The Fish and Wildlife Service has considered erasing language from some exhibits at wildlife refuges to comply with the Trump administration’s mandates to reconsider how U.S. history is presented at federal sites, agency records show.
But while potentially rewriting some references to issues including climate change and Native Americans, the records obtained by the Sierra Club show the Fish and Wildlife Service was also receiving inconsistent guidance from Interior Department higher-ups about what can and cannot be said.
“These documents expose the Interior Department’s chaotic and contradictory approach to implementing Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite history,” Gerry James, deputy director for the Sierra Club’s Outdoors For All campaign, said in a statement Monday.
James added that Interior’s at-times conflicting guidance “continues to put career public servants in the difficult position of evaluating whether telling the full story of our public lands violates an executive order rooted in climate denial and hostility toward marginalized communities.”
