Lawmakers reintroduce bill to create Georgia’s first national park

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act, which would create Georgia’s first national park. The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Raphael Warnock (D) and Jon Ossoff (D), along with Reps. Austin Scott (R) and Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D), would expand protections for the ancestral lands and burial mounds of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. If passed, it would also establish the first national park co-managed by a removed tribe.