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CLAYTON, Iowa - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park's visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with a ...

Ranger Brian Gibbs went viral on social media after announcing he'd lost his job at Iowa's Effigy Mounds in federal layoffs. Now he has his job back ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking public comments on its draft plan to protect the Sny Magill-Effigy Mounds, near Guttenberg, Iowa, along the Mississippi River. The draft ...

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 ...

When Brian Gibbs woke up on Valentine's Day on Friday, it was just another morning of getting to do what he loved at his "dream job" as an education park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Park Service museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks among effigy mounds last month in the Sny Magill unit of Effigy ...