Visitors to national parks across the country could soon see signs asking them to report historical presentations that fail to extol the country’s history.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Tuesday ordered the department’s agencies and bureaus to erect signs “throughout each property, in as many locations within each property as necessary and appropriate to ensure public awareness” about the new initiative.
The signs are to use a standard script that says the site “belongs to the American people” and are to contain a QR code. Those codes are an encoded image that when highlighted by a smartphone camera opens a particular webpage.
The signs Burgum is ordering would then ask visitors to identify on that website any areas they viewed that need repairs or improvements, as well as “any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other natural features.”
