Baseball Team Wins Logo Battle Against National Park Service
The Glacier Range Riders baseball team can keep using their arrowhead logo after the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) dropped its complaint against them.
The dispute started in October 2022 when the NPS claimed the team’s logo looked too much like their own symbol. The Range Riders had just joined the independent Pioneer League earlier that year.
Happy ending
This happy ending comes as great news for the Montana-based team, writes MTN News. “As an organization, we’re very grateful that this came to a resolution in the manner that it did”, general manager of business operations Leo Kelly said. “It gives us the opportunity to focus on what our jobs here are day to day, truly.”
Kelly explained that keeping their logo saves them from a lot of trouble and expense. “It means we don’t have to reorder all the merchandise”, he said. “So as well as a number of other things, the logos have become loved by the community here as a whole.”
Key part
The logo has become a key part of the team’s identity since they started playing. “We’ve integrated it into so many different aspects of our brand that it’s, it’s become one of the, one of the, the larger symbols that reflects what the range riders are. So it’s very important to us that, we get to retain that and use it”, Kelly added.
The National Park Service has not yet commented on why they decided to drop the case.
