If you could travel back in time to visit the Macon Plateau of more than a thousand years ago, you’d see a community made up of ancestors of the Muscogee people living, meeting, growing food and burying their dead in earthen mounds, some of which are still around today. Soon, some of that land could be preserved in America’s newest national park, and the first one in the state of Georgia.
A bipartisan group of Georgia Congressional legislators from both chambers are backing a new bill that would designate the area as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve.
Tracie Revis, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the director of advocacy for the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, said she’s especially pleased that the proposed legislation gives the nation a say in creating the park’s management plan and allows for co-management with the National Park Service.
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