WACO, TEXAS (AP) -- The U.S. Interior Department has given a final recommendation that the Waco Mammoth Site be designated a national monument.
Under the proposal announced Friday by Rep. Chet Edwards, the National Park Service would be the lead partner with the city of Waco and Baylor University in developing and maintaining the site.
The Waco Democrat said he introduced a bill today in the House to implement the Interior Department proposal and authorize appropriations for the project.
The thickly wooded site along the Brazos and Bosque rivers are the resting ground of two dozen Columbian mammoths that died in a mudslide some 68,000 years ago.
It is believed to be the world's largest known concentration of prehistoric mammoths dying in the same natural event.
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