Repeated Mississippi River flooding is threatening prehistoric burial mounds that comprise Iowa’s only national monument, and the U..S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for public input on plans to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. HARPERS FERRY, IOWA — If a love of hiking is the only thing that takes you to northeast Iowa’s Effigy Mounds National Monument — ...

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold an open house tonight at the Effigy Mounds National Monument Visitor Center in Harpers Ferry to discuss plans to protect the area from ...

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the ...

An Iowa national park ranger who went viral with a social media post about being one of thousands of probationary federal workers included in a massive Department of Government Efficiency-led layoff ...

Iowa has a reputation for being flat and monotonous; that is to say, “boring,” at least topographically. I have only traveled the edges, however, which are anything but. The Hawkeye State’s eastern ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located near Marquette, Iowa. In this episode of NatureScene, SCETV host Jim Welch along with naturalist Rudy Mancke take us to Effigy Mounds National Monument ...

Looking at a map of America’s national parks, one might think that the beauty of our nation can be found only in California and the Mountain West. But breathtaking beauty exists right here in the ...

Brian Gibbs lost his job as a national park ranger on Friday. He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. It was his "dream job," he wrote in ...

An Iowan was among 1,000 National Park Services employees unexpectedly fired on Valentine's Day. Brian Gibbs' Facebook post announcing his sudden departure garnered more than 73,000 reactions, over 11 ...

HARPERS FERRY, IOWA — If a love of hiking is the only thing that takes you to northeast Iowa’s Effigy Mounds National Monument — where 14 miles of trails wind through the elegant 2,526-acre monument — ...