USA Today Covers Collective Effort to Expand Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

USA Today picked up the Associated Press story that nods to NPF’s support to the collective effort to expand and protect ancestral lands and cultural heritage at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in collaboration with the Muscogee Creek Nation. Read an excerpt from the story, “Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to protect Native ancestral lands from development,” below.

“The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, National Park Service, Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, National Park Foundation and the Open Space Institute announced the addition to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, noting the land had been in danger of development before being protected using the Land and Water Conservation Fund and private funding.”

Read the full article here.