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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Warren

National Park Service delivers roadmap for protecting Georgia's Ocmulgee River corridor

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The National Park Service announced Thursday that it has delivered to Congress its long-awaited study on whether the Ocmulgee River corridor in central Georgia meets the criteria to be managed as a national park and preserve. The answer: Not quite, not yet.

But supporters aren't dismayed — they say the study was based on initial, since-abandoned plans that raised concerns that have already been addressed, and they now have what's needed to show Congress that the Muscogee Creek Nation's historic homeland in central Georgia deserves federal protection.

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