The Department of the Interior told USA TODAY it was aware of the "unauthorized and inappropriate" display, which was eventually taken down.

High Desert area residents and climbers hang an American flag upside down in a symbol of distress and protest against federal ...

After a photo of an upside American flag at a national park starting circulating online, a Town of Washington man is doing ...

However over the last 50 years or so, flying the flag upside down has become a sign of protest. In the first well-documented instance, the US Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that a student had the right ...

A group of climbers, some who used to work for the Park Service, intended to raise awareness about how recent federal job ...

Image via Shutterstock Visitors at Yosemite National Park were perplexed to find the American flag hanging upside down at the ...

Yosemite National Park staffers hung an American flag upside down from the park's El Capitan summit over the weekend to ...

According to the National Parks Conservation Association, about 400 people took the federal buyout, and about 1,000 more were laid off. Despite a hiring freeze, the Department of the Interior ...

We at Saint Sabina’s in Chicago have chosen to raise the U.S. flag upside down to say what’s happening is wrong and unacceptable.

The terminations at national parks and forests have left workers bewildered and worried not only for themselves but for the ...

Yosemite National Park staff hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan summit to protest staff firings at the park by the ...

Flying the American flag upside down is often done during times of distress or unrest. An American flag was hung upside down ...