CORE Launches Tool to Track History Erasures on Public Lands”
New tool will collect reports of interpretive content removals from National Parks, historic sites, and other public lands
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for Outdoor Renaming and Education (CORE) today announced the launch of the 3431 Transparency Tracker, a public tool for documenting the removal of interpretive content from National Parks, historic sites, and other federally managed lands under Secretarial Order 3431: “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
The tracker allows park staff, visitors, and community members to submit reports when signage, exhibits, webpages, or social media posts are taken down. Submissions will help build a public record of how the order is being implemented and its impact on the stories told across public lands.
In a recent coalition letter to the Department of the Interior, signed by more than 100 organizations, CORE warned that Order 3431 undermines the agency’s responsibility not only to steward the landscapes we share but also to preserve the layered and complex histories embedded within them. Parks and historic sites safeguard our collective memory through signage, exhibits, ranger talks, and digital resources. Directing the elimination of content deemed “ideological” threatens that mission.
“Our shared public lands must continue to reflect the full and complex story of this land,” said Gerry Seavo James, Deputy Director of the Sierra Club’s Outdoors for All Campaign and policy chair of CORE’s steering committee. “This tracker will help ensure that erasure does not happen in silence.”
The 3431 Transparency Tracker is now live and open for submissions. Reports can be made by visiting here.
