Effigy Mounds National Monument is located ... Historians believe the animal mounds could have been meant to tell the stories of their culture or worship their gods and spirits.

Although our family has visited dozens of parks from Maine to California to Utah to Montana to Florida to Texas, one of our favorite places in the National Park System is Effigy Mounds National ...

Effigy mounds depicting people, animals or spirits were built from between 700 to 1100 AD. Estimates suggest that about 20,000 mounds once blanketed the landscape, but roughly 4,000 remain today ...

Little Bear Effigy Mound is pictured at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in 2004. The mound shows a four-legged animal and is outlined in small pebbles. The monument was designated in 1949 and ...

Brian Gibbs, a park ranger at Iowa's Effigy Mounds National Monument, says he has his job back after being laid off on Valentine's Day as part of a Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

Gibbs' Facebook post announcing his sudden departure quickly went viral, garnering more than 73,000 reactions, 11,000 comments and 180,000 shares — something the former Effigy Mounds education park ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument ranger Brian Gibbs, announcing the news in another Facebook post, said he'll be back in uniform on Monday, helping educate visitors about the Native American ...