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The Effigy Mounds visitor center had to close because of staffing shortages, Gibbs told the Register. "These dedicated civil servants that, you know, exceeded expectations, are being fired," Gibbs ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks along coir logs in the Sny Magill Unit of the park along the Mississippi River near Clayton, Iowa.

Thomas-Bear said the area around Effigy Mounds National Monument used to have more ancient Indigenous mounds, but many were destroyed in the last 150 years by developers as towns were built.

Brian Gibbs, who worked as a park ranger at Iowa’s Effigy Mounds National Monument, is one of the thousands of federal probationary workers who were terminated Friday, a move by the Trump ...

Brian Gibbs, pictured with his son Oliver in front of the Effigy Mounds National Monument park sign, in July 2024. Brian Gibbs. Brian Gibbs lost his job as a national park ranger on Friday.

Mounds are visible in the Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument along the Mississippi River near Clayton, Iowa. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is drafting a plan to protect the ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves remnants of ancient Native American culture. Little Bear Effigy Mound is pictured at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in 2004.

Thomas-Bear said the area around Effigy Mounds National Monument used to have more ancient Indigenous mounds, but many were destroyed in the last 150 years by developers as towns were built.

He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. It was his "dream job," he wrote in a widely shared post on Facebook.