Bipartisan push for Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve

Georgia legislators make 2nd effort to turn Ocmulgee Mounds into a national park, preserve

A bipartisan bill to make the Ocmulgee Mounds Georgia’s first and only national park and preserve was reintroduced Wednesday after an effort in 2024 didn’t ultimately make it through Congress. Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Reps. Sanford Bishop (D, GA-02) and Austin Scott (R, GA-08) introduced the legislation.

Bipartisan push for Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve

Nearly all of Georgia’s representatives in the U.S. House have signed on to support a resolution that would establish a new national park in Georgia.

Ocmulgee Mounds national park bill reintroduced in Congress

ATLANTA – Georgia’s two U.S. senators and two members of the U.S. House from South Georgia Wednesday reintroduced legislation to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as the state’s first national park. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed the bill last November, but it had to be reintroduced because a new Congress took office in January. The area is the ancestral home of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has been inhabited continuou

Bipartisan Effort Launched to Establish Georgia's First National Park at Ocmulgee Mounds

A bipartisan coalition of Georgia lawmakers, including U.S. Representatives Austin Scott (GA-08) and Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), and U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock, have reintroduced the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act. This legislation aims to designate the Ocmulgee Mounds and surrounding areas in Middle Georgia as the state’s first National Park and Preserve. Representative Austin Scott e…

Georgia lawmakers reintroduce bill to establish Ocmulgee Mounds as first National Park and preserve 41NBC News

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Georgia lawmakers are once again pushing to make Ocmulgee Mounds the state’s first National Park and Preserve. U.S. Representatives Austin Scott and Sanford D. Bishop, along with Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, have reintroduced the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act. “Establishing the Ocmulgee Mounds and surrounding areas as Georgia’s first National Park and Preserve remains a top …