Park Service says Denali National Park employee relayed flag complaint without authorization

An American emblem flies astatine Denali National Park (NPS Photo/Ken Conger)

The National Park Service has clarified really a nationalist sound title that led to an American flag’s removal from a building worker’s conveyance connected nan roadworthy into Denali National Park reached nan Federal Highway Administration.

The FHWA, which is administering a span task adjacent Mile 45 of Denali Park Road, said past week that it asked contractor Granite Construction to person nan emblem removed.

A Saturday connection from NPS Alaska spokesperson Peter Christian says nan agency has confirmed that a parkland worker notified unit astatine nan road management astir a visitant title astir a emblem “flapping” connected nan Park Road.

It says nan worker asked if location was an “appropriate measurement to petition it beryllium detached from a contractor’s conveyance to limit wildlife and visitant impacts.”

According to nan NPS statement, nan worker contacted nan FHWA without authorization, and without nan parkland superintendent’s knowledge.

The emblem removal drew backlash from Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and spurred drivers to return a convoy of vehicles flying American flags into nan parkland May 26.

According to nan Saturday statement, parkland officials person taken “corrective actions to guarantee early parkland and task communications travel due procedures.”