Visitors to public lands have begun weighing in with gusto on the Trump administration’s management of national parks through an online form launched earlier this month to flag “negative” depictions of U.S. history.
The nation’s tourists have told NPS they want better benches, cleaner concession stands and more history about Native Americans. But most of all they want the Trump administration to halt proposed budget cuts and tread lightly on how the National Park Services reworks its portrayals of the nation’s history, according to hundreds of submissions reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
“Yosemite is awesome,” a visitor to Yosemite National Park in California on June 14 wrote. “Stop cutting funds for staffing, research and visitors services. I want to know ALL US history, not just what the government tells me to know.”
A visitor who toured five national parks in April, including Zion National Park, urged the administration to support park rangers.
