National Park Service

For the first time, Grand Teton National Park confirmed it removed additional signage to follow a Trump admin order to remove ‘negative’ depictions of Americans.

The new chapter will cover about 650 workers at 12 park sites or offices in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Montana and other states.

It supported an $118 million bridge at Yellowstone National Park, employee housing at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, wastewater upgrades at Great Basin National Park in Nevada and hundreds of other projects.

The land agencies are taking steps to protect establishing climbing routes and their “fixed anchors,” which have been a subject for debate in recent years. Public comment is open throughout the summer.

Conservation and historical groups sued as the Trump administration targeted hundreds of exhibits on climate change, civil rights and diverse communities.

Most of the 500 comments submitted from Grand Teton and Yellowstone call for increased federal support and ask for more Indigenous history. None reported signs with ‘disparaging’ history.

After a record-breaking month of visitors in May, the national park could see a historic summer of tourism. Twenty percent more tourists visited Yellowstone than in May of 2021, which kicked off the busiest year on record with more than 4.8 million visitors.

Many visitors objected to what they saw as an attempt to downplay difficult chapters of American history.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said more than 95% of national refuge lands could be open to hunting after proposed expansions, which follow a Trump Administration order from earlier this year that directs agencies to remove barriers to hunting and fishing.

The Dragon Bravo fire burned about 145,000 acres. Some businesses and trails are now back open.