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NPS Photo by Ken Block
Juvenile Bald Eagle
Special Public Events and Programs
Join us throughout the year during our large scale public educational events or special topic ranger-led programs. Bird walks, living history "Moonlight Hikes", Winter Film Festival, evening illustrated (slide) talks, American Indian cultural and archeology demonstrations are presented annually along with our largest attended event - "HawkWatch Weekend".
>Junior Ranger Saturdays - Summer 2009Effigy Mounds Offers Exciting Junior Ranger Activities; Check Back in June 2009 for Specific Listings.
Every Saturday!
Effigy Mounds National Monument presents weekly summer Junior Ranger Programs. Events for children interested in the National Park Junior Ranger program will be scheduled each Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. throughout the summer. Each week the participants will be invited to learn something different about our natural world, American Indian culture, and the national park system.
Did You Know?
Ellison Orr was 92 years old when Effigy Mounds National Monument was dedicated. The Monument owes much to his accurate maps, and careful cataloguing of hundreds of sites and artifacts. Orr died in 1951, leaving most of his personal collection of manuscripts, artifacts, and samples to the monument.