Ocmulgee Mounds grows closer to becoming the 64th national park [Video]

MACON, Ga. — The Open Space Institute’s (OSI) plans to create Georgia’s first National Park and Preserve continue.

They announced on Thursday that 931 acres of land in Twiggs and Bibb county are now protected, according to a press release.

The institute have been working since 2022 to provide long-term protection and preservation of the Ocmulgee Mounds and Ocmulgee River floodplain so they can turn it into a national ark.

The new protected properties, named the “Branson Tracts,” will be transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to be added to the 8,600-acre Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The fish and wildlife service, according to the news release, prioritized preserving this land for hunting and fishing and to preserve wildlife habitat. 

The OSI provided a map of the newly protected land.

“This …