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Many national parks, including Yellowstone, are raising visitor fees.

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Just In Time For Summer: National Parks Hiking Entrance Fees

8:23pm June 23, 2015

by Brian Naylor

The fees will be used for park enhancements to make up for federal budget cuts.

Jim Nepstad, superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, stands at the top of a bluff looking over the Mississippi River.

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Park Service Construction Damaged Native American Burial Sites

2:10pm October 24, 2014

by Clay Masters

National Park Service officials approved $3 million in illegal construction projects over a decade that damaged one of the nation's most sacred Indian burial sites in northeast Iowa.

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