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At the Grand Canyon NP (attempting to white wash history)
The passages included text stating that settlers “exploited land for mining and grazing” and that federal officials “pushed tribes off their land” to establish the park.
The park also removed references to cattle ranchers “carelessly overgrazing” the land, tourists “foolishly” leaving trash in the park, and entrepreneurs who “profited excessively” from tourism.
I was ready to mock this move (and still am), but those passages do strike me as editorializing that's a bit more low-brow than what I'd expect from the NPS.
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