Fact-checkers examined claims that President Donald Trump authorized hunting inside U.S. national parks, finding the assertion mixes outdated policy debates with mislabeled social posts.
Federal law still restricts recreational hunting in most park units managed by the National Park Service, with narrow exceptions for invasive-species culls conducted by trained staff.
Recent Interior Department memos discussed expanding access on certain wildlife refuges, not converting iconic parks like Yellowstone into open hunting grounds.
Viral graphics conflated Bureau of Land Management acreage, where hunting is common, with national parks depicted in tourism brochures.
Conservation groups said the rumor nonetheless mobilized volunteers to monitor trailheads for poaching after unrelated coyote-removal contracts elsewhere.
Official park websites continue to list firearms rules prohibiting discharge except in designated external zones where state law applies.
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