyond sick and pathetic. What a way to go through life!
“One of the first things that will go if we lose more staff is our ability to research and surface history that hasn’t been told before...”
Yeah, the left just CANNOT do anything without making it DEI.
Why can’t they just let everyone enjoy the beauty of God’s amazing creation at Muir Woods without the propaganda? It’s so beautiful there, like being in a natural cathedral.
Bkmrk
The left is erasing history! Now they have to work on removing the woke plaques at Arlington National Cemetery and the Robert E. Lee home.
I’ve camped out multiple times totaling many weeks and hiked hundreds of miles on the Muir trails. Never thought about the dude’s politics.
Deeeep in the forest, far beyond where any leftist girlieman would dare to go, the ancient Ents are laughing their roots off.
People on vacation and camping trips should not have to read through government signs that make them want to kill themselves and hate themselves and America.
The “context” notes provide no context at all. They grieve for the Indians displaced while making no mention of the fact that those Indians drove out previous Indian inhabitants with violence. Nor do they note that taking land through force because you are able was practiced by every culture everywhere until the latter half of the 20th century. It’s almost as though those “context” notes were meant to deceive one into believing the US was uniquely bad.
Exactly. They protest that they were just filling in missing history, as if they had no agenda themselves. They reference the native peoples, but I don’t think they want to post everything that is known about those peoples- only their paternalistic ideas about them, not the good, bad, beautiful and ugly.
If the main purpose of the park and monument was about the eugenics movement, then it would certainly be appropriate to cover it. The progressive eugenics movement was and is an ugly part of H
history that should not be covered up. But, is it a good idea to risk besmirching conservation with preachy, polarizing politics? Do those who added to the signage really want to go there, given that they most likely are progressives? Should we go ahead and include the ugly history of progressive politics and antiChristian, antilife eugenics?
But the focus of the monument isn’t political or that deep- it’s a park with unique vegetation that people of wildly different and even hostile world views briefly agreed was wnorth preserving, not a monument to colonialism or eugenics.
If everyone gets to put post it notes with their additions to the signage on the sign, there will be no end to it, and people will come to hate the park rather than to enjoy it. The parks will lose the support of the majority of people, which could result in park closures.
First of all, there is no directive to “erase history.”
There is no shortage of written material out there containing history freely available to anyone who wants it, or available at any book store, on the internet, etc.
But what you do choose to highlight at any given location paid for by the public is up to the boss. This boss has seen how polarized and nasty the country has become and in so far as he is able, he is setting forth policy to reverse that and try to highlight the things that serve our common interest and bring us together rather than those which depress us and tear us apart. . Get over it.
Good riddance.
Not a fan of the national parks, the Lassen park now charges 10 to even enter the park, no cash , just card . And don't dare walk outside of their damn trails. Or carry for protection. To pay for using what is supposed to be public lands is disgusting . Same for camping in national forests.
Is it public land or not ? Lots used to go camping for a vacation they could afford .not anymore .
Now the np’s , nf’s and wilderness areas are just DEI employment programs for woke libtards.
Every fan of mui I ever met were greenie GIA worshipers and commie academics.
Maybe Trump can make these lands free to enjoy again.
I would like for that leftist liberal wo wrote that to name one young woman who joined the CCC.
My Dad went into the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from Blount County, Alabama and was sent to Northern California to help the lumberjacks fell Redwood trees. I have one of Dad's camp newsletters, published at the camp and there is not one woman mentioned.
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