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Man Sentenced To Prison For Sexual Assault In Lake Mead National Recreation Area

At an 8th District Court (NV) hearing in July 2022, Nicholas Ryan Floyd was ordered to serve 20-55 years in prison, with earliest parole possibility in 2042. This outcome was the result of the bravery of the young survivor of Floyd's crimes, and a determined investigation by Special Agents of the NPS Investigative Services Branch.

Effigy Mounds National Monument Becomes A Tribal Sister Park To Ioway Tribal National Park

The National Park Service (NPS) Effigy Mounds National Monument and leaders of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska (ITKN), signed a first-of-its-kind agreement establishing the first Tribal Sister Park relationship between a U.S. national park and a Tribal Nation’s National Park.

The Recreational Evolution Of Cumberland Island National Seashore

Growing popularity of Cumberland Island National Seashore, which shimmers in the Atlantic on Georgia's largest barrier island, has driven the National Park Service there to craft a plan to, it hopes, better manage that visitation. The agency there has extended the public comment period on their Visitor Use Management Plan through December 30, providing interested parties additional time to review a document that, if approved, significantly evolves the seashore's nearly four-decades old general management plan.