Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Ocmulgee Mounds might become America's next National Park, albeit with a sizeable boundary expansion and a less-than-perfect set of logistical challenges. In this video, I'm giving you a deep dive on the effort to create an Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve, including what this park would even entail, the reasons its proponents are pushing for it in the first place, and why the National Park Service itself doesn't think it should be created...

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Sources and Resources:
youtu.be/2AaQSWyKFqA?si=lyISPFWafdIoZEe7
npca.org/resources/3189-diamond-in-the-rough
parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=415&projectID=91276&documentID=132895
georgiarecorder.com/briefs/bill-to-create-ocmulgee-mounds-national-park-near-macon-gets-broad-backing-from-georgia-delegation
thecurrentga.org/2024/05/04/oklahomas-muscogee-creek-nation-prepares-to-co-manage-georgias-first-national-park

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