Under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the National Park Service, like all federal agencies, has a January 18, 2018, deadline to make electronic information and technology accessible to people with disabilities. As part of that process we are updating PDF documents on NPS.gov that are not yet accessible to all, including climate action plans for nearly 100 parks that were listed on a nps.gov webpage. Those non-compliant PDF documents are temporarily unavailable for download while we work to make them compliant with the revised accessibility standards. In the meantime the PDF documents will be provided by email upon request.
Which now requires you to email the agency for access to the PDFs:The CFP Program features more than 120 member parks from every region across the Service. To read more about what these parks are doing to respond to climate change and move park operations in a more sustainable direction, select the member park below.
Another agency that oversees public lands, the Bureau of Land Management, also removed its climate change page, and also told Motherboard that “extensive changes and upgrades” to its website were responsible for the change. The agency, however, has not reinstated the page since it was taken down earlier this year.Many of the nation’s most popular national parks were members of this program. Part of the “Green Parks Plan,” created on April 22, 2012 under National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis, it provides actionable ways for parks to respond to, and mitigate, climate change.The program’s importance is evidenced by its participants, like Joshua Tree National Park and Everglades National Park. Both are extremely threatened by climate change—rising temperatures are already shrinking the range of the iconic Joshua tree. Sea level rise, meanwhile, is disrupting the Everglades’ unique freshwater ecosystems.Public information that opposes Trump’s environmental policy has steadily disappeared from government websites, starting with the White House. The Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, has similarly edited its online climate resources. In the meantime, staff are being ordered to promote fossil fuel development on public lands.Correction: The headline of this story was updated to clarify that the National Park Service promises to reinstate 92 climate change documents. The original headline was "The National Park Service Promises to Reinstate 92 Climate Change Pages Removed From Website."The CFP Program features more than 120 member parks from every region across the National Park Service. Many Climate Action Plans have been developed; a list [sic] parks with available documents is below. If you would like to be emailed a copy of any listed park's action plan, please contact the NPS Sustainable Operations Branch: e-mail us.