Project Updates

January 28, 2026 Announcement:  

There are increasing reports of sign removals from National Park Service sites. Please submit both before and after photos of NPS signs and displays to our SOS submission form. We have added a new question on the form to indicate if you think your submission documents a sign removal or change. Additionally, you can send photos of protest art or creative responses to sign removals to this form as well.  Read more about how you can help at the Data Rescue Project website.

Submit your photos here.

Additionally, most of the Save Our Signs team is based in Minnesota. We are in the midst of a crisis, and are slower to respond via email. We thank you for your patience. Please learn more and support Minnesotans at:  Stand With Minnesota 

January 24, 2026 Announcement:  

We are seeing increasing reports of sign removals.  Please submit both before and after photos of NPS signs and displays to our SOS submission form.  We are also working on an updated backend database that will make it easier to submit before and after photos and connect them to each other; but this will take some time to develop.  For now, please submit any photos to the regular form.

Behind the Scenes:  December updates

• The Parks have re-opened after the government shutdown, so please continue to take photos of signs as you visit them! 

• Traveling for the holidays?  Make a stop at a National Park Site!  We are still accepting photos for the collection.  Check out the map and spreadsheet to see where you can help.   

• Our team is updating our backend database and photo curation processes for the second round of photos to be published!  We don’t yet have a solid deadline for the second round, but it will likely be in the new year/early 2026.

October 13:  Launch of the Save Our Signs Archive

• Save Our Signs Press Release

• This initial photo collection includes all photos submitted by September 24 that are in-scope for the project (legible images of NPS signs without identifiable people in them).

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

• See the SOS Archive page for more details.

Behind the Scenes:  September 18-October 13

• 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 build 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!

September 20:  More signs reported removed

• The Washington Post has reported additional signs have been removed at  Acadia National Park and at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (a subsite of Gateway National Recreation Area).  

• We have started to track these confirmed removals: see Erasure in Action page.

September 17:  Initial photo submission deadline

• Photos submitted by this date will be included in the initial photo collection published on October 13.

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