Coalition Acts to Protect History, Science, and Interpretive Integrity in Our National Parks

Cybelle Jones

SEGD has joined a coalition of organizations committed to protecting America’s national parks, preserving and sharing history, promoting scientific literacy and access, and upholding high-quality interpretive standards to challenge a new U.S. Department of the Interior policy that is actively removing history and science from America’s largest classroom—our national parks.

The coalition includes SEGD, the National Parks Conservation Association, the American Association for State and Local History, the Association of National Park Rangers, the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, and is represented by Democracy Forward.

Read the Coalition Press Release
America’s national parks connect people to place through interpretive materials created via a disciplined, collaborative process involving historians, scientists, educators, and design professionals. The interpretive materials visitors encounter are developed through rigorous research and professional review, setting the standard for public interpretation nationwide. To alter or remove that content should require the same level of scholarly rigor and professional care.
Cybelle Jones, SEGD CEO

For more than a century, the National Park System has been one of the nation’s most trusted public educational resources—places where visitors engage with history, culture, science, and the environment. SEGD’s participation reflects our belief that experiential design is essential in translating complex history and science into authentic public experiences. Upholding these research-based interpretive standards protects the public’s access to accurate, fully contextualized information and safeguards the integrity of the field.

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