Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, Georgia
This past year, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park received $2.8 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to protect the Lamar Mounds. The project will not only connect two separated areas of the park to ease public access, but also preserves a significant Native American cultural site. Ocmulgee Mounds contains 17,000 years of Indigenous history and artifacts, and acquisition of this new area will ensure permanent protection of the ancestral homeland of The Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
The LWCF has protected America’s favorite public lands for 56 years. With full, permanent funding of the program recently secured through the Great American Outdoors Act in 2020, we want to celebrate the victory by sharing your LWCF stories from across the country. LWCF has touched thousands of places and millions of faces, in every state and U.S. territory, and will continue to protect our public lands for generations to come.