Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

Pamphlets, booklets and activities educating children on history and science in national parks have come under review as the Trump administration works to eliminate informative materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” or fail to “emphasize the beauty, abundance, or grandeur of landscapes and other natural features.”

These “Junior Ranger” materials are among hundreds of items that appear in an internal government database leaked to the public in early March. And while much of the leak’s content has been publicized in news stories, this report is the first to surface how the Trump administration is poised to alter what young people learn in national parks, including everything from Indigenous history to the Civil Rights Movement to light pollution in the night sky.

Read more Junior Ranger items on Trump’s national parks chopping block