Mountain West Bureau: A coalition of public lands advocates and historians has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of censoring American history and science at national parks, including several in the Mountain West.

The lawsuit, led by Democracy Forward on behalf of groups including the National Parks Conservation Association, challenges a directive from the Interior Department. The groups say park staff have been ordered to remove or edit materials that discuss slavery, Indigenous displacement, civil rights, and climate change.

The complaint cites examples across the Mountain West. At Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado, a sign describing a family’s “ownership” of enslaved people was flagged. At Glacier National Park in Montana, references to climate change and melting glaciers were removed. And at Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona, exhibits about the forced removal of Native tribes were reportedly taken down.

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