U.S. Court Orders Trump to Restore Park Signage, Including Muir Woods, After 2025 Removals
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Updated · KQED · Jun 15
U.S. Court Orders Trump to Restore Park Signage, Including Muir Woods, After 2025 Removals
3 articles · Updated · KQED · Jun 15
Summary
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to put back national park signs removed last year, including a Muir Woods display on women’s and Indigenous people’s roles in the monument’s founding.
The ruling says the removals stemmed from a 2025 executive order targeting material officials deemed to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
Judge Angel Kelley’s 63-page opinion said White House leaders had stripped exhibits covering slavery, climate change and other history, accusing them of trying to rewrite the nation’s past “with a white-out pen.”
The order builds on a preliminary injunction issued days earlier that blocked further exhibit censorship and required restoration of altered park materials within three weeks.