Tweeting about climate isn’t unusual for the park — but the tweets came as the Trump administration banned other scientists in the government from social media.
Badlands National Park on Tuesday posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account, then deleted them.
Before being deleted, the tweets were retweeted thousands of times and earned praise as defiance of the Trump administration. In his campaign, President Trump said "no one really knows" if climate change is real, a break with mainstream science. He has also vowed to eliminate the Obama administration's policies on climate change.
The tweets came after the Trump Administration ordered some scientists within the federal government into silence.
Employees within the US Department of Agriculture have been banned from sharing its research with the public — including on social media. The Environmental Protection Agency was similarly banned from providing updates to reporters or posting to social media as its grants and contracts were frozen.
Spokespeople for the South Dakota park and National Park Service didn't immediately respond to questions about what prompted Tuesday's tweets.
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