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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.

Photography In The National Parks: Getting Great Smartphone Shots – Part 2

The smartphone camera is an amazing piece of technology and people are coming home from their national park trips with some really cool shots. In this Part 2 continuation, contributing photographer Rebecca Latson provides more tips and techniques on how to make the most of your own smartphone camera for great park images that don’t look like a run-of-the-mill snapshot.