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What do we do to stop the erasure of history and science at our parks? It’s been a terrible year for public lands and those who love them. Every day there is a new, horrible thing to be sad and angry about. But there is so much you can do!

We talk to brilliant, inspiring grass roots organizers from Save Our Signs and Avenging the Ancestors Coalition about the ongoing saga of the President’s House in Philadelphia and how we can save our signs across the country.

On Valentine's Day 2025, thousands of probationary federal employees were illegally fired, including rangers in the National Park Service.

This was a cruel act, ending the careers of many passionate and skilled employees before they could truly start. Today, we honor and remember them by sharing their stories, and we will continue to fight for them.

If you hike, swim, paint, visit museums, boat, hunt, fish, or meditate, public lands are for you. If you’ve never done any of that, public lands are still for you. Protecting our public lands means embracing lands’ many uses and users - it means protecting the heritage of hunting and fishing. 

This week on Resistance Rangers On the Air, we’re talking all things public lands, hunting, and fishing with Aaron Murphy of @AmericanHuntersAnglers. Learn why we should care, why these activities are so important for maintaining healthy ecosystems, and how we fight to fund public land access.

Today, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day to honor the first peoples of this land, celebrate their cultures, and tell the real story behind America’s Best Idea—one of connection and resilience.

First, we’ll hear a historical critique of the establishment of the NPS, including the painful reality of tribal displacement and the legacy of settler colonialism. Then, our Indigenous guests will share their personal definitions of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Join us for a powerful celebration of Native cultures—their resilience, survival, and continued resistance against erasure.

Resistance Rangers On The Air is dropping a very special shutdown episode that dives into shutdown questions, answers, stories, and a little hot goss.

On October 3rd we did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit and Instagram. Now, in case you missed it, here's some of your questions and the answers we had for you. Contains some swearing. We're a little fed up.

On this episode of Resistance Rangers On the Air, we’ll be covering a subject that is near and dear to the hearts of our rangers. Fundamentals is - no, was - a course promised to every ranger with permanent status. Fundamentals was more than just a privilege. For many, it was a dream.

As you’ll hear in this episode, this course opened your eyes to everything the NPS stood for and your responsibilities as a steward of resources and history, as a coworker to the dozens of types of rangers, and as a human at the heart of America’s Best Idea. But before we get into that, let’s start with the news.

An NPS probationary employee at Yosemite was fired for hanging a trans flag off El Capitan in their off time. Listen to the press release that ranger wrote: their story in their words, unfiltered by the media.

On May 20, DOI Secretary Doug Burgum issued Secretarial Order 3431 - “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. SO 3431 required all NPS sites to report any monument, memorial, statue, marker, or sign that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living”. Without formal guidance, some park sites complied... and some did not.

The reports were made, the consequences are here, and the cavalry is not coming to save us.

Our premiere full episode! We're running the full gamut. We've got This Week in the News, where we discuss headlines that relate to the National Park Service, followed by the TL;DR: What are those Resistance Rangers up to??

At 34:00 we begin our spotlight on Stonewall National Monument, because we won't forget and we hope you won't either.