Climate and Wabanaki signs to return to Acadia

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 15, 2026

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return educational signs to national parks and monuments, stopping a government campaign to erase climate science and Indigenous history from places like Acadia National Park. The ruling on Friday requires federal officials to restore dozens of Acadia’s displays on warming oceans and Wabanaki heritage by July 3. This legal victory ensures that the millions who visit Maine’s coast this summer will receive an unvarnished look at the state’s changing environment. State Rep. Gary Friedmann, of Bar Harbor, said people in his district felt a combination of disbelief and outrage when the Trump administration ordered the Wabanaki heritage and climate change signs removed from Acadia. He considered that level of federal interference an attack on history, science and truth.