Project Updates

Important Dates:

September 17:  Initial photo submission deadline

• Submit your photos by this date for inclusion in the photo collection that will be published by October 13.

• We will continue to accept photo submissions after September 17, but they may be published publicly at a future date.  

October 13:  Publish the public photo collection

• This initial photo collection will include all photos submitted by September 17 that are in-scope for the project (legible images of NPS signs without identifiable people in them).

• Future photo collections may include photos submitted after September 17.

Behind the Scenes

Our team is hard at work organizing and curating the thousands of photos that you have submitted!  We need to sort them into folders by park, remove any out-of-scope photos, host them on a publicly accessible server, and have an accessible public interface.  We're still working on the technical details, so stay tuned on this page for future project updates!  

Thank you so much for your participation in and support of this project - we truly could not do it without you!

Additional Updates:

September 12:  

Volunteers submitted these before-and-after pictures of the first documented removal/modification of a sign under the Executive Order and Secretarial Order.

Background on the history of this sign:

KQED article, 2025:  What’s Going on With the Muir Woods Exhibit Removal?

NPS website article, 2023:  History Under Construction

SF Gate article, 2021:  Muir Woods park staff annotates own signs with historical corrections for racism, misogyny