Backlog of USNPS feasibility studies frustrates boosters of new NP proposals

Seth Clark predicts that his home state of Georgia will finally make history in 2023, winning approval of its very first national park.

“I do believe that the 64th national park will be created within a year in middle Georgia,” said Clark, the mayor pro-tem of Macon-Bibb County and the executive director of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/frustrations-mount-as-national-park-service-studies-pile-up/

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