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The George Wright Society champions stewardship of parks, protected & conserved areas, cultural sites, and other kinds of place-based conservation by connecting people, places, knowledge, and ideas. By uniting people from many different backgrounds around a common passion for protecting Earth’s natural and cultural heritage, we create the collaboration needed to meet today’s greatest conservation challenges.

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Parkwire,  GWS’s daily global digest

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Latest top headlines  •  10 February 2026

Trump forced Stonewall NM to take down its Rainbow Pride Flag. Local activists vowed to try to put it back up. https://buff.ly/OnycEJ6

Devices used by the fishing industry to herd tuna are often lost or abandoned at sea. Some are causing problems in Galápagos Marine Reserve in Ecuador. https://buff.ly/3Px58uf

NY Times has a feature story on the challenges facing mountain lions in and around Santa Monica Mountains NRA, and the wildlife crossing that is being built for them over a busy highway. https://buff.ly/DjHcZlk

Trump declared Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NMon open to commercial fishing. He did the same thing in his first time but Biden reversed it. Lawsuits are incoming. https://buff.ly/W8vkjvG

Martin Luther King III denounced Trump's censorship of brochures at Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home NMon. References to Medgar Evers' assassin as a "racist" are being removed. https://buff.ly/d5NaDCV UPDATE: It is now being reported that the brochures have been returned to the park without being edited ... at least for now. https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/visitor-brochures-returned-medgar-evers-home/

Under orders, USNPS has pulled brochures at Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home NMon in order to remove a reference to Medgar Evers' assassin — a KKK member — as being a racist. The revised brochure has not been issued yet. https://buff.ly/n9rsNP6

In other censorship news, signage at Little Bighorn Battlefield NMon referring "describing broken promises to Native American tribes and references to the loss of Indigenous culture and language under boarding school systems,” according to a local Montana outlet, KTVQ. https://buff.ly/33LyTLp

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) spoke out about the administration's erasure of history in a House floor speech. You can watch the speech on this recording from C-Span. https://buff.ly/ssEfCHo

The first-ever biography of our namesake — the visionary who revolutionized management of America‘s national parks

“Emory’s enumeration of Wright’s accomplishments—including a survey of wildlife in Western parks, the first of its kind—is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Highly recommended for nature lovers and park enthusiasts.” LIBRARY JOURNAL

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